First post, by JSO
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Greetings to every one and a Happy New Year!
Now it's the time to focus to my Voodoo 3 build for Windows 98SE - DOS era and I have some questions.
On November of 2018 I replaced to the 5EMA+ all capacitors and the board is like new, only issue is that the ps/2 ports (I have mentioned it to another thread) sometimes don't work but I can use USB mouse and keyboard and a latest serial mouse for DOS, maybe I will replace the ps/2 header and the problem will be solved.
I've successfully overclocked the 400AHX to 500 MHz with 2.6 Volts without issues, but I want to know if the value is safe for the CPU for 24/7.
3D Mark 2001 SE runs without issues and the Half Life also.
No overheat is noticeable using my fingers on to the cpu area and the heatsink, also the midi atx tower has two fans attached, one for intake and one for outtake and the PSU fan (not a vintage one).
I want to know if I will have any issues because due to limited room space I packed all my other builds (i386Dx25, AM386Dx40, AM486DX4 PCI, Pentium MMx and Athlon XP+) to my basement and I kept only my 486 VLB system and the K6-III, which I want to use it for benchmarks and gaming.
Disabling the internal cache I have a 486Dx4 CPU and both internal and external a 386Dx40+ MHz, so I'm happy with the results for future use.
The system consisted of the following parts :
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
SB Live! the gold plated one, first version with the daughter board
256 MB RAM
80GB 7200 RPM HDD
DVD RW
5.25" and 3.5" FDDs
I will also add an ISA Yamaha OPL3-SA3 with Dreamblaster X2 for the pure DOS 7.1 installation.
I want to mention that all the DOS games I've tested are working great with the SB Live! and Warcraft, Doom 2 and others working with Sound Canvas enabled for MIDI.
Thank you.
DOS IS THE POWER OF OUR CHILDHOOD MEMORIES!