Reply 26200 of 28625, by Minutemanqvs
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Today I reinstalled my dual Socket A system, with a Matrox Parhelia I finally got my hands on, running on Windows 2000. Played some Quake III with hi-res textures on it and checked for stability with 3DMark 2001 SE, it gets around 6700 points in 1024x768 default settings. Quake III demo "four" runs at 93 fps at maximum quality settings in 1280x1024.
I'm really happy with this system, it's exotic enough to be cool. The only "downside" are the noisy fans, but all systems of this era were like this...the coolers are original AMD and do a very good job of taming the heat on these Athlon MPs. It also just fits in a standard 40$ ATX case without drive cages in the way. On the mainboard you can chose to power it with ATX + Molex or ATX + ATX 12V connector, which negates the usual 12V rail problem on modern ATX power supplies. I'm glad I have several of these 😀
And the mainboard also supports 2 sticks of standard DDR, or 4 of ECC DDR, which is very easy to live with.
Searching a Nexgen Nx586 with FPU, PM me if you have one. I have some Athlon MP systems and cookies.