perkunas wrote:

fixed

Thanks!

This is my "not so retro retro" build. It's nice for splinter cell, doom 3 and various 2001-2004 games. It's mostly period correct to about 2002-2003 (with obvious exceptions).

AMD Barton 2500+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
Corsair XMS 3200LL, 1Gb
Creative Audigy 2 Platinum (remote!)
Noctua 80mm fan with AOC cooler
Vantec dual SATA to IDE adapter, 100Gb 7200rpm Hitachi
Antec 350w PSU
Generic case (I hate it, but I tolerate it)
Optiarc DVDRW (Looking for a better drive)

Had my Dual Xeon down for cleaning, and took some pictures:

Specs:
Asus PC-DL Deluxe (1.05)
2x Xeon 3.06GHz 1MB
2x1024MB Kingston HyperX DDR333
GeForce FX 5800 Ultra (with Zalman VF-700AlCu)
2x Creative Voodoo2 12MB SLI
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
500GB WD HDD (SATA)
pair of DVD drives (the Creative-labeled one came with a DxR3 add-in card, but I don't have that installed)
The case is a Lian-Li PC-7, which I found on sale. It's fairly easy to work with, and pretty typical in terms of layout, except that it takes 120mm fans as opposed to 80mm fans, which helps it to be quieter. 😀

blank001 wrote:

This is my "not so retro retro" build...

I actually think this case looks quite cool. Just missing a matching bezel for the optical drive and you're set...

obobskivich wrote:

The case is a Lian-Li PC-7, which I found on sale. It's fairly easy to work with, and pretty typical in terms of layout, except that it takes 120mm fans as opposed to 80mm fans, which helps it to be quieter. 😀

Looks like a quality case. Maybe you guys can trade optical drives 😀

🤣 Actually I have both black drives and the Lian-Li drive bezels, but went with those two because they're quietest of what I had, and the bezels don't like the lower drive so I removed both.

I built this ugly duck today. It's a nice win 98SE rig and very "1999" for the most part. I works well for the 98 trinity HL, Q2, Unreal and so forth. This was previously built as a Athlon K75 750Mhz Asus K7M build but I prefer the P3B-F. The case is solid but nasty yellow and I can't find a decent beige drive for the life of me (most I encounter don't run at full speed anymore). Otherwise it's a good rig.

Asus P3B-F rev 1.04, 2 ISA
Intel Pentium III 800E
Compaq Voodoo 3 3500
512Mb Micron CL2 (128x4)
Diamond MX300
Creative AWE64
Realtek NIC
Seagate Barracuda IV 7200rpm, 40Gb
Antec 250W and case

Added a Noctua 92mm fan to cool the heatsink and VRM of the Voodoo^3. It doesn't look like it but it's very solidly mounted. The fan doesn't wiggle at all.

Lana. Lana. LANA!

What is it Archer?

Danger Zone.

Image too big. Can only see half of it... 🙁

devius wrote:

Image too big. Can only see half of it... 🙁

Right-click -> Open image in new tab.

But yeah, would be good if it was scaled down in the first place.

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How's that guys? 😁

calvin: Re: Please help identify this card 😁

My Retro Rig 99 slot A 🤣
Motherboard : GA-7IX
CPU: K7 AMD Athlon @ 600 MHz
VGA : 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGPx 2
HDD: 80 gb Seagate 7 pata
RAM : 256 @ 100 MHz
Lan : 3com 3c905 t4
Sound : SB Pci ct4810
PSU : AOPEN 250w
OS : Win 98SE

My nearly finished Pentium Pro system , not the greatest pics but they will do

Case/PSU came from an Athlon 1.3Ghz built , which has been stored for parts. I plan on replacing the PSU with a 300w Seasonic .

Intel VS440FX Socket 8 motherboard
Pentium Pro 200/1m cache.
96MB 60ns EDO
70GB Hard drive, connected to a Promise ATA100 controller.
Liteon DVD Drive
Generic 1.44Mb FDD
Matrox Millennium II 12MB
Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo1 4MB
PowerVR PCX1 4MB
AW£64 Gold

the cable management isn't the greatest, but keep in mind I plan on replacing this PSU , so the cables will be much better managed eventually.

Paldin_601A wrote:

My Retro Rig 99 slot A :lol: Motherboard : GA-7IX CPU: K7 AMD Athlon @ 600 MHz VGA : 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGPx 2 HDD: 80 gb Sea […]
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My Retro Rig 99 slot A 🤣
Motherboard : GA-7IX
CPU: K7 AMD Athlon @ 600 MHz
VGA : 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGPx 2
HDD: 80 gb Seagate 7 pata
RAM : 256 @ 100 MHz
Lan : 3com 3c905 t4
Sound : SB Pci ct4810
PSU : AOPEN 250w
OS : Win 98SE

Needs more stickers. 😜

Paldin_601A wrote:

My Retro Rig 99 slot A :lol: Motherboard : GA-7IX CPU: K7 AMD Athlon @ 600 MHz VGA : 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGPx 2 HDD: 80 gb Sea […]
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My Retro Rig 99 slot A 🤣
Motherboard : GA-7IX
CPU: K7 AMD Athlon @ 600 MHz
VGA : 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGPx 2
HDD: 80 gb Seagate 7 pata
RAM : 256 @ 100 MHz
Lan : 3com 3c905 t4
Sound : SB Pci ct4810
PSU : AOPEN 250w
OS : Win 98SE

AMD, Quake, Halflife, etc... all ok, but Adidas? 😁

With adidas RUN DMC always comes to mind, and that's pretty retro too 🤣

Setup my Magnavox 386SX-16 with the IBM 8513 and an AT keyboard I got today. 1Mb RAM: need to figure out how to setup XMS. 40MB IDE HDD.

Space Quest II is the game this evening. Have not played that for years.

Nice man! Really digging the 8513. Still have to fix mine someday.

I don't think you'll get much xms, if any at all, with only 1MB...

Normally the > 640KB RAM is XMS.

8086-ProGamer wrote:

My oldest Retro Rig is a 8086 Olivetti M240 (10MHz?) […]
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My oldest Retro Rig is a 8086 Olivetti M240 (10MHz?)

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Nice Olivetti! My first 486 if I'm right was Olivetti M300, SX and not that fast compared to the 386DX my father used ad work... ahhh. great era and machines 😀

My current Zenith 286LP Plus rig set up.

286/12 cpu
256k vga, IDE, FDD, two com ports and one parallel port
Monitor is a flat screen IBM P97(better than the crappy earlier smaller 28 dot pitch offerings) shared with my 386DX25 system using a push button switch. Great for those with older not so good vision.
8 megs of ram
49 megs usable on 52 meg hdd on internal controller
3.5" 1.44 meg fdd on internal controller
Serial mouse on com2
Generic AT enhance keyboard
Parallel port LS120 drive
Parallel port Back Pack cdrom drive piggy backed to the LS120
MS Dos 5a
XTree Gold
Some Dos hdd tools
Some Dos games
MS Windows 3.1 or GeoWorks 2.01(mood dependent)
CT 1740 sound card with speakers
GE2000 (KYE)Genius Lan nic with rj45 and bnc connectors. Set to auto detect media type as it gets swapped between 10base2 and 10BaseT network segments. Connects to bb router through an Accton Ether 8s hub when it's using coax and/or D-Link DSE1005D 10/100 switch for straight j45 connections.
Nice thing about this system is I can define the memory allocation as xms/ems in the bios.