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First post, by SquallStrife

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Just figured I'd blog my retro setup as it stands today. I should set myself up something for the purpose, but it has a wider audience here. An audience that might be able to point out things I could improve in a "little money, big result" kind of way! 😉

286 Rig:

Harris MFG'd Intel 80286 12MHz
Octek Fox II HT-1X Motherboard
4MB FP-RAM
120MB IDE Conner Peripherals HDD (Dying! 🙁)
1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
1.2MB 5.25" Floppy Drive
Tseng Labs ET4000 1MB ISA VGA
"NE2000 compatible" ISA NIC
No-name ISA I/O card
Amstrad Branded AdLib Clone Music Card
"Custom Computer" Desktop Case + Generic ???W PSU
PC-DOS 5
Windows 3.1

486 Rig:

Intel 80486DX2 66MHz
DataExperts EXP4044 Motherboard
16MB FP-RAM
4.3GB IDE Quantum Fireball AT HDD
Creative 8X IDE CD-ROM
1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
S3 2MB VLB VGA
3Com 3C509B-TPO ISA NIC
Winbond VLB I/O Card
Creative Vibra16S CT2900 ISA Sound Card
Roland MPU-IPC-T MIDI Interface
Roland MT-32 (Original Model) Sound Module
Osborne "386SX" Desktop Case + Generic 300W PSU
MS-DOS 6.22
Windows for Workgroups 3.11

Socket7 Rig:

Intel Pentium MMX 200MHz
PCPartner VX Motherboard
64MB EDO RAM
9.1GB IDE Quantum Fireball KA HDD
Generic 32X IDE CD-ROM
1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
Matrox Millennium II 4MB PCI VGA
Canopus Pure3D 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics 6MB PCI Accelerator
Generic Realtek RTL8139 PCI NIC
Audio Excel CMI8330 ISA Sound Card
NEC XR385 (Yamaha DB60XG Colne) MIDI Daughterboard
Microarts PRO Series Mid Tower Case + Generic 250W PSU
Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold ISA Sound Card
Windows 95 OSR2

Socket370 Rig:

Intel Pentium III-EB 1GHz (Coppermine)
Gigabyte GA-6OXT Motherboard
512MB SDR SD-RAM
40GB IDE Seagate Barracuda HDD
Pioneer DVR-A06 DVD-RW drive
nVidia GeForceFX 5600 256MB AGP VGA
Creative 3D Blaster 3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB PCI Accelerator
Generic Realtek RTL8139 PCI NIC
Hercules GameTheater XP PCI Sound Card
Thermaltake V3 ATX Case + Thermaltake 450W PSU
Windows 98SE

Main Rig:

Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3.8GHz
Asus P8Z68-M Pro Motherboard
8GB PC3-12800 DDR SD-RAM
30GB SATA2 Kingston SSDNow SSD
5x SATA2 HDDs from 320GB to 1TB
2xSapphire Radeon HD 6870 1GB PCIe VGA
Onboard LAN
Onboard Audio
Antec 900 ATX Case + CM 650W PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Laptop:

Apple MacBook Pro 13" Early 2011
Intel Core i5 2430M @ 2.3GHz
8GB PC3-10700 DDR SD-RAM
320GB SATA2 Seagate Momentus HDD
Intel HD3000 Graphics
Apple OS X Lion 10.7.2

Non Intel rigs:

Apple Powerbook 520
Apple iBook G3 500MHz
Apple Macintosh Classic II
Apple Macintosh Quadra 700
Apple PowerMac G3 233MHz
Apple iMac G3 500MHz
Commodore Amiga A1200HD
SGI Indigo2

On the wishlist:

Roland SC-55
Gravis Ultrasound

Photos to come!

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Reply 1 of 8, by Tetrium

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You sure got a lot of rigs going! 😁

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Intel Pentium III-EB 1GHz (Coppermine)
Gigabyte GA-6OXT Motherboard

Your board supports Tualatins, I got the same board!

Whats missing in your collections?
My retro rigs (old topic)
Interesting Vogons threads (links to Vogonswiki)
Report spammers here!

Reply 2 of 8, by SquallStrife

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Fascinating... something else to keep an eye out for! 😀

Edit: I just grabbed a Tualatin 1.4GHz off eBay for $8 delivered!. Nice little upgrade!

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Reply 3 of 8, by GXL750

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^ I'm not sure about prices on those things now but I remember a few years ago, around 2007 I think, Tualatins were pretty much a dime a dozen and easier to find than motherboards that supported them.

The 1.266ghz PIII-S in my old Compaq box I remember getting in a lot of two matching chips for something cheap, more than $10 but less than $20 I remember. However, I'm guessing the 1.4ghz chips have a price premium being the fastest of the Tualatins.

Reply 4 of 8, by SquallStrife

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Socket 370 rig has been upgraded to a Tualatin 1.4GHz SL5XL.

I also added a GUS Classic 3.4 to the 486 rig. My setup is nearly complete! 😁

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Reply 6 of 8, by SquallStrife

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Yep, beige desktop case, 64MB of RAM, and a 10-ish GB HDD.

The only game I have for it is Dark Forces, and boy does it run well!

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Reply 7 of 8, by GXL750

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Have you ever tried browsing this site:
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/

Has tons of games; many actually quite fun.

Sometime before I gave my old Performa to a friend, I made an image of the hard drive to run in SheepShaver and I use that to play a bunch of the games I had loaded on it still. One of my favorites is a simple time killer game called Loneyly Time where you're looking for your lost pet cat. Another good one is a puzzle game called 3 in Three. And of course, I don't consider any Mac complete without a copy of Glider.

Reply 8 of 8, by SquallStrife

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Aww yeah, finally got some Tualatin happening:

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By and by, if you want to use CPU-Z 1.59 with Windows 98, you need to grab the VXD file from an earlier version of CPU-Z, because 1.59 doesn't seem to have it any more, but if you have the file there already, it works fine.

Edit: I put a copy of the VXD file into the driver library, under utilities. Just unRAR it, and put the VXD file in the same folder as the cpuz.exe file for any future version of CPU-Z, and it should detect everything properly.

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