First post, by Ampera
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Planning a Slot 1 P3 rig. The mobo is probably whatever decent unit I can find, same with the memory, but the interesting parts are what I already have.
I have an AGP RIVA TNT2 (16MB) and a GeForce 2MX, also on AGP.
I am thinking of using the RIVA TNT2 as it would be more period accurate, and it also has capture card functionality.
I am trying to hit the upper Half-Life ballpark for performance.
I also have a Soundblaster Live! (budget version).
It's a GREAT PCI sound card. It supports up to around 500 MB DMA soundfonts for MIDI (Which is smaller than my good soundfont. 😢 ) and it looks really cool too.
Both of these parts were in my honestly underpowered Socket A system. The board and CPU are WAY too powerful for something as dinky as a GeForce 2MX (Which is sadly my most powerful AGP card)
but it has made use previously as my MIDI composition system.
So I am thinking of putting these parts, which are obviously too weaksauce for a Socket A system, into a new P3 Slot 1 system. The parts for these Slot 1 systems are almost being given away on EBay (WAY cheaper than my 486 DX4-100 build I just did)
It's either this or I invest my money into an SGI system, which would be cool for the first day or two, but I imagine it will become an investment rather than a system I would like to use.
oo, forgot HDD, although it's not that impressive, few hundred GB EIDE, I am somewhat swimming in PATA drives, while I take a SATA card I found off freecycle (If the man is nice enough to give it to me) and throw that into the Socket A system.
