Very nice 😀

I have found that just about any barton core run windows 7 just as well as it runs xp, though 1gb and lower ram you will need to turn some stuff off. Barton cores were ahead of their time. At the shop we still have some customers who still have barton machines still kicking along, one guy refuses to get rid of his.

Socket A chips often have damage but they seem to be pretty tolerant of this damage. In retrospect it's amazing AMD and Intel even tried going without heatspreaders for awhile. Surely that was all penny pinching.

More pieces of hardware going into the build:

- Voodoo 2 SLI (for older games the GF6800 does not support, and GLIDE!)
- Audigy 2
- Gameport bracket
- 300GB Samsung drive

Case has been cleaned and the fan control is working. Surprised to see the front case fans have blue LEDs.

Awesome! Nice case and cool setup!)

Done with installing all the hardware. Some pics:

Front of the case with the FAN control hooked up to front fans and sidefan (set to lowest RPM), temperature readers (mounted on motherboard and HDD) and the LEDs turned on. I've also connected the USB, Firewire and audio cables to the motherboard (which has built-in USB 2.0, Firewire, Sound, S-ATA, etc)

I am not sure if I'll keep the door fan. It looks a bit "too much" with the lights and everything, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to get some extra cooling on the Voodoo2's.

The hardware:
Missing on of the clips for the 92MM CPU fan, but it sits fine anyway. The 92MM is 800RPM or something, it's extremely quiet.
It got quite packet with all of the hardware pressed in. From bottom and up:
- Voodoo 2 12MB in SLI
- Audigy 2
- Game bracket (controller on motherboard)
- Geforce 6800GT with massive passive heatsink
- Front audio connection.

With a 300GB harddrive and probably the latest hardware to support Windows 98 (and Voodoo2 SLI for the older games) I would be stupid not to run dual boot. Plans are to install Windows XP and Windows 98 😀 Does anyone have any clue if Audigy 2 have any DOS support?

Pretty sure this rig will run almost all Windows games from 1995 to 2006.

where did you get the heatpipe cooler for the CPU?

I bought it new back in 2003 along with the motherboard and CPU. Thermalright SP-97 is the model

You can get the Audigy card working in dos with hacked drivers, takes a bit of messing round though.

Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

vetz wrote:

Does anyone have any clue if Audigy 2 have any DOS support?

Hmm if you can't get it to work, the Live! certainly does. Though a Vortex 2 based card is an even better solution 😀

I already got a Vortex 2 card in my 440BX machine, and I do plan on playing later Windows games on this, thus the Audigy 2 will be a good fit.

I won't play much DOS games on this machine, as I have my 486 and Compaq for that, but it is always nice to have the option 😀

Voodoo2 card deserve a slower normal videocard instead of the 6800gt! Nice Build 😀

I'm thinking of switching out the case on this build. What do you guys think about this Lian Li case?

Alluminum case? Simple look and still nice

Do you have do some benchmark yet?

vetz wrote:

I'm thinking of switching out the case on this build. What do you guys think about this Lian Li case? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5 […]
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I'm thinking of switching out the case on this build. What do you guys think about this Lian Li case?

Hells yeah move to that case!

You can forget about sound in DOS mode. I am talking from personal experience. nForce motherboards work great with XP but are a PITA with 98.
My nr. 2 PC has a similar configuration (Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2, nForce 2 Ultra, 2 Gb DDR dual channel, Sempron 3000+) and making it work well in 98 was difficult. Never managed to make the sound work in DOS mode, be it SB Live, 128, ESS Solo or any other of my PCI soundcards.
AFAIK, this is caused by nVidia's particular implementation of PCI; Instead of a single PCI bus they used several independent PCI buses connected by PCI bridges.

I have a similiar lian li [shorter version - less 5.25 slots]. Lovely to work on and so light to move. 😁

Yeah I have that case too and love the way you can pull it to bits without a screwdriver, all neat modules that go together with thumb screws.

I don't have those snazzy silver drive covers though, me wants, will have to keep an eye out.

fillosaurus wrote:

You can forget about sound in DOS mode. I am talking from personal experience. nForce motherboards work great with XP but are a PITA with 98.
My nr. 2 PC has a similar configuration (Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2, nForce 2 Ultra, 2 Gb DDR dual channel, Sempron 3000+) and making it work well in 98 was difficult. Never managed to make the sound work in DOS mode, be it SB Live, 128, ESS Solo or any other of my PCI soundcards.
AFAIK, this is caused by nVidia's particular implementation of PCI; Instead of a single PCI bus they used several independent PCI buses connected by PCI bridges.

Yes, same here. I somehow managed to make my Abit AN7 system work under 98se, but it was hard since there were a lot of IRQ conflicts that I couldn't solve at all due to ACPI.

Also, with an Obsidian2 or a 2 card Voodoo2 SLI setup performance with Fv2 drivers was bad(Same under 2000 or XP), and with the only driver they performed great (3.02.02 reference) they would hang up when exiting a game and running other one later. However, everything ran perfectly on a KT333 DFI motherboard.

Your mileage may vary though