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First post, by Tiger433

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I rebuilded my PIV PC where I used Gigabyte GA-8IDX mainboard to new specs:

Mainboard: Medion MD5000, that`s oem MS-6701
CPU: Pentium IV 2.0 Northwood with 512 Kb L2 and 400 MHz FSB
RAM: 1 GB with 2 sticks of DDR333
Videocard: GeCube Radeon 9550U
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Value CT4670
And one USB 2.0 Card on Via chipset
Harddisk: WD Caviar 10 Gb (without any bad sectors 😀 )
Opticaldrives: LG DVD-ROM and Samsung DVD-RW
PSU: Logic 350W

At XP and 10.2 ATI driver in 3dmark2001 I have 8667 points now (with same videocard and when I used Athlon 2000+ and DDR266 RAM I have 8009 points only) and I play only Diablo II LOD with 1.13 patch and Direct3D mode and that game is completely smooth on that rig 😀 On that mainboard I can use even PIV 3.06 with 533 FSB.
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Last edited by Tiger433 on 2015-10-28, 14:37. Edited 2 times in total.

W7 "retro" PC: ASUS P8H77-V, Intel i3 3240, 8 GB DDR3 1333, HD6850, 2 x 500 GB HDD
Retro 98SE PC: MSI MS-6511, AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128, 80GB HDD
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Reply 1 of 8, by Tiger433

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Here are some screenshots which I made on that machine, one is with CPU-Z and GPU-Z and rest is from 3DMark03 and 05:

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W7 "retro" PC: ASUS P8H77-V, Intel i3 3240, 8 GB DDR3 1333, HD6850, 2 x 500 GB HDD
Retro 98SE PC: MSI MS-6511, AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128, 80GB HDD
My Youtube channel

Reply 2 of 8, by chinny22

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The case is interesting with the hot plug style drive bays.
If you really want to make it a rocket, install Window 98 and make it scream 😀

Reply 3 of 8, by Tiger433

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I try 98 and I make 3dMark tests to compare it to XP, I have drivers for mainboard chipset for 98 😀 Can I use in 98SE SSE2 instructions in games and in programs ?

EDIT: I installed 98 on another harddisk and I when I do that I put out one 512 Mb RAM stick and I run 3DMark2001 in 98 and in XP and in XP I have better score so my rig is more like rocket in XP, I see also 98 is slower on that rig than xp, even folders opening are slower in 98, and I stay at XP because I also want to play games from GoG and they installers don`t run on 98. Here is 3DMark2001 screenshots:

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W7 "retro" PC: ASUS P8H77-V, Intel i3 3240, 8 GB DDR3 1333, HD6850, 2 x 500 GB HDD
Retro 98SE PC: MSI MS-6511, AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128, 80GB HDD
My Youtube channel

Reply 4 of 8, by Tiger433

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I rebuild that rig to new specs:

Motherboard: ABIT NF8
Processor: AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.6 Ghz but without 64bit extensions
Memory: 2x 512 MB DDR400
Harddisk: Seagate 200GB IDE
Videocard: ATI Radeon 9550U (400/400)
Opticaldrive: LG DVD-ROM
USB 2.0 card on VIA chipset

Now that rig is far faster than with PIV 2.0, even Gothic 2 run smooth now, before that game slowed down much times at playing.

and here is photo:

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W7 "retro" PC: ASUS P8H77-V, Intel i3 3240, 8 GB DDR3 1333, HD6850, 2 x 500 GB HDD
Retro 98SE PC: MSI MS-6511, AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128, 80GB HDD
My Youtube channel

Reply 6 of 8, by Tiger433

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I have more than two years that PSU and I have everytime good voltages, all that time I don`t have any problems with him, that`s little cheaper PSU but in my opinion is good. Logic produces also other things like cases, that company is from Taiwan. Here is link to that company so you can see what they producing. I have even wireless mouse from Logic and is good for me, sometime ago I have problem with that and that company easy replaced that mouse on warranty without any problem, but now works for more than year very good.

When I checked voltages at Speccy program I see:
+3V 3.29
+5V 5.08
+12V 12.09
so you can see they`re good.

W7 "retro" PC: ASUS P8H77-V, Intel i3 3240, 8 GB DDR3 1333, HD6850, 2 x 500 GB HDD
Retro 98SE PC: MSI MS-6511, AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128, 80GB HDD
My Youtube channel

Reply 7 of 8, by KT7AGuy

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Is that a Voodoo 3 in the one pic?

Sticking with XP is the right choice if you're using the Radeon card. Why not choose a 9800XT if you're going to use a Radeon? With the system you've got, it would be a huge performance increase. Even a 9600XT would likely be a pretty big boost, and you can use passive coolers with those.

Reply 8 of 8, by Tiger433

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No, I even don`t have Voodoo3 now, that`s Radeon 9550U with 400/400 clocks, you can see information on that card on one screenshot with GPU-Z, and that MD5000 board can`t use AGP 2X cards, also ABIT NF8 can`t do that, and I stick all time to XP because that`s rig is for GoG games and Diablo II/Gothic 1-2. In future I buy better Radeon or some mainboard with CPU on AM2 socket, I plan to use AMD CPU and videocard. I used Intel and NVIDIA for years and I want to return to AMD 😀

W7 "retro" PC: ASUS P8H77-V, Intel i3 3240, 8 GB DDR3 1333, HD6850, 2 x 500 GB HDD
Retro 98SE PC: MSI MS-6511, AMD Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128, 80GB HDD
My Youtube channel