First post, by Warlord
- Rank
- l33t
Some back history.
I bought this board and CPU back in the day. I never thought that it would be desirable because this build was crazy then. I remember the AGP chipset was buggy and I was running a rage 128 and It required special drivers, that ATI had released specifically for this chipset. It was a nightmare getting it all running. On top of that originally It had a P 233MMX and I wanted to put a K62+ Mobile CPU in it. Thankfully Soyo had a BIOS update that enabled a K62+ 450 to run. This was a special CPU it was basically a K63+ but with half the cache and, I remember on this board I was able to get a stable 600 MHZ overclock at the time.
Other thing I remember about the board was buggy USB so for that I have found a pretty decent usb 2.0/fire wire controller that should run on 98se, this might come in useful. To deal with the buggy AGP I have here a compaq voodoo 3. Some people might know this is the fastest voodoo 3. I bought 2 of these cards as new old stock 3 years ago. Back then everyone wanted a voodoo 4 or 5 or voodoo 2 for some reason no body thought these cards were good. I think I paid 40 dollars for 2 new cards.
Anyways moving forward I am doing a serious build here, I have a slot cooler to keep my voodoo 3 cool. This is a very special slot clooler as u can see it is both a fan that can be rotated and a blower with a speed control
I have read about setmul to slow down the CPU and there are plenty of jumpers on this board so I want to try to get this down to 286/386 speeds. I might be able to do that without setmul on this board.
Soyo SY5EMA+ paired with a K6 2 + Edition 450mhz
Compaq Voodoo 3 183 MHZ
One thing that I want advice on is a sound card. I want a good ISA card with OPL3 any suggestions on that would be appreciated
