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early Pentium 4 build with Rambus DRAM, Kyro 2 graphics & Win 98SE

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First post, by ildonaldo

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Please find here - due to the corona break- another (premature) build of mine 😉
Always (later) wanted a Rambus PC but never understood the fuss around Rambus ...

Board: Asus P4T, Intel 850 Chipset, Sockel 423, ATX
CPU: Pentium 4, Willamette, 1.5 GHz, Cooler with 60mm Lüfter
RAM: 1GB RDRAM (4x256MB), Samsung MR16R1628AF0-CK8 Rambus 256MB PC 800
2D/3D-Grafik: Hercules 3D Prophet 4500, 64MB, AGP
Sound: Creative Labs SB PCI 128 CT5803
HDD: IBM Deskstar 20.5GB, DTLA-305020, UDMA-100, 5400RPM
ODD: Hitachi GD7000 8X40X IDE DVD-ROM
FDD: 1.44 MB 3.5", Samsung SFD-321B
Case: NoName ATX
PSU: ATX 350W, Be quiet! Pure Power, BQT L7-350W
OS: Windows 98SE (inkl. Updates)

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Building my own PCs since 1991 - for my retro builds it's "no CF-disks, no Floppy emulators, no modern cases etc.", only the real and authentic stuff whenever possible.

Reply 2 of 5, by greasemonkey90s

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from my testing the kyro2 does better in w2k as far as scores. Seems the w2k driver is better tuned then the 98se one.

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Reply 3 of 5, by chinny22

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Nice, still want a rambus pc in my collection.
Seems crazy to want a build based solely on the ram type but still want one.
Having the Kyro seems like a good excuse to also keep the build around 😀

Reply 4 of 5, by ildonaldo

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I hoped to use it for my second Voodoo 5 5500 (AGP 2x) but unfortunately the board only supports AGP 4x.
... so I went for the Kyro II card.
I know that the Kyro II 4500 has some AGP bios bug but it works fine with the Asus P4T board.

Building my own PCs since 1991 - for my retro builds it's "no CF-disks, no Floppy emulators, no modern cases etc.", only the real and authentic stuff whenever possible.

Reply 5 of 5, by flupke11

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Well balanced system. I also like Rambus builds, although for each system at a certain point in time, there's a better (but less exciting) system that can be built with common SDR-SDram or DDR-SDram parts.

I have a 232-pins i850 RDRam system which performs not as good as the i865/i875 systems I have, but the weird RDRam itself is a reason to hold onto the system 😀.

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