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First post, by m1919

Posted on 2012-09-08, 08:10

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A-Trend Freeway FW-6400GX/150/WS Slot-1/Slot-2 board
P2 Xeon 450/2MB ES Q811
256MB PC150 SDRAM

These pics are a bit old and were taken back at my old place while in the process of packing, so there's all kinds of random crap laying around and the room they were taken in looks pretty ghetto as a result but anyway... yeah.

I haven't played around much with this thing yet other than the hour or so I was testing it, but the board seems pretty beefy. It's capable of up to 150mhz FSB and I think may also have a separate clockgen for the AGP and PCI buses, looks to have been designed with overclocking in mind.

I'm curious to see if this board will run a 1Ghz P3 "Pseudo Xeon". I've got a couple on hand and no board to run them on, but this board might just if it boots properly with one. Luckily mine require 2.8v input so I may just be in luck.

I'd like to pair this thing up with a Voodoo5 5500 if it'll run the 1Ghz processor.

Mmmmm unlocked multipliers...

Crimson Tide - EVGA 1000P2; ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS; 2x E5-2697 v3 14C 3.8 GHz on all cores (All core hack); 64GB Samsung DDR4-2133 ECC
EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3; EVGA 750 Ti SC; Sound Blaster Z

Reply 1 of 9, by sgt76

Posted on 2012-09-09, 09:50

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😁 10 levels of sheer win there! It's just amazing how people interpret what the ultimate 3dfx rig should be like.

Reply 2 of 9, by m1919

Posted on 2012-10-05, 08:01

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Just scored the Voodoo5 5500 I'll be running on this rig.

Crimson Tide - EVGA 1000P2; ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS; 2x E5-2697 v3 14C 3.8 GHz on all cores (All core hack); 64GB Samsung DDR4-2133 ECC
EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3; EVGA 750 Ti SC; Sound Blaster Z

Reply 3 of 9, by stano

Posted on 2012-10-05, 10:34

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agp right?

Reply 4 of 9, by m1919

Posted on 2012-10-05, 15:14

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stano wrote:
agp right?

Yep.

Crimson Tide - EVGA 1000P2; ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS; 2x E5-2697 v3 14C 3.8 GHz on all cores (All core hack); 64GB Samsung DDR4-2133 ECC
EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3; EVGA 750 Ti SC; Sound Blaster Z

Reply 5 of 9, by m1919

Posted on 2013-01-19, 05:32

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Damn. I just realized this board will run at 88mhz on the AGP bus at 133mhz FSB. I'm not even sure my 5500 will be able to handle that.

Crimson Tide - EVGA 1000P2; ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS; 2x E5-2697 v3 14C 3.8 GHz on all cores (All core hack); 64GB Samsung DDR4-2133 ECC
EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3; EVGA 750 Ti SC; Sound Blaster Z

Reply 6 of 9, by VictorB

Posted on 2013-01-19, 14:08

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sgt76 wrote:
😁 10 levels of sheer win there! It's just amazing how people interpret what the ultimate 3dfx rig should be like.

Yeah 😁 very nice to see all the 3dfx awesomeness 😁

Never seen such motherboard! Which chipset does it use?

Reply 7 of 9, by m1919

Posted on 2013-01-19, 22:11

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VictorB wrote:
sgt76 wrote:
😁 10 levels of sheer win there! It's just amazing how people interpret what the ultimate 3dfx rig should be like.

Yeah 😁 very nice to see all the 3dfx awesomeness 😁

Never seen such motherboard! Which chipset does it use?

It's based on the 440GX chipset. Basically the same as the 440BX, but with some changes to handle P2 and P3 Xeons.

There's a Gigabyte board that is similar to this, but that runs just a single Slot-2 Xeon, while this board will run both Slot-1 and Slot-2 stuff.

Crimson Tide - EVGA 1000P2; ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS; 2x E5-2697 v3 14C 3.8 GHz on all cores (All core hack); 64GB Samsung DDR4-2133 ECC
EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3; EVGA 750 Ti SC; Sound Blaster Z

Reply 8 of 9, by tincup

Posted on 2013-01-20, 02:06

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cool.

Reply 9 of 9, by m1919

Posted on 2013-12-23, 03:24

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This build needs a case. Preferably something fairly retro. Looking for a LiteOn FS020, TI800, Chenbro Genie Jr or an old Addtronics tower.

I could put this in the Antec/Chenming tower I was running my XG-DLS in, but I want something more oldskool in design.

Crimson Tide - EVGA 1000P2; ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS; 2x E5-2697 v3 14C 3.8 GHz on all cores (All core hack); 64GB Samsung DDR4-2133 ECC
EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3; EVGA 750 Ti SC; Sound Blaster Z

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