I have an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 that i bought like two years ago for 15 bucks, these boards are awesome!

asrock engineers were insane

The Rush is actually the first card that can do Glide in a window.

Phil got a SB Live to work on boards with this chipset several times, but he uses a board with a BIOS that lets him reserve IRQs for the sound card, and also he disables all the USB controllers to free up the resources.

I am crazy impressed. About to create this and mount it on my van wall in my Winnebago Travato printing it on my Creality K1 in the van.

thank you so much.. i printed 2 .. they came out great !!

Ah Morrowind, the first game where I learned that "the secret ingredient is crime" 😅

open source community needs to pick up the ball Unreal dropped... Tux Tournament 2025 lol

love the blooper reel!

Hello nice video. Had Voodoo1, Banshee and Voodoo5 at launch. There are some mistakes in your video. On my at the time Pentium 1, and then PIII Unreal and Quake 3 arena where running silky smooth at 800x600 and also 1024x768. Voodoo5 introduced some nice filtering effects in Quake 3. Had the 1st NVidia card you described it came with as i remember 3 Sega games that where arcade quality. One was Panzer Dragoon, another was daytona, the other i forgot what it was. No other games where supported on the card than they ones that came with it. It came with a saturn controller as well. Had Nvidia TNT (if i remember correctly) the card that was supposedly better than 3DFX. It was slower than 3DFX and had stuttering in games. But it could show 32-bit and supported Direct-X in full. 3DFX was better but after i bought Voodoo five in a couple of months the company seized operations. They made a TV tuner card as well that was amazing for its time. also their 2D card banshee could accelerate 100% windows GUI they only card that did at the time. It was good with emulators as well.

If you're interested in trying KDE Neon for yourself, here's the download link: neon.kde.org/download Download the "User Edition" iso and write it to a USB using Rufus or Etcher. Enjoy!

7:37 No the Nvidia NV1 buried itself

Your not wrong about these boards giving up the ghost, I now only buy boards from reputable sellers that have tested the boards as working. Fixing boards usually means replacing capacitors around the CPU socket, and it's been recommended to do what is called the poly-mod, which replaces the catalytic ones with polymer, which I have done with great success.

Btw you skipped Crystal CX4235. I wonder how that FM implementation would sound.

ESFM for the win. I was looking for a SB16 card and got an AudioDrive instead. Haven't looked back once.

Interesting video

Thr PowerVR Kyro is just amazing as it was a budget orientated card back then. Great performance and picture quality. And also very energy efficient. No wonder they lived on in arm-based mobile devices. For me it is a must-have in the graphics card collection 🤩

2:01:30 - actually the V5 5500 had a fillrate of 666 and the Geforce 256 just 480. Also the V5 5500 had a memory bandwidth of 5333 gb/s while the DDR Geforce 256 only had 4800 gb/s.

Fillrate Voodoo3 3500 - 366 Voodoo3 3000 - 333 TNT2 Ultra - 300 Voodoo3 2000 / TNT2 Pro - 286 TNT2 - 250

1:50.45 - FALSE! The Voodoo 3 had higher fill rate than the TNT2 and because of this it was also faster even in high rezolutions in 80-90% of the games. The second reason why the Voodoo 3 was faster than the TNT2 is Glide.

Ohhh, see that name Barton, brings me some good memories from 2003

Fun as always! Your laugh is contagious :)

I have so many good memories of the PCI V3 2000. My Pentium II 350 machine back in the day I thought would be awesome sadly came with no AGP slot and the shop that sold it to me told me the 8MB onboard graphics was very powerful... It was a real "We have graphics at home moment" as it was an SIS 6326 and it was horrific... About 6 months later as I learned more I set the BIOS to boot from PCI primary and slotted in my brand new Voodoo 3 2000 PCI and good lord that was when PC gaming really happened for me. I don't have the card now (I don't know what happened to it) but as of now I'm putting together a Voodoo 3 3500 machine and I still have that old Pentium II 350 to relive some nostalgia with. The Voodoo will of course be getting fed my Pentium III 933MHz chip but I need to see that PII fire up and play again.

