Looks a bit like a DFI CA64-TC

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-03-24, 23:56:

Can you guess what it is ?
I don’t even know what Motherboard this is ?

OMFG, that's next level.

pancakepuppy wrote on 2022-03-25, 00:20:

Looks a bit like a DFI CA64-TC

Okay, Yeah. Looks like it.

CA64-TN manual :
https://data2.manualslib.com/pdf5/110/10962/1 … 4bab91ea9e19a24

I have it working on a test bench.

Woohoo…..1.4ghz !

What sound card should I use ?
What Video card should I use ?

I want to be time period correct.

I want to get it all working before I put it in a InWIN 500 case.

Definitely as already identified the DFI CA64-TC. Slow and sluggish, not to say dawdling in my experience. Only good thing about this board are the angled LED and ATX switch connections. Both of my boards (a rev A and rev C) had terrible caps. After replacing, it's a stable but a very mediocre performer and not the best board to make a PIII-s shine, imho.

As far as video cards go, I'd probably go for something like a GF2 GTS or GF3, or Radeon 7500 or 8500. Something in that ballpark.
Not sure about sound cards, I'm lazy with those and usually just use an SB Live.

flupke11 wrote on 2022-03-26, 01:10:

Definitely as already identified the DFI CA64-TC. Slow and sluggish, not to say dawdling in my experience. Only good thing about this board are the angled LED and ATX switch connections. Both of my boards (a rev A and rev C) had terrible caps. After replacing, it's a stable but a very mediocre performer and not the best board to make a PIII-s shine, imho.

Do you happen to know what onboard sound chip this motherboard uses ?
Is it a Realtek ?
The manual does not list anything.
And I don’t see any sound chip on the motherboard but it does have audio outputs.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-03-26, 22:45:

Do you happen to know what onboard sound chip this motherboard uses ? Is it a Realtek ? The manual does not list anything. And I […]
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Do you happen to know what onboard sound chip this motherboard uses ?
Is it a Realtek ?
The manual does not list anything.
And I don’t see any sound chip on the motherboard but it does have audio outputs.

I bet it's using the southbridge integrated audio, try the VIA Vinyl audio drivers (still available on their website)

Yeah, I am going to set up this onboard audio device and test it out. Its suppose to be Sound Blaster Pro compatible.
I will test it out with games. Hope it sounds good.

flupke11 wrote on 2022-03-26, 01:10:

Definitely as already identified the DFI CA64-TC. Slow and sluggish, not to say dawdling in my experience. Only good thing about this board are the angled LED and ATX switch connections. Both of my boards (a rev A and rev C) had terrible caps. After replacing, it's a stable but a very mediocre performer and not the best board to make a PIII-s shine, imho.

I had the previous model, CA63-SN. It was slow and unstable (even after being recapped) even by Via 693A standards (the disk throughput especially was almost funny how bad it was).
Nice to see they kept these interesting features in the follow-up model.

Since this is a Win98 build I am using a Terratec GeForce-2 GeForce and Sound Blaster Audigy 2zs.
Here is the case I am going to use.

that's an FX5200 bud

foil_fresh wrote on 2022-04-14, 02:29:

that's an FX5200 bud

Okay thanks, Not sure what GPU it used. I used the universal GeForce driver “Forceware” to get it working.
I did look up the Specs and I thought it was a GeForce-2 GPU for some reason.

I just picked a video card out of the box of video cards I have.
I was looking for a good Nvidia video card.
But the FX5200 is a good video card with good support in Win98. Good compatibility with most games.