Pentium PRO Single Board Computer / Intel Pentium II OverDrive / Testing with Voodoo 3dfx

In this video we will have a closer look at a great single board computer (SBC) made by Texas Microsystems, the P6000FX. Its a socket 8 SBC with an Intel Pentium II OverDrive at 333 MHz. A Matrox G450, Voodoo 2 and a SB-Live completes this unique setup to something very interesting.
Testing under DOS and Windows 98 will give you a quick overview what this setup is able to perform. Games as Quake, Quake III Arena, Testdrive 5 and Motoracer 2 are shown in this video.
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[nviduumde]

Socket 8 Machines are something of beauty. Never knew that even SBCs existed with that Socket. Great Video!

[necro_ware]

Wow, I honestly didn't even know, that there were PII Overdrive CPUs. Thank you, Peter, as always, very entertaining video.

[PixelPipes]

You know I love some 3DMark99 comparisons!
Pentium II Overdrives are crazy expensive collectibles now, but I think this is the first time I've seen one in action in a video, so that's pretty cool. What's also cool is that crazy tech demo at the end! Never seen that one before!

[spladam]

The coolest Pentium Pro build I've ever seen, you're content is fantastic. Just wanted to leave a comment to improve your engagements so more folks get to see your videos, thank you.

[atheatos]

First immediate impression; "WOW a Pentium PRO SBC"!!
Second impression "What?? and a very rare PII overdrive??", I totally missed that!
Verdict, another great video with some very rare stuff! Loved it to the end :)

[Petertronic]

Amazing board design, every millimetre is used! Greetings from another Peter in the UK

[bunter]

Love the sound of 10/15K SCSI drives spinning up the only drives that sound better to me are old stepper motor MFM/ESDI drives.

[damouze]

Thanks for putting up the Virhe demo at the end. I have had that demo in an archive for ages, but I was never able to run it because I did not own a 3DFX card.

[Dedubya-]

Cool, another video! Those Pentium Pros are wonderful looking chips especially de-lidded

[rebeccaschade]

I never knew that the Pentium II Overdrive had the same full-speed cache as the standard Pentium Pro. That must have cost a fortune. The Pentium Pro was extremely expensive to manufacture. I've read that the on the 1MB cache version, the on-die cache was actually more expensive to manufacture than the CPU core itself. I've only got a 256KB version of the Pentium Pro myself, but it's still a fascinating system.

[sndestroy]

I've never used or even saw a Pentium Pro working IRL, let alone an Overdrive one! This is something of a special one for my geeky self!! Great vid as always, you're one of the few creators I smash my thumb on that little 👍🏼 as soon as I see new content haha.

[robot]

I think that is one of the coolest looking vintage pc I have seen

[Eremon]

This is hardware I wasn't aware of until this video. Interesting design for industrial applications with modularity in mind I'm guessing. Very interesting SBC. Cheers.

[CandyGramForMongo_]

I often ran into strange pc implementations in retail environments. My favorite was a 386 hosting two pcs on a card, both with two pcs for a total of five, 2+2+1. It ran non-dedicated NetWare, making the network the ISA bus on the host.

[arniceousmaximus]

Seeing that slot I PII reminded me of my 98se system which I gave to my nephew in 2006 also with the SB live and I used amd Radeon PCI ya IDE HDD run like tanks for sure good one Peter and like always always a pleasure servus! arno

[madson-web]

I like the song for the montage. Calming

[mxthunder]

Never seen a P2 overdrive before! awesome to see motoracer 2 in one of your videos!

[Pulverrostmannen]

I have a Pentium Pro computer as well which still works and I had it since I was a teenage dude. I used it pretty much back then but not as a primary. but I like how the big beefy cpu is looking :)

[Ojref]

Excellent, excellent setup. The socket 8 Pentium Pro, P2/Xeon Slot and AMD Thunderbird Slot A configurations were some of the best things in x86 PC IMO. Texas Micro did make some excellent solutions, several of the manufacturing factories I consulted for used their components.

[wizard-pirate]

You have excellent taste in CPU socket form factors. That Pentium pro you showed as comparison is gorgeous.