3dfx Archive - Who wants to help for fun?

Hammer

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Re: Who wants to help for fun?
Reply #30 - 22.10.04 at 20:17:12

Yes it was an amdk62 3d now and had built in video card....its toast...but I was just saying what it was to see if you knew if its a universal size mobo? ...and I appreciate all the help....I will also paste my origanal post here...

""Posted by: Hammer Posted on: Sep 28th, 2004, 11:36pm
I want to build a PC around a voodoo5 5500 card thats inexpensive for old glide gaming only, and multiplayer capable for online play...Dont particularly know the old games yet, but F16 to start....or if someone has a cheapy for sale?...

I have a tower with a shot mobo so I guess start me in the right direction?...lol
I have win 98 disc but not SE... ""

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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #31 - 23.10.04 at 00:29:19 Is it just the mobo that's "toast" and not the CPU? By the way, what is the speed of the AMD-K62? This would really help.
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Hammer

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Re: Who wants to help for fun?
Reply #32 - 23.10.04 at 01:31:34

Well I was told it was mobo by the guy I took it into to be fixed...I guess hes right...was only 400 meg...its like 7 years old...but arent the cpu's glued to the mobo's?

I guess just give me some ideas..I really am a cheapo...lol...dont want more than 200 bucks into this thing but wouild like at least 700 megahertz cpu....possible?

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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #33 - 23.10.04 at 10:00:21 Quote: ...dont want more than 200 bucks into this thing but wouild like at least 700 megahertz cpu....possible? So I take it that you don't want to keep your old CPU then? What whas the megahertz speed of your old CPU, before your mobo was "toast"?
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Hammer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #34 - 26.10.04 at 00:25:08 400 meg
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voodoo5500 Full Member Offline Proud 3dfx gamer Posts: 197 Canada Gender:	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #35 - 26.10.04 at 04:07:40 @hammer, Although the card could be run on such a slow cpu, thats not anywhere near the cpu speed required to realize the cards potential
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Hammer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #36 - 26.10.04 at 05:39:24 Well Im trying to figure out what to do now...get a bare bones setup or someone said why not use the Dell I have and partition with windows 98 for the use of the 5500....any ideas?...
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #37 - 26.10.04 at 15:14:22 I'll have some more info on this, tonight.
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janskjaer

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Re: Who wants to help for fun?
Reply #38 - 27.10.04 at 14:21:03

My girlfriend's old machine (which is my temporary 3dfx rig Roll Eyes

) has a SIS MB590 Motherboard, which is possibly similar to yours. It runs an Athlon K-6 3D2 @ 350MHz. It has the integrated 6326 AGP8M card too. And also has the CMI8738 integrated soundcard. Though I don't think my motherboard will support a 400MHz CPU like yours.

http://www.sybercom.com/sybercom.static/mb590.html

This motherboard is very old now, probably older than yours perhaps, but if you want a quick motherboard change, without changing any other components (CPU, memory, etc ...) you need to be acquiring an ATX form factor Super Socket 7 mobo. Have a look on ebay. You will pick one up dirt cheap.

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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #39 - 27.10.04 at 14:23:40 http://www.sybercom.com/sybercom.static/mb598.html Something like this should do the trick, and support your CPU, right upto 500MHz. So you could even overclock the CPU a little for extra power.
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Hammer

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Re: Who wants to help for fun?
Reply #40 - 27.10.04 at 19:16:05

well if I can get a 700-1gig speed processor bare bones setup brand new thats I guess the ultimate...would probably be easyer for me being a noob also...that way I could just install the windows 98 and the voodoo card and should be ready to go....any thought there janskjaer?...I saw a 1.2 gig somewhere other day for like 150 bucks brand new...but since I reformated last week I lost that link...LMAO....what a mess I am at present time...lol

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janskjaer

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Re: Who wants to help for fun?
Reply #41 - 27.10.04 at 19:20:46

Ham,

It depends at what level the barebones system will be at. Does it come with CPU, Memory, Hard Drive? Some barebones come with CPU and not memory, and some come with hard drive and no CPU, if you catch my drift?

Make sure it has all the necessary components. ... Oh, and a spare PCI slot for your V5 of course. Roll Eyes

Don't ignore buying a full tower, or a second hand machine you know that works. This will save you the hassle of putting the rig together yourself, which you are unable to do.

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Hammer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #42 - 27.10.04 at 21:07:43 Exactly what my thinking has been of late...I will keep you posted...also changed isp so struggling to get my connection better also....tired charter cable using USB port rather than ethernet....learned that aint a good idea ...so now installing ethernet card....lmao...never freakin ends with PC's!
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #43 - 27.10.04 at 21:38:37 Welcome to the world of PC's! You may think you own a PC, but sooner or later they end up owning you!
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VDX Ex Member	Re: Who wants to help for fun? Reply #44 - 30.10.04 at 02:23:27 In case you ever want a mobo again i just got one off ebay that looks pretty good, its a EPoX 8k3a+,,, it has via kt333 chipset and has 1x,2x,4x agp with 1.5 and 3.3v,,, anyways got it pretty cheap and has all the stuff it came with original
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