I have Dell Precision 620 board with PSU and accessories (pretty much everything except the case), I am planning to get the board to run 2MB CPU's on 133 MHz bus (with lower multiplier). On Dell you set the CPU speed with floppy disk (utrility called sprfrq2.exe). It basically sets multiplier and …

I ran some benchmarks before I swapped the Pentium pro 200 for the overdrive 333. I was expecting a bigger increase in Quake 2/3 scores with the cpu upgrade, I knew the CPU would bottleneck the graphics card but I was suprised at how well the old 200 scored. Probably due to the fact that these are …

but I'm wondering what kind of psu you are going to use in that rig... The aux power connector our boards have is just a regular half-AT power connector that any P4-compliant power supply have. It's said in the manual this connector is optional and is recommended once you have a lot of expansion …

What'll you be using for storage on this? Storage actually was the turning point I've decided not to do a 100% period correct build. Hard drives from that era are small size and noisy. This mobo has an onboard Adaptec SCSI on it, so the desicion to go SCSI was pretty obvious. No stupid limits in …

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This project is pretty special to me. I remember myself reading a 1998 computer magazine article about then upcoming Pentium II Xeon processors for workstations and servers. With the price of $3692 for just a single CPU, they seemed unattainable as much as they were ridiculously overpriced. Sure, …

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I have two 100% period correct builds. One of them is my 1998 dream PC. Even the drivers are late 1998. The specs are: Tyan S1836 Intel 440BX mobo with onboard Adaptec UW SCSI, Dual Pentium II 400, 512MB PC100 RAM, nVidia Riva TNT, 3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI, Creative AWE64 Gold, Aureal Vortex2 3xSeagate …

I did some benchmarks and discovered that in order to run this game maxed out 1600x1200/32 you need at least GeForce2 GTS, for 1024x768/32 you're good to go with GeForce256. Also the game is quite CPU intensive in the beginning of the race (as you start last in most cases), dropping fps to 10-20's …

Any update on this topic? Also looking to buy some 2.8V Xeons.