Pentium MMX 233 - MS-DOS Benchmarks + 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (Voodoo 1) with 8MB!

[@mauricevde]

I own the same system but with voodoo 2 , bought it new in 1997 still running . Its rock stable , very good system !! Btw.. 512 KB cache can only cache a maximum of 64 MB of ram , more ram wil slow your system down

[@3DfxAslinger]

That's a VIA VP 585 chipset that max. could 512 mb of ram caching with 2mb of cache. The intel 430FX, VX and TX chipset have the problem with >64 mb. The 430 HX haven't the problem with a large tag ram. With 512kb cache, you can max use 128 mb with the VIA. 🙂

[@mauricevde]

NostalgicAslinger , i believe ur right . I was partly mis informed i see 😁

[@3DfxAslinger]

No problem. 🙂 Look here in the VIA VPX section: www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/de/chipset2.htm

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

keep it, dont sellit, love it forever. I still have mine

[@juanmanuelloujedo9496]

I have the same sistem to, whith de Diamond Voodoo 2 12mb

[@TheVanillatech]

Back then I didn't even know the 233 existed. I bought a P-133 (how it was marketed) from a local store with my entire savings when I was 14. Dumped my full £1400 bank into it, a huge investment for me. Went through the specs with the guy on the phone and told him I wanted a PENTIUM 133Mhz processor etc. A few weeks later, New Years Eve 1996 to be exact, went to pick it up. When I got the beast home, I powered on and the POST read "AMD PR-133 @ 100Mhz". I was confused. Quake ran like SHIT! Timedemo from difficulty select was under 11fps. My friends Pentium 100 got almost double my framerate. I'd been had.... Motherfuckers palmed me off with the AMD PR CPU, when I'd asked for (and PAID for) a true Pentium 133Mhz. After a phone call, it didn't get better. Imagine a 14 year old vs a time served snake oil salesman. My Dad didn't intervene, he was just confused by it all. So fast forward 9 months. By then, I really knew my stuff. I returned to the store in November, on my birthday, to buy a few upgrades. Deliberately took my friend Richard, and we had rehersed this many times. After buying a 6.2GB hard disk and another 16MB RAM, my friend distracted the salesman and I simply walked behind the counter and took a brand new Pentium 200 vanilla CPU and put it in my pocket. We then left, and I went home and upgraded my PC into a Quake BEAST! The price of that CPU was £219.99 in the store, so I figured I'd undone the misdeed those pricks had pulled on me a year earlier. My next PC was a brand new Pentium III-550Mhz dual CPU Dell Optiplex beast, with a Diamond Viper V770 and SCSI HD's all over the place. I got it from a local office liquidation, as I'd done some computer work for the previous owner and he had a bunch of those machines from the aftermath of the closure. He gave it to me as payment for backing up all his stuff before the curtains closed. Like I said, never knew there existed a 233Mhz Pentium 1 CPU until years after. Good times. Fast Quake. All that mattered!

[@eaglemaster7]

so you shoplift the brand new Pentium 200 ? man... if the shop had CCTV this could end you in jail

[@sjogosPT]

Very well done, nice story.

[@TheVanillatech]

@@sjogosPT Redemption story. Chalk one up for the little guy! We won in the end.

[@Untitled_01]

Good to know that mf got revenge

[@wowitsshit9734]

cool that's like the best setup for early 90s dos games and runs all the early glide games just fine too!

[@3DfxAslinger]

Thanks! You can see some more 3dfx Glide games under MS-DOS on one of my newest videos! 🙂

[@wowitsshit9734]

@@3DfxAslinger thx i will find.

[@thegodgen]

seen u on victor barts live stream chat today looks like good stuff u got my sub

[@3DfxAslinger]

Thank you!

[@vi8tboy-fk6ix]

OMG my dream machine back in 1998!

[@Caleb-fv5fp]

One of the pc’s off all time!

[@TheBoxGamePL]

23:23 ta gra mi przypomina trochę grę Spacecraft od MCS Studios z 2004 roku

[@czviktor]

Díky za typ :)

[@Quast]

Haha, nice that was the case of my very first PC! ^^ Even though I think your board is different, I had the Pentium II Slot CPU.

[@andipajeroking]

8mb Vram? That s a monster.

[@bravo1111]

Top Maschine!, 1997 konnte ich von sowas nur träumen😅. Ist das FIC PA-2010 das original Mainboard welches mit dem Gehäuse verkauft wurde?. Ich hab mir nämlich durch Zufall exakt das gleiche Gehäuse gegönnt. Habe dafür ein MSI MS-5148 Board (was bis auf den Chipsatz fast Baugleich ist), eine Riva 128, Vodoo1 und AWE64 CT4380. Es braucht alles noch ein bisschen Reperatur und Liebe, aber dann wird es auch genau so ein Meisterstück aus meiner Zeit. Danke für's Zeigen.

[@FeelingShred]

wow, I don't think I ever saw Forsaken before, impressive stuff. although I think I like Descent 1 and 2 stylized art style a bit more... will search if there are other styles of levels in Forsaken besides that standard Tech Base style

[@czviktor]

Forsaken is hidden Gem .There Is remake from Nightdive and Its one from best Games wich i missed in past time :)

[@ahah1785]

wow i had no idea there were V1's with 8 meg of ram....cool

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

impressive

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

I know there was a 6MB Voodoo 1 but I never knew an 8MB version existed. I think I never saw one in the stores.

[@3DfxAslinger]

The Skywell Magic 3D Plus (1) was the only 8 MB version for the PC.

[@marcelofrau8818]

Isn't that watermark showed on the dgVoodoo wrappers?

