DarthSun wrote on 2024-10-12, 13:57:

marcin512 wrote on 2024-10-12, 08:10:

Here's my retro open bench system: - Streacom BC1 v2 - ASUS P2B-LS (LAN not working :/) - ASUS GeForce FX5900 - Intel Pro 1000 G […]
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Here's my retro open bench system:
- Streacom BC1 v2
- ASUS P2B-LS (LAN not working 😒)
- ASUS GeForce FX5900
- Intel Pro 1000 GT
- QLogic QLA2200F
- Random 256MB SDRAM

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Very professional test table!

There's a special place for Pentium II build in my heart... so it has to like that 😀

Greetings all,
A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred), and upgraded from noisy stock coolers to noisy Thermaltake Volcano 9s. A very tight fit and I do deeply dislike Socket A mounting systems. At least these coolers have the luxury of 3-wide socket hooks.

Only one DuctingMod installed because I’ve only been able to find this one example in the last 7 years! Got one lying around? DM me, hun. Would love a second one in this machine.

Also did a lot of ribbon cable folding since there are 4 of them all fighting for space and I wanted to neaten it all up. As aluminium cases go, this one actually has a lot more routing space than something like a Lian-Li PC-60, but it’s still a real challenge in a PATA/floppy system with a sound card front panel. Intake air is still a problem to be solved as a result.

A strange machine in many ways, but I did enjoy gathering all the “silver” drives and other panels!

Tyan Tiger S2466
AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2133MHz
1GB PC2100R ECC
ATi Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
WD Caviar Blue 500GB PATA
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01

Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2024-10-30, 09:44:

Greetings all, A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred […]
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Greetings all,
A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred), and upgraded from noisy stock coolers to noisy Thermaltake Volcano 9s. A very tight fit and I do deeply dislike Socket A mounting systems. At least these coolers have the luxury of 3-wide socket hooks.

Only one DuctingMod installed because I’ve only been able to find this one example in the last 7 years! Got one lying around? DM me, hun. Would love a second one in this machine.

Also did a lot of ribbon cable folding since there are 4 of them all fighting for space and I wanted to neaten it all up. As aluminium cases go, this one actually has a lot more routing space than something like a Lian-Li PC-60, but it’s still a real challenge in a PATA/floppy system with a sound card front panel. Intake air is still a problem to be solved as a result.

A strange machine in many ways, but I did enjoy gathering all the “silver” drives and other panels!

Tyan Tiger S2466
AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2133MHz
1GB PC2100R ECC
ATi Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
WD Caviar Blue 500GB PATA
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01

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a stylish beast that one! top end performance for the era i would imagine!

Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2024-10-30, 09:44:

Greetings all, A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred […]
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Greetings all,
A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred), and upgraded from noisy stock coolers to noisy Thermaltake Volcano 9s. A very tight fit and I do deeply dislike Socket A mounting systems. At least these coolers have the luxury of 3-wide socket hooks.

Only one DuctingMod installed because I’ve only been able to find this one example in the last 7 years! Got one lying around? DM me, hun. Would love a second one in this machine.

Also did a lot of ribbon cable folding since there are 4 of them all fighting for space and I wanted to neaten it all up. As aluminium cases go, this one actually has a lot more routing space than something like a Lian-Li PC-60, but it’s still a real challenge in a PATA/floppy system with a sound card front panel. Intake air is still a problem to be solved as a result.

A strange machine in many ways, but I did enjoy gathering all the “silver” drives and other panels!

Tyan Tiger S2466
AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2133MHz
1GB PC2100R ECC
ATi Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
WD Caviar Blue 500GB PATA
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01

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What OS (or OS'es) are you running on that bad boy?

gerry wrote on 2024-10-31, 10:19:

a stylish beast that one! top end performance for the era i would imagine!

Stylish on the outside, and a Very Odd Duck on the inside!

