I believe I found one of those rare mystery, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 333FSB HP/Compaq OEM cpu's. The fastest Athlon XP AMD ever produced. I had to pay a rather steep 50$ for it. If it actually turns out to be real when it arrives, Ill post pictures of it and how I found it 🤣. Its quite hilarious.

Also picked up a ATI 9600XT All-In-Wonder to go with the recent 9600XT Pairing. I didn't realize the 9600XT AIW is the only time the AIW stock clock speeds are higher than the Non-AIW counter part.

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-11-05, 14:23:

I believe I found one of those rare mystery, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 333FSB HP/Compaq OEM cpu's. The fastest Athlon XP AMD ever produced. I had to pay a rather steep 50$ for it. If it actually turns out to be real when it arrives, Ill post pictures of it and how I found it 🤣. Its quite hilarious.

Also picked up a ATI 9600XT All-In-Wonder to go with the recent 9600XT Pairing. I didn't realize the 9600XT AIW is the only time the AIW stock clock speeds are higher than the Non-AIW counter part.

Actually, it's not the fastest. The fastest was 3200/400

debs3759 wrote on 2024-11-05, 14:29:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-11-05, 14:23:

I believe I found one of those rare mystery, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 333FSB HP/Compaq OEM cpu's. The fastest Athlon XP AMD ever produced. I had to pay a rather steep 50$ for it. If it actually turns out to be real when it arrives, Ill post pictures of it and how I found it 🤣. Its quite hilarious.

Also picked up a ATI 9600XT All-In-Wonder to go with the recent 9600XT Pairing. I didn't realize the 9600XT AIW is the only time the AIW stock clock speeds are higher than the Non-AIW counter part.

Actually, it's not the fastest. The fastest was 3200/400

Fastest by MHz, I should say 😁, Also with it being almost a +6% increase in clock speed vs -17% FSB I'd be interested in doing some comparison between the two. Should be an interesting battle. However I don't have a 400FSB Cpu.

Bought this nice little ISA sound card: Formosa MPB-000050. It matches all the criteria: good DOS compatibility from what I read, ESS 1868F chip, wavetable connector, output can be configured as line out or speaker out, gameport can work for MIDI, IDE port if needed, and an interesting compact triangular design.

debs3759 wrote on 2024-11-05, 14:29:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-11-05, 14:23:

I believe I found one of those rare mystery, AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 333FSB HP/Compaq OEM cpu's. The fastest Athlon XP AMD ever produced. I had to pay a rather steep 50$ for it. If it actually turns out to be real when it arrives, Ill post pictures of it and how I found it 🤣. Its quite hilarious.

Also picked up a ATI 9600XT All-In-Wonder to go with the recent 9600XT Pairing. I didn't realize the 9600XT AIW is the only time the AIW stock clock speeds are higher than the Non-AIW counter part.

Actually, it's not the fastest. The fastest was 3200/400

I collest cpus and i dont have xp 3200/333 or 3200/400 cpus. Max i have is 3000+
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ – AXDA3000DKV4D Socket A
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ – AXDA3000DKV4E Socket A
AMD Sempron 3000+ – SDA3000DUT4D Socket A

Also did not know about AIW 9600XT core/mem clocks, that are higer than regular 9600XT. Still i think it does not matter if you oc your 9600XT, same cards. I have Sapphire ATi Radeon 9600XT (black pcb) with 2.8ns memory and easly it should go @ 350MHz ram, default clocks 500/300 and i dont oc usually at all.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/all-in- … er-9600-xt.c114
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-9600-xt.c30

myne wrote on 2024-11-05, 10:34:

I meant of the board

I have a photo of the back

mtest001 wrote on 2024-11-05, 15:00:

Bought this nice little ISA sound card: Formosa MPB-000050. It matches all the criteria: good DOS compatibility from what I read, ESS 1868F chip, wavetable connector, output can be configured as line out or speaker out, gameport can work for MIDI, IDE port if needed, and an interesting compact triangular design.

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ESS cards are indeed nice. I got a free 1869F from a chap I bought CRTs from, and it's amazing. I'm planning a K6-II+ build around it but have yet to decide on the GPU route.

I may follow a similar route... I am currently negotiating a K6-2+ to possibly go along with this card and with a Voodoo1 in a new setup...

Picked up a cheap Socket 7 SBC (IBM 586VE) and backplane. Surprised to find it came with an AMD K6-iii+/400 given the price. I built a system around it.

