Cool. I like 286s. I also remember installing Windows 95 using a LPT CD-ROM back in the day. Took forever. 😀

It's me again!

My rig:

ASRock 775V88+
Pentium 4 3GHz - LGA775
2GB RAM
40GB Maxtor D740X IDE HDD - to be replaced with 320GB SATA WDC
ATI Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP
Winfast TV2000XP Deluxe TV tuner
Sony CDRW/DVD drive
Fortrex ST-400W PSU (Deer)
filler PCI audio card

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eFatal2ty wrote:

Easily, even higher, but this is optimal on :cool: ASUS P3B-F, after all bench, reset and 4.5hours running yet, look closer her […]
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Easily, even higher, but this is optimal on 😎 ASUS P3B-F,
after all bench, reset and 4.5hours running yet, look closer here >

2.28V 😈

BIOS 2.2V only for stability, but it can run 2.1V withouth problems

What demos exactely you have in your Sound Blaster multimedia panel? is there Thief The Dark Project EAX demo?

The demos tab usually would have the usual EAX test demos like the Live Experience, no actual games would be there.

at least for my live 5.1 that is IIRC

Hi!

This is one of my "Rigs." Her name is Bertha.

OS: Windows 2000 SP4
CPU: Pentium III-M at 1.3GHz
RAM: 512MB RAM
HDD: Hitachi 100GB 7200RPM IDE drive
Intel Integrated Graphics Card (82830M)

This is currently my retro trophy. The model intially came with 256MB RAM, but the seller I bought it from maxed it out to 512MB. Only problem is that he put in a stick of PC100 and another stick of PC133. It hasn't caused any problems, but I'm planning to replace the PC100 when I can.

My K6-3 400 - 2.2v system:

It's the "junker" among the other systems. The whole system was built out of trash parts (except for the cpu, DVD drive, sound and graphics card):

AMD K6-3 400 MHz (Sharptooth - 2.2v)
384MB (128MB SD-RAM PC100 Double Sided / 256MB SD-RAM PC133 Double Sided @ PC100 CL3)
Chaintech 5RSA 512k L2 Cache / ALi M1541 (ES1869 F)
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 166/166 16MB SD-RAM 6ns Hyundai "Made in China"
20GB IDE Western Digital (actively cooled 5.25" Rack)
Pioneer 105S DVD Slot-In
80mm fan from an old psu (intake)
SiS 900 LAN 10/100 PCI
Soundblaster AWE 64 ISA
Windows 98SE
Case: Fujitsu Siemens T-Bird

K6 Killer:

- AMD Athlon K7 500Mhz
- 2x128Mb PC133 SD-Ram
- GeForce 2 GTS 32Mb (Asus V7700 32Mb)
- Gigabit Ethernet (Realtek)
- Soundblaster 128 Audio PCI (ES1373) mit MT32/GM Emulation, Soundblaster Combatible (EMM386 required)
- DVD-Rom
- Samsung 80Gb HDD
- Microstar MS6191 Mainboard

Hey everyone! Long time lurker, now first-time poster. This is my story...

I bought this rig last year off Ebay for $85+$30 shipping. Yeah, probably too much considering the overall cosmetic condition and no hard drive, but this style case holds a bit of nostalgia to me. The first computer I ever had that actually piqued my interest in computers resembled very closely this case. I eventually sold the board, but kept everything else. The case is sitting in storage at the moment until I determine what I'm going to put in it.

Original specs:
-Forcom M396F v2.6
-Am386SX/SXL33 / No FPU
-4MB RAM
-Maxtor 127MB HDD
-Creative Labs Easy 16
-Linksys Ether16 LAN BNC/Ethernet card
-YE-DATA 1.2MB 5.25" Floppy
-Teac 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy
-Quadtel / Trident TGUI9000B 512KB

The price is not that bad considering 5 1/4" drives sell for quite a bit of money nowadays.

Since you're only gonna build one machine that does everything (yeah right 🤣), I'd suggest a Socket 7 build with a 200+ MHz processor.

I keep forgetting to post pics of this little guy here. Recent eBay purchase, paid $50 with about half of that being shipping:

Specs:

486DX 33MHz
16MB RAM (was 4MB)
Cirrus Logic GD5429 1MB ISA VGA
Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600)
540MB Western Digital HDD
ECS UC4913 motherboard
128KB external cache

System didn't come with an HDD, video card, or sound card - I added those in afterwards.

Bought it from TBF Computers, right? 😁

oerk wrote:

The price is not that bad considering 5 1/4" drives sell for quite a bit of money nowadays.

Since you're only gonna build one machine that does everything (yeah right 🤣), I'd suggest a Socket 7 build with a 200+ MHz processor.

Already got that covered 😁. Got a K6-2 400, but might downgrade back to the P233MMX. I have at least well over a half-dozen socket 7 boards with Pentiums ranging from 75MHz-200MHz. Gotta sell them off eventually to make room. I have 3 desktops sitting under the bed - Dell Dimension 466DV in mint-condition (dump find!), a near-mint condition Pionex P-100 build, and some strange generic P-200 desktop that came with a removable harddrive caddy with the hard drive in it, plus another hard drive hiding underneath it! - Not bad for $60 + free shipping!).

Brickpad wrote:

Bought it from TBF Computers, right? 😁

Yup! 😉

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Brickpad wrote:

Bought it from TBF Computers, right? 😁

Yup! 😉

I've bought a few system off of them. Same place I got that 386.

