HELIOS: Old School is Still Cool

[WinNut]

I can use the ISA slot. It will use the bottom slot, but I won't be able to use the bottom PCI slot.

From the camera's perspective it looks like the ISA slot doesn't have a slot to plug in to.

[flibberdipper]

From the camera's perspective it looks like the ISA slot doesn't have a slot to plug in to.

Sorry.

[MrYuriy]

After looking through all those pics, I was half-expecting to look out the windows and see dinosaurs.

[flibberdipper]

After looking through all those pics, I was half-expecting to look out the windows and see dinosaurs.

lol If I ever get a HAF 912 for Vengeance, HELIOS will go into the case Vengeance is sitting in.

[Dist0ur]

I'm sorry, but why don't you just save for a little but and get a new PC? what will this be used for?

[d33g33]

I'm sorry, but why don't you just save for a little but and get a new PC? what will this be used for?

Nostalgic value. Kids these days...

 

I remember my first 'gaming' PC had a Geforce 2 GTS and I was the coolest kid on the block because everyone else only had MX200/400's

[flibberdipper]

I'm sorry, but why don't you just save for a little but and get a new PC? what will this be used for?

Old games that don't run on newer hardware. I have had all of the parts for some time now, gathering dust.

 

Nostalgic value. Kids these days...

 

I remember my first 'gaming' PC had a Geforce 2 GTS and I was the coolest kid on the block because everyone else only had MX200/400's

I have 5 Vanta 16's... And counting.

[Dist0ur]

Old games that don't run on newer hardware. I have had all of the parts for some time now, gathering dust.

 

I have 5 Vanta 16's... And counting.

thanks for clearing that up!

[flibberdipper]

thanks for clearing that up!

No problem!

 

As for getting things done, all I could do was install Windows since my floppy drive failed. I couldn't install the USB mass storage drivers, which is why I don't have any of the drivers installed.

[alpenwasser]

Nostalgic value. Kids these days...

 

I remember my first 'gaming' PC had a Geforce 2 GTS and I was the coolest kid on the block because everyone else only had MX200/400's

Hehe, IIRC my first ever PC had a Geforce 3 Deluxe from Asus, which

I then replaced with an ATI8500. How time has flown.

Of course, the crown jewel of my build was the SCSI OS disk. Initially

I bought a Quantum 17 GB 10k rpm drive (loud as hell btw.), then I got

myself a Seagate Cheetah 15k rpm 36 GB drive for ~1300 USD I think

(ridiculous for a high school student). That drive was my OS drive

for about six or seven years IIRC, served me very well and was really

awesome (fastest drive on the planet when I bought it IIRC).

[flibberdipper]

Hehe, IIRC my first ever PC had a Geforce 3 Deluxe from Asus, which

I then replaced with an ATI8500. How time has flown.

Of course, the crown jewel of my build was the SCSI OS disk. Initially

I bought a Quantum 17 GB 10k rpm drive (loud as hell btw.), then I got

myself a Seagate Cheetah 15k rpm 36 GB drive for ~1300 USD I think

(ridiculous for a high school student). That drive was my OS drive

for about six or seven years IIRC, served me very well and was really

awesome (fastest drive on the planet when I bought it IIRC).

I have 5 (and counting) VANTA 16's, and a bunch of 1.7GHz Pentium 4's.

[flibberdipper]

Finally got around to doing some 3DMark99 Benchmarks. And here are the results.

 

3DMark Project:
3DMark Build Version: 200
Date: 5/17/14
Time: 5:26:15 PM
Project Name:My Project
Comments:

Project Settings (Template):
Rendering Platform: Internal (Voodoo3 AGP)
Resolution: 800*600
Color Depth: 16-bit Color
CPU Optimization: Intel® Pentium® III
Z-Buffer: 16-bit
Frame Buffer: Triple buffering
Refresh Rate: 76 Hz
Looping: Disabled
Texture Format: 16-bit, 4444 RGBA
Run Tests: Once
Title Screen: Shown

Test Results:
3DMark Result : 4,141 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed : 7,709 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score : 2,369 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race: 53.9 FPS
Game 2 - First Person: 33.6 FPS
Fill Rate : 155.5 MTexels/s
Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing : 301.5 MTexels/s
2MB Texture Rendering Speed: 254.2 FPS
4MB Texture Rendering Speed: 245.8 FPS
8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 202.0 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 10.4 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 5.2 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass: 129.7 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass: 166.6 FPS
Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass: Not Supported
Point Sample Texture Filtering Speed: 102.4 %
Bilinear Texture Filtering Speed: 100.0 %
Trilinear Texture Filtering Speed: 56.8 %
Anisotropic Texture Filtering Speed: Not Supported
6 Pixel/individual: 979.0 KPolygons/s
6 Pixel/strips: 1,441.7 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/individual: 955.5 KPolygons/s
25 Pixel/strips: 1,594.1 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/individual: 933.0 KPolygons/s
50 Pixel/strips: 1,592.0 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/individual: 554.7 KPolygons/s
250 Pixel/strips: 559.2 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/individual: 150.0 KPolygons/s
1000 Pixel/strips: 150.4 KPolygons/s

