You may be missing ISA for sound in DOS as fair as I understand. But the CUSL2-C is a great board for windows.
I actually have a rare'ish 128 but version of the FX5200, which is reasonably fast, given that it's passively cooled ..

Sounds like it should be a good win98 machine.

As for soundcard, If budget is a concern, then I think Soundblaster live will be fine. Be careful though, as some OEM models need drivers from the OEM. I think SB0060 is easy to find drivers for. Game compatability won't be as good as you would get with an ISA card.

Ideally you would have had 2 sound cards an ISA one for dos and a PCI for windows. But what's done is done and work arounds exist.

Aureal Vortex is good card for Win9x era, has good dos compatibility but was all but dead during WinXP

Creative SB Live, Audigy 1, 2 are all the same family of cards. Main difference between them is newer the card the later the EAX version is supported.
(Live = EAX 2, Audigy = EAX 3, Audigy 2 = EAX 4

How much this matters will depend on your game library.
https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_ … ith_EAX_support.

Creative SB 128 lack any EAX, only reason to pick this over a Live/Audigy is you already have the card and want to save money.

And don't worry about the FX 5600 This actually makes alot of sense. You now have both Glide AND D3D games.

You're in a minefield for DOS sound compatibility with PCI only

Hmm, curious build. It'll likely work just fine for what you want from it. However i would have probably done it differently - either older, with ISA sound card, for DOS. Or if you are dropping ISA anyway - newer, like S462/S478, so that all the newer stuff works better. But then in newer build voodoo1 looks kind of out of place... it'll likely feel a bit like 3d decelerator compared to FX5600 + wrapper.

I mean WinXP and 2003 will run on P3+256MB RAM, but it will be quite slow.

Especially with that vintage HDD - this is something i would never have done - paying money for old HDD. IDE-SATA + SSD would be my choice, or at least IDE-SATA + modern HDD if you want HDD.

I am not sure how well all the stuff you describe will fit into 80GB, may be a bit... limiting.

Archer57 wrote on 2025-08-01, 03:08:

Especially with that vintage HDD - this is something i would never have done - paying money for old HDD. IDE-SATA + SSD would be my choice, or at least IDE-SATA + modern HDD if you want HDD.

I am not sure how well all the stuff you describe will fit into 80GB, may be a bit... limiting.

Personally, I think for Win98 an IDE HDD is fine. Though, yes, I agree I wouldn't buy one. I just happen to have kept all of the ones from my PCs over the years. Mostly they are hitachi.

SSDs are certainly better performance, quieter, and more reliable.

eliot_new wrote on 2025-07-31, 18:23:

1. Asus CUSL2-C + P3 CPU with 1 GHz Intel Coppermine: €62
8. Canopus Pure3D 6 MB 3dfx V1: €168 (very expensive, but a rarity)

A Coppermine P3 can be too fast for a Voodoo 1 in some circumstances, particularly with DOS glide games. If you do find games aren't running properly, setting the FSB to 66MHz (to reduce the CPU speed to 500MHz) may help.

@H3nrik V:
I also wanted first the FX 5200, but then discovered that the 2nd hand price is 12€ without shipping on eBay whereas I paid 25 € incl. shipping for the FX 5600.

@chinny22:
Amazing list of games, thank you! I tend to buy an Audigy 1 now. The only games, that I will miss because of EAX 4.0:
Bioshock, Collin McRay, Doom3, Gears of war, Prey, Quake 4, The Witcher 1 => I can play them on my newer PC, I guess (with my SB Audigy 5.1 PCI-E)

@Matth79:
I plan to use DOS-Box on my newer PC for all games that will not work.

@Archer57:
I still have a Pentium D805 2.66 GHz, Fujitsu Socket 775 board, and 4 GB DDR2-667 RAM in my basement, which is disassembled into individual parts.
My first thought was, of course, to use it for the Voodoo 1.
But I read that it has problems with the P4 architecture under DOS games and Glide.

My goals:

1. To play the most popular DOS games that support Glide, like Tomb Raider 1 or early 3dfx games that ran under Win98, like Unreal 1.
=> 3dfx Canopus V1
2. To play newer games (1999-2003) like Ultima 9 under D3D
=> FX 5600
3. Newer 3dfx games that absolutely required Voodoo 3 but didn't support neither D3D nor OpenGL.
For this, I would use Glide Wrapper (I don't have any examples, Ultima 9 also had D3D, what games from 2000 require V2...V5 Glide only?)
=> FX 5600
4. To play newer OpenGL games at a decent speed (I lack any examples, but I remember that the Quake 123, Hexen 2, Heretic 2 required OpenGL)
=> FX 5600

@Windows 2003 and Windows XP:
as soon as I've built the retro PC and everything is working, I'll buy another 256 MB of SDRAM.

@Parallel ATA EIDE HDD:
I really wanted one. I want to relive the feeling from 2000, what it was like back then to build a PC manually with all the components from back then. If the Voodoo 3 weren't so expensive, I would have bought one. So, the graphics card is the only component that's out of the ordinary. Besides I can also still connect a SATA adapter with SDD and use instead the 80 GB HDD in my Playstation 2 Fat Edition.

@sfryers
Thank you very much for the hint!
Indeed it is a P3-1Ghz EB with FSB 133 which I can slow down to 495 Mhz. Really cool 😀