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Rise from your grave! The 3dfx re-build

would an 8GB HDD be enough for this build? I'm going to put a 750GB disk in my Xbox 1 so the 8GB one will need a new home.

The Mad Shot offered an Orb cooler but his is for SECC CPUs. The P3 I found is SECC2.
 
Finally a desktop that can run Angry Birds on max settings! Been waiting years for one of these
 
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
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I have that exact cooler new in the retail box. But unfortantly it won't work with his proc. Mine works with the slot A and early Slot1's. He needs a cooler that had the four post for mounting. But there might be hope yet. I may have stumbled across a cooler for him. I just have to wait until my newest lot I bought come in (there's a slot 1 proc and motherboard in there) I am also doing a old school build but I am going a total different direction.
 
Case is here :rockout: Pics until weekend when my sister returns my camera.

Almost final specs:

Pentium II 350Mhz (for the time being until I get a cooler for the bare P3 I got)
Chaintech CT-6VTA2
384MB PC133 RAM (3x128)
Soundblaster 16 ISA
Voodoo 5500 AGP
Cooler Master Elite 360
el-cheapo 550w SFX PSU (will upgrade to an SPI/FSP 250w SFX as soon as I can)
8GB IDE HDD??? (Xbox 1 HDD)
Pioneer DVD-R IDE drive
Samsung Syncmaster 793v
Logitech Desktop MK120
 
Pictures:

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It's finally coming together :rockout:
 
Now all you need is a nice CRT to go with it 1024x768 sucks on modern screens
 
If you keep this up, I am going to rebuild my old Pentium 3.
 
Found a couple of Fujitsu IDE ATA 100 drives at the flea market

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All set. Let the building begin!
 
TRWOV said:
Found a couple of Fujitsu IDE ATA 100 drives at the flea market
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Are they good? As in, no dead sectors. Those should have S.M.A.R.T. already.
 
Don't know. Heck, I don't know if any stuff still works. I'll have to find out.
 
This build is just freaking epic! :rockout: :rockout:
 
Sub'd:toast:
 
Pics:

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The case seems to be big enough, unfortunately the bottom fan would block access to the ISA slot so I had to remove it.

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Installing the PSU

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Fitting the 5500
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Installing the drives
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Quite a mess, isn't it? I'll have to get some round cables
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There's some potential for cable management; I'll get it done after testing
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Finished looks
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I'll go get the monitor and test it *crosses fingers*
 
Can't wait to see it finished. Amazing, the size of that card and what it could do compared to what we have now!
 
Great job!:rockout:
About cable-management, 90% of computers at that time didn't have it and with the extra fans you've installed, airflow won't be a problem 'cause that system ain't gonna heat up much. :p
I want that chassis but it's so damn hard to find it here.
Just noticed this on the motherboard:
"Year 2000 compliant"
:roll:
 
IT'S ALIVE!!!!!

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As the faint aroma of dust and ozone slowly rises into the air....

Our hero warms up, slowly awakens and says:

Give me my Windows!!! :D

:toast:
 
Good work there. I made it as far as loading win98se, the chipset drivers,video and sound drivers last night.
 
The HDD is taking forever to format. I think it's because of the 40wire IDE cable but I didn't have anything else at hand :banghead:

I had thought that it was bad as it stayed at 2% for like 10 minutes. This is going to take a while. At least it works.


Planned upgrades:
- Startech 7 port USB 2 PCI card. Has an internal header that will come in handy as the motherboard doesn't have any.
http://intrl.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/USB-2/Card/7-Port-PCI-USB-Card-Adapter~PCIUSB7

- Blue round IDE & floppy cables

- Blue heatsinks for the RAM

- A couple of Zalman ZM-NBF47 for the 5500 GPUs along with copper heatsinks for the RAM chips
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/Product_Read.asp?idx=133

- Misc heatsinks for the chips (NB, SB, MOSFETs, etc)

- Replacement retention brackets for the CPU



EDIT:
I think the HDD has some bad sectors, it took forever to get to 10%, then got to 43% in a few minutes and went back to a crawl. 45% as of this post.
 
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Oh hell I did the quick format on mine as I have no patience to sit there for an hour or so waiting for a drive to format.
 
85% :banghead: Should have done this overnight.


EDIT: FINALLY!!!

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