I'm curious to see how this will perform compared to my Voodoo Rocket build, which I may start on sometime soon. I assume similar since it'll by running a P3 Xeon 1Ghz 256Kb and a Voodoo5 5500 AGP.

I plan on putting a pair of Quantum 36GB 10k SCSI drives in mine, might play around with running in RAID 0.

Nice! Does that board has pci64? raid0 over pci32 doesn't make sense even with IDE drives. Which motherboard do you have? Maybe we can do similiar benchmarks and see whatw e have! 😀

VictorB wrote:

Nice! Does that board has pci64? raid0 over pci32 doesn't make sense even with IDE drives. Which motherboard do you have? Maybe we can do similiar benchmarks and see whatw e have! 😀

Just 32bit PCI, but I wanted to see what kind of performance I would get out of that. Not that it would matter much with the games I'd play on the machine.

It's a Freeway FW-6400GX/150/WS board, 440GX chipset.

Sweeeeeeeeeet!!! <3

I have a promise ultra 133 raid controller and I tried with raid0 with fast ide drives. You will hit the bottleneck around 60/70mb/s which can be done with a single platter maxtor. So no need for raid. I will post my first update tonight! 😀

VictorB wrote:

Sweeeeeeeeeet!!! <3

I have a promise ultra 133 raid controller and I tried with raid0 with fast ide drives. You will hit the bottleneck around 60/70mb/s which can be done with a single platter maxtor. So no need for raid. I will post my first update tonight! 😀

I have a bunch of WD400s laying around, not sure how they compare to that Maxtor drive.

Nice hardware but... not the ultimate gaming build unfortunately.

AMD released the Athlon 1200C (Thunderbird, 266MHz FSB) on October 31st and Nvidia's GeForce2 Ultra came out on August 14.

But I love Voodoo cards they make the build so much more special then a GF2 Ultra. I have 2x Asus V7700 GF2 cards for 2 allmost similair builds (Same motherboard cpu combo) I love AMD chips but I don't like via chipsets. Intel chipsets are rock solid.

Pretty filled up!

It need a lot of attention to the cable management! 6x 40pin cable power floppy cable 2 cdrom cables 😜

Cable Management!

I made a shorter floppy cable! 😀

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Pretty filled up!

It need a lot of attention to the cable management! 6x 40pin cable power floppy cable 2 cdrom cables 😜

Cable Management!

I made a shorter floppy cable! 😀

I had to go the oldskool route and separate my cables so I could get more flexibility out of them before zip tying them, or I would never have been able to fit all my stuff into the case and still have room for airflow.

Fabulous....that really is the ultimate year 2000 build! Really nice attention to detail and the icing on the cake is the Voodoo 5500 and ATC 201.

I bought the Cooler Master ATC201 online for 20,10 euro with the orginal box!!

Cleaning the case 😜

Computer nudity! 😁

Looks slick.

Gonna use Windows Me? Hehe. Win2k is too new for 3Dfx unless you use unofficial drivers.

How long before you pin mod or get a Taulatin socket adapter to get that extra bit of speed that the V5 can use 😁

I gonna use windows 2000 the voodoo5 is running great allready in the other similair system!
Tell me about the mods? I have 2 slot1 to socket 370 adapters just got them for free 😁

Nice case and specification

Can you OC your PIII and V5 5500?

And why you not using AMD Athlon? Because Athlon can outperform PIII Coppermine (I think)

Active Thermal Connective System? So the case acts as a heatsink, that is pretty cool 🤣

And good choice on Win2k, the best Windows to date 😀

jwt27 wrote:

Active Thermal Connective System? So the case acts as a heatsink, that is pretty cool 🤣

And good choice on Win2k, the best Windows to date 😀

Actually it was alluminum case so it can convect heat better than common steel case.

Connective? Not convective? (Typo)

northernosprey02 wrote:

jwt27 wrote:

Active Thermal Connective System? So the case acts as a heatsink, that is pretty cool 🤣

And good choice on Win2k, the best Windows to date 😀

Actually it was alluminum case so it can convect heat better than common steel case.

Connective? Not convective? (Typo)

Conduct 😜

I am diggin the case and cable management 😀

Perhaps you should go with SCSI if you want it to be the Ultimate system?

I don't gonna overclock the Voodoo5. I don't want to destroy it 😉 If I want more speed I take my I7 with GTX570 😉

I will try overclock the CPU's a bit 😀

This platform is very solid and stable. The AMD boards weren't so stable. I gonna use this system on events so i need solid machines.

Its a gaming system not a real workstation. So no scsi in this setup. If i go for a dual socket build I will use SCSI 😀

If you have some funds, can you add PCI UltraATA/133 or SATA150 for best HDD performance?