Man, that is one sweet setup.

This is a sort of final 1999 frontier for me. I've been wanting a Slot A box for a long time. I wanted to get the earliest Athlon hardware. I actually wanted to get the .25u Athlon "Argon", and I thought this 700 was one, until I looked up more of the part number (the 0.18u 700 has almost the same number).

Just for kicks, before the mobo+CPU arrived, I set up a K6-3+ @ 600 and did some Quake 3 gaming. The Athlon 700 is faster, indeed. 😉 Man what a bombshell AMD dropped on Intel's game that year.

If only AMD had good marketing budgets while at their power peaks...

(frickin' blue man group.)

That's a very nice and well thought out rig you have there Swaaye!
Can't even remember last time you actually posted a retro rig 😜

Only tip I could give is to add a system fan, but something tells me you already considered that ;D

And AMD did have some marketing (I remember seeing a clip about a train on youtube 🤣), but people were stupid. Even today many people who aren't computer savvy will go 😕 😕 😕 if I mention AMD. They think theres either Intel or something unknown.

I have something for slot cpu's. They look so sexy!
Although I have a slot 1 p3 450, I always wanted a k7 in the region of 1ghz.

I would love to get my hands on the 1 GHz Slot A Athlon with the gimpy 1/3 speed L2 but those are usually rare and expensive.

Regarding fan, I doubt I'll ever put the side of the case on anyway 🤣. I don't tend to keep hardware in a static config for long.

swaaye wrote:

I would love to get my hands on the 1 GHz Slot A Athlon with the gimpy 1/3 speed L2 but those are usually rare and expensive.

Regarding fan, I doubt I'll ever put the side of the case on anyway 🤣. I don't tend to keep hardware in a static config for long.

Just get tons of cases...and a big house ;D

Sorry 🤣 😜

I have several cases just like that - Enlight 7250 😀

leileilol wrote:

If only AMD had good marketing budgets while at their power peaks...

(frickin' blue man group.)

I liked Apple's PowerPC commercials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz78v4euRd0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE6aKeK61A4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4dDuocAXTY

Tetrium wrote:

And AMD did have some marketing (I remember seeing a clip about a train on youtube 🤣), but people were stupid. Even today many people who aren't computer savvy will go 😕 😕 😕 if I mention AMD. They think theres either Intel or something unknown.

I remember this K6-2 commercial from the late 90s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBG7HRQpPIg

Of course, back then I didn't have a clue what AMD was, at least not until they released their K7 family. But nice marketing, I wonder how many fell for this trick.

So far I've tried a bunch of video cards in it. My particular Visiontek GeForce3 is a no go with corruption on boot. TNT2 and GeForce 256 seem 90% ok but sometimes I need to reboot to get a game going. Same with Radeon 7500. This is even with AGP automatically forced to 1x by the video drivers.

One particularly bizarre bug with the Radeon 7500 was with 3DMark2001. The lobby scene had the people consisting mostly of their eyeballs and down by their knee level there was a corrupted mess of the rest of the model. 😉

Voodoo3 and 5 work great though.

Gotta love the old buggy non-Intel AGP of the day.

swaaye wrote:

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Voodoo3 and 5 work great though.

Gotta love the old buggy non-Intel AGP of the day.

Wasn't that what made those old AMD rigs such great 3dfx rigs?

😜

Anyway, a friend of mine used to have an Athlon 500 with a GF I think. Ran without too much problems.

ya the TNT2 and GF work for the most part like I said. But occasionally they freeze when loading a game. Maybe one time out of ten. I ran into this with Blood 2 and Xwing Alliance. Been playing those a bit.

Google Groups has of course a lot of complaints posted about AMD 750 and AGP cards. It sounds like AGP 2x mode is basically shot, hence drivers forcing 1x mode.

Just out of curiosity, what would this cpu overclock to? P3 700s/ 750s were known for being o'cing monsters, regularly hitting 933/1000mhz back in the day.

sgt76 wrote:

Just out of curiosity, what would this cpu overclock to? P3 700s/ 750s were known for being o'cing monsters, regularly hitting 933/1000mhz back in the day.

With a Goldfinger device the max was 1050mhz and even a 700mhz model could hit that easily with a voltage adjustment so it wasn't even worth buying a faster Athlon because the max multiplier was still the same regardless of which speed Athlon you attached it to. A 1ghz Athlon would still top out at 1050, so it really wasn't worth spending the extra money on one when you could the same performance from a much cheaper model.

Nice and sweet! 😀