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From: genghis@ilces.ag.uiuc.edu (Scott Coleman)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: 3DBENCH TESTS
Date: 3 Sep 94 13:53:37 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Message-ID: <genghis.778600417@ilces>
References: <b7.23185.157.0NB3C544@swcbbs.com> <1994Sep2.233933.18340@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <1994Sep3.111506.28717@odin.diku.dk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ilces.ag.uiuc.edu
rockbear@diku.dk (Peter Juul) writes:
>bmcdaniel@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
>>In article <b7.23185.157.0NB3C544@swcbbs.com>, sean.jacobs@swcbbs.com (Sean Jacobs) writes:
>>> I just built an AMD DX2/66 and put in a VL-BUS video card with 1mb and a
>>> TRIDENT chip-set. I ran 3DBENCH and got a 43.4 FPS rating. Is it my
>>> super cheap $68 video card? Could it be my Mother Board? How do I speed
>>> it up?
>> Yep, probably the video card. You don't give the specific chip, but
>>IME, Tridents suck.
>Yeah.... How's out pal gonna survive this?
>It's a terribly low speed. definitely. Only about twice as fast as a cinema
>projector, and we all know how flickeringly slow THAT is, don't we?
>Get a life, dweebs...
I recently did the same upgrade as our poor original poster. New 486
motherboard, AMD 486/66 CPU, and VLB video card (Cirrus Logic 5428
chipset). I get a "mere" 41.6 on 3DBench. Since our systems are
comparable, I think I have an idea of what DOOM must play like on his
system. When I play DOOM on mine, the animation is fast and smooth, and
looks every bit as good on my machine as on my officemate's Pentium 90
(which gets 83.3 on 3DBench).
And this guy wants to know how to speed it up?
Me, I'm happy - I get performance on DOOM that's indistinguishable from
the $3,000 machine for less than 1/4 that price, all told. Maybe I'll be
sorry when Quake comes out, but then again, by then Pentium 200s will be
selling for $150.
As for our unhappy camper who began this thread, I'm afraid the news is
bleak. You might be able to squeeze out a few more fps from 3DBench if
you upgrade to a better video card, say a Tseng ET4000/w32i- or S3-based
card. I seem to recall seeing 3DBench scores in the neighborhood of 50
fps with the faster cards. But then your bang/buck ratio starts to go
down - instead of $68, these cards are maybe $250 or $300. But hey, if
maxxing out your 3DBench score is your only goal, that's how you can do
it.
--
Scott Coleman, President ASRE (American Society of Reverse Engineers)
asre@uiuc.edu
Life is temporally limited - drive velocitously!!