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First post, by squareguy

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Ordering more parts, build is constantly changing but I think I have settled on hardware. Can you guess what's going inside?

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Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 1 of 9, by brostenen

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Socket Super 7 (perhaps Ga-5AX, P5A or something like that)
K6-III + 450/550mhz
Voodoo3-3500
Some kind of Yamaha soundcard (724?)

EDIT:
Most likely an Audician32 😁 It might be an replica or near exact copy of the one in Phil's recent SS7 series.

Last edited by brostenen on 2016-09-26, 21:48. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 7 of 9, by squareguy

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Ok im not spilling the beans yet but 386sx mentioned the MS5169 which I have. Mine is a revision 2.1 that supposedly doesn't support K6-2/3+ CPU's. The revisions 3.0 and 4.0 do with BIOS 3.5 which again supposedly you cannot flash to a revision 2.1 board. So I fire it up, boot from floppy, startup the flash program, hot swap BIOS chips and flash BIOS 3.5 to my revision 2.1 board. It boots and it properly detects the CPU. Hmmm I wonder if bad things might happen? The revision 2.1 board is interesting in that it has the holes for a SB-Link but no pins. That might be interesting for a YMF724 card. What do you think? If anyone can think of something that this might cause an issue with let me know and maybe we can test it.

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 8 of 9, by squareguy

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Sadly looking at the YMF724 datasheet the SBPro block has registers for the filters but they do not operate. I think I interpreted the data correctly. Oh well I'm off topic.... what else is new?

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE

Reply 9 of 9, by squareguy

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I can confirm with 100% certainty that it will contain an AMD K6-III+ 450ACZ CPU. It's a 2.0 Volt Core CPU.

Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE