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2001-2002 ASUS Tualatin build

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First post, by lafoxxx

Posted on 2020-05-09, 22:21

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Decided to show off my computer in a separate thread.
It's mostly used for Aureal A3D-supported titles (Unreal, Half-Life...), but it can run HL2 and even DOOM3 (just for fun).

ASUS/Fong Kai FK603 case (old photo -- taken back when it had GA-6VTXE motherboard)

Detailed specs
ASUS TUSL2-C motherboard with Intel Pentium !!!-S 1133@1276 MHz CPU (150 MHz FSB) and 1*512MB Hynix SDRAM running at 150 MHz (same as FSB)
ASUS V8420/TD (nVidia GeForce Ti4200-8X) 128MB
Diamond Monster Sound MX-300 (Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830) sound card

2x80 GB HDD (Seagate ST380011A and Maxtor 6L080P0)
ASUS E608 DVD-ROM drive
Dedicated USB add-in board
Thermaltake Volcano 7 CPU cooler, 2x Arctic F8 case fans and authentic cable management 😀

OEM info gathered from ASUS website using Wayback Machine

Surprisingly, XP Olive theme looks great with this wallpaper: https://web.archive.org/web/20140220095645/ht … by.com/gs/?p=81

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Reply 1 of 4, by foil_fresh

Posted on 2020-05-11, 01:37

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you dual booting 98 and xp?

Reply 2 of 4, by lafoxxx

Posted on 2020-05-11, 02:02

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foil_fresh wrote on 2020-05-11, 01:37:

you dual booting 98 and xp?

Not really -- each OS is installed on separate HDD, and WinXP is mostly used for maintenance of Win98 disk.
Disk 1: Win98 OS, Win98 Software
Disk 2: WinXP, Win98 Backups, CD image backups (for D-Tools in Win98)
I switch boot device in BIOS when needed.

Reply 3 of 4, by CMB75

Posted on 2020-05-11, 12:18

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You’ve got a very nice setup there…

If you ever get bored of switching the boot device in BIOS you can always setup multi-booting retro style using LiLo with a distro from back in the day.

Reply 4 of 4, by lafoxxx

Posted on 2020-05-12, 01:55

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CMB75 wrote on 2020-05-11, 12:18:

You’ve got a very nice setup there…

If you ever get bored of switching the boot device in BIOS you can always setup multi-booting retro style using LiLo with a distro from back in the day.

Thanks!
I will definitely look into it when needed.

Meanwhile, found overclocking mode I'll stick with for now:
150 FSB (was 133 or more -- allowed up to 1133@1402), 150 DRAM (was 100)
Timings set to 3-3-3-7. Other possible modes such as 3-3-3-5, 2-2-2-7 and 2-2-2-5 (best) only work on 100 MHz, but CL3 mode on current frequency outperforms them all significantly. Memory performance results in AIDA are even comparable to some DDR and RAMBUS builds (lower part of the list, but it doesn't matter).

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