First post, by Filosofia
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My personal history with PC was roughly divided between this two microsoft os: ms-dos and windows 98. My ms-dos gaming machine is almost ready so I already started another project. 😁
From the first games that could use Windows 98 to the establishment of Windows XP as a gaming platform it was a shorter period: 1998 to the end of 2002. Shorter than XP (2003-2013) anyway.
It was nonetheless full of excellent games so I decided to build a Windows 98 Dream Machine.
While browsing for components I found an "old" PC with 10 years, the whole set with CRT and speakers, selling for less you would spend dinning out.
I don't know why, but most of the systems I've gathered through the years where built December or January, and this one is no exception.
When it was built, back in January 2003, this system was pretty decent, although it was clearly budget-oriented , as you will see by the choice of components. The case was the most common, wherever you'd go if you'd ask for the cheapest case it would be something like this (colors may vary):
With the frontal USB! I got sick of looking at this cases anywhere I'd go.
DVD Writers were very expensive in the beginning of 2003 and could cost as much as the rest of the goodies inside the case, so this combination was very popular, a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW, these ones being OEM , made by Samsung I think:
The PSU is still (unfortunately) the Premier choice when it comes to cut costs, and inside the case was this powerful LC-B300: (don't know how it lasted so long without screwing anything up)
The cheapeast ASUS Motherboard at the time was A7V8X-X , with a VIA chipset made for AMD cpus 😀 , it is a rock solid foundation:
Here it is, the P4 killer, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ , and it was unlocked too, that's a bonus! Currently at 500MHz for some testing with substituting the Pentium II machine in mind!
With the Boxed cooler:
512MB PC2700 (333MHz in spite the KT400 chipset, oh well , so far it manages to save money in every category...)
A good (and the cheapest along samsung at this time) 80GB P-ATA hard disk:
A Geforce 4 yes, but an MX one (what woould you expected from El Cheapo?!): 64MB , no DVI.
Maybe some tweaks here and there, but its funny to see a low-cost from 2003 turning into a Windows 98 gaming monster! (in 2012 🤣 ) And I found very rewarding to have a PC with its original configurations, its a piece of pc history that has a very honorable present 😉
BGWG as in Boogie Woogie.
