Thanks for the tip. I'm pretty sure I have some PC133 ram (probably a 256mb stick!). Nice. I'm not 100% sure of what all this talk about cacheable ram is though.

So this website has made me want to play some old games. Like MechWarrior 2. So I've decided to build a Socket 7 Pentium 1 Machine. I've got a 486 but I really want to use one of my many 3dfx video cards. Anything newer is a bit new in my mind! At this stage all I have is a number of Pentium 1 CPUs, …

Ha thanks. Yeah I believe I built my first computer (well pulled apart and rebuilt) when I was 6 years old, an old 12MHz 286. Most of my first computers came from my dad's work when they would throw them out. I loved those days. He would tell me the day before that he would get me a computer from …

I lie. They are IBM Blue Lightning 486 DX2/66 chips. Also in the photo is a 486 DX50 and an AMD 486 SX2/66.

I've got a few Socket 3 Cyrix 486 chips. Not 5x86.

I got a motherboard with the Cyrix (different from the Pentium), I don't remember what model it was though (probably a 430TX). I was 13 or 14 years old at the time, I got the motherboard + Cyrix CPU for $50 if I remember correctly. My school friend sold it to me, all second hand, it wasn't until a …

If I remember correctly the games of choice were Starcraft 1 and Quake 3, and I did get a different motherboard with the Cyrix. The Pentium 133 was on an older VX style motherboard, I don't remember what the Cyrix came on. I agree it was a touch faster in Windows than the Pentium 133, but not enough …

I remember trying to play half-live 1 on a Matrox Millennium, it did the same thing, that card is really only good for 2D. Nice machine I like it. Always happy to see a Voodoo card still being used :) Do you know if the Cyrix 6x86MX is much better than the non MX version? I had a PR200 and it was …

3dmark2000 is a good one, 2001se was pretty intensive.

I had a Cyrix PR200 back in the day. My school friend sold it to me. He said it was a Pentium 200 and it was meant to upgrade my Pentium 133. The Cyrix PR200 was slower at 3D games than my Pentium 133, I was pissed :p I ended up over-clocking the Pentium 133 to 166 and moved the Cyrix into another …

Awesome thread! Here are a couple of my Kyro cards:

Sorry more photos! This is another photo of some of my other machines (some of my favourites). I should have posted this in the "Retro Rig Photo Thread", opps! I don't seem to be able to delete these posts...

This machine is a bit different to all the PCs. It is an SGI Indy. MIPS R4600 133MHz 64bit CPU 64MB Ram 2x1GB SCSI HDDs Sorry the photos aren't great: http://michaeldale.com.au/images/sgi/indy/photo%201.JPG http://michaeldale.com.au/images/sgi/indy/photo%202.JPG http://michaeldale.com.au/images/sgi/ …

Here are a couple of photos of some other random hardware I have. http://michaeldale.com.au/files/cpus/pentium60.png http://michaeldale.com.au/files/cpus/286.JPG 286 to 386sx upgrade board. http://michaeldale.com.au/files/cpus/286to386.JPG http://michaeldale.com.au/files/cpus/286to386sxback.jpg

@swaaye yep I can do that. I've got a bunch of old hardware :) @feipoa yeah it was a pretty good score those machines, both in pretty good condition (apart from the dust!). Yeah I noticed the slot for the video memory, I might even have some 2x512k chips that might work, just need to check the …

Hi All, I just joined and thought I should post one of my old machines. It is an Osborne (was an Australian company) 486 DX2/66. Full Specs: Intel 486 DX2/66 40MB Ram (2x16MB + 2x4MB) Onboard ATi MACH64 1MB Video Card 540mb HDD Windows NT 4 Server :) ISA 10mbit Network Card SoundBlaster 16 http:// …