First post, by ibm5155
A long time ago I entered on the Old world of computers, I was thinking what is the machine that will allow me to play almost all games since the start and till 2000, also, the project needed to be cheaper, so I thinked the best system would be a Socket 7 one.
Some time researching, I ended finding a badass case, it wasn't the same I wished, but it was almost perfect, and in NEW contidion!!!!
http://bimg2.mlstatic.com/gabinete-at-novo-na … 7623_072013.jpg (case image)
and it was cheaper 🤣 (plus with install manual), next pass would be get a motherboard, since most people would sell the motherboard with cpu + ram I would need to find some stuff, on my researching I ended up on a MS-5184, I thinked it was a fine motherboard, but I ended discovering that it had 1mb l2 cache + 786mb of ram support 😳 (but I still think mixing EDO + SDRAM may end bad), and the best part, super socket 7 !!! (It can update to a K6-III or K6-III+ with bios upgrade).
One cool think is that the motherboard jumpers are actually switches (kinda oldschool), the only problem with the mb, would be the clock display led, there's no support on the mb '-' (so it would be useless, but I ended up taking some energy from usb 2 port to at least make it on)....
I already had alot of sdram memory and hdds so it wasn't a problem for me, the next step: GPU,I tested my ati radeon 7200 and fx5500, but it ended up that the drivers was so heavy that I needed to get a gpu,since I didn't find none 3DFX voodoo 1 and 2 here, I got stucked with voodoo 3, and, it wasn't actually bad.
Finally, the most important part, the sound card, witch one should I get? I knew it should be sound blaster compatible, has opl3 and maybe some wavetable, looking around, I found a weird sound card that I never saw over internet, an Guillemot Maxi Sound Game Theater 64, and acording to reviews, it was actually better than a Sound Blaster AWE64 so gg $$$
The sound card was in good condition, and it came with the manual and even a pod game install with MAXI 5.1 sound support 😳 (it's just lame there wasn't a patch that had MAXI sound + Voodoo patch ...)
So I ended up with this config:
-128mb sdram
-3DFX VOODOO 3 3000 AGP http://i.imgur.com/9kSdT8c.jpg
-1 usb 2.0 pci with 5 usbs (1 inside that's being used to light up the clock display)
-2 usb 1.1 onboard (used for mouse and keyboard)
-Maxi Sound Game Theater 64 (4mb onboard wavetable) http://i.imgur.com/x8f6Y65.jpg
-MS-5184 motherboard http://i.imgur.com/IULDJtj.jpg
-80Gb seagate
-ATX psu (FSP250-60GTA)
-Pentium MMX 233MHz
-Aoc 4vn crt monitor (1024x768 max res) http://www.todomercado.com/tm/aviso/img_aviso … RDOPISCRAFT.jpg (example photo)
Here's the computer in action in some games/music : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2A7fqIF9Y8
PLUS: with all that adventure, I ended up making a text engine, and yes, it's for ms-dos 😁 (windows too and some kind of linux support)
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Hi 😁
so I´m building an old computer, for now I only have the floppy disk, dvd-rom, hard disk, case, gpu, processor, memory, power supply and the motherboard.
The case is an generic case (Picture), but it really looks new 😳, the motherboard is still coming but it´s the Via Ms5184(Picture).
I even have 386mb sdram and since this motherboard support it, I may add it.
The gpu is an old Ati Radeon 7200, 233MHz pentium MMX, 64mb edo and for now no sound card =/
I still have some questions, what sound card should I buy? and it´s better buy an isa or pci sound card? the best ones that I found to sell was theses ones
1)Sound Blaster Awe64 Ct4380 Isa(Picture)
2)GUILLEMOT MAXI SOUND 64 GAME THEATER
Also about the gpu, this one would be good for that system?
Also, first post 😁