(My first PC recreation) Perfect addition to my game room all together!

This is a pic I took of my computer rig in about 1997 or 1998. I still have the joysticks, mouse, keyboard, monitor stand, CD tower and lamp from this photo. I am currently gathering parts to recreate this setup, or as close as possible.

As far as I can remember, the computer was a CyberMax pre-built, Pentium 133, Biostar motherboard, 32mb of RAM, Ensoniq Soundscape sound card, Hercules Dynamite 128 (ET6000) 2d video card and an Orchid Righteous 3d Voodoo 1 card.

Love it! Don't know why i never thought to pick one up... IBM build quality, but with IDE and no MCA making it nice and expandable. Where did you end up finding yours? Were you able to get it with the correct monitor/keyboard/mouse or did you source all those seperately?

KSHIRZA1 wrote:

Retro PC (My first PC recreation) finally done with the exception of my Yamaha 719s sound card that's on the way. Perfect addition to my game room all together!

finally, i replaced the dual arm with two single arms. they are more customizable - i liked the most this "overlapping" mode. but of course it is possible to use in "dual monitor" mode too. i calculated it, i need ca +40-45cm longer desk for the proper dual desktop (180cm).

Old and new (and a hidden PS3)

My main PC setup

on top of the table

The black PC on the right (my main PC)
ASUS Rog Strix B350F Gaming Socket AM4 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6 core 3.20 GHz
16GB GSkill Trident Z RGB RAM
Zotac GTX 1060 6GB Amp Edition
Mushkin MKNSSDRE500GB 500GB SSD
Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM164 2TB Hard Drive
Windows 10 Home

The Black PC on the left (my retro DOS rig)
Intel AN430TX ATX Socket 7 Motherboard
Intel Pentium 133
64 MB RAM
Genoa Phantom 3D DX S3 Virge DX 4MB PCI Video Card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 CT2830 ISA Sound Card
Seagate ST36811A U8 6GB Hard Drive
DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11

The White PC on the top (my retro Windows 98 rig)
MSI KT4A Ultra Socket 462 Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 2.09 GHz
512 MB RAM
nVidia Geforce2 MX 200 32MB AGP Video Card
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Value CT4780 Sound Card
Maxtor 6E040L0 Slimline Hard Drive
Windows 98 Second Edition

Monitors
Left one: Dell 1503FP '15 LCD Monitor (Used on my DOS PC)
Right one: AOC E2280SW '22 LCD Monitor (Used on my main PC and Windows 98 PC)

Keyboards
behind: Dell SK-8110 Keyboard (Used on the DOS PC)
front: Corsair Strafe Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue (Used on my main PC
not shown: Dell AT101W Keyboard (Used on the Windows 98 PC)

Sorry for the low quality, used a playstation 3 eye camera to take a picture of the PCs

Finally gathered all my machines to my main desk so I can listen to OPL3 tunes while working in Unity. 🤣

Infinity wrote:

Finally gathered all my machines to my main desk so I can listen to OPL3 tunes while working in Unity. 🤣

Contented sigh, neatness makes me happy. But are those real plants or plastic? If plastic then points off 🤣

This is my main work area. Please excuse the excessive amounts of empty alcohol containers. The Old Grand Dad and I are on a first-name basis. In the background you can see my Blade Runner shrine. Posters are forthcoming.

Closeup of my pride and joy:

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TheeRaccoon wrote:

Hello all!! New here. Here are some of my setups that I've messed around with this past year or so. My "Room setup" is currently under the knife. The big PC Power and Cooling tower and the Lian Li PC-V1000LB (modern tower) are both currently undergoing some massive changes. I'll leave these here for now though!! (: Happy to be a part of the group!

Hi,

I'm pretty much interested in your vintage build. It's really awesome!

What's inside that beautiful case?

Which CRT monitor are you using?

I just realized that PC from pic nr. 1 is different from the one in pics nr. 2 and 3 😁

M.

The PC Power and Cooling Deluxe tower had the following specs when the photo was taken

-Motherboard: ASUS P3B-F
-CPU: Slot 1 Pentium 3 @ 600MHz
-Memory: 2x128mb @ 100MHz
-Primary Video Card: ATi Rage 128
-3D Accelerator: Quantum3D Obsidian2 x-24 (2 Voodoo2's in sli on a single card)
-Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
-IDE Controller: Promise Ultra133 tx2
-Storage: 80gb WD
-PSU: Antec EarthWatts 380W
-Fans: 3 80mm Noctua fans

Supermicro tower had

-Motherboard: Abit Vp6
-CPU: 2 socket 370 Pentium 3's @ 1000MHz
(Don't remember the memory)
-Primary Video Card: ATi Rage 128
-3D Accelerator: 12MB Creative Voodoo 2's in SLI
-Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
-IDE Controller: Adaptec 2400A
-Storage: 80gb WD
-PSU: Dynex 350W PSU

The PC Power and Cooling tower is undergoing some major changes.. Won't spill the beans too much but there is a Dual Slot 1 motherboard that will be involved 😉

I'm trying to create a small entertainment game/computer room...

...and some CPUs, from 8088 to Pentium III with some holes and overdrive 😀 ...

mjnman wrote:

...and some CPUs, from 8088 to Pentium III with some holes and overdrive 😀 ...

Nice collection!

Missing 8080 and 8085 though 😜

Don't stop there. Begin snapping up microcontrollers, embedded processors, and other non x86 chips. Note, old laser printers are an excellent source for embedded RISC CPUs.

That's RISCy, isn't it?

No, I wouldn't whiSH you to PIC through anything dangerous. It's not like reaching into a tank of SHARCs. However, I do appreciate your SPARCy sense of humor. More POWER to you.

I wonder how much gold you could get if you melted all of those CPUs down.

Warlord wrote:

I wonder how much gold you could get if you melted all of those CPUs down.

😠

Warlord wrote:

I wonder how much gold you could get if you melted all of those CPUs down.

Just enough to piss off everyone here, and fill yourself with regret 😀

CPUs for gold is a stupid idea, you need TONS of them to recover any valuable quantity. If you want to make money, take care of the CPUs you find and sell them, you'll earn much more ! Anything older than P4 starts getting expensive on ebay..

I went from a pretty nice setup to being relegated to the garage. At my old job, I had the office to myself, and it would sometimes get pretty slow. So I had a lot of time to go find goodies and didn't have to bring my clutter home. But I hated that job, and have since found a much better one without that kind of freedom.

Also, we are having twins in about a month, so my play area has to be the garage. Nothing's really set up yet, I haven't had time. But at least it has a home and I didn't have to get rid of everything.

It's all just sitting on my project table - not pretty but I have some ideas for when I get around to it.
Old Space:

Current cold storage: