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First post, by Robhalfordfan

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This is the new version of "my first vintage pc build (Win95)"

after building my 486 build and slowly realised that that my original win95 build was basically the best it was gonna be and pretty much a more powerful version of my 486 build and deciding to upgrade the mobo/cpu etc and have something that sits in-between my 486 (dos/win3.11) and p4 (win98) build

old specs - my first vintage pc build (Win 95) - RETIRED

don't mind the stickers on case as i got them when this was the p233mmx build 😁

specs are :-

Motherboard - Asus P5A-B - Rev 1.03 (Super Socket 7)
PSU - 200W AT
Processor - AMD K6-2 + @ 475mhz (With Heatsink/Fan)
Ram - 128mb (PC133 SD Ram)
Graphic card - Creative Graphics Blaster CT6710 - 16mb (AGP 2x)
3D Accelerator - Gainward Dragon 1000 - VooDoo 1 - 4mb (PCI)
Sound Card - Creative Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold (with 4mb Memory Upgrade Board) CT4390 (ISA)
Network - Intel Pro/100+ PCI

Drives
- Sony CRX 160E CD Rewriter
- 3.5 Floppy Drive (720kb - 1.44mb)
- Western Digital WD400BB-75DEA0 - 40gb HDD

I/O Ports
- 1x PS/2 Port
- 1x DB-9 M Serial
- 1x DB-25 M Serial
- 1x DB-25 F Parallel
- 1x AT Keyboard Port
- 1x Gameport/MIDI Port (On Soundblaster Card)
- 1x Ethernet Port (On Intel Network card)

Extras
- PCI Extractor Fan (Under VooDoo Card)
- 80mm Case Fan
- Saitek X6-31M Gamepad
- Keymouse 3-Button Serial Mouse OR PS/2 Mouse

Operating System
- Windows 95 OSR 2.5 (With Plus Installed)

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Last edited by Robhalfordfan on 2023-09-03, 10:49. Edited 2 times in total.

Reply 1 of 6, by Repo Man11

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Setting the display to the actual MHz was a nice touch! did that takes lots of trial and error, or did you find some documentation?

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Reply 2 of 6, by Robhalfordfan

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-09-02, 13:40:

Setting the display to the actual MHz was a nice touch! did that takes lots of trial and error, or did you find some documentation?

thank you and it was trial and error and moving the jumpers around until it said the actual mhz, took about 5 mins 😀

Reply 3 of 6, by luk1999

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So you've finally decided to have a stronger CPU (I remember that you've asked for something faster than V1 and TNT2 M64 for your P233). Good choice.
Have you noticed any issues with TNT? Some people says that AGP cards cause often troubles on SS7 ALI/VIA mobos.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Robhalfordfan

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luk1999 wrote on 2023-09-02, 15:16:

So you've finally decided to have a stronger CPU (I remember that you've asked for something faster than V1 and TNT2 M64 for your P233). Good choice.
Have you noticed any issues with TNT? Some people says that AGP cards cause often troubles on SS7 ALI/VIA mobos.

i did have to downgrade the clock speed of cpu below 300mhz (something like that) with the jumpers and then installed windows 95 then appiled the k6-2 patch and move jumpers back to normal clock speed

i haven't noticed any issues with agp with ss7 ali chipset, i installed the usb supp first and then agp driver for mobo (windows 95 only and had to be osr 2.5) before graphics driver and voodoo drivers

the only other issue i had with when installing latest ref drivers for voodoo 1 gave a black screen on boot - i used the version before and works fine

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Reply 5 of 6, by dr_st

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This thread made me remember my AT case with a Socket 7 board that had a Pentium 200 MMX CPU in it. Unfortunately it broke down and I got rid of it way before I got the "retro hardware" bug. The case was somewhat similar to this one, but if you asked me what motherboard was in it, I wouldn't remember now. Not even sure if it was the regular Socket 7 or the Super variant.

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Reply 6 of 6, by Robhalfordfan

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dr_st wrote on 2023-09-02, 21:25:

This thread made me remember my AT case with a Socket 7 board that had a Pentium 200 MMX CPU in it. Unfortunately it broke down and I got rid of it way before I got the "retro hardware" bug. The case was somewhat similar to this one, but if you asked me what motherboard was in it, I wouldn't remember now. Not even sure if it was the regular Socket 7 or the Super variant.

I think it was the same for me as with the first "family" pc we had when i was kid was a packard bell (around 1996/1997) and of course got rid it when it became outdated and upgraded to a new computer (if only we knew when we were kids 😀)

I did originally wanted to rebuild my childhood pc when i caught retro pc bug but what came of it was the original win95 build (which specs was better and faster that the packard bell i had when i was kid) and now this version

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