Re: 3dfx glide2x.dll 25-years old bug in the system [affected all v3 cards with 8MB vmem]

Posted on 2024-02-27, 18:58

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by udam_u

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Great discovery and fix. I wonder how many 8MB V3 cards ended on trash because of this driver issue. It is a new life for Velocity 100 in retro community. (:

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Re: Matrox Parhelia 256 PCI-X Performance

Posted on 2015-07-31, 11:48

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by udam_u

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My PIII-S 1400 with only a 33 MHz, 64-bit PCI-X slot scored 4983 at 1280x1024 in 3DMark2001 SE. Your significantly faster Athlon MP 2800, with faster PCI-X slot, and at a lower resolution scored only 6159. Could you run 3DMark2001 SE at 1280x1024x32 with triple buffer for comparison? Perhaps your …

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Re: Matrox Parhelia 256 PCI-X Performance

Posted on 2015-07-30, 18:31

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by udam_u

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I performed following Parhelia 256 PCI, Parhelia 128AGP and Quadro FX4000 tests in 3DM 2001SE v330 benchmark (default settings 1024x768x32 Pure Hardware T&L, Antyaliasing NO). Test platform Motherboard: Asus A7M 266-D CPU's: 2x Athlon MP 2800+ (2133MHz) RAM: 2GB ECC Registered 266MHz CL2 HDD: 2x …

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Re: Best PCI graphics card for AMD Opteron 180 system

Posted on 2015-07-26, 22:44

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by udam_u

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Matth79 wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-8800GTS-512MB-PC … =item2801d428d5# Is this correct - did they make one in PCI-X ? This is mistake - GeForce 8800GTS is PCI-E 16x card.

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Re: Permedia cards

Posted on 2015-07-26, 22:22

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by udam_u

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Wow I have never seen AGP version of Permedia 1 card! I read a lot of materials regarding this chip and I haven't found any information about support of AGP - in fact it was advertised as graphics chip with "glueless PCI Interface" which means that not all chips of the time were designed to take …

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Re: Permedia cards

Posted on 2015-07-26, 20:53

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by udam_u

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Stojke wrote: How rare are permedia 1 cards in AGP form? Permedia 1 cards exist only in PCI form. ^^

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Re: Best PCI graphics card for AMD Opteron 180 system

Posted on 2015-07-26, 16:20

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by udam_u

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udam_u, it has been a very long time since I've seen you on. Welcome back! Thank you! I am very happy that you are still active on this forum. (: Why did you stop using the Parhelia 256 PCI on your MSI K7d Master board? What did you end up doing with the card and motherboard? Do you have any …

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Re: Best PCI graphics card for AMD Opteron 180 system

Posted on 2015-07-26, 10:34

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by udam_u

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I was pretty bummed when my Matrox Parhelia 256 PCI card did not function in the PCI-X slot. There is a jumper which allows for the PCI-X slot to run at 133 MHz / 64-bit, 66 Mhz / 64-bit, or 66 MHz / 32-bit. The Parhelia card did not function with any of these settings, nor did my [conventional] …

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Re: My Ultimate 486

Posted on 2011-06-11, 22:07

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by udam_u

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sebaz_ri wrote: from where i can download pcpbench? Sorry for the delay. Here you are link to the Pc Player Benchmark: pcpbench Regards! (:

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2011-05-25, 15:16

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by udam_u

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NASA apparently uses plenty of ancient computers. Here the issue isn't so much the hardware, but all the software that really smart engineers wrote. Many systems are interconnected, written in machine code / assembler and have stood the test of time. Ask anyone here what they think is more reliable …

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2011-05-19, 20:28

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by udam_u

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swaaye wrote: Ok this is definitely the best 486 CPU study that I've seen. 😁 I think it would be a good idea to stick this thread. (;

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Re: My Ultimate 486

Posted on 2011-05-18, 08:06

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by udam_u

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udam_u wrote: I described my overclocking procedure here(the sixth post from the bottom) : UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options? Regards! (; PS. Do at your own risk. ^^

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Re: My Ultimate 486

Posted on 2011-05-18, 08:01

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by udam_u

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I described my overclocking procedure here(the sixth post from the bottom) : UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options? Regards! (;

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Re: My Ultimate 486

Posted on 2011-05-17, 12:46

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by udam_u

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I put a link to this benchmark in one of my earlier posts, however it seems not to work anymore. Here you are a new link to package containing mdk benchmark: mdk_bench.zip

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2011-05-13, 06:57

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by udam_u

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Marvelous test [hat off]! Everything is perfect: big amount of tests - final result should be objective, normalization to P100 - interesting for all people building 486 machine but especially for 486 hot rod enthusiasts and finally great charts that notably simplify reading overall tests result. …

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Re: L2 cache speed

Posted on 2011-05-11, 21:13

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by udam_u

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Above discussion encouraged me to test 12 ns and 15ns tag ram on GA-5486AL motherboard. I have used following bios settings: EDO,60ns DRAM or 40MHz CLK: Disable DRAM Read Timing:Fastest DRAM Write Timing:Fastest SRAM Read Timing:2-1-1-1 Motherboard bios is dated to May 20 1996 (Rev. 1.07). Cache …

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Re: 486 PCI chipsets comparison

Posted on 2011-05-09, 22:31

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by udam_u

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@feipoa I have tested combo HOT-433 + Cx5x86 100MHz (step 1 rev 3) with following settings enabled (all my dostests work correctly): BTB=on FP_F=on LSS=off WT1=on USE_WBAK=on DTE=on MEM=on BWRT=on Here you are debug output from 5x86.exe program: Performance control register: RSTK_EN: Return stack …

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Re: 486 PCI chipsets comparison

Posted on 2011-05-08, 12:08

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by udam_u

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Now where can I get one of these to test? Are there more? It is just a plain Shuttle HOT-433 1.x-3.x. http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/4794/img1229n.jpg http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8859/img1230y.jpg I bought it with AMI BIOS and then flashed to award. Here you can find necessary award bios …

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Re: 486 PCI chipsets comparison

Posted on 2011-05-07, 14:08

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by udam_u

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Can you type out all the markings on your UMC northbridge and southbridge chipsets? Do you have a HOT Shuttle 433 rev. 4? Rev 4 supports EDO. I suspect your chipset reads something like UMC8881F-Exx, the E is for EDO. How'd you land a rev 4 board? I'd like to get my hands on one. I only have rev …

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Re: UMC chipset PCI 486 mobo. AMD P90 CPU options?

Posted on 2011-05-07, 11:10

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by udam_u

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iulianv wrote: I've heard it would have to be a _really_ long exposure 😀 weeks, that is... Tetrium wrote: Get one of these He he he ok, so I'll ask for help my friend who goes often to solarium or I'll take it when I go on vacation! 😁

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