First post, by bZbZbZ
Hello everyone, first post...
This is, for the most part, a re-assembly of the first computer I put together by myself ~20 years ago (I was in high school at the time). I rescued several old computers from my parents' house last year and decided, inspired in part by all of you, to re-live some childhood memories.
This first PC here actually had Windows XP on it, and it had a Radeon R100 64MB DDR. We had another PC (Celeron 533Mhz) with a Voodoo3 3000 AGP (which our family had bought in 1999). I decided there was no sense keeping both the Celeron and PIII so I put the Celeron and Radeon in storage and paired the Voodoo3 with the PIII (Glide is fun). Of course I stripped all the parts down for cleaning and re-assembly. I wiped the hard drive and installed Windows 98SE.
The only thing here that's NOT original are the two fans which I've installed below the Voodoo3. As you know, the Voodoo3 tends to get very hot and I decided to add some active cooling. However I wasn't too keen to physically modify the card, or install janky fans onto the heatsink with zipties, etc. Instead I found this "VGA cooling bracket" on AliExpress for ~$3, which accepts 92mm fans and installs immediately below (but doesn't touch) the video card. I picked up a couple Arctic fans and a fan controller. This is definitely overkill but it works fabulously. Otherwise, all of the below parts were bought ages ago and kept. Everything works perfectly, except the optical drives which sometimes have trouble.
CPU: Intel Pentium III 700MHz Slot 1
MB: ABIT BF6 (Intel 440BX), with 512 MB SDRAM
VGA: 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value
LAN: Linksys 10/100 PCI
Case: knockoff A500
Storage: Seagate 40GB 7200RPM IDE, Lite-On DVD reader + burner
LG Flatron 19" CRT monitor (this is our only surviving CRT, which we purchased on Boxing Day 2004)
IBM Model M keyboard (label says 1987, we acquired it sometime in the late 1990's)
Logitech ball mouse with 3M "precise mousing surface"
