VOGONS


First post, by .legaCy

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Finally doing one build that i wanted since i was a little kid trying to play games on my dad Celeron 300.
I really wanted to go with a 440bx chipset, but in my area prices are going insanely high for 440bx boards so let's roll with a Via Apollo 133A chipset.

Build Video: https://youtu.be/z0Y9KyEMZ0A
Benchmark/ Game Showcase: Coming Soon.
Imgur Album: https://imgur.com/a/BCsPop0

[*]Parts[/b]
ASUS CUV4X-CM
Intel Pentium 3(1100/256/100)
STB 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
512MB SDRAM PC-133(2-2-2-2 Timing)

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Reply 1 of 3, by tayyare

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You really need to hunt for this one:

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium-III/Int … 30PZ01425E.html

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GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 2 of 3, by .legaCy

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tayyare wrote:

I'm not sure that this board will support the tualatin core(i assumed not because i think that the boards that support the tualatin by asus are named with TU like the TUV4X, TUSI), and to be honest i think that will make the voodoo 3 bottleneck the system, i even considered to modify to a 833/256/133 cpu but i got the cpu after i was done building and goddamit those heatsink retaining brackets are really annoying to me.
This build for me has the exact nostalgia factor that i wanted.
Nowadays i would love to have a nice tualatin build with a voodoo 5 5500, but currently i'm not willing to pay the premium price to build, specially for the lack of nostalgia, if i really need more performance on Windows 9x games i have my p4 prescott with a radeon 9600 pro.

Reply 3 of 3, by chinny22

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Same about the BX (my all time favourite chipset) but the Voodoo3 more then makes up for it!