So this evening I've spent a little more time with the machine.
S3 Virge DX
Managed to get this working, gave it a clean and ensured it was seated correctly. It's a Virge DX with 4mb on board. The image quality is great, very sharp.
Seagate 4.3Gb Hard Drive
For that authentic sound/speed! 😵 Not an update but didn't post any photos of it previously.
Optical Drives
I had problems getting the SCSI dos installation program to fully install. In the end I took out the AWE64 and the installer worked without any issues! The trouble is I had around 545k free conventional memory after the SCSI drivers were installed - despite "Load High"
So I've decided to put both drives in, I use the 12x SCSI Sony drive in Windows which is very quiet and use the IDE (48x) in dos - but using QCD @ 4x (600) - something I could not make work/or reduce the speed in Windows. Also the newer drive is compatible with different brands of CD-R/RWs.
Clean up!
Whilst having a reshuffle I did some cable management
Benchmarks
Doom 1.9 - 2134/1096 realtics (68.1fps)
Quake - 21.7
PCPBench - 40.8
@ PR200+ (150mhz) Just to test
Doom 1.9 - 2134/1022 realtics (73.0fps)
Quake - 23.6
PCPBench - 44.3
Cyrix Instead Build, 6x86 166+ | 32mb SD | 4mb S3 Virge DX | Creative AWE64 | Win95
ATC-S PIII Tualatin Win9x Build :- ATC-S PIII Coppermine Win9x Build Log [WIP] **Photo Heavy**