First post, by athlon-power
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This is getting out of hand- now there are two of them!
I'm not sorry for that. Anyways, this is a completely separate build from my Pentium III Katmai gaming build. This was, in fact, the machine that inspired this project in the first place; I got this machine in February 2018, and wanted to make a gaming PC out of it, which the motherboard certainly wasn't built for. It's a Biostar M6TWL, which has everything but networking integrated (video, sound, etc.)- it, however, only has PCI slots. No AGP, or even ISA support. I feel like this was a bogg standard home/office PC motherboard, intended for use with Microsoft Excel and browsing the many obscure websites that were around in '99. As such, its specs reflect this; 128MB RAM @100MHz (the motherboard supports 133MHz, but the CPU doesn't), the integrated video, and the integrated audio. The only expansion I've added is the 3COM Network card I threw in there.
I got this motherboard and CPU, AND RAM with this case, when the auction people said that it was apparently dead. The PSU had just popped, I figure. It had been sitting under a desk, collecting dust in an obscure auction house since 2000, running the software for their snackbar (I cleaned it off, but it literally had "snack" written on top of it in red Sharpie- probably written on there before I was born, to be fair). The dust in it when I got it was atrocious, but I cleaned the case and mobo up. This is the first time I've fully used this mobo, seeing as I wanted a gaming PC and this motherboard certainly wasn't going to cut it, but now that I have one, I do have some interest in reviving it as a home/office PC.
I might try and run a few games on it too, just to stress it a little. I think GLQuake and Quake 2 should be okay on it, as it's practically an Intel i740 integrated onto the motherboard, albeit using the much slower system RAM.
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Added some better pictures.
The yellowing on this case is quite significant, again, it wasn't all that well taken care of. I plan to get some hair-bleaching cream, the stuff that has like 70% hydrogen peroxide in it, and smear it over the front panel and sides and top of the case, as the whole outside except for the back and bottom is white, or what used to be white, plastic. I have a UV LED strip that my mom bought to grow some plants indoors, so I don't even have to have it be a sunny day or anything, and that UV lamp is quite powerful.
I may or may not get a PCI based 3D accelerator for it eventually, what do you think? Should I keep it as it is, or try and make a second competent computer for LAN gaming with the Latitude C600 and the PIII Katmai build?
Where am I?