I came across a cheap system for equivalent to $15 with an ASUS TuSi-M( SiS630ET chipset) 128MB PC133 and a 500Mhz Pentium 3 in working condition.
Would this work with my Voodoo 3 3500? what about the stability?
By the name it should support tualatins right?
It should work with Tualatin and V3 3500. The fun killer is the lack of AGP and ISA slots. Not sure about its stability.
EDIT:
Forgot that V3 3500 has no PCI variant.
The Motherboard has no AGP slot and the voodoo 3 3500 is AGP. So, it won't work. Only the Voodoo 3 2000 and 3000 have PCI versions.
SiS chipsets are a bit underrated, mainly because they were cheap and generally used in low-end boards. Such as this one. The SiS630ET is pretty comparable to an Intel i810E, which is not bad if you're after an office box, but not great then or now if you want to do high end (period) gaming. In fact the 630ET beats the i810 hands down on a few counts, particularly relating to memory (both clock speed and max amount). But still no AGP.
If you want a fast Tualatin-supporting chipset with AGP, look for the SiS635T. It's arguably the fastest So370 chipset, supporting 1.5GB of DDR-SDRAM and AGP 2.0. But as it's a performance chipset from a vendor that manufacturers only used in the low-end, boards with it are very rare. ECS P6S5A is one example, Jetway had two uATX boards, and Asus had the CUS266 (at least on paper - never seen one in the wild) and that's about it.
wrote:It should work with Tualatin and V3 3500. The fun killer is the lack of AGP and ISA slots. Not sure about its stability.
EDIT:
Forgot that V3 3500 has no PCI variant.
Yeah now i noticed that the board dont have agp, so it is a big no no.
wrote:SiS chipsets are a bit underrated, mainly because they were cheap and generally used in low-end boards. Such as this one. The SiS630ET is pretty comparable to an Intel i810E, which is not bad if you're after an office box, but not great then or now if you want to do high end (period) gaming. In fact the 630ET beats the i810 hands down on a few counts, particularly relating to memory (both clock speed and max amount). But still no AGP.
If you want a fast Tualatin-supporting chipset with AGP, look for the SiS635T. It's arguably the fastest So370 chipset, supporting 1.5GB of DDR-SDRAM and AGP 2.0. But as it's a performance chipset from a vendor that manufacturers only used in the low-end, boards with it are very rare. ECS P6S5A is one example, Jetway had two uATX boards, and Asus had the CUS266 (at least on paper - never seen one in the wild) and that's about it.
I still want to buy this board because it still cheap for me.
Maybe when i find some nice pci card i could build a rig, i dont care too much about high end stuff as i wouldnt be able to purchase back in the day.
