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Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

I will throw one more of my builds in. I got a $20 Craigslist purchase with an AT Case, PCChips M572 Motherboard (Intel 430TX chipset), Pentium 133 CPU, 40GB IDE hard drive, 128MB SDRAM, ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI graphics graphics, and Sound Blaster AudioDrive PCI sound card. With a patched BIOS update I …

Mixed Voodoo 2 SLI setup driver question

I am planning on running a mixed Voodoo 2 12MB SLI setup. One card is from Creative Labs and the other from STB. It will used on a Pentium II overdrive running Windows 98 SE. My question is the FastVoodoo driver v4.6 the best one to use or is an earlier version recommended?

Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

ya I wasn't expecting much either, that being said it barely runs quake so it's not really saying much. If you put a voodoo 1 in there it will probably run quake just fine. Turned out that it was pretty decent for Dos gaming though becasue the integrated sound turned out to be not actually bad at …

Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

My biggest surprise was my Cyrix Media GX build. I was not expecting much because these systems do not have an L2 cache on the motherboard and the CPU core is only a Cyrix 5x86. I was stunned at just how well the system performed in the end, being way faster than I was expecting. Here is a link to …

Re: 386SX/40 build

Can you imagine what a 386 like that would have cost when new! 386 is bit old for gaming tastes but hardware wise I think they are quite interesting and would want to "fully spec" it like yours with sound, networking, etc I have a 386SX/25 all decked out with these goodies and it is the best 286 I …

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