Sounds like an awesome old school gaming rig, what OS do you run on it?

Yes it is 😀

it's fast and pratical.. All games under 1999 run perfectly, and others are going very well until 2001/2002

The OS is Windows 98SE

mav85ale wrote:

Yes it is 😀

it's fast and pratical.. All games under 1999 run perfectly, and others are going very well until 2001/2002

The OS is Windows 98SE

Sounds great! Post some pics?

Just some shot, in bad quality, taken on the fly

this weekend, if I can, unmount all and I take this opportunity for a good cleaning!

Cabinet

Burner

PSU

Overview

Creative SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold

Creative Upgrade Memory for the AWE64 Gold

Matrox Mystique 220

3Dfx Voodoo, Diamond Monster 3D

You have a beautiful rig!

I bought this pc in 1997,

originally was a
Pentium 133MHz
32MB SIMM 72pin
S3d Virge 325 2MB
Opti 82c931 16Bit 3D Soundcard (full version with IDE and WaveTable)

some year later, in 1999, I upgrade it with 64MB PC66, SiS 6326 4MB and a Modem 56K v90! 😀

Really good times!

The funny fact is, that everyone I know couldn't really afford a Matrox and a Voodoo and a good soundcard back in the day.

Almost everyone had 16-32MB ram, S3 something vga, no voodoo and Opti or SB Vibra at best.
But all of them were young people back then and their parents bought those PCs.
I think that this adds to the nostalgia factor: To be able to play a game from your childhood that you couldn't because of crap CPU/VGA/no 3D, or that you could but at lowest settings, struggling and streching your hardware. :p

you're right 😀

also because I was 12 in 97! and the configuration was born as advice on a good PC for a boy of 12-13-14-15 years

in 2000/2001 I chose my third home configuration to the last detail knowing what I wanted

Athlon 1200MHz, 256MB PC133, 40GB HDD, GeForce 2MX and Creative SB AudioPCI

GeorgeMan wrote:

The funny fact is, that everyone I know couldn't really afford a Matrox and a Voodoo and a good soundcard back in the day. […]
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The funny fact is, that everyone I know couldn't really afford a Matrox and a Voodoo and a good soundcard back in the day.

Almost everyone had 16-32MB ram, S3 something vga, no voodoo and Opti or SB Vibra at best.
But all of them were young people back then and their parents bought those PCs.
I think that this adds to the nostalgia factor: To be able to play a game from your childhood that you couldn't because of crap CPU/VGA/no 3D, or that you could but at lowest settings, struggling and streching your hardware. :p

Couldn't agree more!

Im 99% sure that I currently own either my family's pc from 97 or a close family friend's identical system. 32mb of ram, Pentium 166, Labway Yamaha ISA audio and a S3 Trio64 😁 Pretty much fits the stereotype eh?

I remember at least 4-5 friends with the same pc 😁

My uncle bought a pc in early 1997.
Pentium MMX 166, Intel 82430tx mobo, 2x16MB EDO SIMMs, S3 Trio64V+ 1MB, Opti ISA sound, Seagate Medalist 2GB, no cd-rom (fitted a year later).
OS: Windows 95 (B or C). Monitor: Panasonic PanaSync 15" CRT with integrated speakers.

All again the same, yay 😜

That burner looks like my first 24x4x4 drive although mine was a Iomega "ZipCD"

Good drive while it lasted, Burnt many, many disks as I was the 1st in my group of friends to get a burner.
Still have it but spends more time spinning up/down then actually reading disks 🙁

Really like the official Creative memory upgrade, don't see many of them on a 64 Gold as well, top of the top range for the day

Nice build mate!! My first pc was kind of the 'same pc' you all are talking about... my parents bought it in Dec 1997 when I was 6.
It was a 166MMX, TX mobo, 32MB EDO-ram, HD 2.1GB, S3 VirgeDX 2MB... and a 'multimedia pack' (SB Vibra 16 + CDROM 24x).

I'm currently building, just for fun, a very similiar one (233MMX). I'll show you the advances soon, as I'm new here 🤣 🤣

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That burner looks like my first 24x4x4 drive although mine was a Iomega "ZipCD" http://images.tecchannel.de/images/tecchannel/bd […]
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That burner looks like my first 24x4x4 drive although mine was a Iomega "ZipCD"

Good drive while it lasted, Burnt many, many disks as I was the 1st in my group of friends to get a burner.
Still have it but spends more time spinning up/down then actually reading disks 🙁

Really like the official Creative memory upgrade, don't see many of them on a 64 Gold as well, top of the top range for the day

Yes it's the same!

I think post some better pictures later! With other VGA that I use for gaming that required native API

I have not had time to remake good photos.. meanwhile two vga I use when games require specific card

S3 Virge DX 86c375, 4MB (2MB+2MB Upgrade), for S3d games

ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI, 8MB (4MB+4MB Upgrade)

mav85ale wrote:

S3 Virge DX 86c375, 4MB (2MB+2MB Upgrade), for S3d games

That card has 50ns EDO RAM, there are certainly faster Virge cards which might make a difference with S3d.

Not much better

the only Virge really better are the GX2 (up to 8 MB), about twice performance of the original S3d (325)