Got a nice upgraded HP Vectra VE computer here: The specs are as follows: -HP Vectra from around 1996\1997 with windows 95 -Pentium non MMX 166 Mhz -Voodoo 1 4MB -Creative Sound Blaster 16bit ISA -3Com Etherlink III Network Card ISA 10Mbps (lanparty baby!!) -6 GB hard drive -48 mb of EDO ram memory …

CT4390 AWE64 Gold :) http://i.imgur.com/6tUtCtll.jpg 2x Voodoo 2 http://i.imgur.com/GONU8Kpl.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/3gCZLEAl.jpg?1 CT4380 AWE64 (Value?) http://i.imgur.com/16vXN7Wl.jpg?1 CT7120 Creative DXR2 (for free, not very useful but fun, I guess) http://i.imgur.com/LDb9r1Yl.jpg IBM Aptiva …

Also picked up a nice looking AT case with: Asus SP97-V mainboard (Socket 7 SiS 5598 chipset) http://i.imgur.com/LReNlJOl.jpg?1 Downside: they were used as ISDN 'servers', and all brackets for serial/parallel/USB/etc are not included :( Will have to get some! Intel Pentium 133MHz Elsa Winner 1000/ …

http://i.imgur.com/u8XzYSpl.jpg Turned out to be: 2x Intel PIII-S 1133 http://i.imgur.com/XOE7huFl.jpg Tyan Tiger 230T (S2507T) With damageD CPU socket where the cooler clamps, so it needs those wide clamps. 3x512MB Registered PC133 SDRAM Asus V6800DDR TVR (not sure yet if 32MB of 64MB version) …

Recently I decided to see if I could rebuild my very first "own" PC, An Abit TX with a Cyrix 6x86L PR200+ (2x75MHz). Turns out that it's hard to find this hardware (and expensive!), but I still decided to ask friends and family to donate old PC's and see what would show up. I also looked at local …