Hello all


Here a new rebuild and cleanup I did the entire day to 3AM in the morning
It's that AthlonXP 2700+ I used to use during my 3dfx days and it's also this system I ran the Legendary Voodoo5 5000 AGP's PCI and 6000 AGP in as well.
The 6000 AGP was used in an other mainboard though, the EPoX EP-8K3A+ that was, I still seek one of these, so if anyone can help me, please send me a PM

This system was used by my uncle Herman, since he ahd a stroke not so long ago, he could not use the computer anymore and he wanted me to have it back
So I took this wonderful opportunity and thereby planned to make it reborn as my die hard 3dfx Voodoo5 gaming PC

But now this system is back in it's full self again, fully restored and renovated all the parts are like new as well, the operating system of choice is the obvious one I always loved using:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional UK + Service Pack 4, this OS is super stable with this setup as with the 8K3A+ as well, it does what I need it to do, and that makes it complete

So here the pics I Made as I went along with this fun project

Sveta-2002 before Treatment it looked utterly gross and needed an urgent vital cleanup, ewww


It also only had 1x 1GB Kingston Hyper X PC-3200 good I Kept my 1x 1GB Corsair XMS Platinum PC-3200 module, so now is has 2x 1GB


That awkward fan mounting I did years ago, my gawd I removed that crap cries


Le Heatsink iz Le Gross


Here that chanceless CPU fan, Man oh man! I removed this senseless blue fan thing


Here the cleaned heatsink Nais and shineeezz Dat V5 Doh


My AMD AthlonXP 2700+ Thoroughbred-B @ 2167Mhz and an L2 of 256KB, this used to be my dad's CPU as he bought it with his desktop during a PC Prive Project via Recontec B, hos old job.


For the ones that don't have a manual and want to remember our the IO Panel is connected, Just make a picture of your current settings , this helped me remember


Here I started work on the SB Audigy 2 Live Drive:


Never mind the bent stuff if it works why fix it  It's been like that since 2002, so norries there, I just cleaned it


Here the SB Audigy 2 Platinum + Live Drive after Treatment.


Like new again  The Audigy 2 is a good card still even today, it's not as good as the X-Fi but still does a decent job for music and games.


Here a card I bought from Maktek from Voodooalert.de, I still have his old card, here it is after I cleaned him up


Headshot of this beauty


As you can see it's a Rev.A 2500 Final Revision, Week 25, Year 2000, this card is almost 16 years old rofl


And still it looks good, no wear nothing, cleaning hardware makes it live the longest


And here the network card I use a Realtek, it has a massive E-prom Socket as well, dunno what that is for tho.

 
That were all the parts separately here all the parts cleaned for the 3dfx PC, there was also a Leadtek A400 AGP 128MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A 0428 (Final Revision, Year 2004, Week 28.) as well which I also cleaned, so here the pics of that before I Continue with the rest of the build.
I cleaned this GeForce 6800 AGP 128MB DDR for my VGA card collection, it just looks cool and it too needed a good cleanup

Here the Leadtek A400 before treatment, I seen worse but I did it so it looks nicer in my collection of clean VGA cards


Here I cleaned the plastic shroud parts of the HSF with Hot water and Dreft Dish Washing Soap:


And here a cleaned A400 AGP , like new again


Here a nice angled shot I took of this nice card


Here a closeup of it's NV40 GPU.
This GPU has 12 Pixel Shaders and 5 Vertex Shaders, it's not like the GT, Ultra or Ultra Extreme that have 16 Pixel Shaders and 6 Vertex Shaders, this one has a laser cut die


Here the A400 ready for reassembly:


And a clean other side as well:


When mounting the heatsink to the GPU make sure those four holes align with the long sticking out screws on the PCB:


These spring screws hold the entire thing together


And here the cleaned result:


This Leadtek A400 AGP 120MB DDR looks like new again! Not many make VGA coolers as many used to huh


Cleaned rear side. all that copper, wheee


And nice Leadtek logo shot:


Here a nice headshot I made of this beautiful GeForce 6800 AGP 128MB


And back to that AthlonXP 2700+ system

Here all the main parts in a cleaned up state, CPU, System Ram, Mobo, VGA, Sound & Network Card:


Here at an angled show, all these parts look kind of like new to some point 


Here I did a test fit setup, of what it might be like:


Doing this gives me a first impression of how it will look like, before reassembly of the entire system


I just used an old Dell laptop box, just make sure you have a cardboard underground thereby avoiding damage to the underside of the mainboard.


