Nice work but got to say it building one is never enough and they are like potato chips, one isn't enough until you have had the whole bag. 😀

Yeah, I know it....but seriously, though, after I get my hands on a Voodoo1 card, I plan for that to be IT for this Pentium system. Next up, I have some things to finish up on my OS/2 system. My 486 is back under the weather again, waiting on parts...I have a 386 stashed in a box, waiting on a case. After that, 486-based PCI system, also waiting on some parts and a case. Then my ultimate Win98 system is almost close. And if all goes well, I have a 286 waiting in the wings for me to spend time/$$$ on it. The funniest part about all of this is that it's my MODERN PC that gets neglected the most, it will be vintage soon, it's ca. 2008. 😀

That's a nice rig you have 😉

I have a couple cases with the little lock but don't have any of the keys 😵
The VX supports SDRAM, but only the lowest density so 32meg is indeed the max it will take with the one slot it has. You should be able to use 64meg of EDO or FPM if you have that laying around (more and you'll have the uncached area thingy happening).
Usually you can't run SDRAM and 72p SIMMs together though, would've been marvelous if that were possible 😁

Very nice build you have there, looks like you really thought it through 😉

A nice rig, but why did you chose VX over HX or later TX? They are much more powerful chipsets 😀

Well, I really had no intentions of doing this build, if I didn't "happen up" on this at the thrift store. At $7 for the complete box, I thought it was a pretty good basis for a build. It had the lowest of the low components when it was originally built. I'm sure it came from one of those small Mom&Pop computer places that built a LOT of low-end systems for local residents.

According to the manual, I could bump it up even to 128MB EDO, but I went with the SDRAM for the coolness factor. I wonder if there is that much performance difference? Something to try next time I have it apart. And no, you CANNOT use the EDO and SDRAM at the same time, unfortunately, the manual states it.

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Yeah, I know it....but seriously, though, after I get my hands on a Voodoo1 card, I plan for that to be IT for this Pentium system. Next up, I have some things to finish up on my OS/2 system. My 486 is back under the weather again, waiting on parts...I have a 386 stashed in a box, waiting on a case. After that, 486-based PCI system, also waiting on some parts and a case. Then my ultimate Win98 system is almost close. And if all goes well, I have a 286 waiting in the wings for me to spend time/$$$ on it. The funniest part about all of this is that it's my MODERN PC that gets neglected the most, it will be vintage soon, it's ca. 2008. 😀

Yea same here but sadly not as much 486 as I would like as I only got one 486 waiting for parts. For everything else I have no shortage of socket 7 boards that have piled up and almost all are not super7. Got a mountain of a gpu collection 🤣. Quickly filling up a filing cabinet and already can't move it much. As for modern well it got too expensive for me to keep up to date and maintain my modern rigs is that main reason why I have gone back to retro.

Got like 10TB worth in drives ... 😅

it got too expensive for me to keep up to date and maintain my modern rigs

Amen, brother.....I'm still quite happy with my dual core Pentium EE, nForce-SLI, and the dual 9800GT cards. It still plays all the games I like, mostly IL-2, Fallout, and Stalker. I have a nice water-cooling setup to go on it, but it's just not as "fun" as retro.

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it got too expensive for me to keep up to date and maintain my modern rigs

Amen, brother.....I'm still quite happy with my dual core Pentium EE, nForce-SLI, and the dual 9800GT cards. It still plays all the games I like, mostly IL-2, Fallout, and Stalker. I have a nice water-cooling setup to go on it, but it's just not as "fun" as retro.

Couldn't have said it better my self but sadly had gone a little to far about modern stuff though. Try a 990FX board with a p2 x4 and 16gb of ram. My i5 rig kicked the bucked because of my crappy board didn't like Fermi all that well so the pic-e slots failed or so I am thinking. The last is a xfx 780i (bought it for $38.70 back in 2009) that I am going to use as a daily rig until my i5 gets rebuilt. Saving the amd rig for storage and video editing. Spent a pretty penny on my A8 3530mx with 8gb ddr3 1600 gaming laptop. 😒

Going back from Fermi to GT200A thinking the build quality was going to be much better was a big mistake and a waste of money. Hello money pit. 😒

What's the "Hayes ESP Accelerator" actually do? From your description, I guess it's a dialup modem, but what's special about it? Do you actually use it?

Also, I'm digging that squirrel-cage fan on the CPU, how effective is it?

Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I just realized I never changed my e-mail address on here for notifications.

"Back in the day" you would get a Hayes ESP board for your dial-up modem. Better FIFO, more buffer, etc. I couldn't really tell much of a difference, myself.

I now the air coming out of that squirrel fan is quite warm, so I'd say it's fairly effective. I realize your supposed to blow into the heatsink, but I had it and the MoBo connector and size was correct for it so I just decided to mount it and use it.

Ironically, this is probably going to go up for some changes. I got one of the early Seagate Medalist Pro 7200-rpm 4GB dries and it runs HOT so I have a nice drive cooler to install. In addition, I scored a Powerleap K6-III 333Mhz adapter I want to install. I'd really like to remove the AWE64 gold and put it in my Super 7 build, but I sort-of like it in this machine. Oh yeah, finally found a Voodoo1 card also, so it's been installed.