First post, by Jasin Natael
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Here is a build I have been playin with. Basic specs and a few benchmarks.
If there is enough interest I can probably post up photos as well.
Shoutout to Sphere478 for the advice on ship selection and inspiration to make a passing thought a reality.
I call this build "Sir Scraps a Lot"
it is comprised mostly of either spare parts left over from other builds, and/or stuff salvaged or bought from gold recovery on eBay.
Specs:
PC Chips M571 motherboard
All fastest ram/cache options in BIOS
Cyrix MII 266GP 2.0v 75x4@300MHZ
1x128MB Cl2 SDRAM PC100
ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI video
ESS AudioDrive 1868 ISA sound card
VIA USB 2.0 PCI (USB 2.o disabled, no performance penalty)
WD 20GB HDD UDMA2
Basic 32x CD-ROM (not sure of the brand)
No-name baby-AT case. Black in color, to be different like the rest of the build
Windows 98SE, DX7.0 No unofficial patches other than NUSB
Ok, here are the DOS and Windows benchmarks that I have ran so far.
I don't have a ton of PCI graphics cards, thus the Rage XL. I did install my PCI Voodoo3 and run 3dmark 99. By the numbers it appears to be a moderate CPU bottleneck at that point.
Phil's DOSbench:
3dBench (slow PC) 223.4
3dbench (fast PC) 50.0
Chris 3dBench (slow PC) 128.8
Chris 3dbench (fast PC) 27.0
PC Player Benchmark 320x200: 69.2
PC Player 640x480: 14.3
Doom Minimum: 2134 in 255
Doom Max: 2134 in 1354
Quake Low: 44fps
Quake High: 9.3
Sysinfo: 139.9
Topbench: 407
Speedsys: CPU score of: 199.99 from Windows 98 command prompt. Hangs at read MSRs when ran from DOS
Landmark: 3585 CPU/3957 FPU
A few Windows Benchmarks:
3dmark 99 Default benchmark (Rage XL):
817 3dmarks, 1341 CPU 3dmarks
3dmark 99 Default benchmark (Voodoo 3):
972 3dmarks, 1319 CPU 3dmarks
3dmark 2000 Rage XL: 128
Final Reality: 1.82
If anyone would like me to run anything else, please let me know.
EDIT: Forgot to add Quake2 640x480 demo.dm2 14.8fps