Here a final shot, it is kind of art to some sense as well 

 
After all the parts I Started to work further on the Case, the NEC Floppy Drive & NEC DVD Rewriter the Seagate Baracuda V 120GB 7200.7 rpm ATA-133 HDD and the HIPRO 300 Watt PSU.

Here the cleaned case:


Here an other angle of this UBER cleaned case


Here the IO Drives cleaned up ready for system reassembly


The AMD AthlonXP 2700+ is applied with Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound, I use this stuff for almost everything, never had an issue with it yet Yeee


And here it is the entire system completed renovated like new again, Okay I did forget some dust on that CPU fan lel, whaps!


Might be weathering lel, but yeah for the rest this system is lovely


Here an undershot I took when I crouched on the floor, then made this cool shot


I remained crouched to make this closeup of the V5:


And there ya have it, all neatly built in and clean looking  Now it can last a few more years I am hoping xD


And here the final shot I made before I went to install Win2K Pro + SP4


Anyways I hope you all enjoyed my little 3dfx comeback here , this was very good exercise as well 

rjohnson11
Great work and love those old nostalgic parts. 

Many thanks for your kind replay and that 43rd Blue Ribbon ans Yaaaasssh I love this PC it has nostalgic and Legendary 3dfx memories when I was very active within the 3dfx communities and it seems I am returning to those good old days once again
 
Also I will try to re-obtain a3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700 and hopefully a 50000 AGP & PCI as well, many plans are upcoming and this feels very good too

XrayMan
 
That case looks like the older style. Nice rig nonetheless.        =)

Hey XrayMan  thanks for the reply as old style goes, that is the idea, even though I love clean hardware no matter what the age of the hardware is
Clean hardware always lasts the longest
 
Well here some raw numbers as performance goes as we both know the 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP has two VSA-100 Rasterizers, these are Pre-GPU's.
All because they lack having T&L aka Transformation & Lighting, so @ the 3dfx community we name them Rasterizers

What I did today was run DXX-Rebith 0.58.1 + D1X Rero 1.3 with Descent 1 @ 1024 x 768 x32 max settings + Colored Lighting.
I used driver SFFT Alpha 41 Modified by ex 3dfx Driver Developer ps47, this driver has OpenGL ES 1.2 support.

And this driver can be used in Win98 SE, Win2K Pro & WinXP Pro. so that being you can go all ways with it, which is ideal if you are using 3dfx Voodoo4 or 5 Engineering Samples and you want to test Rebirth on those as well.
Single chip the Voodoo5 5500 AGP @ 1024 x 768 x32 maxed out does 70 fps and in Dual Chip mode it does 134 fps ! that is over 94% boost in speed, 3dfx SLI still works!

Even in a game that uses OpenGL ES 1.2 an API that did not even exist when the Voodoo5 hit the market!
This means that SFFT Alpha 41 modified by ps47 was very well fine tuned.

