The Pentium MMX LEAP

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In this video we explore the Pentium MMX 166 Mhz with it's improvements over the 486 and luckily we have the 486 Rust Bucket running at a mind boggling 160mhz to compare it to.

References Used:

Nostalgia Nerd

Necroware

System Specs

Penium MMX 166 Mhz
Socket 7 Acer Motherboard
64 mb of SDRAM
Trident TGUI 9440
Sound Blaster AWE 64
SD to IDE card reader

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[PixelPipes]

Good explanation of the 3D transformation process. Also a very accurate description of the YouTube video production life. You never get as much done in a day as you think you can. Great video!

[DextersTechLab]

Great video, the Pentium was a massive upgrade over the 486 much more than the 486 was to the 386.

[BrassicGamer]

This was actually fascinating. You showed some games that I have never actually played e.g. Half Life and Unreal. The reason for this is that I didn't upgrade my 486DX4 until 1999, when I got a Pentium III. By that time, DOS games had long been left behind. I think the newest game I played on that system was Duke 3D. So it's great to see the equivalent experience on the Pentium. Those games look so wrong in 320x200!!!

[CPUGalaxy]

Great video, thanks for your work. And yes, all those who are just watching videos have no clue how much work it is. Setting up all, spending hours of installing software and games, testing, filming, appreciate your effort! cheers, Peter.

[marcelocorpucci]

Great work my friend! I'm still amazed about the performance of this little CPU. Back in the day I had a friend with a Pentium 150Mhz and another one with that MMX model. The differences in performance between each other were unbelievable...

[RiksRandomRetro]

Awesome video! I loved the McGyver battery moment. When it comes to retro it's always one thing or another and you got around that nicely.

[RetroTechBytes]

Amazing video man! Thank you again for all of your hard work! I loved this one and it was so cool to see the comparison between the 166MMX and X5-160 through direct software rendering. I think with a Voodoo 1 this system would be far, far superior to the X5, but it's interesting to see that the leap from 486->Pentium was massive, but still not quite what you'd think in terms of playability of software-rendered games. Quake engine games really love the Pentium's pipelined FPU, but I'm a bit shocked as to how poor Unreal ran in software mode. Granted, I usually run that game accelerated, but that did surprise me. Dark Forces 2 is another awesome pick. That whole series is just way too fun!

[patriciasnow]

Great video. I like your timeline and personal touch of your metro trip

[ScanLinesAU]

Very nice channel you have here, your videos are deserving of a lot more support!

[jikissgamer]

It's amazing how much different the games run in software mode than in 3dfx mode. I think the lowest I've ever seen Unreal is at 640x480 so that was very interesting seeing at 320x200. The text was so huge haha. This is one of my favorite CPUs, I use it with a Voodoo and it is very fast for late DOS games.

[Jason-fpvi]

Awesome vid as usual man. Half life looked surprisingly playable even though the resolution had to be at the lowest!

[lemagreengreen]

I had forgotten that Half Life even had a software renderer, it was released a year before Quake 3 came along and said it was okay to ditch the software renderer, after that everything else followed.

[framebuffer.]

all this switching between 320x240 and 640x480 reminded me when I used to play Screamer on my 486 and used a function key to switch (live) to 640x480 in the less intensive parts of the track to enjoy a little bit of Hi-Res beauty 😹

[FOIL_FRESH]

hey buddy nice video again ! i figured out what was wrong with my voodoo card - it's completely missing a capacitor near a RAM chip which was giving me some graphical glitches from time to time so I need to do a solder job. Even worse, I saw some scratches over some pcb traces so it might be completely dead yet i'm hoping there is still contact through the traces (it was kinda working before, but i'm not sure if the scratches came before or after! If that manages to live, it's going straight into my Pentium MMX 166 PC :)

[UncleMikeRetro]

Vídeo incrível. Eu tentei uma das substituições do chip do relógio em um vídeo anterior. "Demora horas" para filmar um desses vídeos. Não desista de todos os nossos segredos! 😁

[modernandretrogaming]

Thanks for that video, I hope you also include some cpu benchmarks and compare someday that cpu to AMD K6 166 or try someday even K5. My IBM L200p (with default resolution 1600x1200) monitor don't have problems with Diablo II classic 1.00 version at 640x480 resolution.

[Jason-fpvi]

Man look at the huge noctua on that pentium mmx. Gigantic fan! 😂😂

[warrax]

lol dude, you have flaw in testing methology. Pentium MMX had different (larger) display area. It's typical Quake benchmark flaw. :) You need to set viewsize at same value, Quake only render viewable area, so in both cases, resolution was not 320x200, it is that way only in fullscreen (without health and ammo bar). Pentium MMX 166 will have even more FPS, you will see it.