Richo wrote:I am curious to the benchmark results on both our computers (our build are similar but I wonder which computer gets the best results) and you're welcome to post and brag about yours 😀
Ok then...
CPU: Intel Pentium P54C Pentium 200MHz (not MMX)
RAM: 40MB 72-pin EDO RAM (2x16MB + 2x4MB)
Motherboard: Matronix M55HI+ Revision A (latest BIOS)
Video: ATI Rage IIc 4MB PCI + Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB Voodoo2 PCI
Audio: Creative Labs VIBRA 16C (Sound Blaster 16) on MB
HDD: 20.4 GB Maxtor
CD: 32x IDE
Floppy: 1.44MB 3.5"
PSU: Dunno, but it works.
Operating Overlay: Windows 95 OSR2
Operating System: MS-DOS 7
I used the Diamond Monster 3D II because I had it and I wasn't using it and it works perfectly....and it would have cost me more money to find an actual Voodoo 1, so why not? Besides, it's got an extra 40MHz on the chips, a second texture mapper, etc. The benchmarks, however, show that it's heavily CPU-limited.
It's completely stable except for ONE THING - Carmen Sandiego Deluxe games. God, these two games I have randomly LOCK UP the system in DOS mode and inside Windows 95, Windows catches an "illegal operation" when that happens and closes the program. All other DOS games seem to work great. I'm learning about Himem.sys and Emm386.exe and I've gotten the MS-DOS footprint down to 19KB of Conventional Memory with everything else loaded in an Upper Memory block, including working Mouse and CD-ROM drivers (been playing Duke Nukem 3D to test).
Benchmark Scores using 3D Mark 99 Max (really wants 64MB of RAM to be happy):
3DMark 99 Max 3DMarks / CPU 3DMarks
Voodoo2 640x480x16: 1012/1322
Voodoo2 800x600x16: 1006/1329
VOODOO2 640 x 480 x 16
Quake 1 Timedemo1: 38.8 FPS
Quake 1 Timedemo2: 39.7 FPS
Quake 1 Timedemo3: 38.6 FPS
Quake 2 Timedemo1: 28.3 FPS
Quake 2 Timedemo2: 25.4 FPS
As a contrast, moving up to a Pentium II 350 MHz system and disabling the SLI ran those same tests as these scores:
3DMark 99 Max 3DMarks / CPU 3DMarks
Voodoo2 640x480x16: 2739/3123 (171% and 136% increases)
Voodoo2 800x600x16: 2518/3125 (150% and 135% increases)
VOODOO2 640 x 480 x 16 (SLI Disabled)
Quake 1 Timedemo1: 59.6 FPS (53.6% increase)
Quake 1 Timedemo2: 57.5 FPS (44.8% increase)
Quake 1 Timedemo3: 57.2 FPS (48.2% increase)
Quake 2 Timedemo1: 71.1 FPS (151.2% increase)
Quake 2 Timedemo2: 66.7 FPS (162.6% increase)
So I can see that my old Pentium II @ 350MHz was ALMOST 3x more powerful than this Pentium P54C @ 200MHz and gained a roughly 50% increase in framerates in Quake 1. I assume that Quake II jumped up that much because of MMX, but I have no way to verify this. I expect your test scores to be higher than mine not only because you have more RAM and a faster CPU, but because of MMX, even though the Voodoo1 card runs slower than the Voodoo2 in mine.