Its a very nice system!

See if you can get the CPU to run at 550+ MHz otherwise the Voodoo II SLI will be more bottlenecked than necessary.

Nice job! I am a little jealous .

Good choice of parts, nice case, and nice clean build overall!

What are you going to run on it?

Nice one! The K6-III was my next step up after a 486. Many fond memories of it.
It was also my first custom PC I bought with the money I earned in my teenage years
at the computerstore where I was an employee selling them 🤣. 😎

I have a very similar PC with a P5A-B and K6-III+ 400@550MHz and a Voodoo3. I've been thinking about replacing the Voodoo3 with Voodoo2 SLI + some other card, probably an GeForce2 MX 200 that I have laying around.

Thanks for the photos, you've done some great cable management!

Very nice build. Good job!

Thanks for the support Vogons!

I've been doing a little benchmarking in 98SE to see what is the best card (that I have) to go along with the V2 SLI. I'm using det 45.23 drivers for all benches.

The 64Mb MX

A visiontek ti4400, ramsinks are my addition

Looks strange to have such a large AGP card in there.

The MX at 450Mhz

The MX at 550Mhz

The gf2 ultra at 550Mhz

The ti4400 at 550Mhz

sandra 99 cpu

memory

and hdd (WD2500KS with adapter)

I think in conclusion it's hard to justify using a card better than the MX in this system. The MX produces low heat and power (fanless) and at least in the case of 3dmark99 performs like all the others. The P5A did a better job of overclocking than the ms5169 in the sense that the chip could do 550 in both cases, but the ms5169 required 2.1v whereas the P5A seems happy with 2v (actually 1.9-2.0V according to the bios). In general I agree that overclocking old hardware is not a good idea, but I think when the overclocking doesn't come with a voltage penalty it's basically OK.

Cool build . My main pc for a long time was a home build from various used parts . It had an asus p5a-b with an amd k6-2 350mhz 128mb ram an ati 128 pro ,sound blaster and windows 2000 .It handled over clocking well and endued a lot of tinkering . I used it until i was given a dell dimension 8100 from some one who bought a new pc every couple years .

The versatility is just astounding. It's so cool to play some wing commander, then xcom ufo then quake3 back to back on the same machine.

I am looking to test out my Asus P55T2P4 with a K6-2+, just haven't got the CPU yet. If you want a nice read the link below will take you there.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/oldie-tuning,216.html

Nice system build also =)

Nice set up,
I am doing the same thing but with something else in mind.
Could you post some 3Dmark2001 @550Mhz with the GF2Ultra and the Ti4400?
I'm quite curious.

Also, you can confirm that 45.23 are better than 44.03 with Ti cards?

Nice, I am a big fan of these machines. I run a GF2 MX 440 in mine now.

I rebuilt the K6-III+ again. This time I was fortunate enough to have acquired a second Voodoo 5500. So I have now joined the rather small club of people (actually I might be the only one) with K6-III+ / AT / Voodoo 5500. The network card was also upgraded to the classic 3c905 and I dropped my second MX300 in along side the AWE64 Gold now that I freed up two PCI slots by dropping the V^2 SLI.

The neat thing about a V5500 with a K6-III+ is you can run 4X AA and not even notice a performance hit (because the system is bottlenecked to begin with).

Last, I had to change the bracket (with a voodoo 3500 one from a broken card) on the V5500 as it was originally one of the taller ones that didn't fit (i.e. there would be a small gap if you tried to screw the bracket in place).

TODO: maybe a voodoo 1 for that final PCI slot? I could also put something like a GUS in the second ISA and move the PCI cards up one. That would be nice.

Ugh, those Pacific Micro cases with the sharp edges. I have scars from those things!

Where did you find that ATX form factor card? Asus didn't include it with the P5A-B new, which was annoying if you wanted USB. Meanwhile the cheaper PC Chips M590 SS7 board came with the breakout.

It was an arm and a leg on ebay...!

Ah thank you for identifying the case. I actually didn't know who made it. I find it's of acceptable quality though. Nothing razer sharp.

I don't know if that was the actual manufacturer of that case. The computer store I worked at used to buy them for machine builds in 1998-99 from a company called "Pacific Micro". For all I know, it could have been a distributor. They came in unbranded brown boxes.

That's a nice system. Always liked the way Baby AT systems looked.

Nobody believes me when I tell then that I've cut my hands on old computer cases and parts. Got wounded many times by trying to pull out stuck molex and ide connectors. When they finally came loose, my hand would hit the nearest sharp edge. I guess people are just too used to rounded edges and easy to remove sata connectors these days. 😀

I had stitches in maybe 2006 for building someone a computer with an ultra cheap case. I think I was removing those metal 5.25" covers in order to put a drive in. You like rotate them until they snap off. Anyway way too much force that time and it wasn't pretty. So I do know bad cases. This one from what I can tell is nothing like that.

I have the same problem with my K6-III+ system. Even at full bore 550Mhz, the FPU capability seems to throttle any cards I throw in there. Even at OC speed the VooDoo 2 SLI was performing at only around 50% of what I know the cards are capable of. Quake 1 timedemo (1.08) at the start map posted around 32fps, which is really bad for a 550Mhz CPU even on a SS7 platform. I hit around 23.5fps with a Pentium 200 non MMX in there, for comparison. I'm sure a Pentium II 450Mhz would be well over 60fps. On the other hand, K6-III's are cool as shit. I took out one of the V2's and added a radeon 9200se (I think) as the 2D card because of the clean 2D display it gives in Windows and DOS.

Screamer 2 and Carmageddon Splat Pack (3Dfx versions) run in full awesome mode though. And WinQuake (despite the odd slowdown in bigger maps + firefights) has the feel that only a true retro build can give. DosBox be damned! When it comes to The Dismal Oubliette on Nightmare, I want it pure.

Yes, that's a bit of a problem with the k6-2 and k6-3. They do score perfectly fine in 3dmark99 and very high in cpu due to 3dnow! and 3d scores come pretty close to p2-450. p3-450 has sse and scores a bit better in 3dmark99.

But in actual games it is all over the place, and p2-450 is much faster. a 600mhz k6-3+ has a very hard time even beating a p2-350 in games.

But i agree, the k6 platform has something true retro about it and it is one of my absolute favorites.