my god it's beautiful. Awesome case for a old school build

Thank you! Sometime I'll post my other builds.

Old hardware in a nice case with plenty of cooling, gotta love it!

bit different as well, LX based P2 rather then a BX based P3. Don't know what Win9x games your playing but that's 1 sweet late DOS gaming PC

I love the 100R and 200R Corsair Carbide cases! I have the 200R for my i5 build, and sold my 100R case not too long ago. Is yours the silent edition? These cases are definitely a good alternative to older beige boxes, and newer cases with absurd geometric shapes.

Brickpad wrote:

I love the 100R and 200R Corsair Carbide cases! I have the 200R for my i5 build, and sold my 100R case not too long ago. Is yours the silent edition? These cases are definitely a good alternative to older beige boxes, and newer cases with absurd geometric shapes.

Yes, it is the silent edition. I kinda feel bad for wasting the front panel USB 3.0 ports, but I still like it. It barely fits the motherboard though. I had to put some electrical tape on the case to keep the back edge of the board from shorting out on the case. Also, because of that, I'm limited to using short length optical drives, which for me isn't a problem.

Nice build 😀 love the case with the labeling 😁
Got almost the same hardware, only not build yet, but i got an P2 350mhz.
Maybe you will look for an voodoo2?

wim wrote:

Nice build 😀 love the case with the labeling 😁
Got almost the same hardware, only not build yet, but i got an P2 350mhz.
Maybe you will look for an voodoo2?

What motherboard do you have and what's your graphics card?
Also, a Voodoo2? I was thinking more along the lines of an ATi RADEON 9200 128MB AGP card. A little overkill, I know...but it's not like I'm putting a nVidia GeForce 6800 in it or something like that.

nanospark wrote:

wim wrote:

Nice build 😀 love the case with the labeling 😁
Got almost the same hardware, only not build yet, but i got an P2 350mhz.
Maybe you will look for an voodoo2?

What motherboard do you have and what's your graphics card?
Also, a Voodoo2? I was thinking more along the lines of an ATi RADEON 9200 128MB AGP card. A little overkill, I know...but it's not like I'm putting a nVidia GeForce 6800 in it or something like that.

Mobo Abit AB-BH6 and an Asus P3B-F.
CPU pii 350mhz
256mb ram
I got also an TNT2 32mb, what is more than enough for my needs and the games i want to play when i done building it.
But in your case an 9200 agp will be a litle overkill 😉 what about an gf2 mx or gf2 gts/ti ?
I wish i had an voodoo2 (SLI?) next to it for the glide games, because my voodoo5 5500 is little overkill for 1995-1999 games 😀

Well...I feel kinda stupid. While I was looking through my hardware, I found that I didn't have my nVidia TNT2 card in this machine. Instead, I had a nVidia Vanta LT from an old Compaq Presario 5000 in there. After researching and comparing the specs between the two cards, I found the TNT2 to be the better card and installed that. I'm still keeping the possibility of upgrading to an ATi RADEON 9200 128MB AGP in mind.

Another thing in my mind to upgrade is the sound card. I'm still thinking of finding a Sound Blaster AWE32 unless someone has a card they want to suggest to me. The only thing is that it must be pure MS-DOS compatible with Adlib support (I can't get enough of Commander Keen 4's music 😜).

chinny22 wrote:

Old hardware in a nice case with plenty of cooling, gotta love it!

bit different as well, LX based P2 rather then a BX based P3. Don't know what Win9x games your playing but that's 1 sweet late DOS gaming PC

This board was given to me by someone that was parting out a case to use and was just going to throw it away. It came with 64MB SDRAM (speed unknown) and the PII 266 CPU. I also snagged the 5.25" floppy drive that he pulled out of that case too. That sits in my NEC PowerMate VP75 Pentium computer, which I'll probably showcase sometime in the future.

I've run into an interesting (but not system breaking) problem regarding the optical drive...I can't boot from it. I can boot from every other optical drive I put in here. The drive works in MS-DOS and Windows though. Could it be that the drive is too new or the fact that it's a DVD-RAM drive?

Nice build. I have issues with the "Ultimate win98 machine" tough. For me to label a machine as such, it needs to be the fastest supported configuration that will run windows 98 and windows 9x games - something along the lines of a 3.8 Ghz pentim 4 / Athlon 64 FX with a geforce 6800 or radeon x850xt. I'd call that ultimate because it should allow all games (that support these features) to run at 1600x1200 with AA enabled and maybe some forced AF.

You do have a nice well balanced build tough.

kanecvr wrote:

Nice build. I have issues with the "Ultimate win98 machine" tough. For me to label a machine as such, it needs to be the fastest supported configuration that will run windows 98 and windows 9x games - something along the lines of a 3.8 Ghz pentim 4 / Athlon 64 FX with a geforce 6800 or radeon x850xt. I'd call that ultimate because it should allow all games (that support these features) to run at 1600x1200 with AA enabled and maybe some forced AF.

You do have a nice well balanced build tough.

The "Ultimate Windows 98 Machine" label is more of a joke between a friend and I. He, on the other hand, has a Core 2 Quad and a GeForce 6800 GT in his former Win98 build. He's switching to a Socket 939 Athlon 64 for his revised build.

In my opinion this is a great Windows NT4.0 System
Dual CPUs! Supermicro board!!

And yes! You can game on NT4.0!!

266MHz and 320MB of ram for it is crazy overkill. I remember having like 64~96MB back in the day with my s370 Celeron 366MHz @ 550MHz. I know everyone runs overkill on old rigs though.

I really like that Corsair 100R case. I use a Corsair 230T Orange case for my main Core I7 computer.

only one cpu in a 2 cpu motherboard?

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only one cpu in a 2 cpu motherboard?

🤣 My board, when it was given to me, only came with 1 CPU and clip. If I wanted to secure another CPU to this board, I would have to get another clip. Would Windows 98 SE even support 2 CPUs?

No, but that isnt the point.

Also, if you decide to continue the heretic life, at least put a terminator in the 2nd slot.

But seriously, it looks awesome.

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