Hi all


Here a new Dual P3 project of mine which will involve a PC Flashed 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh as main VGA and an AWE64 Gold! as sound card with two Intel Pentium!!!/S 1400Mhz CPU's each with 512KB L2 Cache

I just bought the following parts for this project

The Motherboard + 1x P3/S 1400Mhz with HSF new from old stock:

SuperMicro P3TDLE + Intel Pentium!!!/S 1400Mhz SL6BY With HSF:
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/151016626063?ssPa…984.m1497.l2649
http://www.supermicro.com/products/mothe…3/le/p3tdle.cfm


Official pics from the Seller.

1x Intel Pentium!!!/S 1400Mhz SL6BY CPU:
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/110541157747?ssPa…984.m1497.l2649

Don't worry I only took one of these, since the Mobo I bought comes with one also

2x Thermaltake Golden Orb for Socket 370 new from old Stock Boxed:
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/130615851147?ssPa…984.m1497.l2649


Grabbed two of these, great air coolers for any P3 CPU

The other parts I have for this beauty are these

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh with PC Bios 1.18_LCD:
Top:


Rear:


Headshot:


Creative Labs CT4540 AWE64 Gold! Second Revision:
Top:


Rear:


Headshot:


here the name and final specs of this build:

Sveta SMP 2001

Dual Intel Pentium!!!/S Tualatin 1400Mhz Server CPU's
Supermicro P3TDLE with Serverworks Serverset III LE Chipset
4x 512MB PC-133 ECC Reg. HP/Micron Server Ram , 4x 1024MB PC-133 ECC Reg. HP/Micron as later upgrade.
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh PC-Flashed to Bios 1.18_LCD & Modded to 2x 128MB 166Mhz ISSI SDRAM by Loschwerg from Voodooalert.de.
Creative Labs CT4540 AWE64 Gold! ISA 8MB
1x Samsung 1.44MB Floppy Drive
1x Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB 7200rpm HDD
Addtronics 6896A Entry Level Server Tower
Enermax EG 565 VE PSU
Compaq S710 Max Reso: 1280 x 1024 x32 @ 60 herz, Advised Reso: 1024 x 768 x32 @ 85 Herz.

Windows 2000 Professional UK + Service Pack4
AmigaMerlin 3.1 R1
AmigaMerlin 3.1 R6
AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11as main stability driver.

Here some other milestone projects that were achieved by Komponent @ Falconfly.de:

The group-buy of 16Mb chips for VSA100 based cards:
(Contains some nice infos)
http://www.falconfly.de/c...YaBB.pl?num=1220381997

Voodoo4 4500 AGP 64MB:
http://www.falconfly.de/c...YaBB.pl?num=1145604124

Voodoo4 4500 PCI 64MB:
http://www.falconfly.de/c...YaBB.pl?num=1223587794

Voodoo4 4500 AGP 128MB:
http://www.falconfly.de/c...YaBB.pl?num=1232877537

Voodoo5 5500 AGP 128MB:
http://www.falconfly.de/c...YaBB.pl?num=1223002040

Voodoo5 5500 PCI 128MB:
http://www.falconfly.de/c...YaBB.pl?num=1364630437

So I wanna be the first to have a PC Flashed 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macntosh 256MB
 
Anyways I'll keep this thread updated as I progress this oldie, that V5 upgrade will take place sometime later, but it is possible, after all the other VRAM upgrade experiments we had @ Voodooalert.de, this one is the first V5 Mod with 2x 128MB VRAM, but we know it is possible, so I am volunteering my V5 PCI for this awesome mod

Many thanks Zophar :)
Well I really love Retro hardware, the quality of the hardware is also lots and lots better than today's hardware, the mainboard is made in Taiwan under Supermicro's strict regulations and quality checks.
 
Just due to the Made in China stuff we get these days, the parts might be of high grade, but the labor used on these parts is just terrible, mainly the quality of the solder used, is of very awful quality, all them GeForce cards that land in the ovens for example, I never had this with any of my 3dfx cards,as they were all made in Mexico or USA.
 
Due to such things and the interests that lay around them, I always tend to lean forward to these oldies as they always have proved me of a very reliable and fun experiences.
 
This system will be mainly used for my Descent 3 Scored games which I fly for Gold Phoenix Guard, my squad at Descent Rangers which you can see here:
http://descentrangers.com...48f6-a7b5-a16800ce4ff6
 
Since the Voodoo5 5500 is made to render D3 in Glide 3.54b the extra VRAM Mod on the V5 will allow me to run the game without issues @ 1600 x 1200 even with FSAA x2 enabled.
 
But yaps sorry for all the pro retro hardware there I am after all a Retro gamer, this system will be very well suited for any Descent type game , that's for sure
 
I will make a video of the system once build, the Compaw S710 17" CRT arrived today haah always a pride to receive sucha  nice piece of retroness! 1024 x 768 x32 @ 85 Herz, just lovely. It's a temporal solution for now, until I get my hands on a 22" EIZO or Sony Flatron CRT, that is where the real fun shall begin These babies do 2048 x 1536 x32 @ 87 to 107 herz  hehe and have similar image quality to a high quality S-PVA panel, major advantage is that a CRT has a limitless view angle, I still find that CRT's have better image quality that TFT's heh.

very awesome nostalgic build Gold Leader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Makes me think back to when I had 2x Voodoo2's (8mb cards) joined together for a powerful 16mb of video ram - least I think it was the voodoo 2, its been so long lol.
Also had a Pentium 2 300mhz, that had a jumper on the mobo that let you OC it 450mhz.. the good old days lol.
 
Looks fun, Good luck Gold Leader.

Made me laugh a bit when I saw that old 16 bit PCI slot on the end of the motherboard.

Please tell me that you are putting this in a beige case.

Update

Just bought an 19" Iiyama Vision Master Pro 452 for just 5 Euro!!! 
It does 1600 x 1200 x32 @ 76 Herz 
 
This is the Monitor I bought for this retro Duallie
http://britaincloud.co.uk...on-master-pro-452.html
Here a pic of the one I bought:

Pic is from the seller I got it from