Here are the system's specs according to CPUZ:

Here's the Quake III performance:

Here's the Blender test result: (2 X 2.0GHz P4 Xeons with hyper-threading enabled)

Wonder how possible a 603 mobo with a 604 processor is.

Apparently 604 went all the way to 6 cores? Is that right?

The best AGP socket 604/603 board the Asus NCCH-dl works with Gallatin/MP, Prestonia, Nocona and Irwindale.
The Supermicro P4DC6+ works with Foster/MP, Prestonia400FSB and Gallatin MP.

From my experience there is very few boards that supports the core based six cores

Sphere478 wrote on 2024-05-31, 16:04:

Wonder how possible a 603 mobo with a 604 processor is.

Apparently 604 went all the way to 6 cores? Is that right?

Would 603 boards for only 2 sockets make sense? IIRC Xeon DP was 604 and MP was 603.

Edit: apparently I forgot the subject of this thread 🤣

I've just assembled my Dual P4 Xeon Voodoo5 RAMBUS system! (This thing is large heavy and LOUD!!!)

The Voodoo5 5500 at least has a home now! (This system will receive future upgrades in time to come, but at least it's built!)

With the SC5300' there is a perfect space for the motherboard and plenty of space in the front for drive cages and the like!

This system is running the Voodoo5 5500 PCI graphics card in order to free up the AGP slot so that I can use it to flash AGP cards for Mac in the future!

Here's what the system looks like when it's all closed up: (Just look at the length of this thing!!! 😀 )

Irinikus wrote on 2024-08-20, 11:22:

I've just assembled my Dual P4 Xeon Voodoo5 RAMBUS system! (This thing is large heavy and LOUD!!!)

You have a really special way of spelling "cool and sexy" 🤣

Several years ago I built dual soc 604 system. The board had miniPCI slot like yours but I used it for wifi instead 😀

My dual soc604 build!

I've just managed to do something interesting with this machine, as I now have the Voodoo5 5500 running together with an Nvidia GT430 (The fastest PCI graphics card available by ZOTAC) The only downside is that I've had to plug the Voodoo5 into a standard 33MHz slot in order to give the GT430 enough breathing room! So there is a slight penalty to performance on the Voodoo5!

In the future I'm going to see if I cant slot one of these into the AGP slot as well!!! (The fastest AGP card!)

This will make this system little bit more interesting!!!!

Paadam wrote on 2024-08-21, 05:29:

Several years ago I built dual soc 604 system. The board had miniPCI slot like yours but I used it for wifi instead 😀

My dual soc604 build!

Very nice build! 😀

I've just put some heatsinks on the VRM's FET's in preparation to fit a pair of 3GHz Gallatin's

I put the system through its paces with a Blender test, and with the enormous amount of airflow going through this chassis, the VRM remained super COOL! (Warm to the touch.)

It's still running a pair of 2GHz CPU's for now!

Interestingly the Voodoo5 5500's actually performing slightly better in the 33MHz PCI slot??? (Take note that I'm not running Quake 3 in an SMP mode at this point, just in case anyone asks!)

It was only doing 68FPS in the 66MHz slot when I first tested it!

It's so nice to be able to easily switch between the GT430 and the Voodoo5 within Windows XP to carry out direct comparisons between the two cards! Hopefully I'll also be able to get the Radeon HD 3850 AGP running as well (3DFX, Nvidia and ATI running together in a single system! 😀 )

I've neatened the system up a bit:

Here's the rear panel:

Here are the current system specs according to 3DMark 2001:

Here's the current GT430 result:

Here's the current Voodoo5 result:

Here's the current GT430 Quake 3 result:

Here are the latest results that I have for the GT430 with this machine still fitted with 2GHz CPU's (Can't wait to see the result when the 3GHz CPU's are installed!)

I'm actually pretty impressed by this result, considering that this is just a PCI card!

Here's it's latest Quake 3 score @ 1024x768 with Max settings and SMP enabled:

The main experiment here will be to see how this PCI card stacks up against the HD 3850 AGP card! (The Voodoo5 5500 is just along for the ride! 😀 )

Irinikus wrote on 2024-08-24, 17:06:

Here are the latest results that I have for the GT430 with this machine still fitted with 2GHz CPU's (Can't wait to see the result when the 3GHz CPU's are installed!)

With 3DMark2001 being highly CPU bound, I'm sure that upgrade won't disappoint you 😀

I've just done a bit of research on the HD3850 AGP card and it seems that the GT430's actually 2% faster!!! I'd however have to assume that this is the PCIe version. So it will indeed be interesting to see how these cards compare in this system with the 3GHz CPU's installed!

I ordered one of these this morning to house my IDE drive, as I eventually plan to have SCSI RAID 0, SATA RAID 0 and an IDE drive in this thing!!!

This is my plan as to how things are going to go together, at least for the SCSI RAID and IDE anyway:

It just so happened the the unit arrived today too: (Brand new in box!)

It's really cool that it has a flap which closes the slot when the drive sled is removed!

Drive fitted in sled:

Unit fitted in the machine: (edited)

A front view: (It actually looks rather COOL! )

When I initially tried to power it up, there was no power to the unit and I couldn't understand why???!!! (I spent about an hour trying to troubleshoot it, until I took a look at the manual and found that the KEY POSITIONS actually meant something!!!)

Note to self: JUST READ THE FRICKIN MANUAL IN FUTURE!!!