FWIW mine is a ATX based board (Epox EP-51MVP3E-M). I've been thinking of getting a K6-III+ as well but have yet to check the bay for some cheap deals.

GPU wise... I can either do the following:

a) Diamond Stealth S540 + Gainward Dragon 3000 combo (S3 Savage 4 + Voodoo 2 12MB - techincally MeTaL + Glide)
b) 3d Blaster Banshee 16MB
c) MSI Riva TNT2 Pro + Gainward Dragon 3000 (V2 12MB)
d) Geforce 2 Pro

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GPU wise... I can either do the following:

a) Diamond Stealth S540 + Gainward Dragon 3000 combo (S3 Savage 4 + Voodoo 2 12MB - techincally MeTaL + Glide)
b) 3d Blaster Banshee 16MB
c) MSI Riva TNT2 Pro + Gainward Dragon 3000 (V2 12MB)
d) Geforce 2 Pro

I like to pair K6-II+ or III+ with Geforce3 TI200 64MB or Geoforce2 MX400 64MB.
Geforce 2 Pro would be my choice for easy build and i like Metal+Glide or 3DCIF+Glide.
For 3DCIF = Rage3 (Rage XL 8MB AGP or Rage Pro 8MB AGP). XL is bit newer,bit better.

Nobody tell LuckyBob, but I snagged a dual PPro board. Specifically a Micronics W6-LI S.

And it een has overkill amounts of RAM for 1996.

Now to figure out if I want to put NT 4 or 2000 on this absolute unit.

BetaC wrote on 2024-11-06, 01:20:

Nobody tell LuckyBob, but I snagged a dual PPro board. Specifically a Micronics W6-LI S.

But yes. 1gb of ram is *just right* for a dual ppro.

my vote is for windows 2000.

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Nobody tell LuckyBob, but I snagged a dual PPro board. Specifically a Micronics W6-LI S.

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But yes. 1gb of ram is *just right* for a dual ppro.

my vote is for windows 2000.

Are there any performance issues with it running 2000? NT 4 always wants to fight me, which is why I am iffy about using it.

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luckybob wrote on 2024-11-06, 02:15:

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BetaC wrote on 2024-11-06, 01:20:

Nobody tell LuckyBob, but I snagged a dual PPro board. Specifically a Micronics W6-LI S.

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But yes. 1gb of ram is *just right* for a dual ppro.

my vote is for windows 2000.

Are there any performance issues with it running 2000? NT 4 always wants to fight me, which is why I am iffy about using it.

Not when you have a gig of ram and jam a SSD into it. ^.^ The dual cpu helps ALOT. keep it simple, dont install any services you dont need. 2000 was pretty okay. NT4 is *technically* a bit better, but 2000 is a night and day easier to use.

I usually don't get very remarkable parts compared to what others post around here, but this time I think I scored some nice stuff.

Truth be told, I got these in two separate purchases, but both from the same guy, a couple of weeks apart. I kinda rushed into getting first what I really didnt't want to miss and then gave it some thought before spending more money.

These I picked up last weekend:

- Slot A w/ Irongate chipset, a 900 and 700 Slot A Athlons.
- 16 MB Voodoo Banshee
- A M919 cache stick.
- A K5-166, an i486 DX4-100 and two slocket adapters.

And these a couple of weeks before that:

- A Dual Slot 1 Asus board including it's (what'sthe name?) terminator?
- A P III Tualatin 1200 and a 1400 Tualeron (I guess a bit roughed).

In the three years since I've fallen into this rabbit hole this was the first time I find someone selling a K6-3, a dual Slot 1 or a PcChips cache stick... Slot A, I had only seen one or two standalone CPUs so far.

Coincidentally, between those I also got two Slot 733 P IIIs and two Tualatin-S 1266 Mhz in a good deal. The 733 should fit nicely with the Asus board I hope.

I feel like Gollum right now 🤣

Well done. The Banshee is really a very nice card, I love it.

Forgot to mention a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP (as part of a parts not working pc) and coming soon a solo-1 pci to be used in my socket 939 Abit AV8 win98 build (athlon 64 3200+/fx5900xt or ti4200, haven't made mind up which card) as the ymf744 isnt playing nicely. Plan to put the ymf744 back into the slot 1 (p3 700mhz/voodoo 3 3000 agp) with sb-link as thats where the ymf744 feels more at home

MSI MS-6340 VER.5, my favorite motherboard for socket 462. I gave $25 but it was worth it.