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First post, by madcrow

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I recently got an old box that I'm hoping to turn into a retro gaming box. Here's the specs:
- AOpen AX6LC Motherboard with i440LX Chipset
- 333 MHz Pentium II CPU
- 128 MB RAM
- S3 ViRGE DX graphics card with 2 MB RAM
- Generic OPTi 82C931-based sound card.

All in all, it looks like a good box to run 2D games on. I might want to replace the hard drive at some point (It has bad sectors that caused it to fail to load its pre-installed copy of Windows 98) but otherwise I should be good to go.

Reply 1 of 2, by RacoonRider

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Nice PC 😀. You've got a great platform to play with and a lot to expand/improve. It's a good PC for early 3D as well, especially once you find a Voodoo 2 or even two of them. Good luck there!

Could you share some pics?

Reply 2 of 2, by Tetrium

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Iirc those early LX boards had weak power circuitry for the AGP slot, so power hungry AGP cards might give you some issues. Otherwise I kinda liked LX when I used it (had a s370 Celeron-400 rig for a year or 2 as my main (retro) rig with a PCI TNT2 M64 card and I think 192MB SDRAM).

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