System:
Windows Version: Windows 4 A , Build 2222
DirectX Version: 4.09.00.0904
Bios Version: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Bios Date: 11/02/99
Total Physical Memory: 511 MB
Free Physical Memory: 396 MB

Processor:
Processor Type: Intel Pentium III
Processor Speed: 500 MHz
Processor Caps: MMX SSE
L1 Cache Size: 32 KB
L2 Cache Size: 512 KB

Desktop:
2D Display Adapter Name: 3dfx Voodoo3
2D Display Adapter Driver Date: 11-10-2000
Monitor Name: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Driver Date: 4-23-1999
Desktop Resolution: 1024*768
Desktop Color Depth: 32-Bit Color

3D Accelerator:
Name: Voodoo3 AGP
Driver Name: 3dfx32v3.dll
Driver Version: 4.12.01.0666
Total Video Memory On Card: 15,236 KB
Total Texture Memory: 12,164 KB
Bus: PCI

Supported Features:
16-bit Rendering
Point Sampling
Point Sampling With Mip-Mapping
Bilinear Filtering
Bilinear Filtering With Mip-Mapping
Trilinear Filtering
Specular Gouraud Shading
Vertex Fox
Table Fog
W-Fog
Sub-Pixel Accuracy
Alpha Blending
Addivitive Alpha Blending
Multiplicative Alpha Blending
Vertex Alpha Blending
Vertex And Texture Alpha Blending

Supported 3D Display Modes:
320*200, 16bit color
320*240, 16bit color
400*300, 16bit color
512*384, 16bit color
640*400, 16bit color
640*480, 16bit color
720*480, 16bit color
720*576, 16bit color
800*600, 16bit color
960*720, 16bit color
1024*768, 16bit color
1152*864, 16bit color
1280*960, 16bit color
1280*1024, 16bit color
1600*1024, 16bit color
1920*1080, 16bit color

Supported Texture Formats:
16-bit, 565 RGB
16-bit, 5551 RGBA
16-bit, 4444 RGBA
8-bit, 332 RGB

Please attach description of Your testing environment to all published results, charts and figures. Description is available for all projects. Exporting instructions can be found in Result Browser Help. Publishing requirements are described in the 3DMark license agreement You have agreed on.

The results are created with 3DMark 99 (www.3dmark.com). Tests are performed without independent verification by Futuremark Corporation and that Futuremark Corporation makes no representations or warranties as to the result of the test. All products used in the test were shipping versions available to the general public.
3DMark is a trademark of Futuremark Corporation Ltd/Oy

http://pastebin.com/wkNuB6uW

 

Do you guys have any other ideas for benchmarks I should do? Keep in mind they have to work with Windows 98.

[Recon-UK]

Nice build log @tmcclelland455

[flibberdipper]

Nice build log @tmcclelland455

Aww, thanks. There might be a couple pictures and a video added later.

[Recon-UK]

Aww, thanks. There might be a couple pictures and a video added later.

Sweet

[Lord Gaben]

I know its not going to run as well as Win 98SE but it would run OK, why not put XP on there and if not what about Win 2000

[flibberdipper]

I know its not going to run as well as Win 98SE but it would run OK, why not put XP on there and if not what about Win 2000

Windows 98 supports my VooDoo.

[flibberdipper]

This weekend I might get HELIOS in Vengeance's old case. Along with a fan controller and some fans.

[Lord Gaben]

Windows 98 supports my VooDoo.

Oh forgot about drivers, what about Windows 2000

[flibberdipper]

Oh forgot about drivers, what about Windows 2000

Same thing. XP is (in a basic sense) Windows 2000 with a new UI and different kernel.

[Yummychickenblue]

Same thing. XP is (in a basic sense) Windows 2000 with a new UI and different kernel.

The kernel for the most part is what differentiates operating systems though.

[flibberdipper]

The kernel for the most part is what differentiates operating systems though.

It's basically just slightly updated. Went from NT 5 to NT 5.1.

[benjr]

From the camera's perspective it looks like the ISA slot doesn't have a slot to plug in to.

I can understand how you might have made this mistake.  I'm not as old as some here but in my limited capacity allow me to further explain this.

 

You will notice he has 7 expansion slots and 7 back panels.  1 APG, 5 PCI, 1 ISA.  I've included example images of each below to help illustrate:

 

AGP

 

PCI

 

ISA

 

Take note of how the ISA card is orientated in the opposite direction.  This is because ISA cards are installed face-up, unlike the AGP and PCI.  The bottom back panel in the case is shared between the ISA slot and the bottom PCI slot.  This is why you can only install one or the other.  With this specific combination of case and motherboard the top black panel will not be occupied.

[WinNut]

snip.

I actually learned this between posting that and now, I have tried that theory out myself and compared a PCI card and ISA card.

[Yummychickenblue]

I actually learned this between posting that and now, I have tried that theory out myself and compared a PCI card and ISA card.

Whats ISA?