tarik wrote on 2025-08-28, 11:40:

Did you DIY the coolers? They look super cool and seem built to last.

No sir they're just some coolers I had laying around when I built the systems.
Cooler on the i7 is a Scythe Grand Kama Cross and on the Pentium 4 is a Zalman CNPS7700.

The cooler on the nvidia 4600ti ís custom, it's a Zalman VF1000 gpu cooler.

TIMMUN, excellent photography of some beautiful builds.

Boomer wrote on 2025-03-19, 11:49:

Hello Does early AMD socket 939 high-end AGP system hit different than old beige Intel computers? 😁 Here is my specs: AMD Athlon […]
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Hello
Does early AMD socket 939 high-end AGP system hit different than old beige Intel computers? 😁
Here is my specs:
AMD Athlon x2 4800+
MSI K8N NEO2 PLATINUM
ATI HD3850 AGP
KINGSTON HYPERX DDR1 512MT x4
SOUND BLASTER X-FI ELITE SB0550

why yes yes they do!

AMD Athlon X2 4400+ OCed to 2.4GHz (4800+)
Asus A8NSLI32 Deluxe
Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+
2GB Corsair XMS DDR 400 (2x 1GB)
250GB Maxtor MaxLine III (probably going to upgrade to a more modern HDD as this is dog slow even for a 7200RPM Sata drive)
Audigy 2 ZS

iGamer wrote on 2025-09-02, 21:42:

why yes yes they do! […]
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why yes yes they do!

AMD Athlon X2 4400+ OCed to 2.4GHz (4800+)
Asus A8NSLI32 Deluxe
Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+
2GB Corsair XMS DDR 400 (2x 1GB)
250GB Maxtor MaxLine III (probably going to upgrade to a more modern HDD as this is dog slow even for a 7200RPM Sata drive)
Audigy 2 ZS

it is cool looking, what kinds of games would you say are the sweet spot for this set up that is kind of in between 'beige' and later systems?

wanzerr wrote on 2025-08-03, 23:00:

PD2JK wrote on 2025-08-02, 17:37:

Indeed, I recognize the Sony SD-HS73P monitor (I have the 74), but a Kayak is worth taking a picture of. 😉

Please see attached 😀

No interior pics - it is clean, but boring with the original airflow ducts installed.

Beautiful machine, very unique looking case never seen any like that before.

iGamer wrote on 2025-09-02, 21:42:

AMD Athlon X2 4400+ OCed to 2.4GHz (4800+) Asus A8NSLI32 Deluxe Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+ 2GB Corsair XMS DDR 400 (2x 1GB) 250GB […]
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AMD Athlon X2 4400+ OCed to 2.4GHz (4800+)
Asus A8NSLI32 Deluxe
Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+
2GB Corsair XMS DDR 400 (2x 1GB)
250GB Maxtor MaxLine III (probably going to upgrade to a more modern HDD as this is dog slow even for a 7200RPM Sata drive)
Audigy 2 ZS

A good-looking machine. The red LED fan is custom, right? Most TT cases from that era had blue LED fans, IIRC.
Is that a DELL 2007FP?

Hello! Long time lurker but finally put together a 1999/2000ish 440BX build and wanted to share before I move onto a 386 build.

Mobo: ABIT BF6
Slocket: ASUS S370-DL
CPU: PIII 1000/256/133 (set to 133FSB and stable, for some reason 100FSB Coppermines have given me more issues)
RAM: 2 x 256MB Micron PC100 (might change to 133 but they're stable right now too)
PSU: 650W Enermax EG651P-VE
AGP: Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 Ultra (with a Zalman cooler I took from a Radeon HD 4670)
PCI #3: Adaptec AHA-3940UW SCSI controller
PCI #4: Tseng Labs ET6000 4MB
PCI #5: Digital Research "DRSOUNDPCI" (YMF724F-V)
ISA: Axra 3D (YMF719E-S)
CD Drive: SCSI Plextor PX-32TSi from an IBM workstation
HDD 1: 20GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus (Windows 98SE)
HDD2: 7.5GB Quantum Fireball LCT 15 (DOS 6.22 / Windows 95)
Other: Zip 250

sunkindly wrote on 2025-09-11, 16:18:

Hello! Long time lurker but finally put together a 1999/2000ish 440BX build and wanted to share before I move onto a 386 build. […]
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Hello! Long time lurker but finally put together a 1999/2000ish 440BX build and wanted to share before I move onto a 386 build.

