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.