Thanks, Compgeke, for eternally cursing me with CelerOWNED 😀

I once bought a Dell Precision 410, and with the purchase, got a Free Dell Optiplex GX100 SFF, complete with a Celeron 400MHz CPU, 64MB RAM and a Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value. A small bonus is that the machine has built-in 100Mb Ethernet. These machines have an Intel i752 iGPU, which is nothing to shout home about.

I also had a box full of spare parts, including a pair of Creative 8MB Voodoo 2s that I was loath to get rid of. Naturally, none of the games designed for a Voodoo 2rig would really benefit from a multiprocessor setup either. So what do I do? Grab some spares off AliExpress and eBay to make a small Windows 98 SE LAN party "sleeper".

After buying some more RAM (2x128MB SDRAM), I put together the following spares.....

Celeron 1100-128 (From a Dual PIII project where I was going to try and replicate the P3 SMP signalling using FPGAs, but never got around to it)
2x Creative Voodoo 2 SLI 8MB in SLI
Maxtor 80GB Diamondmax HDD
Arctic P8 80mm fan jerry-rigged to feed the Voodoo 2s with cool air...
Pioneer DVR-107D DVD-RW drive

I need to have a look through my other sound cards to see what might be better for the rig, as the audio quality in HL1 is terrible. However, the Voodoo 2s seem to run happily at 95MHz with OpenGL in HL1, so I'm really stoked with that.

In short - really quite pleased to have managed to use some spare parts to make a "sleeper" if you will out of what was a free PC - practical for LAN parties (not that I see those any more) - and I've finally got my Voodoo 2s in something that I can practically use them for. Back in the day, they were in a Celeron 400, ironically. I did used to have a Diamond Monster Sound 3D for that computer, so hopefully that is lying around in one of my boxes somewhere?!

I would welcome any benchmark suggestions and things to try, and ultimately any "cheap" improvements in keeping with the fact this thing has only cost me memory! If Roadkill did computers...