VOGONS


What are builds you want to make someday?

Topic actions

Reply 40 of 116, by Anonymous Coward

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t
mpe wrote:

486 build with Socket 6

That would be somewhat rare.

I am pretty certain these were never released in North America. Don't know about Europe. I think I heard a few systems in Japan might have had socket 6.

"Will the highways on the internets become more few?" -Gee Dubya
V'Ger XT|Upgraded AT|Ultimate 386|Super VL/EISA 486|SMP VL/EISA Pentium

Reply 41 of 116, by dan86

User metadata
Rank Member
Rank
Member

Oh boy were do I start.

Top end SK7 system with 266mmx with working l2 + voodoo1 AWE64 with ram upgrade.
SK370 system with 1.4ghz C3 @166mhz FSB
Water cooled dual slot 1 system, 2 100mhz FSB 1ghz Pentium 3's at 133mhz FSB, no slotkets, GF2+vodoo2 sli or voodoo5500
My old water cooled gaming PC, Abit ic7-MAX, P4EE 3.2ghz @4ghz, 1gb ddr ram, fx5950 (later upgraded to 6800) SB audigy 2 ,2 WD raptors in raid 0.

Reply 42 of 116, by ShovelKnight

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie

I want to build a super compact and silent VIA C3 based DOS PC with a custom case and 3DFX GPU.

I actually even bought a motherboard for this build. But it won't happen until I design and find a way to 3D print the case. Maybe I will get around to it in the next 5 years or so 🤣

Another way would be to find a compact ITX case with a PCI riser and forgo the "custom" part.

Reply 43 of 116, by foil_fresh

User metadata
Rank Member
Rank
Member

i already got a dos machine, a 3dfx win98 machine, an overkill win98 machine and an ~03/04 pentium 4 system for XP so i'm good for the "retro" side of things...

but wanting to build a super overkill WinXP machine with my spare i5 2500k and the 9800GTX+ that a mate gave to me a few weeks ago. what's a good sound card for a 2008-2012 pc with decent XP support?

Reply 44 of 116, by xjas

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

This one has been rattling around in my brain for a long time, but it's too stupid for me to want to spend any money putting it together. I'll just throw it out here in the hopes that one of you do it instead. 😜

Dell Dimension 5450 case
Dual LGA771 motherboard
Two Xeon E5450s
As many Radeon HD5450s as there are suitable PCIe slots
Name the build thread "Quality Suits"

I actually have the HD5450s and one E5450, but yeah, nope. Not gonna do it. I declare this build public domain now, so go nuts.

twitch.tv/oldskooljay - playing the obscure, forgotten & weird - most Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 6:30 PM PDT. Bonus streams elsewhen!

Reply 45 of 116, by Carlos S. M.

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie
Anonymous Coward wrote:
mpe wrote:

486 build with Socket 6

That would be somewhat rare.

I am pretty certain these were never released in North America. Don't know about Europe. I think I heard a few systems in Japan might have had socket 6.

I believe Socket 6 only existed in paper, no chips or products were known to exist, not even ES chips

What is your biggest Pentium 4 Collection?
Socket 423/478 Motherboards with Universal AGP Slot
Socket 478 Motherboards with PCI-E Slots
LGA 775 Motherboards with AGP Slots
Experiences and thoughts with Socket 423 systems

Reply 46 of 116, by Intel486dx33

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

A dual Intel 733mhz P3 gaming computer with Voodoo-3-3000 AGP cars and Windows 2000 and Sound Blaster live 5.1.
With this Decal on the side. A10 Warthog games were popular on Mac and PC back in 1990's

Attachments

Reply 47 of 116, by Anonymous Coward

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t
Carlos S. M. wrote:
Anonymous Coward wrote:
mpe wrote:

486 build with Socket 6

That would be somewhat rare.

I am pretty certain these were never released in North America. Don't know about Europe. I think I heard a few systems in Japan might have had socket 6.

I believe Socket 6 only existed in paper, no chips or products were known to exist, not even ES chips

That's what I thought too, but I am pretty sure I actually saw a picture of a Socket 6 from a Japanese computer. Probably something like a PC 98. If I can find it again I'll post it here.

Here's a picture of one from wikipedia:

1200px-Socket_6.jpg

"Will the highways on the internets become more few?" -Gee Dubya
V'Ger XT|Upgraded AT|Ultimate 386|Super VL/EISA 486|SMP VL/EISA Pentium

Reply 48 of 116, by mpe

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie
Anonymous Coward wrote:

I am pretty certain these were never released in North America. Don't know about Europe. I think I heard a few systems in Japan might have had socket 6.

Yes. I know it is a real thing. Thats why I want to build it someday 😀

Another picture (no desc, but note the missing pin compared to S3)
http://www.x86-guide.net/Photos/Sockets/Socket_6.jpg

Also here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common … Motherboard.jpg

Blog|NexGen 586|S4

Reply 49 of 116, by 65C02

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

Two builds: an AMD "barn burner" with the FX-9590 CPU, two R9 295X2's in quad-fire, and maybe a bit of overclocking to push the 220w CPU and 2x500w GPUs even harder. 😁

I would also like to do a NexGen build. I saw a thread here about the Nx586 recently and it intrigued me. There's a built in cache controller, but it does not have a co-pro...wait what?

