These things were garbage from the second they were released; they are certainly even more garbage now, more than a freaking decade later. I don't agree with this part of your post at all; they are far from garbage. They are a great solution if you use them for what they were intended for; if you …

I myself have a Samsung NC210 running Windows XP and I mostly use it for schoolwork. It has very similar specs to yours except for the fact that I upgraded the RAM to 2GB. I have run some games on there as well, but even though many games run quiet well, I wouldn't say it is a pleasant experience, …

Very clean and white case, I really like it, it looks to be very well preserved. Enjoy the system. You may look into upgrading it with a K6-2/400 and more RAM in addition to the Voodoo 1 card. It would also probably not be a bad idea to go with a Voodoo 2 card with this system instead. Thanks, I …

My opinion is that while CQM isn't as good as OPL3, the difference is definitely overblown and the vast majority of the time, if you are not explicitly looking for the difference, you probably won't notice it. I am also sure someone will point out a particular game that CQM makes an absolute mess …

Is CQM really not that bad? I'm looking to buy a Sound Blaster 16 variant and I heard CQM was terrible, so I was thinking to go for a OPL3 variant, though I do not hear that much difference on YouTube comparisons myself. The CQM variants definitely seem to go for a lot less on eBay compared to their …

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WdQAAOSwTrVbYHu2/s-l1600.jpg I picked up a complete AMD K6-2 266MHz system yesterday for $68. It comes with a 1,7GB hard drive, 32MB RAM and a S3 Trio64 graphics card. When the PC arrivers I will probably put a modern Seasonic power supply in there with an ATX/AT- …

yes I've been looking at his stuff, but frankly, its overpriced. Nearly £40 (inc postage) for a fascia? I could get a whole case for not much more. :/ Maybe you can make him an offer; I recently got a really good deal with him for a complete AMD K6-2 266MHz system for only $68 (excluding postage). …

I have a 486-laptop with LBA support, which only supports up to 4GB. I think the hard drive capacity limit is more likely to be 8GB in most situations though.

These are the specifications of the PC I use on a daily basis: Motherboard: Asus H81M-C CPU: Intel Core i5 4460 RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 GPU: Asus Radeon R7 240 4GB Sound Card: Sweex 5.1 CMI8738 SSD: Adata SU650 120GB HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 2TB I'm running Windows 7 because it's the most …

I know a guy on eBay that sells a wide variety of retro parts; also a few cases. Maybe there is something for you here as well: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?_nkw=&_armr … lvdexport&rt=nc

I love this idea! I don't think I have the parts or money lying around to participate in this challenge though . . .. I'll be looking forward to seeing your builds however! 😀

Sacrificing the network adapter magically did the trick. There wasn't any IRQ-conflict however, but I'm happy that the PC is usable now though. 😀

Hi guys, I have rebuild my PC by now and I am happy to tell you that both the network card and the graphics card are working right now. However the sound card stopped working now unfortunately. I used the same drivers that worked for me previously with my original build on Windows 98 & ME. I tried …

I think I found the cause of the issue. The GeForce 4 MX4000 is an AGP-8X card, while the GA-8SIML only supports up to AGP-4X. Normally that wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but when trying to find if the GeForce 4 MX4000 will work in AGP-4X mode, I found out that it only works in AGP-8X mode. …

Thank you guys for your replies. I've jumped to Windows ME now as it looks like I'm getting some better results over there. (I can't believe I just said that.) Anyways, there appeared an IRQ-conflict between the onboard LAN-adapter and the CMI8738. Windows wouldn't let me change these IRQ-settings …

Thank you for your reply. Version 45.23 of the driver was released before the GeForce 4 MX4000 was released, so this version will most likely not support my graphics card, correct me if I'm wrong. I've tried all NVIDIA driver versions that support the MX4000 by now. With different results, but no …

Thank you for your reply. I have already tried that by now. The chipset drivers install and work just fine. However, it doesn't seem to make any difference when installing the GeForce drivers or the others unfortunately; I still get the same errors.

Hey guys, I recently built a retro gaming PC targeting the late 90s and early 2000s era. I used the following build for my PC: CPU: Intel Celeron SL68C 1.70GHz/128KB/400MHz Socket 478 RAM: 256MB Samsung DDR1-266MHz PC2100U 256MB IBM DDR1-266MHz PC2100U HDD: Transcend Standard 16GB CF-Card 133x in …