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Triple-graphics / Triple-sound / Triple-OS build.

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First post, by Bruno128

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Versatile system in modern case triple-booting Win98 SE / WinXP SP3 / Win10. Targeted games: 1995 – 2007. Build is retired in 2022.

Highlight parts:

  • Intel Core2Duo E7600
  • ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
  • 4GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800
  • Asus V9520-X/128 (FX5200)
  • CMC Orbit3D (Voodoo 2) 12MB
  • Terratec SiXPack 5.1+

Misc parts:

  • Creative CT5807 ES1373
  • T055C12012C NEC USB 2.0
  • Serdaco Dreamblaster S2
  • Sapphire Radeon HD6670 LP 1GB GDDR5
  • Samsung HM160HC IDE 2.5
  • Crucial BX500
  • Chieftec UNI UK-02B
  • CH-528 5.25 media dashboard
  • HIPRO 450W
  • CoolerMaster Z50
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Last edited by Bruno128 on 2024-01-13, 19:47. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 1 of 3, by melbar

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Very nice build !! 😀

But actually i see here only 2 sound cards installed. The Dreamblaster is a wavetable board, an addon to a soundcard, not a soundcard.
When you are talking about standards, the MIDI: Dreamblaster, the terratec has MIDI also : 64 voices polyphony(hardware), 1024 voices polyphony(software).

So, i would call this build more: Triple-graphics / Double-sound / Triple-OS build

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Reply 2 of 3, by Bruno128

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melbar wrote on 2022-05-21, 05:07:

terratec has MIDI also : 64 voices polyphony(hardware), 1024 voices polyphony(software).

Thank you very much for your feedback melbar. |'m using AMD HDMI audio device in Win10 that's why I count it. As you pointed out SiXPack 5.1+ does indeed have great DLS-capable playback and in some games I'm definitely picking it.

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Terratec SiXPack 5.1+ control panel.

I'm also posting some graphics benchmark results below.

  1. This score checks against slower PCI solutions such as TNT2M64 and Radeon VE.

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    3DMark2001SE / Win98 / Voodoo2 (640x480x16, triple buffering) = 974pts.

  2. This score checks against entry-level AGP solutions such as GF4-MX440 and Radeon 9250.

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    3DMark2001SE / Win98 / FX5200 (1024x768x32, default) = 4532pts.

  3. This score checks against older midrange single-GPU solutions such as 8800GTS and Radeon 3870.

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    3DMark06 / WinXP / HD6670 (default) = 10739pts.

  4. This score checks against newer entry-level and mobile solutions such as GT630 and HD520.

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    3DMark11 / Win10 / HD6670 ("Performance") = P1720pts.

While the score is hardly impressive this demonstrates how the build can cover tasks ranging from pure MS-DOS to Glide to D3D8 to even simple D3D11 applications.

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Reply 3 of 3, by kaputnik

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Great job actually succeeding with this 😁

Put together something similar around a 4CoreDual-SATA2 board a few years ago. My build was somewhat simpler, only used two sound cards (SB Live for WXP and ESS Solo-1 for W98SE/DOS), and no Voodoos, but it still was nothing but trouble. By far the single hardest time I've ever had getting a build up and running. Probably something of a wonder that I got out of that without cerebral haemorrhages, can only imagine what you went through...

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