First post, by Skyscraper
When I joined Vogons I had just bought a small Super Socket 7 Box with a mATX motherboard.
I bought this box because I wanted a Super Socket 7 DOS/Windows 98 gaming rig.
When things diddnt go as planned I started tinkering with a Compaq Deskpro motherboard and later the Leviathan build.
The thing that stopped the original plan for this box was a motherboard full of bad caps.
The solder points on this board is really really small so I diddnt feel like even trying to fix it.
Then I thought of using the case for something else but there were some problems.
The case uses a special small 112w PSU with weak rails. 3.3V 6A, 5V 10A and 12V 3A wont run many systems.
With not enough room for a larger PSU I had to make do with the (lack of) power the small PSU offered.
In some other thread I was told that playing Unreal using 800*600 resolution was like having sex with a cactus, possible but not desirable.
With my Voodoo 2 or the Banshee I use for my Socket 7 builds higher resolution is not possible or to slow so I thought that I might aswell build a fast voodoo 3 box for this purpose.
A fast voodoo 3 box that can run with the small PSU described above... quite the challenge!
Since the case is Micro ATX I needed a suitable Pentium 3 or Athlon board.
Since I dont think an Athlon of any kind would fit in the power envelope a Pentium 3 board seemed like the only choice.
The Pentium 3 CPU that needs the least amount of power is a Tualatin and the Tualatin that needs the least amount of power is a slow Celeron.
I found a QDI Legend Advance 6T board with a Tualatin Celeron 1100 on Tradera (Swedish Ebay). The price was ~10$ which seemed fair.
System spec
Motherboard: Qdi Legend Advance 6T
CPU: Tualatin Celeron 1100
Memory: 2x 512mb PC133 CAS2 SDRAM
GPU: PCI Voodoo 3 2000
Sound: The integrated sound on the motherboard.
HDD: Samsung 80gb
OS: Windows 2000
The end result is great
It plays Unreal (gold) at 1024*768 with high fps and that is really all I asked for.
Peak power is 100w at the socket but I think the PSU has really bad efficiency.
Some Pictures
The case
The old Socket 7 board with bad caps
The new motherboard
Lots of amps...
My PSU is larger than... my other PSU
The new motherboard fits in the case!
Everything in place
Enough memory box ticked
Intresting sound options in the BIOS setup.
Peak power
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.