Anyways the Voodoo5 6000 does min max 200fps even at 1600 x 1200, but that is the glory of4x 3dfx VSA0100's in Quad SLI hehe.
like the Voodoo5 5500, the Voodoo5 6000 also runs cores/mem 167Mhz

I will make a video of the V5 5500 AGP in action

This system is getting a sweet little upgrade , a the motherboard goes :)

Behold the Legendary EpoX EP-8K3A+ Rev 1.2   8)

Top View + Retention Bracket


Top view  only board:


Rear view:


Northbridge Heatskink + New Capacitors closeup


Debug Leds


Headshot


Major thanks for Daywhite_81 for helping me out for that mobo :)
 
The EPoX EP-8K3A+ is the best motherboard with the VIA Apollo KT333 Chipset that can be used with all six revisions of the 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Engineering Samples
which are the following cards:

3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A0 0700 + Comdex 2x2 Dummy board



3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A1 1500



3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A2 2600



3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A3 3400



3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700



3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3900


 
Stay tuned for more

Hey all :)
 
Today I have built in the EPoX EP-8KTA3+ Rev 1.2 in the system :)
That went fine as you can see here:
 
Here the Motherboard neatly built in:

 
Here from a different perspective:

 
Here I Zoomed in a bit just showing the Mobo and all the cards neatly in place:

 
Here I took a shot showing the V5's fans and the other cards from the other side:

 
Here the front view of Sveta-2002:

 
And the back panel:

 
Until this happened xDD

 
All in all, Win2K Pro USA + SP4 & RU1 for SP4 is installed and all is running great 
 
After this I fixed the Floppy it was connected correctly only the Onboard FDC was disabled, FDC short for Floppy Disk Controller.　
As for that no 80 pin Flat Cable issue, the one I use now for my HDD seems to be 40 pins, so I need to get 80pins to replace that.
Secondly a new case & PSU will also be purchased to give this system a new home, a new look and better airflow is also welcome.
All that with Blue & Yellow 30cm CCFL' s from Sharkoon for the fancy finishing touch.
 
This will be a new PC with a retro insides, the Case will be a Lian Li PC-7HWX 　
Stay tuned for lots more on this upgrade.
 
Now I am enjoying DXX-Rebirth 0.58.1 with a fix for Win2K Users my Voodoo5 5500 AGP does 92 to 140 fps @ 1024 x 768 x32 maxed out settings :)
You can see the V5 5500 AGP in running D1X-Rebirth 0.58.1 under Win2K here:

 
Feels like home again playing on this system
Here that topic where I got the fix from :)
http://www.dxx-rebirth.co...msg22073.html#msg22073

If you disable the Floppy disk controller in the BIOs then you should not get the error. Unless of course you want it connected. 

Hey all :)
 
First off many thanks for the kind replies, I have fixed the problem, rjohnson11, thanks for the tip as I did do that actually, but indeed as the Floppy Disk Controller  in the Bios was disabled, the device it's self was connected correctly, just one of those either this or that situations
Also I have renewed the CMOS Battery and now it shows a neat 3.18-3.20 Volts over 2.76 Volts


After running Unreal + Return to Na Pali + Final Release Patch 2.26 with 3dfx Glide API + Rotated Grid Super Sampled FSAA x4, here some wonderful screenshots I made along the way

The Crashed Vortex Rikers Prison ship!


Vortex Rikers NC114-85EKLS


The lovely lake down there xD


How these Tyderium Crystals were made was pretty awesome for it's day they even gave a certain Glow Flow effect, was really neat :)


Tyderium Crystals also give a very cool blue glow effect


Here I was able to screenshot that flowing effect, which caused a flow effect on the flow as it radiated it's glow:


One of my faved maps in the game Map 06 - Temple of Chizra:


This room was also nice, lovely lighting effects as well:


Unreal has a very ambient yet atmospheric feel to it, not many games achieved this, which makes Unreal unique:


A Portal which takes you back to the place where you can go to Map 07 -Temple of Chizra Ceremonial:


Level design was very nice as were details on certain surfaces like that door down there :)


A Room with Lava, the orange mist was done to simulate the heat coming from the lava also how the lava glow lights up this room, as being the main light source, that too was a good idea :)


Here my final resting point a secret room a safe room in general :)


All in all Unreal is still amazing even to this very day , this game is a good 18 years old now but still  just by playing it again, it's still one of the best single player game ever made :)
I will gladly make more screenshots as I play this and I will keep you posted :)

rjohnson11
This is so cool. Just love that old tech. 

Many thanks , I will keep this topic posted :)