What retro things have you done today?

[LewisRaz]

I grabbed one from phils. Didnt think to look there for something this modern. Cheers

Am currently the furthest I have been through 3dmark03!

 

[Firestar_3x]

They have the articles and pages up, but most of the download links are dead if my recent endeavours to grab stuff from there are anything to go by (unless I was unlucky with the 5 or so drivers I tried to get), and unfortunately due to the way they handled their download slots, the wayback machine doesn’t have the downloads cached

Must be a bit hit or miss, had some modified 7500 mobility drivers from the site a few months back.

I'm tempted to download everything i find now and just archive it, only a matter of time before more stuff starts to vanish, be that drivers or reviews.

Does everyone know about this site: https://www.infania.net/misc/moboarchive/index.html

I only found it today whilst looking for a random motherboard.

We could do with a links sticky or something!

 

[LewisRaz]

I have mirrored a couple of FTP sites. Usually try and grab them if I see someone post about them being taken down.

 

[paradigm]

I'm tempted to download everything i find now and just archive it, only a matter of time before more stuff starts to vanish, be that drivers or reviews.

I’ve started doing that on my Mirrored Synology Rackstations, backed up to LTO6. Operating Systems, Software, Games, Drivers and tweaking documents. I can only see the situation deteriorating with mainstream websites.

 

[LewisRaz]

Wow! I got 2708 in 3dmark 03.

a similar spec on the DB got 9204.

 

[paradigm]

Wow! I got 2708 in 3dmark 03.

a similar spec on the DB got 9204.

Yeah that seems far too low to be working properly. What were your FPS results in game 1-4 and also your CPU scores?

 

[Firestar_3x]

I’ve started doing that on my Mirrored Synology Rackstations, backed up to LTO6. Operating Systems, Software, Games, Drivers and tweaking documents. I can only see the situation deteriorating with mainstream websites.

Good idea, Openreach are around atm installing fiber in the street, so happy to host stuff once i get that!

 

[LewisRaz]

Wings of fury 100.2
Battle of proxycon 16.4
Trolls lair 14.8
mother nature 17.4

CPU test 1: 60.3
cpu test 2 9.9

 

[paradigm]

Wings of fury 100.2
Battle of proxycon 16.4
Trolls lair 14.8
mother nature 17.4

CPU test 1: 60.3
cpu test 2 9.9

Well the game scores are all down by 25-30%, but I’d say your CPU score is down by 15% as well, so... chipset drivers?

 

[LewisRaz]

Im suspecting PSU. 5v rail is 4.5v according to bios

 

[LewisRaz]

Its actually not too far off from the tomshardware review scores from back at its release

 

[paradigm]

Its actually not too far off from the tomshardware review scores from back at its release

But assuming you are running a Catalyst 6> release, they are mature for the 9x00 series, so should offer a decent performance gain over release day drivers.

 

[LewisRaz]

I was using chipset driver 2.64 (newest from mobo website!). Now installing ver 5.1 from nvidia.

Also.

I am never going to own this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-IBM-T...83.l10137.c10&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

I went up to 40 before having to back down!!

 

[Firestar_3x]

lol £63.

 

[LewisRaz]

2710 3dmarks with the most recent chipset drivers

 

[Firestar_3x]

Nice improvement, haha!

 

[LewisRaz]

Up to 3000 now. Very close to what the original reviews got so I will call this as working

 

[paradigm]

Up to 3000 now. Very close to what the original reviews got so I will call this as working

Well with uplifts like that how can you complain! What did you change? I still think you could get closer to 4,000 but there could be many factors causing it.

 

[paradigm]

@Firestar_3x These look to be the right DRAM chips for my ViRGE/DX. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-MT4C16...549109&hash=item2ef368492f:g:424AAOSwHoFXu7eI These are the right 50NS rated (matching the ones that are on the card) chips.

Shame that the S3 Trio64 only uses 4 chips total (2 soldered, 2 expansion) as I've got a fully populated S3 Trio64 "Diamond Stealth 64" here that has the right RAM, but I'd have to desolder the two on-board chips to put on the ViRGE.

Not worth potentially killing the card as it's a nice bit of memorabilia.

 

[Firestar_3x]

@Firestar_3x These look to be the right DRAM chips for my ViRGE/DX. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-MT4C16...549109&hash=item2ef368492f:g:424AAOSwHoFXu7eI These are the right 50NS rated (matching the ones that are on the card) chips.

Nice, will pull my card out and have a look, iirc mine are also listed explicitly as 83mhz on the chips.