Author Topic: The Ultimate Aces High PC? (Read 2379 times)

Spatula · « **Reply #30 on:** February 17, 2000, 08:37:00 PM »

Duck,

I see everyone dissin the AMD K6, saying they dont cut the mustard.
This aint true. The K6-2 is not the best by a long shot, celery does outperform it.
However the K6-3 will slaughter a celery and give a Pentium III a run for its muney, espc since its cheaper. Furthermore the K6-3 sits in a Super-Socket 7 board which DOES come in AT form factor.
The K6-3 comes in 400 and 450 only

- it got superceded by the K7 (ALLRIGHTY!!!!) but you can over clock to hell and back

try getting a k6-3/450 and clocking it to 550 (depending on what board you have).
It will murder a celery and be about 1/3 as cheap. and you wont have to buy a new case either.

Dont anyone even try to diss the Athlon - it'll kills even the fastest coppermine and has a faster FSB

Long live AMD

As for video cards - TNT-2 Ultra is the only way to spell video card. Ge-Force Pro if ya got the cash

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Overlord Spatula,
1st Airborne Kitchen Utensil Assault Group

"... 10 Me-109s out of the sun..." Aces High, Iron Maiden.

Granger · « **Reply #31 on:** February 17, 2000, 10:51:00 PM »

Mox,
When 3dfx bougt out STB, they kept the old crew here in plano. You can drive by and see the ol 3dfx flag proudly flying

We are mainly here for tech support, as the old 3dfx had none.

Tern · « **Reply #32 on:** February 18, 2000, 12:00:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Duckwing6:
I'm asking for some advise of the more competent guys around here regarding the optimal AH Pc......)

Thanks in advance!

Here we go again...

Rockett helped me out immensely when few others could.

I'd heed his advice personally.

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O.E. 'Tern' Dillon
"Live to Fly! Fly to Fight! Fight to Live!"

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #33 on:** February 18, 2000, 02:24:00 AM »

Lepth:

The board i got supports all you described .. BUT

IT DIN'T WORK! !! DIDN'T DIDN'T DiN'T WORK DiDn'T DinDiT'T Diiidddn'T

I HATE COmPUTERS !!
-> Duckwing6 After nervous breakdown ..

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Phillip "Duckwing6" Artweger
Flight Officer "E" Flight
Skeleton Crew

Lephturn · « **Reply #34 on:** February 18, 2000, 10:55:00 AM »

Uh, sorry Duckwing, I'm not exactly clear on the issue here. Give me more details, what board exactly are you using and for what chip. What FSB speeds does it support ect. I'm sure I can help if you give me the details.

Thorns, describe what you mean by "dumps". Are you getting an application crash to desktop, or are you talking about Host Connection Lost? I suspect you are talking about a crash to desktop, in which case the culprit is very likely heat. My V3 heats up easily, especially if overclocked, so I slapped an old 486 heatsink and fan on it with a couple fo zipties. For now, try taking the cover off of your computer and see if that helps.

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The Flying Pigs
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Duckwing6 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 18, 2000, 12:50:00 PM »

It's working now ...
The Celeron Chip was dead out of the box .. (go figure ...)

now i got a Celeron 466 on an EpoX 6VBA MB ... and i got a Voodoo³ 3000

The performance is ok.. i'm seeing now a solid 20FPS on the runway with ground clutter ON ... (used to see 8-11 with clutter OFF)

good thing is that this MB will allow me to upgrade to a fast Pentium as soon as they have reached reasonable prices...

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Phillip "Duckwing6" Artweger
Flight Officer "E" Flight
Skeleton Crew

Lephturn · « **Reply #36 on:** February 19, 2000, 08:24:00 AM »

Yep, it's rare, but those things do happen still Duckwing.

Glad to see you are up and running. I'm sure your in-flight framerates will be very nice with that kind of runway framerate. I always find the framerate is low at the start, and picks up after 30 seconds or so, even if I don't move. Once I'm in flight, I pick up another 10-15 fps easily.

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Lephturn
The Flying Pigs
Visit Lephturn's Aerodrome for AH news, resources, and training data.
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-towd_ · « **Reply #37 on:** February 20, 2000, 07:16:00 PM »

somthin is wrong if that is all your gettin duck i have a celery 366 and voodoo2000 pci and i get better (64 meg ram at 66 mhz bus)fps with no overclockin of cpu. but voodoo is runnin at 180 mhz no prob with a fan

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #38 on:** February 21, 2000, 02:25:00 AM »

hmmm.. TOWD dunno whhat you mean .. how can i change the clocking of the Graphic card without overclocking the MB ?

Sn1p3r · « **Reply #39 on:** February 21, 2000, 02:40:00 PM »

You know Thorns posted earlier that he was having the lock-ups .. well, he has since then blown away all his AH stuff and downloaded and freshly installed and has had NO lock-ups since. Might want to give it a try!

-sn1p3r

JimBear · « **Reply #40 on:** February 21, 2000, 03:00:00 PM »

Duckwing6, try a little utility called "powerstrip" for overclocking your video card (the warnings u could toast ur card are no joke tho) I have a GeForce 256 DDR card running at 135/330mhz which is just a tad over the 120/300 stock settings but I get in the mid 50s straight ahead and around in the 90fps when looking up.

JimBear

Duckwing6 · « **Reply #41 on:** February 21, 2000, 03:47:00 PM »

Sn1p3r: The problem with dumps to desktop where with my videocard .. since i upgraded to the new card i had no dumps/lockups whatsoever.. maybe a fan would have been enough to keep me from locking up but i needed more FPS anyways .. 8 FPS near an airfield just hurt your aim too bad

cc Jimbear... could you put a link up for this one?

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Phillip "Duckwing6" Artweger
Flight Officer "E" Flight
Skeleton Crew

Author Topic: The Ultimate Aces High PC? (Read 2379 times)

Granger

-towd_

Sn1p3r