Rise from your grave! The 3dfx re-build

Luciel · Nov 10, 2011

third option for sure

Red_Machine · Nov 10, 2011

Don't ruin it!

TRWOV · Nov 10, 2011

It would just be a temporary "improvement". I can always put the older heatsinks back.

I'm going to wait until the rig is put together for that, though.

Goodman · Nov 13, 2011

A little something for you...

-->http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=155049

Lazzer408 · Nov 13, 2011

Sasqui said:
LOL, I just realised I have an ORIGINAL Ad-Lib sound card... I think it was the first PC sound card made.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Adlib.jpg/744px-Adlib.jpg

Anyway, I might have a Slot1 CPU kicking around, I'll have a look-see.

Wow. I remember OPL2 (The Yamaha IC.) Wiki has a sample.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM3812 (click play on the right)

Direct link https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/PEHMOPOP.ogg

stinger608 · Nov 17, 2011

Luciel said:
For the record...

I had (still have actuall) a P1-MMX 233Mhz with a Voodoo 2 12Mb, 64mb ram and it run Quake 3 no problems, hell it even ran Half Life : )

qubit said:
That's awesome. There's a thread on here somewhere for classic hardware and you've got the perfect candidate!

I had a quick search in the hardware section but couldn't find it, so if anyone can, please post a link here.

And that thread would be here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108251

Cuzza · Nov 17, 2011

omg man you have to get a golden orb to cool the cpu

I will hate you if you don't

Mussels · Nov 17, 2011

Cuzza said:
omg man you have to get a golden orb to cool the cpu

http://www.dansdata.com/images/coolers/seccorb320.jpg

I will hate you if you don't

i had one of those on my tualatin!

Athlon2K15 · Nov 17, 2011

i have about 100 sticks of PC133 if your interested,must take it all though

caleb · Nov 17, 2011

That orb can't beat the Dell Precision cooler for DUAL SLOT1 board.
PS. Built quality of that Dell is very nice, video has an additional support on that case bar and they even added molex caps lol. That PC had a LCD screen with it. Must have been a lot of $$$.

TRWOV · Nov 17, 2011

Cuzza said:
omg man you have to get a golden orb to cool the cpu

http://www.dansdata.com/images/coolers/seccorb320.jpg

I will hate you if you don't

Where could I get one? :respect:

Cuzza · Nov 17, 2011

ebay perhaps, but I just did a search and found nothing. Time to start asking around and grovelling on forums, someone will have one somewhere.

I have two of them:

- one has been modded to fit my ATI 9800SE (this one was perfect for you and I wrecked it!)
(see this thread)

- the other one unfortunately is for AMD slot-A. You might be able to mod it to fit, but probably tricky. Here are some pix for you:

t_ski · Nov 17, 2011

I modded my S370 Golden Orb to fit a video card, but I can't remember which one.

Anyway, I saw this today and thought of this thread:

http://www.thinkcomputers.org/3dfx-graphic-cards-history/

MilkyWay · Nov 21, 2011

Hows the build going?

TRWOV · Nov 21, 2011

Not much has happened. Dude is going to be back on Wednesday so I think i'll pick up the board next weekend. I'll use my PII 350 for testing as I've haven't found a PIII, just a bunch of Celerons.

About the CM360, according to the purchase status it hasn't even arrived at the shop so that's still on hold too.

In the mean time I'll go an pickup a Logitech keyb/mouse combo that I saw in the newspaper and I'm going to OfficeDeport to have them make a mouse pad with this image:

MilkyWay · Nov 21, 2011

That should make a nice mouse mat.

maleficarus · Nov 21, 2011

Very nice! Ironically I had the exact same motherboard and amount of memory. Only difference is I used WinME instead of 98SE. Make sure you find the right Via 4-in-1's to use for that motherboard. It was a crap shoot if I recall...

TRWOV · Nov 22, 2011

Picked up this for the build:

Cheap, effective and had a discount

maleficarus said:
Very nice! Ironically I had the exact same motherboard and amount of memory. Only difference is I used WinME instead of 98SE. Make sure you find the right Via 4-in-1's to use for that motherboard. It was a crap shoot if I recall...

At the time I used to have a Matsonic board with some SiS chipset (635?), a P3 Katmai 450Mhz and the 5500 was the last card I got for that rig. In fact my sister still uses it as a POS.

As for the drivers, according to Via, the 4.35 4in1 should work.

TRWOV · Dec 2, 2011

Sorry for the lack of updates but my old Canon Powershot A430 finally bit the dust and have yet to replace it. I picked up the board this weekend but it doesn't have the retention mechanism for the CPU. Considering that the case is going to be lying down in a desktop configuration, how bad would it be to keep the CPU plugged that way?

I have yet to test it, there are lots of work and the case hasn't arrived at the shop.

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Dec 5, 2011

I have a golden orb in its original tt box If the op wants it just pm me. Also with win 98 256 is the max mem you want to use. But it is happier with 128 mb Trust me I do know from lots of experience. Remember Win xp 32 bit is quiet happy with only 512 mb and alot of system manufacturers of the day shipped it out with only 256 mb Also if you can move away from the isa soundcard I have a real treat for you. I have Aureal Vortex2 SQ 2500.

Cuzza said:
omg man you have to get a golden orb to cool the cpu

http://www.dansdata.com/images/coolers/seccorb320.jpg

I will hate you if you don't

MilkyWay · Dec 10, 2011

MilkyWay · Jan 3, 2012

What happened to the build? Is it indefinitely postponed?

TRWOV · Jan 3, 2012

I haven't secured the case. I cancelled the order I had put with the shop since they haven't got it in a month. They tell me that they have requested re-stocking but apparently the importer hasn't got any.

TRWOV · Jan 14, 2012

I think I found a Pentium III...

Found this at a flea market:

Looking at pictures on Google, I think it's a PIII. I don't know if it works, hopefully the heatsink was removed to sell it at the scrape yard. *prays*

I also can't identify the RAM manufacturer, never seen that "S" logo before. The sticker says that it's PC133 though.

About the case, I finally found another shop that has it but with no PSU. Doesn't matter as I'll need an SFX PSU to make the Voodoo fit. There should be progress this month. Stay tuned. :pimp:

_JP_ · Jan 15, 2012

TRWOV said:
Looking at pictures on Google, I think it's a PIII.

Yeah, Tom's hardware sees to agree.

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Case	Fractal Design Arc Mini 6x120mm fans.
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Zalman 750w
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Case	Corsair Air 540
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Rise from your grave! The 3dfx re-build

Luciel

Red_Machine

TRWOV

Goodman

Lazzer408

stinger608

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Cuzza

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

Athlon2K15

HyperVtX™

caleb

TRWOV

Cuzza

t_ski

Former Staff

MilkyWay

TRWOV

MilkyWay

maleficarus

New Member

TRWOV

TRWOV

ThE_MaD_ShOt

MilkyWay

MilkyWay

TRWOV

TRWOV

_JP_

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Storage	64GB SSD Super Talent
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Case	POS!
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