Reply 50 of 116, by PcBytes

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie
65C02 wrote:

Two builds: an AMD "barn burner" with the FX-9590 CPU, two R9 295X2's in quad-fire, and maybe a bit of overclocking to push the 220w CPU and 2x500w GPUs even harder. 😁

I would also like to do a NexGen build. I saw a thread here about the Nx586 recently and it intrigued me. There's a built in cache controller, but it does not have a co-pro...wait what?

You really like burning your house down? 🤣

"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 52 of 116, by kixs

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t
kixs wrote:

I wish I could recreate a few systems that I had in the early ninety's. Mainly my 286/16 and 486slc/33. I lack almost everything - proper case and motherboards. I might get satisfied with near components. Although case would make it 99% perfect - I know one of the members here has it but he won't let it go 🤣

Two years later... I have all the parts (not one but two proper cases) just missing time to put it all together... It's always: I'll do it when I finish "this and that" and then it gets postponed 🤣 But I'll definitely finish them when I ready my new room and make some permanent setups.

Requests are also possible... /msg kixs

Reply 53 of 116, by leileilol

User metadata
Rank l33t++
Rank
l33t++

a big dumb celeron box with a rage fury pro, in the most imac-wannabe case with all the dumb 2000 stuff loaded on it surrounded by all appropriate 2000 stuff of old 2000 obsessions. but i'm retired from the whole pc make thing. Basically a pc equiv of the imacs available of that year, representing the peak landmark of plastic looks and optimistic dotcom excess.

(p.s. all mentions of 2000 here are for THE year 2000, not the decade)

apsosig.png
long live PCem

Reply 54 of 116, by pewpewpew

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie
leileilol wrote:

... the peak landmark of plastic looks and optimistic dotcom excess.

It burns, it burns..

myEyes.jpg
Filename
myEyes.jpg
File size
338.25 KiB
Views
1044 views
File license
Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 55 of 116, by buckeye

User metadata
Rank Oldbie
Rank
Oldbie

A socket 370 tualatin 1.4ghz based system with a Voodoo 5. It's "fantasy" to be sure with the way prices are for the voodoo and 370 mobo's.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Radeon 7200 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

Reply 56 of 116, by Intel486dx33

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t
Intel486dx33 wrote on 2019-11-23, 06:45:
Some day I hope to complete these builds. […]
Show full quote

Some day I hope to complete these builds.

1) Lian Li snail case ( turn into a audio studio/juke box controlled by my iPad via MS-Remote desktop )
2) Fatal1ty gaming computer with all Fatality components.
3) Build a small mini tower 486dx4-100 VLB computer like my first 486 computer.
4) complete upgrading my Macintosh's with larger hard-drives and more ram.
5) Intel P3, Solaris 7 x86 workstation.
6) Linux x86 computer ( Mandrake, FREE BSD, KDE, Open Windows )
7) Macintosh Apple TV upgrades ( Ram and Hard drives )

Okay

So I have these 3 i might want to build.
Which should I do first ?
1) Lian Li snail case ( turn into a audio studio/juke box controlled by my iPad via MS-Remote desktop )
2) Fatal1ty gaming computer with all Fatality components.
3) Build a small mini tower 486dx4-100 VLB computer like my first 486 computer.
4) Cooler Master Wave case build.

Reply 57 of 116, by cyclone3d

User metadata
Rank l33t++
Rank
l33t++

An XP build with Quad SLI 780Ti. Still cost too much for me to want to buy though.

Yamaha modified setupds and drivers
Yamaha XG repository
YMF7x4 Guide
Aopen AW744L II SB-LINK

Reply 58 of 116, by barleyguy

User metadata
Rank Newbie
Rank
Newbie

I've actually got most of the parts for all of the following, so will probably post builds of them in the next few months:

- 1997 computer I pulled out of a closet that I already did a thread for. (Socket 7 with 3D Rage Pro)
- Socket A, Athlon XP 3000+, Radeon 9600XT, Sound Blaster Audigy ZS
- Socket 775, Xeon X4560
- Dual First Gen Opteron
- Super tiny Mini ITX Machine, Morex 557 case, A8-7600 APU, Pico PSU

Short version is that I'm new to this forum, but I've been building machines as a hobby or profession for about 30 years. So it'll be fun to post some builds.

Reply 59 of 116, by Baoran

User metadata
Rank l33t
Rank
l33t

I would like to build my first ever PC from 1988.
12Mhz 286 with 1Mb of ram and trident 256Kb vga card 40Mb hard drive.
I already have a case for it that looks exactly the same. I also have a seagate 40Mb MFM drive. Main things that are missing is the power supply for it which is XT style power supply that would have that big red switch at the right back side of the desktop case and full size at motherboard that would have the 12Mhz 286 cpu and 1Mb of ram as dip chips. I also haven't been able to find a trident card that is that old yet either.