A few more pics!

Nice setup, especially for Glide games of that time.

I got one of these boards around I think 18mos ago. It's a nice straightforward board. Mine had experienced a cap failure but it was able to be restored. I think they were Tayeh. Unfortunately I think every EpoX board I've ever seen had cheap caps from the factory, but they seem to respond well to recapping. Mine turned out to be Coppermine capable and as I recall it was still stable when overclocked to 133FSB.

This board doesn't use an onboard 3.3v regulator. The SDRAM and AGP slots are powered directly from the ATX 3.3v input. So it's important to have a good 3.3v rail on the PSU.

Interesting. I did try a 700 coppermine on a slocket and no dice. Maybe there is a bios update or maybe this one just doesn't support them. I'll have to do some research and fiddling. But it's running like a champ right now!

Nice setup! What's the advantage of a dual processor machine for windows9x/dos games?

None. You need Windows NT/2000 or *nix to take advantage of them. But they are cool anyway.

I think it's cool too! 😁 but even with Windows NT/2000 there are a few games that take advantage from a dual processor build.. One example is Quake III, do you know more?

Right. 98 doesn't support dual CPU. There are a handful of games that use the 2nd CPU, but for me it is more with the overall Windows experience. It is overall more responsive and snappy, and much better if doing more than one thing at once.
Plus as you said it's just cool! Especially with the voodoo 2s in there. I wanted to get an old Rage Fury Maxx video card so I'd have two CPUs, a video card with dual gpus, and dual voodoo 2s for glide, but I remembered that video card only worked on 98, which would then in turn disable the second P3. So I stuck with the dual CPUs. That would be pretty cool though!

Lovely build!

A nice retro sleeper PC 😀

Thanks Phil! Coincidentally I was just watching your P4/XP video! 😀 informative and interesting as usual.

Missed this till now.
I've actually got a very similar build

Start from here if you want to skip all the nostalgia
Asus P2B-DS Build
I like the whole 2 CPU's 2 Voodoo 2 setup idea.
Its probably my most used retro rig. like everyone has said the 2nd CPU doesn't really add anything but damn its sexy

Agreed - Very cool setup! I recently upgraded the 500s to dual 700s and I'll get some time once again to mess around with it more. Lately I've been focusing on my Athlon 750 and new Voodoo 5 😊

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Missed this till now.
I've actually got a very similar build

Start from here if you want to skip all the nostalgia
Asus P2B-DS Build
I like the whole 2 CPU's 2 Voodoo 2 setup idea.
Its probably my most used retro rig. like everyone has said the 2nd CPU doesn't really add anything but damn its sexy

Also I have that same ti4600 in one of my Athlon XP builds 😀