First post, by Ampera
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I'm looking over a possible Pentium Pro system, and I am wondering, for an earlier P6 system, would a 4MB Voodoo 1 be a good choice?
EDIT: New system! Formerly "Is a 4MB Voodoo 1 good for a Pentium Pro?
So I've gone and bought the parts for a brand new Pentium Pro machine! It fills a bit of a gap between my rather OP Pentium 3 450, and my weak 486-DX4-100 120Mhz.
Here are the raw specs
Gateway 2000 Socket 8 Motherboard with 200Mhz Pentium Pro
128MB EDO Non Parity RAM over 4x72 Pin SIMMs
3dfx Voodoo 1 4MB PCI (Some sort of generic or reference card, it's still a Voodoo, and it's also my first thing from 3dfx
ATI Mach 64 PCI 2MB (Literally a classic combo here, Mach 64 and Voodoo 1 is awesome af)
Creative Sound Blaster AWE 32 CT3670 (I already have one on my 486, they are GREAT cards. It's I think the AWE64 chip on an AWE32 card, which means I can expand the memory using easily found 30 Pin SIMMs instead of hard to impossible to find proprietary expansions.
Here's where it gets a bit hairy, but I think I'm gonna make it.
I couldn't find a Socket 8 cooler at a reasonable price, so I am using the next best thing. A Socket 370 heatsink. This is a bit stupid of me, and it's the first time I have gone for a heatsink that doesn't fit it's socket, but I will make it work somehow. Zip ties, Tape, My own metal working, something's gonna secure that to the board.
This is one of my happiest builds ever. I love this thing and I haven't even done it yet. The case is some cheap as chips one from Newegg, but it matches closely with my other cheap as chip cases.
Ideas for an OS range from PC-DOS 2000/DR-DOS to Windows 95 to Windows NT of some sort. Might dual boot, might use a larger than kosher drive. Also for anybody who has a Gateway 2000 board, am I going to need to transpose any pins, or am I safe to go?
I also intend to shoot a video (Like I have tried to do before), but this time actually do it. So I'll come back when I've got that.
Comments are appreciated, as long as they aren't among the lines of "That is a terrible config, those parts shouldn't go together"
And if you have suggestions for a better CPU cooler, I don't want to hear that either, I probably already know it, but the Socket 370 option was cheap and hopefully easy.