My super socket 7 setup

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magburner
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My super socket 7 setup

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Hi, new guy here. I was looking for something about socket 7 motherboards, and I found this site. I too have a socket 7 system, and its my pride and joy! I originally built it to be the ultimate voodoo gaming rig (with as much legacy stuff as possible), and it is!

I've never built a system before, and all I had for a guide to build this system was some very old pc magazines, and the manual that came with the Asus mother board.

I also have a considerably more powerful C2D gaming rig, but this age old beige box, still keeps me entertained with 'everything' shoehorned inside it. To be honest, I'm surprised the power supply has not give out, but it runs flawlessly, and it has done since I made it up nearly 4 years ago! Its is currently running windows XP Professional (sans the blue gui of course).

Here are the specs:

* Asus P5A mother board.

* K6-2 500mhz, chip soon to be upgraded to a K6-2 550mhz AGR.

* 512mb ram (soon to be 768mb) some of which I'm sure is Kingston branded.

* Voodoo 3 16mb graphics card. I also have a 'BB' Voodoo 5500 64mb graphics card (with two fans on it) that I slot in every now and then.

* Soundblaster 128 sound card (I think its PCI)

* A plain old floppy, and an optical floppy.

* a CDRW drive, and a CD drive (one 52x, and the other 48x)

* 27gb hard drive.

* ~400w power supply.

I have a network card, and an extra USB card that I will pop in some time soon, and I'm hoping to jam a SCSI controller in there too and run a SCSI raid array (I'm going to see if it can run as a Linux home server or even a web server).

i will post some pics of the beige beast sometime soon. Any advice or comments will be very helpful thanks!
Jim
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RE: My super socket 7 setup

Post by Jim »

If you really want a K6-2 550AGR I have one I am not using, that you can have for nothing; but I would strongly recommend that you go to a K6-3+. Not only do you get the large benefits of far more processor cache; but they are very overclockable chips, - usually 600 - 600+ mhz with no problem.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
magburner
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Post by magburner »

Thanks for the offer Jim, but I have a 550AGR already. Until I read your superpuppy thread, I assumed it was the best. I will hunt down a K6-3 though, surely there is one on Ebay. Nice setup you have btw. :D
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Post by Jim »

You want a K6-3+ not a plain K6-3. There is a difference. The plus chips use lower voltage, run cooler, have 18 micron architechture, (as opposed to 25 micron), and are considerably more overclockable. Curious, which "Superpuppy Thread" did you read ? There is one on page one, and a couple of others on page two.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
magburner
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Post by magburner »

hi, sorry about the delay in answering, I've been messing around with my system setup. I was looking at the supperpuppy 2 thread, but I've just noticed that you have a superpuppy 3 thread (gonna take a sneak peak now...) :)

I'm also one step closer in using my socket 7 setup as a web server, I've found an ISP that lets me have static IP addresses. If I do do (do-do?) lol! If I do do, a web server, I'm thinking of running Linux on the beige beast to start with, and eventually with a XP/linux dual boot.
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