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Hi Rick, no permanent damage to the board or CPu can result, as it is just a timing change, so worst is you do not boot , or get a trap error or freeze etc. Cameron CI
Hi Tim, 12 seconds difference is ALOT in 3ds and rendering in general. I believe my mapping off was actually set to 800 x 600. anyway, your scores are very good, as they should be with SM p55, good boards, we sell many, as well as the ASUS. Cameron
Hi Rick, if you have a 2.5clk jumper, you can set the p133 to 60mhz ext speed and 2.5 clk =150mhz it is not always perfect though, produces errors sometimes in Win 95\nt, but since 3ds is dos based, timing is not as critical and sensitive. have not tried to…
Latest 3ds Chevy.3ds benchmark CYBERIMAGE P133 NT Workstation with Asus Triton board and 8ns pipelined cache and 60ns EDO ram 640 res with all defaults and mapping on 1:05 640 res with defaults , mapping OFF :45 SEC !!! P133 overclked to 150mhz 36 Sec !! Hard Drive is a…
Regarding Fliper error, in AS, are you saying creating a large win 95 swap file elimates the flipper error. also how do you go about creating a swap file for AS in WIn 95 thx CC
> high end hardware is my specialty(G)
>Cameron: Thanks for the Dual Pentium info! Valuable! Greg Pyros< Anytime Greg, high end hardware is my specialty(G) wait till we have the ASUS dual p6's in later this year _ NT will SING ! best Cameron CYBERIMAGE
Hi Terry, yes we will be able to open up a slot with the 3.3 power supply. When you need it, the 3d card and the power supply is yours ! microtek is a good low cost scanner, but you are right, the Hp is a 1 pass with superior…
NT Hellstone specs
Message #187596
Hi martin, yeah, those ASUS duals are monster machines. when we beta tested NT hell and Nbench and saw the numbers even compared to the Integraph machines, we were impressed ! they are the best SMP boards around, and having built some 150+ myself, I can say you made an…
#HP3C
Message #187594
HI Terry, the Hp3c is by far the best scanner out there, both in terms of one pass scanning and compatibility and color qualtiy. the Nikon is awesome by the hp is widely suported. always go with the industry standard parts. I did when i build your ASUS dual p100…
Hi jason, Nt wil run on 12 megs barely, with no apps open. Nt runs nicely on 24 megs as long as you are not doing graphics, ie word, excel etc. with graphics you need 24 megs for the OS and 24 for the apps, so 48 is a practical…
How many PCI slots/PVR
Message #187592
We run and build the p133 tritons on a regular basis. I am writing you on an ASUS tp55 with a p133 cpu. triton is only a single cpu chipset. we will carry the ASUS triton2 for smp p150's by Dec\jan. cameron CYBERIMAGE
#How many PCI slots/PVR
Message #187590
Hi Gregg, actually, we have been building the ASUS dual machines for over a year. the neptune will run a p133 dual, but Intel makes a special version of the p120\133 with the apic smp logic unit in it. most of the p120\133's out there do not have smp built…
I agree ! Cameron CYBERIMAGE
yeah the alpha server sounds powerful and more economical than the sgi, but if speed and price is an issue, the ALR Q SMP revolution is around $25,000 has 4 Pentiums-133's each with 2 meg cpu cache, dedicated cpu to memory paths for each, and up to 1 gig EDC…
Hi John, I saw a Quad P6 board running at an Intel ee demo. it runs at 1100 Mips, and destroys a alpha. by the way, a dual p133 board will outperform an alpha on most things. the exception is rendering with heavy FP. the alpha is actualy very poor…
Hi Kevin, actually the Perception with the daughter card goes towards the ISA slot. when we built terry's, the perception was in the last PCi slot and the daughter card hung over the isa slot. the perception is designed so poorly thought that the daughter card has capacitors that stick…
rendering with a dx4-100 and a p100 P-100 is about 3 times faster in 3d studio on chevy 3ds and many other meshes. the pentium has 2-3 times the fp performance of a 486. even a p75 will out render a dx4-100 cameron CYBERIMAGE
this must be due to a hardware problem in your system, as we have built hundreds of dual processor systems using ASUS and AMI boards with no trouble using express setup. ASUS and AMI are Intel and Microsoft SMP 1.1 spec certified boards. many cheaper dual boards do not meet…
PPC and Mips are significantly slower on NT than a dual PEntium machine running PIC PUB. we have tested both and seen it. there is no substitute for dual pentiums on the Mips or PPC side. trust me. stick with Intel. P6 will put others to rest anyway. Cameron CYberImage
ndrew, excellent. Thanks for the response. I'll try your suggestions. this is asking for trouble my friend. do a proper reinstall, and do NOT monkey around with NT files. Cameron CYberImage
yes you can do it but it is better to reinstall. if you do a reinstall in the same directory over itself, you will keep your basic setup. there is no reason for you not to do a reinstall. we do it many times a week for testing on NT.…
hi martin. the ASUS dual board is the best board on the market for smp. we have sold + used them for over a year, selling some 100+. we just sold a systems to terry Miller , a $25,000 NT monster for 3ds, and it works great. I suspect you…
actualy that is not true. NT 3.5 / 3.51 will automatically recognize 2 cpu's on installation, and NO HAL installs are necessary. SMP is built into NT at the lowest level. try to get 3.51 if possible. Cameron CYberImage
Hi John. Aprogram does not have to be written for multiprocessing in NT. NT controlls all CPU thread allocation dynamically, as it does Ram, and Cache. this is why it is a far superior os to SGI and Mac. all that is required to use multiprocessing advantage in NT is…
Martin, >>Try to get advice from users who don't also sell the stuff THEN go the dealers well-armed…. >>>>> right on John, !! this is precisely the point. You nailed it. We do test hundreds of products we come in contact with, and as such are in a great position…
yeah Dos is a pain. glad you got a good deal and system, enjoy, you picked a winner board!! best Cameron CyberImage
Well said John, I agree completely. Cameron CYberImage
#Build it/Buy it??
