Hello every one ! Well, I'm Thomas, I'm from France.
It's been quite some times since I've started reading this board. You guys are awesome of knowledge.
So thank you every one for helping me
I've always really liked old games, despite of my age of 25, and since I got some money to spend, I can now bring this project to life.
I'm a HUGE fan of the 96-99~early2000 era pc games which I consider to be the golden age of 3D PC game.
A period of huge innovation in term of level design, game systems, and art direction. Since nowadays, photo real 3D is kinda killing creativity.
Also, I do really like the "colorfull" rendering of thoses engines. Anyways.
It spends now some months since I'm digging the internet, collecting hardware, so here what I have got.
Here is the case. Lian-Li PC70 I guess. Got it on the "french craiglist" for 90 bucks, delivered to my house. It includes power suply, and looks pretty brand new, and complete. Multiple fans regulators, and USB front panel. Steel build like a tank
I'll update this thread as long as I get new hardware.
I'm currently needing some good crt. I've go a trinitron hmd a220, but really dont like the pseudo organic 2000 shape of it
I found an Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450, but it's about a hundred kilometers.
I'm most likely about to buy an adaptec 2940uw and some scsi hard drives. It would be an interesting setup to deal with.
Is there any problem using 80pin to 68pin/molex adapter ? Since I can get 80pin 15k rpm for a pretty low price nearby ? Or should I stick with 68pin ?
In a perfect world, I need to replace my desktop aswell. But this is another story.
Anyways, hope you enjoy.
You have a quite interesting project. A high-end year 2000-2001 system with a 2004 cpu...
The Thermalright SI97 with noiseblocker and a fast 10-15k SCSI drive is some kind of diverging.
Do you want high fan and hdd performance regardless the noise or (i would perform...) a silent PC?
What kind of OS you want to install, 98 or XP?
1.5Gb ram is too much for win98...
I'm most likely into building the most efficient V5 5500/socket A 98se rig.
Since that mobo is able to eat a 3000+, I said to myself why not ?
About scsi, it comes to me more like curiosity, and technology interest, than a necessity, and what you are pointint is absolutly true.
I guess, silent is a better choice.
About the OS, It's for that kind of advice I'm here. I'm going for 98se. Max 512 ?
hello!
Your off to a very nice start! Would love a Voodoo 5 but not enough for the prices they demand.
I agree with you on Creative CD-ROM drives, They are not that good, even compared to other drives from the same era but is something quite retro about them.
I wouldn't recommend SCSI, most drives will be form old servers so will have alot of hours on them, noisy, expensive. Unless its becasue you simply want to play with SCSI and nothing to do with being practical, in which case go for it!
hello!
Would love a Voodoo 5 but not enough for the prices they demand.
Me too.
I've got a GF2 GTS for 1€ last year, a compareable card to the V5, but i wouldn't pay these incredible prices today...
It's like it is, the market regulate pricing...
Cool case, I love those Lian-li (and not because I had a similar one, but smaller and served me well from 2003 to the last year 😁 ). You're lucky that you have also the original bezels, they cost me a fortune to buy them additionally back at the time.
Some very nice choices. I recommend you run Win98SE with 512MB RAM.
I run an Adaptec 2940UW with a 10,000 RPM drive. These parts are expensive and you'll need to have some method of cooling the hard drive. With a 15,000 RPM drive, the cooling will become even more important. I really think you should just use ATA133. It's much cheaper, quieter, cooler, and performance will be about the same.
Another useful feature of lian-li case is that is made of aluminium. So in fact it works as large HDD cooler (which has it downsides in this case as the drives are screwed right into chassis and transfer vibrations and noise), in my experience one slow 80mm fan at the front of the case, where is a dust filter, is more than sufficient for cooling 2 - 3 drives.
