80GB Western Digital mounted in a 5.25" bay can be seen here.

Configuration for initial testing with the SB Live and Voodoo2 (definitely could not abandon 3Dfx!)

Resting after day 1:

A couple weeks later, I rearranged a few things and added a few fans (the Evercool fan sounded like a hair drier). Ready for SLI!

More to come.

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The goal here was to recreate the system that got me through late high school and college. The original system was: Intel D815EE […]
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The goal here was to recreate the system that got me through late high school and college.
The original system was: Intel D815EEA2-U, 1200mhz P3,512MB RAM, Voodoo5, SB Live. I'm going for a different video setup with the new build, but otherwise it will be very much the same.
Games intended to be played: Starseige Tribes, Quake 3, UT99, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Elite Force 1 & 2, and a mix of some older mid 90's DOS games.

a Teac DVD drive and floppy...

Evercool CPU cooler was a tight fit.

The CPU HSF is probably a tight fit due to the IHS of your Tualatin. It's a good idea to see if you can reduce the stress on those tabs/hooks/whatevers on the CPU socket before installing the CPU HSF. Many have had their tabs break due to stress while mounting the HSF and it's not unthinkable that it will seem to hold perfectly fine at first, but then break while relocating the case or even during a heavy gaming session (you wouldn't want that conductive metal brick to fall onto your inerts while the system is powered on) or even spontaneously while you're away from home.

I tend to prefer using CPU HSFs with the larger metal clip that latches onto 3 of those tabs each side instead of one that latches only on 1 each side (which will usually be the middle pair of tabs) as this reduces stress on the tabs by a lot!

What's the model number of your TEAC FDD?

The Intel D815EEA and D815EEA2 are kinda popular boards around here and I've used 2 D815EEAs myself (these don't support Tualatin and the D815EEA2 does). I found these to be solid boards, though lacking any BIOS setting flexibility (way fewer overclocking and tweaking options, if any).

What's the rails on your Antec? And what model number?

I suppose your intend is to install 98SE on it? One thing about the i815 chipsets is that they lack ISA slots (usually and if they do have ISA it will be bridged) so no ISA sound for your DOS games.

Your rig actually looks like a good candidate for WinME, but I'm not sure how DOS games will run on those (mine seemed to run fine, except a few older ones didn't have working sound or something 🤣).

Eager to see how your rig will turn out in the end 😀

Appreciate the concern for those tabs! I actually meant it was a tight fit next to the power supply 😀 . The Evercool ND-18 that I'm using has a wide clip for up to 3 tabs on each side and is supposed to be universal for sockets A/462 and 370. It clipped into place nicely without too much force.

My mistake on the FDD: it's NEC, not Teac (the DVD is Teac for sure). Will update the original post.

The D815EEA2 treated me well back in the day. Selling it was definitely a mistake on my part. It wasn't my original P3 board though. When I first first built the system, it was with a Spacewalker AE22 (also an 815 board) and a Coppermine 933. The AE22 worked well for about 4 years but then slowly died, I suspect now, due to bad caps. I got the EEA2 on eBay to replace it on a tight budget. I've never been an overclocker, so the limited BIOS options is cool with me. All I really need is to change the boot priority from time to time.

I did go with 98SE and also TinyCore Linux. Windows is booting from the harddrive and Linux is on the compact flash card. As for DOS support, the SB Live CD lets you install DOS drivers and any DOS games I play on here will, in all likelihood, be played from within Windows. Star Trek 25th Anniversary, which is meant to run on a 386SX and DOS 3.3, played nicely 😎 . If I do encounter any issues, I always have the systems in my sig to fall back on!

I'll have to get back to you on the power supply details...