Greetings all!

My 5500 pci has been patiently waiting to be put in an updated system and I have some time and some cash to finally put it back in service. I will be running Win98SE and I was wondering just how well the card will scale with a modern p4 processor...

Will the card be able to utilize say, a 2.8Ghz CPU or is anything over 2Ghz overkill?

Thank you for any well-reasoned opinions or experiences shared!


mcmd

according to new hardware t&l games: the higher your cpu scales, the better performance you'll get. that's because the voodoo5 doesn't has hardware t&l support and so the cpu has to perform those effects..  8)

So how about this setup for Win98SE GLIDE gaming goodness:


Intel D865PERLL Mobo
Intel P4 2.8Ghz - 800FSB
My (underused) V5 5500 PCI
Kingston HyperX KHX3200AK2/512 512MB Kit DDR400 PC3200 Memory


mcmd

already bought the setup? then it's worth a try..
elseway, if you didn't bought this setup yet, make sure agp2x is supported by the new mainboard.
beside i would claim you'd run better with win2k on such a system which evently - as i've seen it - runs glide games at the same range or faster than win98.  :)

The system has not been bought yet.  Since my V5 5500 is a PCI card, I don't have to worry about AGP compatibility. Thanks for the tip on Windows 2K. The board supports it and maybe I can find a copy and give it a try!


mcmd

wrote on 16.12.03 at 12:04:07:

Since my V5 5500 is a PCI card, I don't have to worry about AGP compatibility.

ah sure..sorry, just forgot that.   ;)
with win2k you should have higher compatibility to the actual pc improvements..know what i mean ..(win98 evently doesn't support firewire, usb 2.0 and the whole other stuff) :) get service pack 4 (released august 2003) for the maximum..if you like to, you can also try winxp+sp1, but i won't do, because it's always a little bit tricky as we're dealing here with a voodoo5.

Yeah, I agree with you about XP - that's why I figured I would stick with 98SE and stay away from Win2K core. I decided to leave some of the newer technologies behind (Hyper-Threading especially since Win9X won't support) for a "simple", very high-powered Win98SE box to enjoy my legacy glide games and if lucky, some of the newer Q3 apps such as Jedi Academy.

If I go XP (sometime when Longhorn appears probably), I have a pair of V2's ready (for SLI) to pair with a Radeon 9800 level card or better to try out! ;D

Thank you again for your thoughts!


mcmd

of course win98se supports USB 2.0, firewire or USB keys

you have to install,  *cough*  A DRIVER!  :P

how frickin' hard is that


on the other hand I'm still waiting for amigamerlin 3.0


BTW : win2k "supports" hyper-threading, but badly; so you end up losing performance with it activated
this hyperthreading thing will only work properly on win XP and linux ..

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on the other hand I'm still waiting for amigamerlin 3.0

Blaz,

Me too - do you guys know what the MESA "driver" or toolset is all about?


mcmd

wrote on 16.12.03 at 22:30:50:

of course win98se supports USB 2.0, firewire or USB keys you have to install,  *cough*  A DRIVER!  :P how frickin' hard is that

yep, but no native support by win98. at least, you won't get 'full' usb/firewire performance with win98, so you stay better with win2k core in this respect. that's why i prefer win2k at all...even hyper threading problems should be cleaned out by sp4, but i didn't checked it so far.

@mcmd: here's the thread that should help:
http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=drivers;action=display;num=1067852591