Nice rig 😀 None of my BX boards support 40gb drives (in 40gb mode), so that's pretty lucky yours does.

Does 3dmark99 bench CPU integer performance? Might explain why the K6-2 scored higher?

I recall that case being typical 2000-2001 cheese. 😀 That translucent blue stuff was so common back then!

d1stortion wrote:

That translucent blue stuff was so common back then!

"Apple's doing it, we will too!"

Looks like something I've typically found on the side of the road...

What on earth could this be used for that any modern machine with a XP partition couldn't be used for?

d1stortion wrote:

I recall that case being typical 2000-2001 cheese. 😀 That translucent blue stuff was so common back then!

And yet oh so hard to get these days. 😢 Same with the Windowed case fad. Sure, I can make my own. But nothing beats machine cut edges for precision.

mockingbird wrote:

Looks like something I've typically found on the side of the road...

What on earth could this be used for that any modern machine with a XP partition couldn't be used for?

Not sure that it is worth to to bite on an obvious lure but...

Perhaps to be able to run games that dosnt run well in windows xp and/or on new hardware.
A machine like this with windows 98 can run all late dos games and early windows games.
In most cases games can be coaxed to run on newer systems but with an old win 98 box you just insert your cd and play without hassle.
Some people also find these old systems fun to tinker with.

I like it, and the case is very early 2000s, though I have to ask is there a particular reason for the TNT2? personally I would have gone for either a 3DFX card or if not that, than a Geforce256 or Geforce2 (or both), but that is just me, overall I like the system.

as for 3DMark , I would have to guess its very optimized for 3DNow, or reliant on integer results, in 3DMark2000 and 2001, I found that the overall score was about twice as high with the PIII 450 , than with the K6III 450, on an otherwise same system and most games give me some 10-20fps improvements.

I chosed the tnt 2 pro,becouse i belive a geforce 2 ti or a voodoo 4 4500(i have both of those cards),are a bit too much for the p III at 450 mhz,if i were using a faster p III or a socket A processor 600 mhz and above,then i would have chosen 1 of the faster videocards.
I'll try 3dmark 2001 or i could oc the p III closer to 550 mhz and rerun 3dmark 99.

Nahkri wrote:

I chosed the tnt 2 pro,becouse i belive a geforce 2 ti or a voodoo 4 4500(i have both of those cards),are a bit too much for the p III at 450 mhz,if i were using a faster p III or a socket A processor 600 mhz and above,then i would have chosen 1 of the faster videocards.
I'll try 3dmark 2001 or i could oc the p III closer to 550 mhz and rerun 3dmark 99.

thats true to some extent, Im guessing the kind of game that really needs something like a Geforce2 would be something like Max Payne, and a 450Mhz Katmai is the absolute minimum for that (I tried it on a 450Mhz PIII and Voodoo3 , it was surprisingly playable at the lowest settings), Voodoo 4 wouldn't be crazy though.

I was thinking of maybe putting a Geforce2 Ti/Ultra along with a PCI voodoo 3 in my 600Mhz Katmai , though that depends on the price, and whether my 250w PSU can take it (in addition to the 2 sound cards, 2 HDDs, etc)

The voodoo 4 4500 had as competition the geforce 2 mx,it was weaker then the mx,but i still think it needs a faster p III ,celeron 2 or a slot A,socket A platform,in order to run at maximum performance.
I tried it on my k6-2+ build at 550mhz,but it seemed slowed down so i reverted back to using the voodoo 3 3000 on that.
I have a P III Coppermine at 800 mhz,but it needs 133 bus,runs at 600 mhz with 100 bus,so if i ever start using it in this pc,i,ll match it up with 1 of those 2 videocards,lets just hope they"ll like de overclocked agp.

I got that board, though it only has 3 memory slots.

That "Turbo" jumper is for overclocking past 100 MHz FSB.

I have that same board and it is amazingly stable

ODwilly wrote:

I have that same board and it is amazingly stable

That is one of the best BX boards that anyone could want.

With the option to change the voltage it would have been even better .

On your board everything looks OK, but those teal caps for the CPU VRM can be bad news. I've seen them go bad on Gigabyte boards from that specific period while the brands Asus used seem to fare better.

nforce4max wrote:

ODwilly wrote:

I have that same board and it is amazingly stable

That is one of the best BX boards that anyone could want.

Picked it up for $15 2 years ago with a 266mhz p2 😁 threw in a 450mhz p3, windows 98se with mem and usb tweaks, 1gb of pc133 (because I could :p) and a geforce2 64mb. Gave it to my best friend as a bday present so we can do some killer mini LAN parties

d1stortion wrote:

On your board everything looks OK, but those teal caps for the CPU VRM can be bad news. I've seen them go bad on Gigabyte boards from that specific period while the brands Asus used seem to fare better.

The pc is only used ocasionally in weekends for retrograming,so i hope they'll take a longer time to go bad.

mockingbird wrote:

Looks like something I've typically found on the side of the road...

What on earth could this be used for that any modern machine with a XP partition couldn't be used for?

ISA slots.

Nahkri wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

On your board everything looks OK, but those teal caps for the CPU VRM can be bad news. I've seen them go bad on Gigabyte boards from that specific period while the brands Asus used seem to fare better.

The pc is only used ocasionally in weekends for retrograming,so i hope they'll take a longer time to go bad.

The caps go bad regardless of use.. I think..