This reads like self harm cry for help 🙁. Probably every socket7 board will have some AGP problems ranging from doesnt work at all to "its so stable it doesnt crash every gaming session". Isnt the whole deal of going back to ss7 AMD builds about reliving that trauma? You could cut yourself some slack and instead play road not taken alternative reality where you did research in 1999 and got intel 440BX board with overclocked Celeron 😜
Re: AMD K6-2 (not +) - any real difference between 400-550MHz?

My goal is to play games from 1990 DOS games to y2000 Windows 98 games. I think that SS7 is a solid choice there.
And "reliving that trauma" is certainly not part if it. I don't actually remember having any PC issues back in the days. Buying something like the Diamond Fire GL1000 Pro for hundreds of bucks, expecting it to run 3D accelerated games, which it didn't - yes. But stuff not working...not really.

I mean if you get a better idea to achieve that goal, which is original hardware and not Emulation (Hardware or Software) then let me know. But according to Phils Videos and others the SS7 should be a solid choice.

Edit: And btw: I am not interested in "maximizing" a PC in terms of fastest possible speed on SS7 or anything like that. My goal is flexibility. I will probably roll with my current 350Mhz CPU, which should be more than enough for the games I have in mind.

>expecting it to run 3D accelerated games, which it didn't

yep. In my opinion the only reliable way of getting working 3D on s7 is 3dfx. Instead of looking at $100-200 ss7 motherboards buy V2 or Voodoo3 2000/3000 and be done with it. Works in every motherboard with AGP, doesnt care about clocks or broken chipsets, and is gentle on weak FPU CPUs.

That was not my point though.

Isnt the original question about broken socket7 chipsets? AGP this, cache that. In the end you will most likely still end up with a board that crashes while running Nvidia card in 3D.

The original questions I actually marked bold:
-Do the revisions matter in any significant way for normal use (no overclocking)
-Are there any experiences with Turbo Button and LED?
-Is there anything noteworthy regarding that board which I missed?

Why would the board crash with Nvidia chipsets? Is that a common thing?

Super socket 7 and AGP cards thats why I called it reliving trauma. Maybe you will get lucky and everything will just magically work.

Ah, alright. Well, the thread states it's not with all cards in general and apparently less problems with the ALI chipset which the board in question does have. So I guess thats a plus.
I do have multiple AGP cards anyways and when in doubt I could also mix and match (I hopefully will also receive a Voodoo 2 from a family member, not sure if it works).
Right now I am not too concerned about that potential issue. Ofc if the board was an especially bad case in terms of compatibility, I would avoid it.

rasz_pl wrote on 2023-03-18, 21:11:

This reads like self harm cry for help 🙁. Probably every socket7 board will have some AGP problems ranging from doesnt work at all to "its so stable it doesnt crash every gaming session". Isnt the whole deal of going back to ss7 AMD builds about reliving that trauma? You could cut yourself some slack and instead play road not taken alternative reality where you did research in 1999 and got intel 440BX board with overclocked Celeron 😜
Re: AMD K6-2 (not +) - any real difference between 400-550MHz?

I’ve gotten a few ss7 setups fully stable. But they are for sure picky :p freeway made a very nice board with good agp implementation. Designed by tmc I believe.

Unfortunately this board uses dip and is atx so not for OP.

There are a lot of criteria to this post’s question. Maybe it might be more productive to ask people what their best AT ss7 combos are with full specs and pick one to replicate.

Personally, my favorite AT s7 setup isn’t a ss7 so you might not be interested in replicating it. But it is stable. 400mhz k6 no agp

Fastest ss7 I have that I like is my freeway setup (atx). Works great with radeon 9800 pro. Can even play halo.

The issue with identifying the "best" ss7 and then trying to mirror it, is that it might just not be available.

I tried to find more on the board.
In this thread: Voodoo3 won't POST on S7 AMDK6 III, other cards fine a user reported an issue, but it was then not related to the board. In addition the user Mamba commented that this is a solid board.
On the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md5Wl7t-VfI Phil mentions issues with Nvidia cards, however they seem to be mostly linked to the VIA chipset.

As one of the 2 boards available was just sold, I then decided to try my luck and buy the other one. Bought for a total of £113,99 (Includes £15,00 shipping from the UK) = 135,60€
Now I hope for the best (especially that the board arrives save and works in the first place)