very nice 99-00 build. but its not budget for 1999, more like high end excepting the video card (a v3, gf256 or matrox g400 would make it period correct). such a system would have cost an arm, a leg & a ball back in 99.

sgt76 wrote:

very nice 99-00 build. but its not budget for 1999, more like high end excepting the video card (a v3, gf256 or matrox g400 would make it period correct). such a system would have cost an arm, a leg & a ball back in 99.

Exactly what I thought when I saw this. I consider my PII-450 with TNT2 and V2 SLI a high-end and this "budget" one would leave it in the dust 😀

The case is neat though.

So I guess its semi high end then.

Yeah only the video card is more on the budget side for the Geforce 2 cards, although the pentium 3 is on the lower side of the clock spectrum. The Celeron would make it more of a budget thing. Although it would be nice to get a higher clocked P3 in this thing, its just barely making it for some games.

The sound card is pretty shit though, It would be nice to get a Sound Blaster Live going in it, but I've never got one to work. Every time I try installing drivers, its all like "cannot detect the card".

Fixed the thread name though 😜

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IMO "not so budget" for 2000 would probably mean splurging on first-gen Williamette hype and puting in a 3D Prophet II, Sound Blaster Live 5.1 + LiveDrive and going for the dreadful RDRAM and a Windows ME/2000 dualboot, all ready for hotly anticipated titles such as 007:World Is Not Enough, Obi-Wan, Loose Cannon, Neverwinter Nights, Halo, Max Payne, Ultima Online II, and Duke Nukem Forever 😀

leileilol wrote:

IMO "not so budget" for 2000 would probably mean splurging on first-gen Williamette hype and puting in a 3D Prophet II, Sound Blaster Live 5.1 + LiveDrive and going for the dreadful RDRAM and a Windows ME/2000 dualboot, all ready for hotly anticipated titles such as 007:World Is Not Enough, Obi-Wan, Loose Cannon, Neverwinter Nights, Halo, Max Payne, Ultima Online II, and Duke Nukem Forever 😀

I always wondered what was RDRAM used for.Anyways I have a bunch of Samsung RDRAM sticks (different sizes)but I've got no board to use them in.

Honestly, your rig strikes me more as something that was built around 2000, and given a couple of upgrades in 2001/2002. The GF2MX didn't exist until 2001, and I don't think having 512MB of ram was even a semi-common thing until at least 2002. The overclock also sort of strikes me as the sort of thing someone on a budget would do to squeeze more power out of their gear. 🤣

Still a nice build, however. 😀 Throw in a faster P3 to make the most of the ram and GF2, and it'll really be kickin'.

I don't know what it would be tbh, I'm very uneducated in the ways of P2s and P3s. Those times seemed to be quite a bit funky, there was so much technical advancement.

I looked on wikipedia and it said that the Geforce 2 MX cards were from 2000, although I wonder if the MX200/400 came out a year later. The computer seemed to originally have 256MB. I have though of getting a faster P3 for this system, one over a GHz would be nice, but before I do that I'd like a P2 around the 366Mhz range or so to fill in that gap.

🤣 DNF.