First post, by prophase_j
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So I have decided to stick the details of my rig in its own thread.... and help get the other threads about the video cards back on track. At this point it has mostly taken shape for late 90's era games, a few choice modern titles, solid DOS support, and enough power to handle DOSbox in case it's too fast for native DOS.
Present:
ePox KTA3 -- VIA KT133A AGP 4x // 5x PCI // 1 Shared ISA/PCI
AMD Athlon "Barton" 1.15ghz (11.5@200mhz FSB) /w 512Kib L2 Cache
512mb PC133 CL3
Radeon 7000 /w 64mb
2x STB BlackMagic Voodoo2 12mb
2x IDE HDD, Quantum Fireball 10gb for Win98, WD Caviar 60gb for winXP and additional storage (not 100% sure about them)
Diamond Monster MX300
SB AWE64 Gold
Linksys 802.11g Wifi <-- might replace with Realtek Ethernet when I have time/get bored, now that it's in the same room as my home network router.
Soon to be added:
Athlon XP-M 2500+ <-- Purchased one off eBay less then an hour ago. Will use stock speed of 1.8ghz until I get a better cooler, hoping to break 2ghz in the future. Also looking forward to 133/266 FSB
GeForce FX 5950 or ATi 9800xt <-- still undecided here.
1 - 1.5gb of PC133 CL2 <-- if I'm gonna do it.. I'm gonna do it right 😉
DB50XG <-- gotta have my dos wavetable
That pretty much the core of system. I have an Adaptec SCSI card, at some point I would like to run the OS's of a 10k or even a 15k rpm, someday I'll have a voodoo5 pci and run along side the other video card.
The only other complaint that I have is how loud the dang thing is.Cheap case, 2x80mm fans, HSF, northbridge cooler, and the HDD's makes it so i can distinctly hear it over the other computer in the room.
I'm in the process of running some benchmarks, I'll post those and maybe some pics soon. In the mean time feel free to critique, criticize, or otherwise drool 😀