My system: AMD Athlon 500 1stMainboard FIC SD11 Athlon mobo with BIOS NC603/NC604 equipped with AMD 751 AGP system and VIA Super South 82C686A peripheral bus controller 256 MB PC100 SDRAM 8 ns Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra Wide SCSI IBM DDRS-34560W Rev: S71D 4.5 GB STB (original 3Dfx) Voodoo3 3000 (NOT over clocked!!!) SunWave1>cat /proc/version Linux version 2.3.18ac9 (root@SunWave1) (gcc version pgcc-2.95.1 19990816 (release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 17:07:45 MET 1999 SunWave1>cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 1 model name : AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 499.052640 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr 6 mce cx8 sep mtrr pge 14 cmov fcmov 22 mmx 30 3dnow bogomips : 496.44 SunWave1>cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xc8000000 (3200MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1 Remember that the Athlon is full (!!!) PPro/PII/PIII compatible in this feature. SunWave1>lspci -v [snip] 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo3 (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 121a:003a Flags: 66Mhz, fast devsel, IRQ 9 Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) I/O ports at ac00 Capabilities: [54] AGP version 1.0 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1 Here are some first benchmarks with Q3 on Linux* and Windows 98 SE*. I've used all modes high except for 'texture detail'. For that I've used the second highest value (default):-) Resolution Linux Windows 98 SE 1152x664 33.2 34.8 1024x768 40.5 42.1 800x600 52.8 57.9 640x480 55.3 68.8 *footnote: Linux with 3DNow!, Windows with the 'new' Athlon 3DNow! optimizations Now some 'raw' Mesa-3.1 CVS performance: SunWave1>pwd /usr/local/Mesa/demos SunWave1>./trispd For options: trispd -help MMX cpu detected. 3Dnow cpu detected. video memory unprotecting Dither: on ShadeModel: smooth DepthTest: off Size: 50 pixels RedBits: 5 GreenBits: 6 BlueBits: 5 Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.238s = 1.39187e+06 tri/s 69593565 pixels/s Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.244s = 1.38815e+06 tri/s 69407486 pixels/s Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.248s = 1.38568e+06 tri/s 69283985 pixels/s Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.249s = 1.38506e+06 tri/s 69253179 pixels/s Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.245s = 1.38753e+06 tri/s 69376570 pixels/s Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.256s = 1.38077e+06 tri/s 69038297 pixels/s Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.242s = 1.38939e+06 tri/s 69469402 pixels/s Rate: 3115008 tri in 2.246s = 1.38691e+06 tri/s 69345681 pixels/s What do you think about it??? Regards, Dieter --- Dieter Nützel Graduate Student, Computer Science University of Hamburg Department of Computer Science Cognitive Systems Group Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30 D-22527 Hamburg, Germany !!!!!!!!!! Attention new 'mail address @home' !!!!!!!!!! email: Dieter Nützel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @home: Dieter Nützel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _________________________________________________________ DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) for Linux. Because I do 3D medical visualization as my thesis. _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Mesa-dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.mesa3d.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev