The BX System that simply won't quit! Anyone else?

[Pandaren]

I know most of you are using Athlon 64 or Pentium 4C boxes for your gaming, but my flagship gaming system for the past 4 1/2 years has been a 440BX box, and today I hope to extend its life a bit more

I bought a VisionTek 64MB Radeon 9100 recently to replace a Radeon DDR. Here are my current specs: Pentium 3 750 MHz, 512 MB PC100 SDRAM, 40 GB WD SE drive (8MB Cache, 7200RPM), Radeon 9100.

Went from 2500 3D2K1 marks to 4400 3D2K1 marks at XGA resolution and damn does it feel good to have pixel shadders at last (nature scene finally veiwable!).

Anyone else using a somewhat obsolete machine for games?

 

[NutBucket]

Yep. Asus CUBX board w/ a Celeron 1100A @ 1466. Runs great! Course, I'm still running a GF2 GTS

 

[RagingBITCH]

ABIT BH6 + C2-566@850, courtesy of Steve (compuwiz) and a P3550 running on an Intel 440 something or other

 

[Jzero]

I still have a BP6 board, but it's not in use right now.

Right now I'm using a VP6 board (VIA Apollo chipset) with 2x1000MHz PIIIs. Plenty fast enough for me.

 

[jfall]

It's coming time for me to upgrade, the great thing is that I didn't seem to miss very much over the past 2-3 years I was able to play all the games that I wanted. I know I am not going to be able to play HL2 or Doom3, so I will need to upgrade for those games and future games designed from their engines

 

[vegetation]

Had a BP6 w/ dual cel 550s running until this past winter when I retired the system and eba*ed it for $150 !

 

[brtspears2]

Abit BH6 + C533@800, no problems for years. Still gets used daily at home by my parents. Not much of a gaming box, but it sure is smooth running.

 

[mpitts]

BX = One of the greatest enthusiast chipsets ever.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

You paid money for a 9100?

 

[Pandaren]

A 9100 is pretty good - much better than a 9000 or 9200. It's got 4x2 pixel pipeline architecture (9200/9000 are 4x1) and a full 128-bit memory interface (9200SE POS has 64-bit memory).

Runs a bit slower (250 Core/250 Memory (500 DDR)) than a regular Radeon 8500 (275) but has all the rest of the goodies since it is basically a rebadged Radeon 8500LE.

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
You paid money for a 9100?

Edit: I'm installing 3DMark2003 - this should be fun

 

[LordSnailz]

No wonder the pc market has been down ... even the geeks on atot are not upgrading ...

 

[Vic]

My old 440BX board blew a long time ago. The only board that ever smoked on me (literally). Soyo 6BA-IV+

Shame too, because I had a 533A Celeron clocked to 896 on it @ 1.8v with a Slotket.

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: LordSnailz
No wonder the pc market has been down ... even the geeks on atot are not upgrading ...

Keep in mind this is ATOT. I wouldn't say everyone in this forum is a hardware enthusiast.

 

[bradruth]

I still have a BX system from '99 back home. I have a PII 350 & 224mb of RAM in there right now. At one point I had a 1.4ghz Tualatin Celeron, 512mb RAM, and a GF4 ti4400 in there. :Q

 

[spidey07]

abit BX-2 board running P3-700 at 1050.

starting to show its age a little with only 128 meg of ram and 10 megs of drive space.

 

[Pandaren]

Ok I just finished running 3DMark03 (XGA 32-bit color) and it was UGLY let me tell you! Wings of Fury predictably ran fairly well at 37FPS, but the rest of the tests looked like a slide show. A bad slide show.

Battle of Proxycon: 3.6 FPS
Troll's Lair: 4.2 FPS

Game 4 wouldn't even run.

Total Score: 595

 

[Ornery]

I'm currently running an AOpen AX6BC, and my oldest son is using an Asus P3B-F. My mom is using an Abit BX6. Only issue we've had, is the keyboard port on the P3B-F. I foresee these boards continuing on quite a while longer. Stable as a rock!

 

[Amused]

Buy a 1.4 GHz Tualatin and a slot adapter for the 440BX and extend it even further.

That's what I did.

It's running as a file server right now And has 512mb of RAM in it (the max )

 

[Linflas]

I have a Asus P3B-F machine that I use with a Dazzle DVC II as a capture machine. The thing is rock solid.

 

[GTaudiophile]

My 1998 Gateway with a 440BX and a PII-450 is still going strong...now as my Gentoo Linux box.

 

[aircooled]

I literally just replaced my last BX based system (it was my wifes hand me down). Sure was great and lasted a long time.

 

[thraxes]

My Linux Box is a BX based system. Recently got a very overclockable Celeron 333A. Only need a heatsink and the PII-350 that's in there now will be replaced.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Linflas
I have a Asus P3B-F machine that I use with a Dazzle DVC II as a capture machine. The thing is rock solid.

P3B-F and BE6-2 were like, THE mobos to get

 

[Nohr]

I have a K6-III+ 450@550 system with a Voodoo Banshee for some old fashioned glide gaming.

My mom's still using the BX system I built her back in early '99. Celly 300A @ 375, Asus P2B mobo, 128MB, 10GB 7200RPM, STB Riva TNT 16MB. Was the first computer I ever built.

 

[dman]

My wife's PC is an ABIT BX Board (I think BE6 or something). I have celeron 566 @ 850MHz in there. Tempted to try a Tualtin converter, but, probably better off buying new stuff. Still using a VooDoo3 16MB but she's not a gamer.

It's been running 24x7 for a long time now. Which reminds me I have to backup some of her data, been a while.

Argh.