Dabombinable

Today's goal - figure out why the Voodoo2 runs so poorly on my K6-2 500.

Having to fire up a Windows 98 PC so that I can format a 64GB micro sdcard. Very ridiculous that I can't even do a force format with diskpart.

Just realised that with EDO DIMM, I could in theory also pair them with EDO SIMM on my AT Jetway board:

Just bought a K6-III+ badge for my old AT case, as well as stickers for S3 and ESS (as the respective Savage4 and AudioDrive will live in it).
First time I've felt that it would be appropriate, as this is the first build that I will be finalising.

No idea what I'll do with the AT Slot1 board, considering how slow it is compared to my other 3 functional ATX Slot1 boards (2 of which are in builds). Do have 1 more 200W AT PSU left that could go in another case - but a permanent build with it would kind of suck due to lacking the OG PS/2 connector and the onboard SB16XV.

Note sure what is going on with my STB Voodoo2's performance with the K6-2 500, but I am getting performance similar to that of a 200MHz Pentium Pro (comparing with these results, same settings: https://www.anandtech.com/show/260/8). And yet using the software renderer I'm seeing 24.6fps, which is better than Anandtech managed with their overclocked 560MHz PIII.

If performance changes significantly with the K6-2+/"3+" then it is CPU related. If not, then I'll remove the Voodoo2 and just use the Savage4. Its fast enough anyway and really doesn't scale with CPU that are much faster.

Voodoo2 vs S3 Savage4 GT on my K6-2 500 at 640x480 16bit, under their respective API (Glide and Metal) in TimeDemo1:

• Voodoo2 = 49.6fps
• Savage4 GT = 73.2fps

There are bound to be games where the Voodoo2 is faster on the K6-2. However it definitely does better than the Savage4 with my PIII 1000 (despite the slow motherboard) as the Savage4 barely scales beyond a Celeron 450A or 500 on an SE440BX-2. Even a Pentium III 650 gets near identical FPS out of the Savage.

Edit: 60.4fps in 32bit colours for the Savage. Should compare it to my TNT2 Vanta (125/125Mhz stock clocks).

Because my PC's PSU has a design old enough to not have cables designed with basement cases in mind, I'm going to need to get some SATA splitters as I'm out of my molex to SATA splitters (and molex connectors). There is no way to connect the SATA cables directly to a drive flat on the bottom of the case or on the back of the motherboard tray due to how the cables would push up on a drive's connector.

This will never not be funny:

Bots got lucky and most shots from every attacker hit the head. Crab pilot had a gauss round introduced to their head next turn.

For the Jetway 994AN-L (as by accident I discovered that Ezra-T works):

And for the Jetway J-542B as the BIOS is modded (and it'd run faster+cooler at 550MHz than the K6-2 500):

Good Pairings for the SiS 315 and Savage4 respectively.

Considering the price, and the amount of images showing tests, 90% chance that I'll be buying one of these on Ebay:

They appear to have been thouroughly tested under different versions of Windows. Would run it at stock however.

Really should have read the manual before setting the Jetway SS7 board up. I had plugged the PS/2 cable into the IR header.

Feels good to have a useable board that takes 72pin SIMM. I can actually test the modules that I've had sitting around for the last 8-9 years.

Now that I have a board capable of 2V with a modified BIOS, I really want to find a K6-III+ - preferably 450MHz.