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Article #4664Re: 3DBench Scores and Video cards
From: vv... Vincent Vinh-Hung
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <412tkt$3...@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca>, dp...@falun.cs.ualberta.ca (Denis R. Papp) writes: |> sim...@runway.win-uk.net (J Simon Mellor) writes: |> |> >I have a DX4-100 running at 50Mhz clock doubled i.e 100mhz. The |> >bus runs at 50Mhz and so applications and games run faster. My |> >3DBench is 71.4 fps using an S3 card. I have asked this |> >question b4 regarding my DX2-80, can you recommend a good DOS |> >video card as I am a games player and windows is quite fast |> >enough for typing a letter! |> >I have been advised to get a Tseng ET400/w32p card such as the |> >Hercules Dynamite Power this must be able to run at 50Mhz. |> >Will this increase my 3DB score? What to? |> On the DX2-80? |> 62.5 is the highest score for a DX2-80, and the Dynamite Power is one |> of those cards that gets that score. |> |> > In my opinion this is a cheap way of getting Pentium |> >performance. |> That's only a P60 performance, you need a faster processor if you want |> to be comparable to your dx4-100 |> -- |> Denis Papp dp...@cs.ualberta.ca Simon system is running at 50 MHz, may be should be more appropriately designated "dx2-100", while "dx4-100" most often imply bus speed of 25 MHz (or sometimes 33 MHz). The real bus speed may make a lot of difference, e.g. memory transfers 32-bit benches about 45-50 MBytes/sec with dx2-100. Drawback is SIMM and other components got to be able to match
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From: vv...@minf.vub.ac.be (Vincent Vinh-Hung) Subject: Re: 3DBench Scores and Video cards Date: 1995/08/25 Message-ID: <41l3p2$qvi@rc1.vub.ac.be> X-Deja-AN: 108938817 distribution: eunet references: <80@runway.win-uk.net> <412tkt$32q@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> organization: Brussels Free Universities VUB/ULB newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit