Mother of bay devices!? What is that on 4th 5.25 bay?

Its a Terretec EWS88MT soundcard module with 8x audio in and 8x audio out en 2x midi!

yeah its fun to fill every bay with stuff that matters! 😁 The only hd bay left is filled with the 40pin flat cabel from the terratec. The cable had to turned 180degrees 😜

Ultimate year 2000 gaming build video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipIq8nnwas

Enjoy watching! 😁 😁

You could of also went with a Dell PERC2 pci scsi card and an array of 4-8 scsi drives in raid-0, which would of been far more "ultimate" in the storage department. Seagate released the world's first 15,000 rpm hard drive, the Cheetah X15 in SCA-SCSI format in 2000. You can buy these for < $10 each today on ebay and you can find a PERC 2 PCI card for < $20.

I have this setup on one of my machines here with 8 x 15k RPM SCA drives in raid-0. Yes it'll be stuck around 40 MB/sec sustained on PCI, but the overall IOPS would be very high, far more than any possible IDE setup.

Fantastic video!

What a clean build. I missed out on this period, wasn't computing at all and only got back into it with a P4 and Radeon 9700. I read up what happened via Tomshardware and the battle between Nvidia and 3DFX was fascinating.

Nice build! Your cable management is excellent
Those audio out ports at the front are a nice touch

I just made a system based on a 1ghz AMD thunderbird CPU with 256 RAM, Geforce FX 5200, 2 x Voodoo2 12MB, SB live, 8GB IDE HDD for the OS, 80GB IDE HDD for games and an IDE DVD drive.

I doubt it will break any speed records but it will do the job.

Scsi raid on the 32bit pci bus is useless. But I have a dual P3 1400 with 2x pci64 66mhz! and 4gb sdram! I gonna do a build video about that machine too. Need to find a nice case for it. I have some scsi stuff to do the build and it has onboard scsi. Just don't know yet what the build will be. But it has no AGP but I have a voodoo5 pci so that should be nice.

Mau1wurf1977 I skipped the Pentium4 period 😜 In that time I had a dual cpu Athlon 2000mhz 😁

rgart nice config! Do you ahve pictures of videos about it? 😀

Its unfinished.

And I don't have the cable management skills of the OP.

as long as it works 😜

Nice build. I love the ATC cases. I have a cooler master atc110 with windowed side panel. I really wanted to buy both cases , but didn't have the money at the time. I remember seeing it posted on Sharky extremes (January Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide - 01/30/2003).

http://web.archive.org/web/20030627045303/htt … uides/index.php

VictorB wrote:

Scsi raid on the 32bit pci bus is useless. But I have a dual P3 1400 with 2x pci64 66mhz! and 4gb sdram! I gonna do a build video about that machine too. Need to find a nice case for it. I have some scsi stuff to do the build and it has onboard scsi. Just don't know yet what the build will be. But it has no AGP but I have a voodoo5 pci so that should be nice.

Mau1wurf1977 I skipped the Pentium4 period 😜 In that time I had a dual cpu Athlon 2000mhz 😁

rgart nice config! Do you ahve pictures of videos about it? 😀

Actually like I said in my post above.. it's about the IOPS or I/O load you can handle at once without slowing down. a raid array of 4+ 15k scsi drives even on PCI will have about +5x or more performance than a single IDE drive, no matter how fast the IDE drive is. And I don't mean bandwidth, IOPS is different than bandwidth.

The other option is a "DOM" or Disk-On-Module for older machines, which is basically a small SSD module you plug in to a PATA/IDE port and it interfaces to the system like an IDE drive. But I think you were trying to stay period-accurate with this build and DOM's didn't exist back then so.. that's out.

rgart: Just pull all cables out and start with 1 cable and build it up and the last cables are the power cables. And buy a pack of tywraps to fix the cables.

Eddy nice link! To bad that the oldest buildlog link is broken 🙁 but it is a good overview of parts and prices nice!

Scsi deserves a nice 64bit pci slot 😉 I have a dual socket motherboard with p3 1400 and scsi. So I will make a machine with scsi 😀 So that I have iops and performance! To bad I gave my 68pins 73gb 15k disk away together with 143gb scsi 10k drive 🤣 :p That was my setup before my ssd till 2011.

Installing 3DFX Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 cards! Retro gaming machines update.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzth4QQXwp4

Here you can see the other 3 simulair systems! I installed Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 in 2 systems and build the 4th blue systems. Today I gonna work on the software side and make it into a 4 player lan setup!

That looks sick! 😀 I need to fix the limitations of IDE on my motherboard and its locked to 20GB or find some SCSI HDDs for it 😜 (Motherboard is ASUS P2B-DS)

Will it run Minecraft? "Ultimate Year 2000 gaming Build"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftzFGzdT-8
Halflife Multiplayer retro gaming on Project Freeman! OHM2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eC9-lg3V5E

2 nice videos! 😁

rgart wrote:

Its unfinished.

No vintage computer is ever truly "finished". There's always some new piece that you manage to get your hands on that you want to try out in it.