That poor poor CPU, that SIS deserves a Cyrix 200MX at most lol

bruh mine with an m2>ide adapter takes half the time with 10x this much extensions - although on reboot it goes into blinky question mark mode so i always have to shut it down then boot it cold

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essentially AMD dramatically underestimated how long it would take the software developers to implement instruction level parallelism and general purpose gpu FX is the workstation implementation of server Opteron which was actually system architecture design concept that came along with the engineers that moved to AMD from DEC after DEC imploded they were essentially going for something like ampere's current hw arch - so virtualization was the closest thing to the imagined use case that existed by the time the hw launched. and they had to blast more clocks to prevent it from bottlenecking the way server opteron did in a workstation ironically it was the pentium 4 that delayed the move to parallelized software - intel and microsoft only really understand that they needed to fundamentally change their design at all levels around 2012 when a series of papers were presented to their leadership showing that nehalem was as fast as things were ever gonna get if they didn't figure something out (paper is titled DARK SILICON AND THE END OF MULTICORE SCALING) Though DEC had understood the issue certainly by the time work was underway on Alpha. Cray was actually able to make Opteron work in an entry-level supercompter as early as 2002 by aggressively rewriting the software stack and gluing on an ultrafast FPGA based interconnect. Though cray had the advantage of already being fully 64 bit since roughly the dawn of time or something lol

Unfortunately i dont have a 3d printer yet 😕 butni would totally buy a few GPU storage stands and 1 of those atx test bench models!

But Windows are notorious for their scheduling issues with "unsupported" CPUs. My theory is that windows scheduler treats FX-4120 as 2 modules 4 threads while it is 4 modules 4 threads in reality... Any program that relies on windows scheduler can be affected while game engines that have optimizations for CPU and GPU architectures shouldn't.

R 15 shows about a 18% penalty for having the 4M 8C design vs 8 zambezi cores without the resource contentions. I'm sure the FX 4200 you have is 4 module 4 cores. Hyperthreading had close to a 67 % penalty vs the physical intel cores of the time irrc. The people who paid 60 bucks to go from a FX 4350 to an FX 8350 ( double the performance) got much more performance per dollar in this bench than the guys that spent $120 for the hyperthreading the 2600k offered over the 2500k.

Just watched the stream, fun times nice job with it :). If you want you can just disable 2 of the modules on the 8120 in bios and it should be a very close approximation of a 4120. You're right about windows or applications getting confused on how to best use what FX has to offer, sure adds to the confusion. Look forward to the next vid - be well.

In CBR15 the FX4200 has the same performance as my QX6850 (285CB). TBH the IPC is about what I expected. A Phenom II N970 is only 81CB slower.

If anyone knows a good L1 cache latency testing utility for either Windows or Linux, I'm open to suggestions!

Unregistered BenchCam is wild 😆

I mean you can use fsr mod

I want one but I have no 3d-printer, nor do I know anyone who does. Can I buy one somewhere?

ewaste😀

I missed the stream but I am here for the archive and all the lovely beeps! 😃

Nice project, just what I was looking for.

I know this video is a year old. I just picked up a Ryzen 5 5500 for $60. I'm pairing it with a $50 B450 mobo, a $20 cooler, a used 3060ti, and 16gb of 3200MHz ram I found for $35. all for around $370 total. With most of that price being the 3060ti. I have some old internal SSD's and PSU's laying around so those are free for me. But this PC will play anything you want on med-high settings. Most games can run ultra 1080p. All in all a budget build that has great performance.

You just earned another sub. Glad I found your channel. No BS, right to the point, clear and informative content. Well done!

What a great concept and design. I'm for sure going to build one.

Amazing video! If VR is your niche then you should focus on 1440p - 4k, as headsets tend to run in this range (depending on resolution/upscaling); and include at least 1% and maybe 0.1% lows, as I think these are most important for VR, as these values should be above 45/60/90/120 (depending on spacewarp/headset target fps). Thanks again

i liked your review, but can you tell me how i can reverse the fan on the cooler ? please

im testing a 9800x3d with this in a couple days!! though i'm gonna swap it out for a 160mm cooler when it inevitably throttles terribly

I totally forgot about that disc swap mod. So cool that that one has it!

I am just mesmerized by this video! Thanks for great work, it is just a pleasure to watch it, thanks again Ambrosia :)

i wish you made a bracket to mount the pci cards, this is the one big issue i have with this test bench.

i would like to see more mediaGX videos you definitely know your bizarre x86 bazaar haha

I worked at circuit city from 2000-2001 and it was when 3dfx got bought out that I got my first voodoo3 PCI card. It worked great but I didn't keep it very long before upgrading to a Radeon in 03. I have had a few more voodoo cards over the last 2 years but have sold them in retro gaming systems to other enthusiasts. Now I rely on 3dfx emulation and some of the fastest Nvidia agp cards that run in win98. Works great!