Not exactly brilliant gaming performance, with the FSB performing quite leisurely even for 266MHz, no overclocking options at all, only AGP 4x, but it's not really intended for that.
It does work very well as a workstation: SMP, ECC and Registered memory, PCI-X, and generally rock solid operation as long as you can give it enough 5V current.

YesAffinity wrote on 2024-11-01, 16:55:

What OS (or OS'es) are you running on that bad boy?

A rather dull answer but XP Profesh, and Ubuntu 6.10. Should I try anything else?

AndrettiGTO wrote on 2024-04-05, 22:16:

Additional:

What keyboard is this?

theelf wrote on 2024-02-02, 09:51:

Hi, i found a seller that have this nice front plastic for 10 euro […]
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Hi, i found a seller that have this nice front plastic for 10 euro

Of course i buy to build a retro PC

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Lucky me i have a horrible ATX case i found in trash, but similar size, then i remove frontal, paint the old one, and start building my new retro PC

I decide for a Pentium 3 1ghz, 3x isa, lovely board

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Do you have more photos showing how you mounted AT case front to ATX case? What ATX case is it that has same size of that old AT?

davidrg wrote on 2024-02-02, 07:13:

Time for more DEC PCs! For these I've done away with the DEC CRTs - the older one is either too new or too old for all of these machines, while the newer one has issues so I've packed it back away. Instead I'm using an obviously wrong 17" Panasonic CRT from the late 90s.

[...]

I think thats about it for the DEC PCs. The two remaining PCs I have is a big Prioris HX or something, and a HiNote VP that I'm waiting on a PSU for to see if it works.

DEC cases are great, being so slim and much more elegant than similar cases from (i.e.) Compaq or HP. Very nice indeed.

phinix wrote on 2024-11-06, 00:28:

theelf wrote on 2024-02-02, 09:51:

Hi, i found a seller that have this nice front plastic for 10 euro […]
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Hi, i found a seller that have this nice front plastic for 10 euro

Of course i buy to build a retro PC

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Lucky me i have a horrible ATX case i found in trash, but similar size, then i remove frontal, paint the old one, and start building my new retro PC

I decide for a Pentium 3 1ghz, 3x isa, lovely board

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Do you have more photos showing how you mounted AT case front to ATX case? What ATX case is it that has same size of that old AT?

@phinix

Me wants to know too... !

Also, you painted the plastic panel then? I've been wanting to do that for a long time... How well does it look when in close-up? Did you use spray paint?

vlad0bs wrote on 2024-09-23, 14:47:

One of my ongoing retro projects finally finished..:) Kust the HP burner looks odd, but still cannot find a suitable replacemen […]
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One of my ongoing retro projects finally finished..😀 Kust the HP burner looks odd, but still cannot find a suitable replacement.
Dell GX110 running Win 98SE
Pentium III 1GHz S370
2x256MB PC133
Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9000 64MB PCI
Voodoo 2 12MB SLI
Creative Labs Soundblaster AWE64 Gold 12 MB
Yamaha SW60-XG
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Turtle Beach Montego PCI Aureal Vortex AU8820 OEM Dell

Looks totally full. 😁

My Pentium III desktop.

Cyfrifiadur wrote on 2024-10-30, 09:44:

Greetings all, A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred […]
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Greetings all,
A long-planned but very fiddly update to my dual-Athlon system. Upgraded from MP 2200+ to MP 2600+ (thoroughbred), and upgraded from noisy stock coolers to noisy Thermaltake Volcano 9s. A very tight fit and I do deeply dislike Socket A mounting systems. At least these coolers have the luxury of 3-wide socket hooks.

Only one DuctingMod installed because I’ve only been able to find this one example in the last 7 years! Got one lying around? DM me, hun. Would love a second one in this machine.

Also did a lot of ribbon cable folding since there are 4 of them all fighting for space and I wanted to neaten it all up. As aluminium cases go, this one actually has a lot more routing space than something like a Lian-Li PC-60, but it’s still a real challenge in a PATA/floppy system with a sound card front panel. Intake air is still a problem to be solved as a result.

