Welcome aboard and good luck with the new build.

Good luck with the build! I built a dedicted DOS gaming machine a couple years ago, and had a blast. Even with DOSBOX, PCEM, etc., it's still a ton of fun to use actual hardware.

Thanks for the reply 😀
And yes, a dedicated machine is a lot more fun... I guess there's the authentic feel to it.
Kind of like playing a SNES game on the SNES compared to on an emulator.

Welcome. V3 is a great card for build. You might want to consider getting a pentium mmx or k6+ cpu so you can use setmul for speed sensitive games.

kolderman wrote on 2022-11-08, 19:56:

Welcome. V3 is a great card for build. You might want to consider getting a pentium mmx or k6+ cpu so you can use setmul for speed sensitive games.

Indeed, the goal will be to run it with an amd k6-266
Board isn't a super socket7 and looks like an older socket7 so it won't be able to do k6-2's
However I am hoping once it's all setup that I can push up the fsb from 66 to 75 which should give me about 300mhz...

So Exciting, it's frustrating that I have to wait so long for the parts. Granted right now I am still missing a lot of cables, backplate ports, ribbon cables for hdd floppy, a floppy power cable that can plug into a sata or something...

I will have to try my hand at making a build video when I have everything.

Watch out your about to go down a rabbit hole 😀

Few suggestions,
Don't worry about Dos 6.22, booting into "dos 7" which sits under Win9x is perfictly suitable for gaming and gives a few extra benefits main one been Fat32 support.
Audigy is a really good card for 9x and at least it'll work in dos unlike most PCI cards, so no rush but keep a lookout on local trading sites, ebay, etc for isa cards. They can still come up for a honest price sometimes.
Ribbon cables I usually replace for sexy rounded ones anyway, again ebay and amazon have cheap ones that work fine.

but mostly enjoy the build, for alot of us thats more fun then the finished product!

I have an update...
I have been clearly reminded that building a socket 7 computer is an absolute pain.

I received my motherboard, the SMT VX3-2 Socket 7.
It has an old Intel VX Chipset.
It would read a 30gig drive which is good.
I never got the serial to work. Tried so many different serial cables, mices, even bought a Microsoft Serial mouse for 40$ on ebay, which works on another socket7 machine I found and bought directly.

Eventually after lots of pain, crashes and mouseless reinstalls of WIndows 98, I got it working perfectly with a usb card.
I got greedy and flashed the bios. And no more boot.
Drives no longer detected.
Fdisked and found that the computer now no longer supports 30gig dirves. Down to 10 gigs.

In desperation I found a firmware of a totally different board which the same chipset and similar layout. Flashed it, it booted right up but again, no K6 compatibility and more missing issues. This time the floppy was gone.
I reflashed it by copying a win98 startup disk on the harddrive with the bios flashing software and that old proper bios I had found.

And now I will again, just try to get it up and running, with my Pentium 133. If the serial mouse works in this specific configuration I will be happy.
At that point I would ebay a pentium 166 or 200 mmx
Get a cheap PCI ATI Rage card.
Perfectly configure the computer and send it off to market place.

I have been filming some of the early pain, I hope to make a youtube video at some point, granted it would be a first and I really suck at it.

To make my ideal configuration, I need to buy this.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/255864862690?_trkparm … fbb3c%7Ciid%3A1
Been spending a lot recently so... I am hesitant for now...

I also found and bought a K6-2 400 with motherboard but need to recap it.
So lots of projects I hope to move forward with... the issue is time.

Work, professional projects, home renovation, wife... so little time and I don't even have kids yet.

Hi!

Good luck with the build and be careful about the Audigy. Not all of them are created equal. The Audigy SE (SB0570) is not very good and I don't think it has W98 or DOS drivers.

Welcome aboard! Gib us pics! 😁 *insert angry mob pictures here*

Coolit83 wrote on 2022-12-29, 13:51:

Been spending a lot recently so... I am hesitant for now...

I also found and bought a K6-2 400 with motherboard but need to recap it.
So lots of projects I hope to move forward with... the issue is time.

Your issue will be space sooner or later 😜