So I thought the system was dead because it decided to not turn on anymore, took apart the system

Here comes the derp moment.

It was a dead CR2032

Well at least I was able to install the Slot retention bracket.

mastergamma12 wrote:

I upgraded the 30GB Quantum potato I was using to a 80GB WD Caviar SE.

Crazy how much faster replacing that drive made the whole system.

thought about going for solid state? or you wanna keep it era specific. hot system btw!

foil_fresh wrote:

mastergamma12 wrote:

I upgraded the 30GB Quantum potato I was using to a 80GB WD Caviar SE.

Crazy how much faster replacing that drive made the whole system.

thought about going for solid state? or you wanna keep it era specific. hot system btw!

Thanks for the complement

A part of me wanted to use an SSD but the lack of TRIM kind of prevents me from using an SSD.

Modern SSD do that in the firmware afaik.

Upgraded the Live to an Audigy 2 ZS and turns out my Voodoo5 5500 isn't dead after all so replaced the Voodoo4 with that.

I'll post a new pic of the rig later.

Are you using a Lin Lin adapter on the slocket?

flupke11 wrote on 2020-01-04, 09:29:

Are you using a Lin Lin adapter on the slocket?

Yep

And here's the pic of the system now

Had to go back to the Live, VXD wasn't working period with the Audigy 2 ZS, kept bringing up a missing driver file. Didn't want to use it in WDM mode.

A Pentium III with RDRAM... so cool! Very nice build!

Changed to a Chieftec Dragon that I painted beige.

Great system and that case is awesome in beige!

Beige boxes FTW.

pete8475 wrote on 2020-07-16, 01:18:

Great system and that case is awesome in beige!

Beige boxes FTW.

Thanks.

Finally got VXD drivers working for the Audigy 2 ZS for 98 so replaced the Live again.

I finally got around to upgrading the PSU, swapped it for a 500W PC Power and Cooling MKIII, the one with 24a on both the 3.3 and 5 volt rails.

I'll post a photo later when I get a chance.

mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-11-20, 08:48:

I finally got around to upgrading the PSU, swapped it for a 500W PC Power and Cooling MKIII, the one with 24a on both the 3.3 and 5 volt rails.

I'll post a photo later when I get a chance.

I was going to mention the PSU, but happy to see that you already replaced it =)

Very nice to see someone use this iconic (and heavy!) ATX tower case! Legendary back in its day and it seems archaic for how modern it really was back when it was new.
I only found 2 of those towers fairly recently and never ended up using one for a build (perhaps one day).

And nice to see someone make an RDRAM P3 build =)
Yours is much faster than my own RDRAM P3 build (using a slot 1 933MHz iirc), but mine was (from what I read about how much trouble you had setting yours up) almost effortlessly to build up after I had swapped the motherboard with another one.

Nice, clean and lean setup.

Btw, you still noticing any significant differences when you upgraded to your 80GB from your 30GB Quantum potato? 😜

Tetrium wrote on 2020-11-20, 22:20:

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mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-11-20, 08:48:

I finally got around to upgrading the PSU, swapped it for a 500W PC Power and Cooling MKIII, the one with 24a on both the 3.3 and 5 volt rails.

I'll post a photo later when I get a chance.

I was going to mention the PSU, but happy to see that you already replaced it =)

Very nice to see someone use this iconic (and heavy!) ATX tower case! Legendary back in its day and it seems archaic for how modern it really was back when it was new.
I only found 2 of those towers fairly recently and never ended up using one for a build (perhaps one day).

And nice to see someone make an RDRAM P3 build =)
Yours is much faster than my own RDRAM P3 build (using a slot 1 933MHz iirc), but mine was (from what I read about how much trouble you had setting yours up) almost effortlessly to build up after I had swapped the motherboard with another one.

Nice, clean and lean setup.

Btw, you still noticing any significant differences when you upgraded to your 80GB from your 30GB Quantum potato? 😜

Thanks for the kind words. Yeah, switching the drives made a massive difference, IIRC I went from a 256k cache 45oo rpm drive to a 2mb cache 7200 rpm drive.

Here's a photo of the rig now.

Love the Tualatin + V5 build with RDRAM and an ISA slot, an Intel chipset and Asus board. Impressive. Very nice.

firage wrote on 2020-11-22, 16:01:

Love the Tualatin + V5 build with RDRAM and an ISA slot, an Intel chipset and Asus board. Impressive. Very nice.

Thanks 😀

mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-07-16, 01:03:

Changed to a Chieftec Dragon that I painted beige.

What was the origin color of this case?