[@joseest8511]

Buen video

[@StigDesign]

Nice :D

[@felismetallum]

Waw ❤

[@FeelingShred]

other interesting games of this era for further testing... Interstate 76 (two options of graphics modes, radically different from one another, Software mode vs Direct3D mode... unfortunately it seems like D3D mode won't work in modern machines anymore, it was my favorite for that game in particular... it has textures that only appear in that mode, terrain textures look more detailed than Glide) (more games below)

[@FeelingShred]

Screamer 2... one of the first games of the era which offered an SVGA mode I think, up to 800x600 (??) in DOS

[@FeelingShred]

Flying Corps (Rowan Software)... an interesting World War 1 flight simulator which gave you the option to fly with Allied or Axis... beautiful WW1 planes... Another game that offered SVGA and high-res mode 1024x720 early on, there are both DOS and Win95 versions (Win installer requires you to have compatibility with 16-bit executables)

[@armorgeddon]

Nice! Is that the mainboard that was originally in that Vobis Highscreen case? Do you know if any socket 370 cooler fits in socket 7?

[@3DfxAslinger]

Thanks! Yes, all is original. The only things I have changed: Another soundcard (Vibra 16 was original installed), the Voodoo card, more memory (128MB SRAM instead of 64MB SDRAM) and another cooler. In this video also the Nvidia Vanta, but now, the original ATi Rage IIc is installed, because the Vanta is broken. Every S370 cooler should work in a Socket 7 sys. You only must look for the dimension and that no capasitor is in the way.

[@armorgeddon]

Great that you kept the system's base components original! Thanks for the hint regarding S370 coolers!

[@GraveUypo]

-that's exactly my 1998 pc- wait, no. mine had a voodoo2.

[@rcarkk]

What software and version did you use to see the system details and L2 cache size?

[@3DfxAslinger]

A older version 2.50 of Aida64. You can also out the free Everest Home 2.20.

[@aublak7492]

4:07 What song is this?

[@3DfxAslinger]

From the game Microsoft Fury 3 (1995): Kyle Richards - Terran

[@2007tantrum]

Cool build, best you could buy in 1997, without vanta of course) also very cool music, desktop wallpaper) there was also Pentium 2 first models, but they were oriented to agp graphics cards. Your techno sound track, it hears like midi? It is from some game from that period? If it not secret?)

[@3DfxAslinger]

Thanks, the Vanta is now changed to the original Rage IIc. Techno soundtrack is from the game Fury 3.

[@2007tantrum]

3Dfx_Aslinger, what a insult to Rage) because it is also a 3D accelerator, which should compete with Voodoo) But Voodoo in 1996/1997 kicked everyone’s ass.

[@LG1771-e4n]

Kommt irgwann noch ein 486 zu sehen ?😃 Bitte als Benchmarks noch CounterStrike 1.6 und GTA Vice City ;)

[@3DfxAslinger]

GTA Vice City? Wäre wohl eine Nummer zu hart für den MMX Pentium, für CS 1.6 muss ich auch zu einem grösseren System greifen. :) Die genannten Games müsste ich auch noch haben. GTA 1 wäre für das Sys optimal, hat auch den 3Dfx Glide Modus. ;) Ein 486er wäre eine neue Herausforderung. Meine PC Kenntnisse fingen ca. mit dem Sockel 5 (Pentium 90) an. Interessant wäre ein DX2/66 oder gleich der DX4/100. Von AMD gibt es ja auch den Am486DX4 mit z.B. 120MHz, soll auch der schnellste 486er auf dem Markt sein. Die sollen ja sogar problemlos 160MHz mitmachen.

[@LG1771-e4n]

NostalgicAslinger cool ! Ich freue mich schon 😃

[@3DfxAslinger]

Kommt alles in Zukunft, haben ja Zeit in aller Welt. ;)

[@LG1771-e4n]

NostalgicAslinger boa seit Sockel 5 !?🤗👍 Ich bin erst seit Athlon Xp/Pentium 4 Zeiten auf der Welt ;) und hab auch nur Erinnerungen von den, weil unser alter Laptop einen Athlon Xp hatte... aber so richtig beschäftigt mit PCs hab ich mich seit Sockel 775 erst ;)

[@LG1771-e4n]

NostalgicAslinger 😊👍

[@TheBoxGamePL]

nawet dzwięki strzału są takie same jak w tej grze

[@baklap141]

Crap that looks exactly like my first decent pc , was almost the same specs iirc and case 100% same. I really dont have any idea what happend with it .....I wish I still had it 🤔 the games looked so much better with 3dfx turned on and also run super smooth. I cannot remember wich 3dfx voodoo I had , all I know is that it worked very well.

[@ezequake1]

you need AMD k6 2 best processor for socket 7

[@3DfxAslinger]

Pentium (MMX) + Voodoo Graphics = classic as it was in 1997 I have some K6 CPUs here for another retro systems. K6, K6-2, K6-III and K6-III+. ;)

[@infinityretro6910]

зачем разгонять процессор? разве его для этих игр не хватит.

[@3DfxAslinger]

262MHz is nothing, but you get more speed than increasing the multiplier, because the FSB now runs with 75 MHz. Also not a problem, because the VIA chipset is max. specified for this frequency.

[@david55200]

@@3DfxAslinger it's possible to up at 89Mhz FSB, but you need a fan on your vidéo card.

[@fradd182]

I think that Vanta card is faster than voodoo 1.

[@3DfxAslinger]

The Vanta was later replaced with the ATI RAGE II+ DVD from 1997, that original comes with the system, because the Vanta card is broken. Maybe I would also upgrade to a Rendition V2200.

[@JohnnyIzGorodaN]

3DFX Glide render better(visual)