First post, by theiceman085
I could not resist and pulled the trigger for a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card. I want to build a second glide-only gaming rig with that card
The main ingredients are rather certain for me already. I am going to use a socket 370 motherboard with either a fast p3 Coppermine 800 to 1000 MHz or maybe even go with the most powerful Pentium 3 line the Tualatin CPUs.
if would listen to reason the thing is very clear already. The Coppermine CPU and motherboards are way more humanly priced than a Tualatin motherboard
But on the other hand, it is very tempting to have the best of the Pentium 3 line just for the sake of owning one.
But how about the practical aspect? Could the V3 2000 agp even benefit from the extra power of the Tualatin line or would be Pentium 3 1 GHZ ghz more than enough?
In case the Coppermine is more than enough I will build my system around an AB-VH6T,or Asus CUV4X, CUV4X mainboards.
If the Tualatin would give some real life power benefits I will keep my eyes open for a , Aopen AX34-U board.
ps: You can feel free to recommend other mainboards or even CPU lines as well. The only part of the upcoming glide machine I have in my hands is the card only. I have looked more into the Pentium line because my first gaming rig an Intel 440bx has pentium 2 400 mhz (it will be later replaced with a Pentium 3 900 mhz cpu via Slocket) and I had good experiences with it.
So I was thinking of using a Pentium for my second rig as well. Have not looked into the Athlon yet but if you think an athlon would be a better partner for a Voodoo 3 please feel free to recommend it.