Great build! I like the fan mod on the V3 3500 😀

It shure looks a bit more "right" than those thick 80mm fan's that can be used.
This is running a bit more noisy, as I wrote, though with noise eliminated elsewere, it is good enough for me.

brostenen wrote:

It shure looks a bit more "right" than those thick 80mm fan's that can be used.
This is running a bit more noisy, as I wrote, though with noise eliminated elsewere, it is good enough for me.

The mod on the V3 looks cool 😁

Do you happen to know the source of the noise?
I used a similar CPU HSF in one of my builds, except it was a Zalman. It worked perfectly at cooling my 2.2GHz A64 Venice, but I just found the noise too annoying, so I ended up connecting the CPU fan to a 7v adapter and it worked perfectly, except now I have to press F1 every time due to the motherboard reporting CPU fan failure (it's not connected so it think it's dead) but that's only minor imo 😀

The fan modded to the V3 might also be a source of noise. Years ago I was experimenting a lot with mounting mostly small fans to heatsinks, some with screws, some with the green wires I've used a lot and some even with stiff foam (the type used on the bottom of motherboard boxes) and the smaller (and cheaper) fans would easily warp a bit and the turning blades would touch the inner side of the 'fan duct' and make a hefty noise that way. It's of no concern with bigger fans from say 6cm and up as those are much more solidly build.

What PSU are you using? PSU fans could also be noisy and if so, a case fan would push out more hot air from the case before it can enter the PSU, which in turn could (depends on if your PSU has thermal throttling) reduce noise levels...and improve temperatures while at it. The case fan openings look good enough to not cause a lot of noise, could opt to mount a 7v fan in there

Nice impulsive little build 😜

Nice! Please run 3dmark99 on that system and share the result. I would like to compare that to a tualatin p3 with voodoo3.

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brostenen wrote:

It shure looks a bit more "right" than those thick 80mm fan's that can be used.
This is running a bit more noisy, as I wrote, though with noise eliminated elsewere, it is good enough for me.

The mod on the V3 looks cool 😁

Do you happen to know the source of the noise?
I used a similar CPU HSF in one of my builds, except it was a Zalman. It worked perfectly at cooling my 2.2GHz A64 Venice, but I just found the noise too annoying, so I ended up connecting the CPU fan to a 7v adapter and it worked perfectly, except now I have to press F1 every time due to the motherboard reporting CPU fan failure (it's not connected so it think it's dead) but that's only minor imo 😀

The fan modded to the V3 might also be a source of noise. Years ago I was experimenting a lot with mounting mostly small fans to heatsinks, some with screws, some with the green wires I've used a lot and some even with stiff foam (the type used on the bottom of motherboard boxes) and the smaller (and cheaper) fans would easily warp a bit and the turning blades would touch the inner side of the 'fan duct' and make a hefty noise that way. It's of no concern with bigger fans from say 6cm and up as those are much more solidly build.

What PSU are you using? PSU fans could also be noisy and if so, a case fan would push out more hot air from the case before it can enter the PSU, which in turn could (depends on if your PSU has thermal throttling) reduce noise levels...and improve temperatures while at it. The case fan openings look good enough to not cause a lot of noise, could opt to mount a 7v fan in there

Nice impulsive little build 😜

It is actually not bad, as it is less noisy than other build's. I did a measure on it, using a windows phone app called "decibel meter" (not that these apps are accurate) and the results are 50db inside the case and one meter away it drops to somewere between 43 and 45 db.
This is all with the case open. So yeah... Not that noisy. The source is the fan-mod, yet when all the other fan's are running, it does not give a total of "too noisy"....

The PSU that I have used, was from a generic beige computer. It is a "Codegen 300watt" that could be found in every standard build's around all of Denmark in the mid-00's. It is a nice one, though not that good component's inside of it. On the other hand, they are good enough as I only remember one or two geting returned of all those machines that I build in between 2003 and 2006. (I did 10 to 15 a day).

The PSU is a 300 watt, gives 30a on 5volt 20a on 3.3volt and has minus 5volt.

meljor wrote:

Nice! Please run 3dmark99 on that system and share the result. I would like to compare that to a tualatin p3 with voodoo3.

Here you go.... 😀

A little update on this build.....

It is still running flawless. I have not seen any issues, lockups, instability and incompatibility at all.
Though DOS gaming are off the chart at this point. So I guess, if any issues are to be found, it is
most likely when I try to run a couple of dos games.

Most Win98se-games up to around 2001, are running fluid and issueless at 1024x768.
As and example. Return To Castle Wolfenstein are running fluid and without issues.

So I guess, this is a fine and solid build. And most of the hardware should be fairly cheap.
If someone wanted to get into this retro thing without owning any old hardware at all.

3dmark99 800x600 : 7486 on a tualatin p3-s 1400,Asus tusl2-c, 512mb, v3 3500tv windows 98se

You should go faster 🤣

I think i used the amigamerlin 2.5 driver.

meljor wrote:

3dmark99 800x600 : 7486 on a tualatin p3-s 1400,Asus tusl2-c, 512mb, v3 3500tv windows 98se

You should go faster 🤣

I think i used the amigamerlin 2.5 driver.

Mmmm.... Possibly. I should go and check the driver for the Voodoo then.
Thank's for the heads up. 😀
On second thought, this machine is stable as hell, and that is of more value to me.
+7000 3D-Marks are after all, pretty decent for games between 1998 and 2000/early-01. 😉
At the moment, there is no need for more speed.

Hello @Brostenen!! Can you re-upload the photos? Thanks