First post, by Efflixi
I've had two Pentium 3 1133MHz cpu's and 4 sticks of PC133 SDRAM for a while. I finally found a good deal on a dual socket 370 motherboard on ebay that supports them (most only support coppermine, these are tualatin cores) and I bought it. There are a few hitches with the motherboard though and I wanted some suggestions from you guys.
1. It's a server motherboard, this means it's got an 8MB ATI Rage chip onboard for graphics as well as a Ultra160 SCSI chip onboard.
2. It only a single expansion slot and it's a 3.3v 64bit 66MHz PCI-X slot.
If you need more info here's a link to the actual specs: https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboa … E-SL/P3TDER.cfm
I am realizing after doing some research that my choice of motherboard will be limiting what I can do with this setup, mostly due to graphics limitations. I don't think a single gaming graphics card was ever released for PCI-X. It's all workstation class cards and they are extremely expensive still on ebay even if they'd be super slow these days. I'll most likely be using either Windows 2000 Pro, or XP Pro, I haven't decided yet. So, with that in mind... here's my questions:
1. What are my options for 3d graphics cards that would be supported in older games?
2. Aside from vintage gaming, what are some other options that I can use this hardware for?
3. Any decent EATX cases for cheap out there?
4. Anything else I might be missing for this setup?