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Reply #510 - 08.02.09 at 04:24:57

Time to mix it up a little around here. I ended up with an extra low-profile mATX case and then....well....idle hands are the Devil's workshop Smiley

The end result is a one-of-a-kind low-profile Voodoo 4 HTPC connected to my 52" Sony LCD TV (via VGA port) for big screen 3Dfx gaming Grin

- Windows XP Pro
- PIII 1.4ghz Tualatin
- Gigibyte mATX Mobo (Intel 815 chipset)
- 512 mb PC133 SDRAM
- Evilking Voodoo 4 4500 L-shaped card (w/XFX low-profile bracket)
- Rosewell SATAI controller card
- Soyo USB 2.0 expansion card
- 160 GB SATA HD
- ASUS SATA DVD-RW
- Ydata 3.5" Floppy Drive/Card reader

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #511 - 08.02.09 at 06:02:31 Nice work!
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #512 - 08.02.09 at 13:36:50 Very nice home theater setup! I'm still running a Shuttle SFF PC for a HTPC, just could not find a HTPC case that had what I was looking for.
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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #513 - 08.02.09 at 20:30:50 Very nice Sigtau! I like your setup. @gdonovan - Have you seeng the Silverstone lineup of HTPC cases? They are sweet. Also, Coolermaster has some nice ones too. I am in the process of building an HTPC with a Coolermaster CM Media 282 case.
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Re: 3dfx pictures thread
Reply #514 - 09.02.09 at 01:57:39

Thanks for the compliments guys. It was a fun little project and ended up being a pretty cool rig for Glide gaming.

My real HTPC is on the lower left side of the photo. I searched high and low for a good HTPC case that didn't look like a cheap POS. I ended up dropping $460 on the Thermaltake DH102 case w/7" touch screen. The screen acts like a second monitor. It's a really nice looking case from the front and fits in very well with the rest of the AV gear I have. It's basically a $65 case with a $400 face on it. It's also the same width as normal AV equipment and it still allows a full ATX mobo to fit...barely. The case is very tight and I'm just finally getting the cooling set up right with it. To save cash, I ended up transplanting my main PC guts into this case. I'm running a Quad Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz (OC @ 3.0 ghz), nvidia 8800GTX, WD Velocirapter 300 GB, etc, etc in there and the temps are OK. Everything is running a little warmer than when I had the same parts in my Coolermaster CM690 case.

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Re: 3dfx pictures thread
Reply #515 - 09.02.09 at 20:27:17

sigtau wrote on 09.02.09 at 01:57:39:

... To save cash, I ended up transplanting my main PC guts into this case. I'm running a Quad Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz (OC @ 3.0 ghz), nvidia 8800GTX, WD Velocirapter 300 GB, etc, etc in there and the temps are OK. Everything is running a little warmer than when I had the same parts in my Coolermaster CM690 case. ...

Any chance you can slap a Voodoo5 5500 PCI in there and do some gaming benchmarks? Cheesy

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rottentreats God Member Offline 3dfx > Reality Posts: 616 Minnesota [USA] Gender:	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #516 - 14.02.09 at 02:12:19 Just got this in today. Perfect in every single way.
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Re: 3dfx pictures thread
Reply #517 - 14.02.09 at 14:13:32

razrx wrote on 08.02.09 at 20:30:50:

Very nice Sigtau! I like your setup.

@gdonovan - Have you seeng the Silverstone lineup of HTPC cases? They are sweet. Also, Coolermaster has some nice ones too. I am in the process of building an HTPC with a Coolermaster CM Media 282 case.

Some nice cases, just not in the budget.

Really, $300-$400 for a fancy desktop case? Ouch!

I did just pickup a small desktop case that just might do the job, have to do a bit more research though. The Shuttle SFF system I'm using now works fine, just a matter of esthetics.

Having enough CPU power to decode HDDVD or BR would be nice though...

Watch the snarky comments gents, I'll not have the thread reduced to a flame fest. again.

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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #518 - 15.02.09 at 16:36:10
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sigtau Junior Member Offline I'm Obsessed with 3Dfx!!! Posts: 86 Houston, TX USA Gender:	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #519 - 15.02.09 at 18:33:56 Nice collection Exxe!!! I forget, was it Epox that made the full sized ATX motherboard w/integrated Voodoo 3?
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #520 - 15.02.09 at 18:39:51 sigtau wrote on 15.02.09 at 18:33:56: Nice collection Exxe!!! I forget, was it Epox that made the full sized ATX motherboard w/integrated Voodoo 3? No. A-Trend Technology Corporation.
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #521 - 16.02.09 at 14:53:23 jip, A-Trend maybe somewhere are some prototypes from other manufacturers but for sale or only the fullATX A-Trend and the µATX MSI also i have a picture from a Banshee onboard......[/q
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #522 - 17.02.09 at 17:48:59 New employee information packet folder.
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #523 - 17.02.09 at 18:15:21 nice did you have two?
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 3dfx pictures thread Reply #524 - 17.02.09 at 19:45:56 exxe wrote on 17.02.09 at 18:15:21: nice did you have two? No, just the one.
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