First post, by Lo-ResBros
so after building a nice 486-DX2-66 for early to mid 90’s games, I feel like making something for late 90’s games 😀
I bought what looks like a nice Tyan S1470 Socket 7 motherboard on ebay for $50 and a lot of 6 Pentium MMX CPUs $10. 2 or 3 of those CPUs are 233Mhz. From what I’ve read Tyan boards are pretty good quality boards and should work well with a MMX 233.
As for video I found a Ati Rage 128 pro 32MB PCI card for $40. What I really want is a nice Voodoo card but I’ll work on that later, I hear the rage 128 pro is actually a good card too so probably good to start with till I find a good deal on a voodoo setup.
Sound I have a Sound Blaster Live card or Sound Blaster AWE64 (with 32MB) which would be better for this setup?
The motherboard supports SDRAM so I have 64MB (2x 32MB sticks) is that enough? too much for dos but good for early windows 98 3D games?
hoping to play games like Duke Nukem 3D, Quake I-II, Star Craft, System Shock, not sure how far this setup can go....
any opinions or suggestions appreciated!
AMD K6-2+/550MHz
Soltek SL-54U5 Super Socket 7
64MB SDRAM
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16MB
Sound Blaster AWE64
Roland SC-55mkII
Pentium MMX 233MHz
Tyan TitanVX S1470 Socket 7
128MB SDRAM
ATi Rage 128 pro 32MB
Audio Plus 320 v.1
Roland SC-88