Mobo: ABIT BF6
Slocket: ASUS S370-DL
CPU: PIII 1000/256/133 (set to 133FSB and stable, for some reason 100FSB Coppermines have given me more issues)
RAM: 2 x 256MB Micron PC100 (might change to 133 but they're stable right now too)
PSU: 650W Enermax EG651P-VE
AGP: Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 Ultra (with a Zalman cooler I took from a Radeon HD 4670)
PCI #3: Adaptec AHA-3940UW SCSI controller
PCI #4: Tseng Labs ET6000 4MB
PCI #5: Digital Research "DRSOUNDPCI" (YMF724F-V)
ISA: Axra 3D (YMF719E-S)
CD Drive: SCSI Plextor PX-32TSi from an IBM workstation
HDD 1: 20GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus (Windows 98SE)
HDD2: 7.5GB Quantum Fireball LCT 15 (DOS 6.22 / Windows 95)
Other: Zip 250

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A great selection!

Thanks!

The 386 build is coming along now! Here's the behemoth Syscon Consulting / Northgate Elegance AT board and how the cable management is going. Had to move the speaker to accommodate it.

CPU: Intel 386DX-25 w/ 387 coprocessor
RAM: 8MB
Cache: 256KB
ISA: GoldStar Prime-2
ISA: Video Seven VEGA VGA-16
ISA: Sound Blaster 16
HDD: 140MB Western Digital Caviar 2170

What a nice board! And with maxed out cache + FPU one can expect tremendous performance....

(btw do you know the release date / bios date of the board?)

Aui wrote on 2025-09-15, 22:27:

What a nice board! And with maxed out cache + FPU one can expect tremendous performance....

(btw do you know the release date / bios date of the board?)

It is, it's beautiful!

The board has a date of 08/09/89 and the BIOS date is 04/09/90 (DINT-6061-040990-KH)

Current state of my collection (minus various cards that are not currently in any builds, various motherboards and peripherals).

The PC on my desk to the right is my "1999 dream PC build" with Pentium III 733MHz/Gigabyte GA-6VXC7-4X/512Mb PC133 SDRAM/3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16Mb/Diamond Monster 3D Sound MX300 (Aureal Vortex 2)/TP-Link 10/100 ethernet card.

I finally have a Trinitron G220 DualScan, although I'd argue the Viewsonic you see in the picture compares very favorably to it.

The other computer on the desk is something else I wanted and couldn't afford in the 2000s. Basically, my 2002 dream PC. It already has a Pentium 4 Willamette 1.6GHz in it, with D850MD Medford motherboard, 512Mb PC800 RDRAM, which is a silly thing I drooled over back in the day, and a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound card. Currently it has a GeForce4 MX440 in it, but I'm putting a GeForce4 Ti4200 in it pretty soon - one is on its way from Germany.

And then there's about 11 more builds starting with Pentium 133MHz non-MMX and ending with a Core2Quad Q9400, my XP gaming rig.

And there's a Dell Poweredge 2300 server down in the bottom I'm restoring - doesn't have the PSU to be operational, and I'll likely need to source SCSI-2 hard drives or replacements to make it operational and tinker with it quite a bit - but with two Pentium III CPUs it could be the backbone and shared storage of my retro infrastructure.

songoffall wrote on 2025-09-16, 16:51:

Current state of my collection (minus various cards that are not currently in any builds, various motherboards and peripherals).

Nice collection. Are you using a KVM or just moving the one you want to play with to your desk?

RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-09-17, 06:21:

songoffall wrote on 2025-09-16, 16:51:

Current state of my collection (minus various cards that are not currently in any builds, various motherboards and peripherals).

Nice collection. Are you using a KVM or just moving the one you want to play with to your desk?

No KVM as of now, just manually moving computers around. I'm planning to do a retro gaming convention/LAN party with Pentium 4/Athlon XP rigs locally, we'll see how it goes.