I have had trouble finding cases that can accommodate all 8 of my boards expansion slots. It is hard to tell without putting the board in... I am not sure if the PCI slots will line up with the case PCI covers correctly.

I was browsing ebay the other day and I saw an AT compatible case for sale, brand new in packaging. The price on it left me with some sticker shock, but it got me to thinking. Where did the seller get it? I was able to find new AT power supplies on newegg and amazon pretty easily, but I can't find a …

Also, the SLI boards supports Phenom II. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M3N72D/ You might need to flash your bios, but there is not reason you can't get the best of both worlds.

A geforce 6 puts you closer to 2005 than 2008. I bought an HD 4850 online for 20$ shipped, which a bit faster than a 8800gt and more than adequate through at least 2010. A radeon 4850 or an 8800gt, 9800gt, or 250GTS (a bit faster still) would be much more ideal, and each regularly go on ebay for 20$ …

I think the Nvidia Titan GPUs and enthusiast socket boards will probably become collectible fairly soon. Some of those dual workstation xenon boards like skull trail, and maybe some of the dual graphics solutions like the 9800gx2 or the radeon 6990. Nvidia 3D glass and maybe some of the early VR …

ElementalChaos wrote: For me, every Japanese micro I could name off the top of my head (MSX2+, X68000, PC-88, PC-98, FM-7, X1, FM Towns) I am with you on that one. God how great would it be to have a x68k with all the peripherals a good library of games.

Holy moley, are you the Jason from launchbox :D. I was seriously thinking about making an app just like this for my dos machine (once it is built... lol). The only thing I was going to add to it was a section for notes. Sometimes it takes a few steps to get your machine ssetup to run a game, beyond …

Sometimes just the cables get put up on ebay too. I think I saw one a few days ago going for about 30$.

The Voodoo 3500 can output VGA with an adapter, so I'll be using that. I don't care about the TV tuner. Ugh. Sorry dude, but it's some weird ass special connector. It looks like DVI at first glance, but it isn't. You need the cable that originally came with the card. I know, it sucks, I've been …

The Voodoo 3500 can output VGA with an adapter, so I'll be using that. I don't care about the TV tuner. I don't expect much more performance out of it compared to overclocking a 2000 or 3000 chip, it is just nice that I don't have too. I am primarily getting this for DOS with some windows 98, so the …

Woohoo! I just scored a Voodoo 3 3500 for 75$ shipped at auction!!!! Sure a Voodoo 3 2000 is 95% as good and I could have saved maybe 10$, but it is always nice to be able to have the best :). My build is coming together! So far I have: AMD KIII+ 450mhz: 25$ DFI Socket 7 Board: 50$ 128mb PC133 CL2: …

Bah.. those two boards are expensive. I won't even pay that much for an ASUS P5A or P5A-B. And that shuttle one may only have 512KB L2 cache. With Anything other than ALI for the chipset you really want 1MB or more L2 cache. Here is a cheaper MVP3 based board that has 1MB L2 cache. https://www.ebay …

Alright, so I pulled the trigger on a K6-III+ for 25$ shipped. At this point I am committed! I have scoured ebay looking for motherboards. I have found a VIA MVP3 and an Ali V for about the same price. This is a Jetway J-542B Ali V Chipset https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jetway-J-542B-Socket-7-AT-IDE-SFF- …

This looks like it'll be a great setup. Just a few points. The choice of sound card is tossed around in other threads, so you can do some further reading on the various pros and cons if you like. I'm a big fan of ESS cards, but there are viable options featuring Crystal, Aztech, Opti, and Yamaha …

Through underclocking on a C3, what levels of performance are you able to reach? You mentioned Ultimate 7, does running at 486-33 speeds make a big difference compared to the 66? Are there any other games that need a more specific 486 speed? A socket 1 build would be great if it makes sense. They …

As for the CPU, SETMUL requires a K6-2+, K6-III+, or C3 CPU for multiplier manipulation. Out of all these, an AMD CPU will give you the most top end performance. Alternately, if you have a fast Win98 machine for high end performance, you can use a Pentium MMX CPU along with TR12 test registers for …

You are awesome, thank you! I had no idea the setmul required a K6 + branded processor! You telling me that undoubtedly saved me tons of headache. Awesome! Also I appreciate the tip on the RAM. It seems like 128mb will give me the least troubles, so I'll do that. If I buy two sound cards, is it …

Hello all, I have been reading lots of old threads in this forum and it has been a wealth of great information. I am thinking about taking my first step into retro PCs with a socket 7 build. I have most of the parts I want already picked out, but I am confused about a few things. As someone who …