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First post, by Almoststew1990

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I've had my trusty Slot A PC for a while, but it's been packed away to make room for various project PCs. I decided to get it out as I was getting bored with the slowness of my project P3 450MHz.

I ordered a CF card adapter and card for it as I have had a lot of problems with harddrives and IDE cables - somehow I had managed to run out of 80 ribben IDE cables (which I didn't think was posible?) and using a few old 40 ribben I was having slave/master problems. Also my harddrives were getting noisy.

Without the need for 3.25 bays I could use a new case. I could really do with a black IDE CD Drive though!

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It's a Slot Athlon 800MHz (Pluto core)
MS-6191 with an Irongate 750 chipset
384MB RAM
MX440
SB Live!
8GB 60m/s CF card with a £5 adapter from China. I must say I am now converted to using CF cards - it's very responsive in terms of access times (even if load times for games are still long, limited by the CPU I assume).

I've dumped my DOS game collection onto it and enjoying the 'delights' of my SB Live!; pretty crappy Soundblaster support but General MIDI at least sounds nice.

It can even run Morrowind!
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Yeah It runs very poorly for a PC quite a bit above the minimumr requirements, at 640*480!

Ryzen 3700X | 16GB 3600MHz RAM | AMD 6800XT | 2Tb NVME SSD | Windows 10
AMD DX2-80 | 16MB RAM | STB LIghtspeed 128 | AWE32 CT3910
I have a vacancy for a main Windows 98 PC

Reply 1 of 3, by Gered

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Cool stuff! Yeah, you definitely need a black CD drive though. 😜

The old AMD Duron 800Mhz PC my brother and I had when we were younger ran Morrowind very similarly. And yet we played through the entire game that way. I've basically re-built this PC of ours this past year (only missing an equivalent case to the one we had) and, just like you, I installed Morrowind on it and had an immediate "how the heck did we ever play through the entire game like this!?" reaction 🤣.

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P233 MMX/64MB/Voodoo2/Matrox/YMF719/GUS CD3
Duron 800/256MB/Savage4 Pro/SBLive (IN PROGRESS)
Toshiba 430CDT

Reply 2 of 3, by chinny22

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Ah shame, initial impressions of my Slot A were not great, was kind of hoping it was the AMD-751 Northbridge / VT82C686A Southbridge combination to blame.
Still not done with that PC, just need some time to tweak it as still new to Slot A and AMD as a whole

No matter what Slot A is still interesting and pretty rare now, plus was LGR's Win98 PC till only recently that's bonus cool points right?

Reply 3 of 3, by Almoststew1990

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Yes I was a bit sad when he said he was dumping his Athlon in that Windows 98 PC build! I thought I'd found a fellow believer 😁

To be fair I haven't had any problems with my board other than it not supporting my 700MHz thunderbird CPU which in theory it should. Its been my go-go build, not really looked after just bung it in a case and turn it on and it's always worked. Never had driver issues with it either.

Ryzen 3700X | 16GB 3600MHz RAM | AMD 6800XT | 2Tb NVME SSD | Windows 10
AMD DX2-80 | 16MB RAM | STB LIghtspeed 128 | AWE32 CT3910
I have a vacancy for a main Windows 98 PC