NIce find! In the late 90s, I had my computer in a black Escom big tower case. Looked really awesome. Was originally a 486, I had a K6-2 with Voodoo 2 in it. Everything long gone, sadly.

Thanks. Well I remember reading somewhere that H77 allows you to overclock while H61 doesn't. I could be wrong though. It seems that there are some newer H81/B85 mainboards that allow overclocking if you flash to a beta BIOS: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-b81-cheap-overclocking, …

Can you try another sound card? Newer Creative would be ideal, but anything else would work too. Sorry if that's too much grasping at straws already, I'm at a loss too. Does the issue only occur in games, i.e. it's fine in Windows on the first boot?

*snip video cards* Nice buy! The Voodoo 1 is worth it. Pentium Ds are still more than enough for usage as a office and web browsing machine, and it will probably mean that you won't have to use a radiator in the same room as it... :p Nice buy for that price! Yep, that's why I said it's a nice foot …

OK, not retro (yet), but IMHO worth mentioning: Picked this up today for 10€. HP Compaq dx2200. Pentium D 3.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB HDD. Also, I like the standard HP keyboard and these Logitech mice are fairly good. Nice foot warmer :) Finally, a chance to have a reasonably fast Linux system without …

I like this forum :) Another concern would be the capacitors on the Abit board -- worth doing a little inspection on them (any leaking/bulging?). Nope! That one is stable and seems to have good capacitors. I've seen A LOT of socket A boards die over the years. This one has outlived all of them. I …

joacim wrote: I'm not a power supply expert, but think I would've gone with an older power supply. Their 5V rails tend to be more powerful. Yeah, don't really have one of those 🙁 I just found an old CWT 235W that supplies 22A @ 5V, that is more than the new 380W I have. Hrrrm.

Didn't know these boards draw processor power from the 5V line, these days everything's about the 12V line. Haven't tried the PSU yet. It's an almost new Seasonic SS-380GB. Not a cheapo. 20A @ +3.3V 20A @ +5V 2x17A @ +12V Should be ok, right? EDIT: I just remembered, I've measured the power draw of …

Yep, you're probably right! I have a spare Seasonic 450W that I will try. Case fans will get installed as well as a new Northbridge cooler (the Abit board has active cooling with a tiny, tiny heatsink). For now, I'm running the case open. I know that the basic setup minus the Voodoo 2 is stable, …

Hi all, I've recently been bitten by the retro bug and decided to build a retro computer with parts I had in storage (so, a no-budget-build). It will be running DOS/98SE/XP (XP mainly for networking/data exchange). It was originally going to be a 440BX-based system, but after a bit of tinkering I …