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Going retro gaming with 3DFX
12.05.12 at 14:14:04

Hey guys,

I recently purchased a really retro setup, to play 3DFX games in win2k or win98se.

I found an , with an AMD-K6-2+ 475Mhz, which ofcourse I overclocked to 550Mhz

The rig is currently setup with this:

MOBO Asus P5A
CPU AMD-K6-2+ @ 550Mhz
RAM384MB PC133
GPUKyro II 64MB
3DFXDiamond Monster 3DII 12MB SLI
HDDMaxtor 80GB ATA133
DVDLG 16x dvd-rom

Will be making a dual boot, 98SE and win2k, see what is better gaming

For fun I will sometimes put in a Voodoo3, or banshee.

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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batracio Junior Member Offline An evil petting zoo? Posts: 69 Spain Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #1 - 12.05.12 at 19:02:55 K6-2+ / Kyro II: Bad match for an all-around retro rig, IMHO. No HW T&L and weak SW T&L, but it's OK for 3dfx games.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #2 - 14.05.12 at 07:39:06 that's the only kinda games I'll be playing on this rig....just for nostalgic reasons. But I can always swap out the Kyro II for a Rage Fury MAXX. I don't have too many agp 2x cards, let alone 1x.
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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #3 - 28.05.12 at 03:37:58

batracio wrote on 12.05.12 at 19:02:55:

K6-2+ / Kyro II: Bad match for an all-around retro rig, IMHO. No HW T&L and weak SW T&L, but it's OK for 3dfx games.

Dunno bout kyro, but K6-2(3) is awesome for retro stuff. Windows 98 literally flies with it. Disable cache and u get 486 DX40. Whats more retro than that?

Also, practically all 3dfx games will work on it too, even if not @ best possible framerates.

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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #5 - 11.06.12 at 12:55:07 I game my retro rig an upgrade, videocard is now V5 5500 AGP. A bit overkill for this rig, but hey......I paid 17 euros for the card, so a steal in my opinion.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #6 - 20.06.12 at 08:08:10 I reverted back to the voodoo 2 SLI on this setup, the V5 was overkill. Since I still had some hardware, just not the mobo, I got a really cheap asus A7v333-x for the 5500AGP. Combined with a 2500+ barton and 1GB DDR400LL 2-2-2-5, this will be a nice rig for the 5500AGP.
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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #7 - 26.06.12 at 08:07:59

well don't I feel stupid

The A7V333-x has an agp Pro slot which can only deliver 1.5V and the notch is also on the wrong side for agp 2x Sad

But I found someone on tweakers who's parting with their old setup for the shipping costs, so.....new rig is as follows:

Asus A7M266-D
2 x Athlon MP2000+
2 x 1GB PC2100
3DFX Voodoo5 5500
WD 120GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300

Will be making it a dualboot, as it will also serve as a backup server in my little domain, so if I decide to play a game on it, it will not be a problem.

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #8 - 26.06.12 at 13:34:26 Nice setup for shipping costs
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #9 - 26.06.12 at 14:32:43 I don't actually get that whole system, the parts I get for shipping costs, are the motherboard, cpu's, coolers and ram. but still nice
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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #10 - 27.06.12 at 15:45:58

Absolutely ! Lovely system !

I'm planning to upgrade mine to a more extreme level by adding a second 400GB IDE hard drive to ^put both of them in RAID, and adding IDE SSD's.

I also have a wicked set of Geil DDR550 modules (2x 512MB) that I tend to put to use by switching the XP3200 to the very overclockable Barton 2500 and see how far I can stretch it.

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Retro gaming rig: V5 5500 AGP on MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU, XP3200+, 1.5GB DDR, Aureal Vortex SQ2500 sound (A3D !!), 400GB IDE

Main game rig: FX8350 @ 8x4.7Ghz, 2x GTX580 Matrix SLI

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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #11 - 29.06.12 at 11:45:25

yeah, I have some DDR550 as well, from GSkill, with the famous Samsung TCCD chips on them.
maybe if 1GB will be enough I will use them, but seems like a bit of a waste on this mobo, since officially it only supports 266Mhz fsb (can overclock to 333Mhz if cooled sufficiently)

I have 2 XP2500+ barton's, I'll try and make MP's outta them and unlock the multipliers.

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #12 - 29.06.12 at 21:05:11

ultima wrote on 29.06.12 at 11:45:25:

yeah, I have some DDR550 as well, from GSkill, with the famous Samsung TCCD chips on them.
maybe if 1GB will be enough I will use them, but seems like a bit of a waste on this mobo, since officially it only supports 266Mhz fsb (can overclock to 333Mhz if cooled sufficiently)

I have 2 XP2500+ barton's, I'll try and make MP's outta them and unlock the multipliers.

Me I'm in the search of a good Epox board with all the features such as RAID etc. Hoping to get an high overclock ... But that's for the future for now, have been buying too much retro stuff lately Cheesy

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Retro gaming rig: V5 5500 AGP on MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU, XP3200+, 1.5GB DDR, Aureal Vortex SQ2500 sound (A3D !!), 400GB IDE

Main game rig: FX8350 @ 8x4.7Ghz, 2x GTX580 Matrix SLI

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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #13 - 29.06.12 at 21:31:22 Not tried overclocking my epox, cant be asked to get my 2500 barton out of my msi board and the 2700 is underclocked on standard settings at the moment. Nice board though.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #14 - 29.06.12 at 22:04:05 I received the package today, and took the coolers off, they are not MP2000+'s, they are modded XP's But I think I will be getting XP2400+'s somewhere, with T-bred B core, unlock those and use them I did some reading up and this board seems to be stable in most cases up to 150Mhz fsb.
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