pshipkov wrote on 2025-07-04, 05:55:
Well, your 200mhz configuration is impressive. Best quake 1 score with 486 cpu so far.
Tell us more about it - bios version, ram chips (looks like samsung), post few more scores like Doom test.
Did you run any other more challenging benchmarks to verify stability?
Thanks. I've been wanting in the club for some time now and working hard at it 😁
Didn't someone score around 25 with a 1:1 fsb/pci ratio? I could probably milk out an extra fps if I used one of my cards that can do that speed, however not that motivated since the G200 outperforms those under windows regardless of the benchmark score.
Bios version is stock for this board 05/06/1996. Extensive testing confirmed findings of others that all the other bioses available have a gap in the cacheable range between 56-64 mb, leading to lower performance, while not giving any other observable benefit. I tried a few award bioses of similar boards as well, but these all had other issues. Note, this bios also works flawlessly on a v1.5 board (that has a version with the memory gap from factory).
The edo ram has 5v tsop Samsung ic's - km44c16104bs-6. I tracked this down after some recomendations from Feipoa regarding Samsung tsop ram. I also have a 64mb 40ns (!!!) module with soj Samsung chips that performs flawlessly, however since there seemed no difference stability wise I obviously stuck with the 128. I also had great results with a 64mb module of Samsung tsop FPM - benchmark results were 1-2 us/mbps better with this and no instability was noted (I think one of my benchmark result photos is with this module). However, the FPM "felt " a tad slower in windows - not sure if EDO is playing a role here, or, if the FPM is at the edge of it's capabilities and I am getting cache misses or something that affects the performance.
Yeah I can post some more results.
So far, close to a week in, all seems stable, even leaving demanding windows games paused with winamp in the background etc all day has not triggered anything. I've messed with a few of these less successfully and usually causing lockups or errors isn't a problem