Now have write combining enabled for the Voodoo2 and squeezed out more frames! This K6-3 just keeps giving 🤣.
That's really cool. Are there any other tweaks you can do and how's the stability with the tweaks you've done so far?
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-04-30, 01:11:That's really cool. Are there any other tweaks you can do and how's the stability with the tweaks you've done so far?
Thanks! I’ve got some memory coming to bump it up to 128MB, I hope, but other than that it’s about tapped out I think. I might try a GeForce in it for fun. I quite like the ATI Rage/PowerVR/3DFX combo it’s running now though.
Stability is good so far but I’ve not really played anything for over an hour. I should def try looping something for a few hours. If you have any suggestions please let me know!
Awesome that's a really nice system. Can you use more than 128M in that system?
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-04-30, 03:25:Awesome that's a really nice system. Can you use more than 128M in that system?
I’m not sure if it will take more than 64 so I’ll keep trying different combos when I can.
Here’s another comparison before and after the AMD k6 specific optimizations on a Matrox m3D running Unreal. Decent boost!
I was doing some searching for the ram capacity on this system and I was seeing people in different forums saying 256 was the max they could get and with having the K6-3 you'd be able to cache all of it too.
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-04-30, 12:28:I was doing some searching for the ram capacity on this system and I was seeing people in different forums saying 256 was the max they could get and with having the K6-3 you'd be able to cache all of it too.
It runs well at 64 but there is some hitching I assume is disk swap. 256 would be nice.
Ran the Unreal castle loop for just over 2 hours on the m3D, no issues.
Nice that sounds like you have a good and stable system
Chadti99 wrote on 2021-02-14, 19:04:Haha, thanks! I’ve had plenty of those moments myself. I was determined to make this thing work with just the tower. Here’s the section of the doc that clued me in. I’ve also found a two pin header that can power the system up and I’ll share my solution for adding an external power button soon!
Glad you were able to get this system working!
Question if you are able: I have the motherboard for this system without the console card. I have been able to jump the system using the console pins, but have not been able to come across a pinout diagram of the motherboard-side console pinout. Have you seen anything like this? I'm hoping to build a power switch wiring harness, but would like to know exactly what the other pins do if possible. Thank you!
I could swear there was a way to up the FSB to 75mhz on that board, that would improve performance slightly
echothedolphin wrote on 2023-10-18, 14:02:Chadti99 wrote on 2021-02-14, 19:04:Haha, thanks! I’ve had plenty of those moments myself. I was determined to make this thing work with just the tower. Here’s the section of the doc that clued me in. I’ve also found a two pin header that can power the system up and I’ll share my solution for adding an external power button soon!
Glad you were able to get this system working!
Question if you are able: I have the motherboard for this system without the console card. I have been able to jump the system using the console pins, but have not been able to come across a pinout diagram of the motherboard-side console pinout. Have you seen anything like this? I'm hoping to build a power switch wiring harness, but would like to know exactly what the other pins do if possible. Thank you!
Hi, anyway you could highlight or circle which pins you are referencing?
rmay635703 wrote on 2023-10-18, 16:45:I could swear there was a way to up the FSB to 75mhz on that board, that would improve performance slightly
Yes on a later motherboard revision, I swapped to this board and I’m running a K6-3 @ 450MHz (75x6) it gave a boost for sure. Pretty cool how far you could take a socket 5/7 system with these upgrades.
Hey Chad! My childhood computer was a 2159-s64 w 166mhz i remember you could change the multiplier jumper on the 430vx board for 200mhz free upgrade. I recently purchased a 2162-s9c from eBay . I upgraded it to a evergreen k6 400 thanks to your thread and my childhood memories which i did before and returned it along w the voodoo 3 3000 pci due to overheating. I tested a voodoo 2 on this recently and upgraded to a voodoo 3 3000 pci. Was wondering if you can post details about the 75mhz bus mod? thanks !!! Im gaming at 1024x768 at 30-33fps w the voodoo3 so happy but its def cpu bound aka bottlenecked by the cpu. I had to add a fan on the v3 heatsink to be safe. The memory limit online says 64mb some places and 128mb max for the 430vx chipset which both 2159 and 2162 share. Let me know if you have ant info or luck on yhe memory please helps for linux. I got debian based linux running w 2.6.20 kernel and windows 98 no issues w 32mb but upgraded to 64mb for $15 worth it! Esp for Linux. Fyi the max size this bios shows for the hard drive is 8455mb i made my windows 98 partition 7570 to be safe since 8444 even had issues will find max soon but 8gb cf had issues w windows 98 but not linux very odd behavior. Win98 can see the rest of the 120gb drive after windows loads max is like 127-137gb for win98se
What’s the cable look like that attaches to the cdrom/floppy? I see some big connector on the back is it standard scsi?
BinaryDemon wrote on 2025-03-27, 06:43:What’s the cable look like that attaches to the cdrom/floppy? I see some big connector on the back is it standard scsi?
Its called “centronics” i have the console model numbers and stuff but hard to find and kinda useless these days im gonna skip on the console and monitor. I am doing a retro build w modern touches
