I would skip out on the Bigfoot. My Compaq came with one. I didn't use it, but still have it hanging around.

I personally think that the Rage 128/128 Pro is better choice by far then the TNT2 M64 card.... From my experience the rage cards get way more hate then they actually deserve. Perhaps back in 98-99 drivers were as bad of as mess as people say, but I don't actually remember having one of these cards …

I agree with meljor. PCI-e is the line for me.

My first personally owned PC was originally our family PC, but was handed down to me when we replaced that machine with a k6/2 build that ALSO later became my second PC. The first machine is long gone and I would dearly love to have another one just like it simply for nostalgic sake. It was a …

Cool idea. Didn't Luke and Linus do something similar in the ill fated "Tech Showdown" series?

On my 5152, which i THINK is a 1998 model, the BIOS key is F10. It does work just fine, however if the CMOS battery dies it seems to act crazy for awhile, really slow posting etc. Sometimes have to let it do a RAM count two or three times, and let it reboot before it settles down and acts normal.

My parents had a basic PC built by a cousins cousin, who was the IT guy at a local High School. Technically speaking this was my second PC, the first being a Packard Bell Legend 316 If I remember the specs were mostly as follows. It was pretty low end, but was a great machine overall for being PC …

Daily home desktop is one I built: ASUS ROG STRIX AM4 Ryzen 7 1700 16GB DDR4 ASUS ROG STRIX RX580 120GB SSD/2x2TB HDD's Daily Driver Desktop at Work: Dell Optiplex 3050 i5-7500 8GB RAM 500GB HDD Daily Driver laptop home: Early 2011 MacBook Pro i7-2720QM 8GB RAM 1TB SSD Daily Driver work laptop: Dell …

My old Latitude has the Radeon Mobility. I can't remember the exact model of the machine, but it is the Radeon Mobility 7500 16MB version I think. It works pretty well for the range of older games that I like to play. I do run Windows 98se on it though, XP is a bit pointless for this era machine for …

I have a Gateway with a Celeron 700 and the Savage IX 8MB card. It has native 800*600 panel. It does ok for what it is, I would say 1998-1999 is it's cut off range. It will run Unreal/UT at that resolution but it's pretty choppy at anything other than low details. I've played Q2 and some MotoCross/ …

Yes scaling can be big problem on some of these machines. When it's wrong it looks terrible.

I have a few older Win98 era laptops that do some 3D acceleration. I have a older Dell Latitude with P3 1GHZ and Radeon Mobility that does ok. I also have a Gateway with a Celeron 700MHZ, and a Savage IX/MX of some kind. I think it's basically a Savage4 of some kind. I also have a Compaq with a …

I bought one on ebay probably 1 1/2 years ago. I'm not sure of the precise date. I think i gave about $20 shipped. Its a 450MHZ, but overclocked stable to 550. Still running in my old Compaq Presario with my VooDoo 3 PCI. I remember them being readily available at the time, with plenty of sellers to …

Good luck! I've done the oven reflow trick on a few cards and boards, but i've never tried using flux and doing it correctly. Hope it works out for you and you can save another Voodoo

I'm no expert, but that looks like faulty RAM to me...

Thanks for the advice guys. Board haxnt been in a case yet, just on my bench. Ive set the voltage down to 2.0, but still no post. Powers on but zero beep codes even with no ram/video etc. Seems dead but thought about reflowing it. Or maybe try a new cmos chip? Maybe someone flashed it wrong, was …

First post! Please advise or move/remove if this is in the wrong area, or violates any rules. First post but long time lurker here, learned tons from all of you so thanks in advance. My question is basically this; I recently purchased a Booster M5ALA ver 1.1 Super 7 board to be a basis for a k6-III …