Long time lurker, this site is amazing, the wealth of knowledge is fantastic. I just finished up a win 98 build last night I wanted to post. haha my cable management is pretty bad in the first pic, I smoothed it out a bit before putting it all together.

Specs

• Gateway E-4200 case + mobo
• 2 x Diamond 3DFX Monster 3D II voodoo 2 sli
• Diamond Viper V770 ATX WS 32MB
• 384 mb ram (PC133)
• Pentium 2 450mhz
• Sound Blaster AWE 64
• NIC that came with the PC (still looking for the drivers 3C095-b)
• Maxtor 40gb hdd
• ThermalTake 600W PSU I had laying around to replace the 200 watt one
• Couple of fans to help with heat
• Some lighting

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Long time lurker, this site is amazing, the wealth of knowledge is fantastic. I just finished up a win 98 build last night I wanted to post. haha my cable management is pretty bad in the first pic, I smoothed it out a bit before putting it all together.

Specs

• Gateway E-4200 case + mobo
• 2 x Diamond 3DFX Monster 3D II voodoo 2 sli
• Diamond Viper V770 ATX WS 32MB
• 384 mb ram (PC133)
• Pentium 2 450mhz
• Sound Blaster AWE 64
• NIC that came with the PC (still looking for the drivers 3C095-b)
• Maxtor 40gb hdd
• ThermalTake 600W PSU I had laying around to replace the 200 watt one
• Couple of fans to help with heat
• Some lighting

Welcome 😀

I would've chosen blue instead of green though 😜

A new addition to my retro rig family...a PII with an LX chipset( 😐 ) in a monster beige case (needs a bit of cleaning). I may gut this one and use the case for a P4 build I have planned. Not sure yet.

The good thing is that I got it for only $5 and it came with a decent SB card and a nvidia Geforce 2 card. I don't mind the 24X creative drive either.

Creepiong Net 486
- Songcheer XT Chassis
- Generic 150 Watt PSU
- FIC 486 PVT Socket 3 System Board, AWARD BIOS
- Intel 80486 DX2-66
- 64MB of RAM
- 1.44 3.5" Drive, 1.2MB 5.25" Drive
- 3.5" HDD Caddy - 8GB (DOS/WFWG), 20 GB (Win95)
- 52x CD-RW Burner
- VLB S3 809 1MB Graphics (with 2 empty SDRAM slots - wish I could find the chips to upgrade)
- SoundBlaster Vibra 16
- Linksys EtherFast 16 PnP TP Ethernet
- Windows 95 OSR2/Windows For Workgroups 3.11/MS-DOS 6.22 w/Supplimental Disk

Tandy 1000A
- 8088 @4.77 MHz
- 640K RAM
- 1X 360 DSDD 5.25" Floppy
- 8GB EIDE on XT-IDE Controller
- TGA Video
- Tandy 3-voice sound
- Realtek RTL8019AS Ethernet Card
- MS-DOS 6.22/Deskmate II

Compaq Portable 486
- 486 DX2/66
- 48MB of RAM
- 1X 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
- 258MB IDE HDD
- On-Board SVGA w/ 640X480 ACtive Matrix color LCD (needs replaced)
- SoundBlaster Ct-1600 Pro II
- Linksys Etherfast PnP
- MS-DOS 6.22/WFWG 3.11

GEM Computer Products 286
- Generic AT chassis
- 250 Watt PSU Baby AT guts in full AT casing
- Octek Fox II motherboard
- intel 80286 10/MHz
- ITT 802x87 12 MHz Co-Processor
- 1.44MB 3.5" & 1.2MB 5.25" drives
- 540MB EIDE HDD
- ET-4000 SVGA ISA 1MB
- SoundBlaster CT-1600 PRo II
- Linksys Etherfast TP
- MS-DOS 6.22/Windows 1.01/2.03/3.1 (NEC)

I need a newer picture of the GEM

For my first post here i guess it´s normal to post my MS-Dos Rig... I'm very proud of it and, for me, it's the perfect dos PC i can have it can´t get much better than this so here are the specs of it...

- AMD 486 DX4-S/120 Mhz - 98Mb Ram
- VGA Matrox Mystique MGA 64-Bit 4Mb
- Soundblaster AWE64
- LAN - 3Com EtherLink(3C90X)
- 2x 1.44 Mitsumi Floppy Drive
- 2x Maxtor 6gb HD
- 1x Seagate 8gb HD within an hd drawer
- CD-Rom Samsung 52x
- PC Logic 3 Swift PAD
- PC Gravis Destroyer Pad
- MS-Dos 6.22
- Windows 3.11 for workgroups with Calmira II
- MS Office 6
- ...and a bunch load of games 😊

First here's my windows desktop with a nice wallpaper on it

And the machine... Sorry for the cable mess in time i'll post some pics of the inside of it

paulo_becas wrote:

For my first post here i guess it´s normal to post my MS-Dos Rig... I'm very proud of it and, for me, it's the perfect dos PC i can have it can´t get much better than this so here are the specs of it...

- AMD 486 DX4-S/120 Mhz - 98Mb Ram

Welcome and very nice build! I have to ask...do you have any compatibility problems with any dos games having that much ram installed?

I really like that unique case you have there too. Don't see too many like that where the drive bays are at the bottom. Also I like the dual 1.44 floppy drives. Don't see that often either. I love redundancy 🤣.

For a second I thought that case was positioned upside down! 🤣 Anyways, welcome to VOGONS!