rec.autos.simulators

3D Video Board -- Worth It ?

Bill Jenki

3D Video Board -- Worth It ?

by Bill Jenki » Wed, 12 Feb 1997 04:00:00


>On Fri, 07 Feb 1997 11:56:54 -0500, "Robert A. Knauber"

>>I am going to be buying a new motherboard this weekend at a computer
>>show.  Do you know if the Intel Triton 2 Motherboard or the Intel Marl
>>Motherboard support DMA?  BTW... what is DMA beside's a configuration
>>item.

>Do yourself a big favor, and don't think about buying any other board
>than the ASUS P/I-P55T2P4.  Just got mine yesterday and WOW!  DMA out
>of the box was 77.8, then with PCI Latency set to 54, it was 90.0.
>Then I turned it back down to 32, and overclocked it to 208Mhz with
>83Mhz bus speed and got 91.6 and 4 more fps' with cbench.

   Heck, my old (Aug '95) Packard Bell P100 with a Sierra 3D card gets 80.9,
with latency set at default (not sure)...never screwed with the PCI
latency...It's an Intel Triton (1, I believe) motherboard.

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