Message #179711
WE use the ASUS and SuperMicro and AMI boards exclusively. and it is not a myth. try something like PCI to PCI bus bridging on a cheap asian clone with 2 or 3 adaptec scsi 2940's or Mylex raid controllers, and you will see the difference, they work and most…
HI david, luck has nothing to do with getting the cards to work. the s64 works for us and all our clients simply because we use industry standard components like Adaptec ASUS\ SUperMicro\ Intel\ conner\quantum \diamond\s3 \pract perriph etc. these companies do everything to Intel\Microsoft spec as well as general…
HI John, we either use it with OS2 warp or 3DS, and are about to test with NT. when you run a true protected mode memory manager that was designed from the ground up as a seemless os memory manager, like OS2 win 95\NT it can make all the difference…
thx for the driver\ card list you posted on the s64 cards. as Hardware distributers and Pentium systems manufacturers, we have tested all of them and have founf the Diamond stealth 64 video vram 968 card to be the most trouble free video card ever released. we have and currently…
Also david, everyone must understand there are 2 versions of the stealth 64 video Vram and a dram version as well. the only ones we use are the top of the line Retail packages which have the Texas Instruments 220 mhz ramdac for doing 1600 res at 77 refresh. there…
sorry but they do. the fact that it works on our systems at all res says one thing- our motherboards and support cards are higher quality, and better researched that many using 3ds. we specialize in high end Pentium machines, and MB and cards\ make al the difference, not to…
hi John, actualy the apps do not have to be specifically written for smp, since NT dynamicaly controlls all cpu thread allocation, like it does memory. as lon as an app is 32 bit and multithreaded, it will fly on nt, as nt constantly monitors and assigns cpu threads to…
Hi Kelly, try looking into the Rockwell \ Martin 3Dchip it is almost 3 times faster than the glint chip, have been used in US Military Simulators for years, including stealth f117 planes, is now used in $60,000+ Sega game arcade \ virtual reality games does 800,000+ polygons a sec.…
Diamond did not jack anything, S3 makes te graphics chips and they decided to make the 968 , which is a faster chip, does video, and supports EDO vram, and 8 megs a ram to. there are too many tech diferences to go over with you here, but trust me,…
Actually I own a computer hardware distributer co. and graphics co so I use and test ALOT of video cards and all the s968 cards I have used Diamond STB, ASUS have worked fine. Cameron ceo CYberImage
all you do is pick the s64 driver and use it with your 968. it works perfectly!! vibrant says it works too – Cameron CyberImage
Sorry carl, We do not sell the upgrade, except with Computer systems as an OS. you should be able to get it at Egghead in about 3 weeks or so Cameron CyberImage
NOT TRUE AT ALL I am Running 2 machines with s64 video vram in 65000 and 16 mil in 3ds, and have done it for many customers too. s3 964 drivers work in 3ds for 968 chipset. you must be having a conflict with your board or another card. believe…
well said Emmanuel, Cameron CYberImage
RELAX, I have a s64 with 968 and sell them too. all s3 chip cards are backward compatible , so use the 964 drivers, they work great. this goes for any app. S3 968 will even work with 928 drivers. this is quality. ATI SUCKS compared with the s64. s64…
Actually Dual pentium boards work GREAT in NT . we have sold over 100 in the last year, without any problems. again it all comes down to the qualtiy of the motherboard. and components the ASUS and AMI dual pentium boards we sell are certified by INTEL and MICROSOFT for…
This is just not true. NT is the most stable network platform of any OS. we have sold hundreds of NT machine servers with no problems. the biggest problem is peoploe buy CHEAP hardware like IDE cdrom, no name scsi cards and network cards that have porly writtem drivers. also,…
actually the stealth 64 works perfectly in 3ds with all versions of vibrant especially the latest, including 24bit. and the Vesa drivers in the display mode redraw at leat 20% faster than the vibrant drivers in display. try a redraw with 50 pman in vibrant mode and vesa mode. vesa…
Hi Michael, NT workstation has built in networking, so ditch lantastic. all you need is workstation, as it is adequate to run 5 or less PC on a network. the reason NT 3.5 is on sale is 3.51 was released last week by MS, so wait and get that in…
Nt 3.51 adds win 95 help support and dll's, file compression, dual pentium speedup, single pentium speedup, support for win 95 desktop, and many minor improvements as well Cameron CyberImage
HI Mark, NT 3.51 was released this week, upgrade is $15 for 3.5 users Cameron CYberImage
actually, the win 95 desktop for Nt should be release in about 2 months around the same time as win 95. Cairo is already in early beta testing, and is not a new os, but rather a series of patches and upgrades for nt 3.52 base system. nt 3.51 already…
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