First post, by Standard Def Steve
Thought I'd show off the souped-up Dimension T550 I found in the trash a few months ago. I use it as a DOS and early Win9x gaming machine.
As found in the garbage:
Katmai P3 - 550MHz
Voodoo3 3000 AGP - 16MB
37.5GB IBM DeskStar
Turtle Beach Montego PCI sound card
56K modem and SOHOware 10/100 NIC
128MB of RAM
Windows XP Pro 😲
After upgrades:
PIII-1200, underclocked to 900MHz @ 100MHz FSB
Asus slotket and a Lin-Lin FCPGA2 adapter
PCI Radeon 9250 256MB (I'll explain later)
IBM Deskstar 37.5GB
SB AWE64 ISA sound card
No more 56K modem 😀
LG 16x DVD
320MB of RAM
Windows 98SE
All set up:
A look inside:
Yo dawg, I heard you like socket adapters...
Expansion cards:
-PCI Radeon 9250 256MB.
-SOHOware 10/100 NIC
-SB AWE64
I chose the PCI Radeon over my AGP Voodoo3 and FX5200 mainly because of its excellent DOS performance. On the 9250, SVGA games and 70Hz side-scrollers have this awesome, silky-smooth look to them. By contrast, both of the AGP cards would judder quite a bit. This particular 9250 also seems to have 128-bit memory bus, as it is a great deal faster than the FX5200 in many D3D games.