A strange machine in many ways, but I did enjoy gathering all the “silver” drives and other panels!

Tyan Tiger S2466
AMD Athlon MP 2600+ 2133MHz
1GB PC2100R ECC
ATi Radeon X1950 PRO AGP 512MB
Terratec DMX 6fire 24/96
WD Caviar Blue 500GB PATA
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 650W
CoolerMaster WaveMaster TAC-T01

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Nice and professional config ! 😀

Marc Brucker wrote on 2024-11-07, 20:17:

My Pentium III desktop.

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A special shape house, but it looks good!

The system is build around my original Creative Voodoo 2 from 1998. Back then my machine had a very similar mainboard, also from FIC with a Pentium II 233 COU, for this build I decided to go with the faster 333mhz Version. Originally I tried to use SCSI drives, but all of my SCSI Drives are dead or really noisy.
Still not sure if I will use the HDD or the SD Card to IDE Adapter, for now it seems to run fine with an 16GB Card.

FIC VL-603 V1.3
Pentium II 333MHZ
2x 128 MB SD 133 RAM
Matrox G45+ (G450) 16MB
Creative Voodoo 2 12MB
Soundblaster Live!
Realtek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet
16GB SD Card
40GB Maxtor DiamondMAx (limited to 32GB)
Chieftec Dragon

/MZ wrote on 2024-11-16, 22:11:

The system is build around my original Creative Voodoo 2 from 1998. Back then my machine had a very similar mainboard, also from FIC with a Pentium II 233 COU, for this build I decided to go with the faster 333mhz Version. Originally I tried to use SCSI drives, but all of my SCSI Drives are dead or really noisy.

Pentium II 333 MHz, the king of the 66 MHz bus 😀 Looks like we have a similar taste in terms of the CPU, the FIC motherboard, the amount of RAM, the Matrox card for 2D, and the Voodoo 2 for 3D.

I wish I had never sold Chieftec case... It was a dumb move of mine in 2009.

I see that you only have 16A on the 5V rail in your PSU. You don't see any stability issues with this build?

The parts are very similar indeed, unfortunately I got the AMI Bios Version of the VL-601 and there is no >32GB HDD patch for it.

I am glad I found the Chieftec case locally. Original I was looking for a CS-601 case without any luck, but the Dragon is the same thing with USB and FireWire in the Front.

The system is stable running benchmarks and most of the games but freezes randomly on SimCiity 3000 and Quake II. Maybe it's a Matrox problem, or you are right, the PSU is not strong enough. At the moment, I can't test the 3dfx card, cause nothing on my desk has VGA inputs anymore. I'm still waiting for some cheap VGA to HDMI converter from Amazon.

But do you really need more than 32GB for this system? I have a 32GB flash card in mine, but 90% of the occupied space is by ISO images. If I committed to use physical discs, I would be able to survive on a much smaller card.

32GB would be perfect, but I don't have SD cards smaller than 64GB and the system will lock up at boot with everything larger than 33.8GB. For now, I stole the 16GB Card out of my pihole and eventually will order some new 32GB cards.

Figured I would post the recent Athlon XP build that I did.

Chieftec Dragon Case
Sparkle 350W PSU
ABIT NF7-S 2.0
Athlon XP 2500 + @ 3200+
Thermaltake Volcano 7
OCZ Platinum 2GB PC3200 @ CAS 2
Built By ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
Audigy 2 ZS Value

Pretty close to what I had 22 years ago. That build had a DFI NFII Ultra Infinity for the motherboard and the Chieftec Dragon case was blue. This yellow version was "New Old Stock", never used.

That's so beautiful. Yellow case and side window screams high-end Athlon XP like nothing else.

I also had a Chieftec case, Athlon XP and a 9700 Pro back then. But I remember hating that case, I was kicking myself for choosing it in black because it looked so boring, it felt like gaming on a backup server.