I have a Abit Vp6 and love the board.
It has 2x 1 gig coppermine pentium 3's, although the highest cpu that the board will take is a 1.13 ghz, but good luck finding them.
Heatsinks I use the original intel ones although I would love a couple of themaltake orbs.
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Please refer to me about any info you need - I've played almost a 1,5y with a rig like that, have a lot of experience (and memory 😀 ) with using much hardware in it and also recapped it with & obtained in various modifications and tested - in which all had different behaviour 😀 please post pictures of the mainboard, mainly the VRM area and a little VRM group neard the AGP slot - that is a 5V to 3.3V convertor I need to see the capacitors to determine if you'll get trouble with OC.

You're really gonna have fun with that piece of gold 😀 .

I've got dual 1ghz Coppermines in my VP6 but I've heard that Tualatins may be possible using the pin wire mod.

Oh, and don't bother using this board with Win9x because the second CPU will just sit there doing nothing. You need an NT based OS.

Had the choice of SL52R's or SL4C8's.

I bought 2x SL4C8's as the voltage is slightly lower. I'm hoping this will give me a slightly better overclock / stability. They are from working pulls.

One helpful piece of information I will find is - Where can I get the best
drivers?

and I'm wondering what would be the best OS for this thing? I know if I stick to win 2k - I can run my PCI ES137X with good wavetable as XP doesn't support it beyond the 2mb patch IIRC.

I could do an SB Live Card for any OS but I don't like the midi as much.

I'd like to emulate some PC Engine stuff.

Good point with Win9x. I wonder if there is enough support for 95/98/ME? Just to dual boot?

Might have 98SE/XP - it really depends on what's avail for the board.

2000 is REALLY the way to go. Anything older and you might as well sell the board for a single cpu system.

Mod a pair of tualatins, pack it full of ram and drop a voodoo 5 in it for some quake 3/ UT action. Thats my suggestion/

2000 is REALLY the way to go. Anything older and you might as well sell the board for a single cpu system.

Mod a pair of tualatins, pack it full of ram and drop a voodoo 5 in it for some quake 3/ UT action. Thats my suggestion/

Fair enough suggestions 😀 - I might have a Voodoo of that description somewhere. I think it's at least a Voodoo 3 - or one of the earlier AGP Cards.

I might drop in a later revision geforce and see. Of course I can try a few cards to my liking.

Win 2000 sounds like a plan. I'd still dual boot 98 for the occasion - will save me pulling out another system out of the 30 I have 🤣........

As for the modding of the faster PIII CPU's - I thought about it, but decided to go with what the board is capable of naturally without going through pin mods etc. I reckon it would be nice to add a Dual Tualatin to my collections though I've already got at least one around somewhere that isn't active or it's in parts. Did any come with 1MB Cache? or were they all 512KB?

Quake 3 action? Nice suggestion. I never really got myself into Quake heavily - I was stuck on a P75 for the longest time after I got rid of my aging XT machine (Wish I never did)

I was using a regular XP prof. on this machine, though trying the WinFLP would be too very interesting if it supports SMP. Anyways Doom 3, quake 4 and similar run quite fast on this mobo when using GF7950GT, not the 7600GS I have in my signature. BUT the CPU and the mobo had to be clocked up.

But yes, win 2000 does sound like a reasonable, more efficient to this setup, let us know how it works. Wishing you no driver issues.