luckybob wrote:

2005? Thats late P4 era. Google the Asus ncch-dl motherboard, put 2x 3.8ghz irwindale processors. The options are endless and quite frankly boring.

2005 is kind of like AMD64 territory.

Correct. Intel pretty much didn't exist on my radar from 2002 till about 2007.

Wow. Those are crazy! But a little more modern than I expected. I think for a workstation, I will aim toward 1999.

luckybob wrote:

That is a slab of fiberglass, silicone, and copper. It sells for several hundred dollars.

Yet the silkscreen says its affordable haha. On topic I would vote for the be6-2

luckybob wrote:

If you want to make it harder and cooler, look for slot-A instead. My Voodoo2 setup is an AMD 1ghz slot A setup. Runs fast. All I need to find is a goldfinger device and Alpha heatsink.

You don't need a gfd
http://www.outcastoverclockers.net/hardware-m … jmcvrrpsks0#new

The best use for a dual CPU workstation in the late 90s was probably 3D rendering. Most rendering engines at that point had been optimized for multiprocessing and could make efficient use of two or more chips. I made an animated short movie using 3D Studio MAX on a dual 600MHz PIII setup (Asus P2B-DS motherboard, WinNT 4) and it was really satisfying to see CPU utilization above 90% in Task Manager during rendering. Maya, Lightwave, and Softimage could all leverage multiple CPUs to varying degrees.

As for workstation accelerators, the major players have already been mentioned - Intergraph Intense3D, 3Dlabs Wildcat, Accelgraphics, Elsa, etc. My workstation had a Gloria II that ran great and included special Heidi drivers that were optimized for MAX. There were also some high-end boards from Evans & Sutherland - Lightning and Tornado, I believe. Some good P3-era workstation boards:

Elsa Gloria II/III
3Dlabs Wildcat 4000/5000 series
Oxygen VX1/GVX1/GVX210
Diamond FireGL 3000/4000
Accelgraphics Eclipse

Just bear in mind that these cards typically cost several thousand dollars and were special-purpose boards meant to accelerate OpenGL in high-end applications. They were generally slow at 2D (though visual quality was good) and they were almost useless for gaming. Most of them didn't even support DirectX and their texture fill rates weren't anything to write home about. High-resolution windowed wireframe/smooth-shaded 3D was their territory, not the full-screen low-res textured graphics that were used in games.

The Gloria II was the exception, since it was based on the GeForce/Quadro line. It was one of the first versatile pro-level boards and it sort of spelled the end of the $2,000+ specialty graphics accelerator era. As mentioned above, within a few years everybody was basically using Quadros.

I have a few dual-CPU P3-era workstations that use the aforementioned hardware, but as you can probably imagine they spend most of their time powered-off since they are of such limited use.

Could those run on a dual Slot 1 Pentium III PC, or would I need a Slot 2 Pentium III Xeon for those?

luckybob wrote:

No its not for sale, at any price.

What about....

As for using a Slot 2 or Slot 1 system for rendering, you could spend a lot of money on getting a dual Slot 2 system, only to find out that you really can't tell it apart from a dual Slot 1 system unless you run some benchmarks. It's not something that you want for performance reasons, but just for bragging rights.

For your purposes you would do better to stick with a simple Slot 1 system based on the 440BX chipset. It's actually faster than all other subsequent chipsets when running SDRAM, although the 820 will be a bit faster in some cases when paired with RDRAM, but again you won't be able to tell them apart with the naked eye.

Thanks! Good to know!

🤣 Dr. Evil.... 🤣
If he offered one million and freakin' sharks with freakin' lasers attached to their freakin' heads.
Then I think he would sell in a heartbeat.

One million dollars upfront, and freakin' sharks on the backend.

That will stop him from releasing the "magma". 😉

I'd still be torn up and conflicted about it, but its a safe bet nobody will try to buy it from me.

I live in Denver, there is NO water around of any significant size. Sharks would be so very expensive to maintain. Also, I would petition Niantic to put a Poke-stop in the center of a lake, and I'd constantly have a lure up.

What kind of PSU would I need for a dual slot 1 PC?

any quality unit will do the job. Mostly. Until you get to the high end hotrods.

Get one of these, I use them in everything atx: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16817139026

Right now they have a $20 mir

What Wattage? Would this run a dual cpu PC and a workstation 3D gpu?

slot 1? yes. will even work with your ss7 build too.

Cool! I suppose it won't with Socket A though...

Get a 500+ for something that big.

Got it!