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Finally built a K6-3 pc!

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First post, by Blu3z3r81

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After debating it for an awfully long time, I finally decided to take the plunge and build an AMD K6-III pc! I've always wanted one in the late 90's, and went Pentium 3 450 over it. Surprisingly, this little machine holds up pretty well in some windows gaming, thanks to glide! When it comes to late DOS gaming...it's just so freakin' good! I named her, "The Mean Tangerine"!
Here are the specs:

OS: Windows 98 SE
Motherboard: Asus P5A ATX
CPU: AMD K6-III (non-plus) @450MHz
GPU: Voodoo 3 3000 <--- Beautiful VESA support in DOS
Soundcards: Sound Blaster Live Gamer (windows), Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold (DOS)
RAM: 512MB SD-100 <--I know it's overkill...

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Reply 3 of 7, by Forevermore

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K6-3s are cool. Here's my build;

Mobo: Asus P5A
CPU: K6-3 400
RAM: 256mb pc100
Video: Viper V550 8mb & Monster 3DII 8mb
Audio: SB Audigy2 ZS
OS: Win98SE

So many combinations to make, so few cases to put them in.

Reply 4 of 7, by dr.zeissler

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My K6-III AT-MiniTower 300Watt AT-PSU

MOB: TyanTrinity AT
CPU: K6-III+ ATZ 400Mhz 6x66FSB
RAM: 3x128MB
HDD: 120GB Samsung
FDD: TeacDualFloppy 3,5" 1,44MB 5,25" 1,2MB
FDD: 3,5" 1,44MB (Catweasel only)
AGP: Matrox MGA400 32MB
PCI: 3COM TX905XE
PCI: Quantum Obsidian 24x (Voodoo2-SLI with one PCB)
ISA: Catweasel Floppy-Controller
ISA: MPU-401 Interface with MT-32+CM32
ISA: Gravis Ultrasound ACE
ISA: Soundblaster AWE64Gold

HDD Dualboot with Bootmanager XFDISK:
02GB P MS-Dos 6.22 with Windows 3.11
02GB L Dosdata
02GB L Dosdata
02GB L Dosdata
50GB P Windows95B
50GB P Windows2000

Retro-Gamer 😀 ...on different machines

Reply 5 of 7, by Blu3z3r81

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I would love to get my hands on a Gravis Ultrasound. Hmm. I've also seen a few Yamaha DB50XG and XR385 daughterboards pop up on auction sites every now and then. Unfortunately, those daughterboards usually go for over $100.00. 😒

Reply 6 of 7, by Samir

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dr.zeissler wrote:

FDD: TeacDualFloppy 3,5" 1,44MB 5,25" 1,2MB

These were awesome. We actually had 2 sets of these in a 486 we built based on a future domain scsi controller that had native 4-floppy support. It was pretty killer. 😀

Reply 7 of 7, by Samir

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Blu3z3r81 wrote:

I've also seen a few Yamaha DB50XG and XR385 daughterboards pop up on auction sites every now and then. Unfortunately, those daughterboards usually go for over $100.00. 😒

Wow, I had no idea those things were worth so much. I think that's how much we paid for it back in the late 1990s. I even still have the original box with everything. We mated it to a sb awe32 with wavetable. Killer music in Decent. I wish I would have recorded it to a wav on another computer. Meant to do it for years. And now the computer motherboard battery needs to be replaced. 🙁 It won't even post now. 🙁

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