Thanks. The best upgrade on this rig I've ever done is the Noctua NF-R8 fan with a low noise adapter. It is a HUGE difference from the small coolermaster stock fan which could be heard whirring from different parts of the house! I treied different fans, Akasa, coolermaster and xilence (from which I got the 80mm heatsink from) and decided to go ahead with a noctua. Before this I had even oiled and WD-40'd them but small fans are annoying loud. The loudest things now in my system are the hard drives, even then I selected the quietest from my IDE spares. The Samsung is really quiet but the Seagate hums periodically but still realtively quiet.
I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9600xt Ultra, which I took out and replaced with the Geforce MX420 because it's passive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71meib_q0MY
Spock 😀

Nice 😀

Videos like that are so awesome!

First post!

Intel Pentium III 1.4 GHZ Tualatin
Asus TUSL2-C O+
2x 256MB SDRAM PC 133
2x Maxtor 40gb 7200 Diamondmax plus 8
Chaintech Geforce 2 Pro 64MB
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Player
DVD RW black
300W power supply
LG Flatron F900B
Antec Sonata Pronto case

It's a work of art! Win98SE?

My PC from late 1999 - early 2000?

Specs:
550 MHz Athlon Classic, Slot A
512 MB SDRAM (PC100 i think)
ATI Rage 128 Pro 16 MB AGP (not shown in pic)
10/100 Ethernet PCI card (not shown)
Creative Vibra 128 (not shown)
Western Digital 40 GB hard drive
Ultra Speed CD/DVD drive
AOpen AK72 motherboard
Windows 98 SE

Games:
Unreal Tournament (#1)
Unreal
Half-Life
Quake 1/2/3
Re-Volt
Nerf Arena Blast
Deus Ex
Doom 1/2
Rise of the Triad
Duke Nukem 3D
Descent 1/2/3
Blood
Redneck Rampage

This machine runs Windows 9x and DOS games very well, the Vibra 128 handles SoundBlaster and Soundscape emulation well, and has the 8 MB Ensoniq waveset.

Sorry about the colossal picture.

badmofo wrote:

It's a work of art! Win98SE?

😁 Its currently running Windows 2000 SP4.

There is a Diamond Monstersound MX 300 on the way to go into this retro game pc. Also I'm looking for a nice 3dfx card.

CPX770: Please reduce the image size of the embedded image. I don't want to scroll sideways on my 1920x1200 display!

I fixed that huge picture. I had an old HP Pavilion with a 266 MHz Celeron I got from a neighbor, but I tried to swap a Pentium 2 in and carelessly damaged it 😢 .

Updates on my build.
Graphics: Went from 9600XT>MX420>FX5200>6800GT (Galaxy Glacier)
Monitor: LG IP234V>Samsung 957DF
HDD: Seagate 200GB>Seagate 160GB
Speaker: JVC Aux>Cambridge Soundworks SBS35

That's all for now. Anno 1602 plays lovely 😀

My Retro DOS machine with perfect retro setup:

It's not looking good due yellowish keyboard. And Viewsonic E70f monitor actually broken and it should be repaired.

More info: My Retro DOS Machine with stripped Pentium! (small update!)

My retro rigs:
Apple //c with original matching 9" "Monitor //c" and matching external //c-specific 5.25" drive (Used for REALLY old Apple games plus as a serial terminal for my server.)
Apple IIGS with RAM upgrade, plus AppleColor RGB Monitor, two 5.25" and two 3.5" drives. I really need to get a CompactFlash card, SCSI card, and an Ethernet card for it. Used for playing most Apple games.
PCjr with RAM expansion, jrIDE card (with Compact Flash adapter,) non-"chicklet" keyboard, and original IBM joysticks. Have IBM-branded Kings Quest to go with it (plus other games, obviously.)
Generic "small form factor" 486 DX4/100 with 32 MB RAM, 2 GB hard drive, Ethernet, Tseng ET4000w32p graphics, SB16 sound card.

Edited to show my "workbench" area. Currently housing an Apple-heavy lineup:
Apple Workgroup Server 7350 (Same hardware as a Power Macintosh 7600, only with AppleShare IP 5 pre-loaded on Mac OS 7.6.1.)
Centris 650 (the very short-lived name for the "mid-range" 68040 system, it was renamed Quadra 650 mere months late - this one is running A/UX 3.01.)
PCjr, mentioned above.
Power Mac G4 Cube (aka: Mac Pro cylinder version 0.5, running Mac OS X Public Beta.)
Apple IIGS.

Anonymous Freak wrote:

My retro rigs: Apple //c with original matching 9" "Monitor //c" and matching external //c-specific 5.25" drive (Used for REALLY […]
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My retro rigs:
Apple //c with original matching 9" "Monitor //c" and matching external //c-specific 5.25" drive (Used for REALLY old Apple games plus as a serial terminal for my server.)
Apple IIGS with RAM upgrade, plus AppleColor RGB Monitor, two 5.25" and two 3.5" drives. I really need to get a CompactFlash card, SCSI card, and an Ethernet card for it. Used for playing most Apple games.
PCjr with RAM expansion, jrIDE card (with Compact Flash adapter,) non-"chicklet" keyboard, and original IBM joysticks. Have IBM-branded Kings Quest to go with it (plus other games, obviously.)
Generic "small form factor" 486 DX4/100 with 32 MB RAM, 2 GB hard drive, Ethernet, Tseng ET4000w32p graphics, SB16 sound card.

Whoah, your rigs are so retro that they're text-only! 😳

Hah! Yup, I hit submit having forgotten to include pictures! I'll get them added when I'm back home.

2x Intel Pentium III 800 MHZ
512MB SDRAM PC133
Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB AGP (Omega Drivers)
2x 3DFX Voodoo 2 12MB PCI SLI (TBA from Ebay Germany)
Soundblaster 16 (Orig) ISA (DOS & Windows Drivers)
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 PCI (For Main sound with SB16 Linked to it)
PCI USB 2.0 2xPORTs
3Com Ethernet (Office Connect) 10/100 PCI
20GB WD HDD IDE UDMA 3 (Game ISO's/Installs)
36GB Maxtor SCSI (Adaptec) (OS Drive)
Windows 98SE SP3 Custom
Sony DVD-ROM IDE

Waiting for Cable for DVD Burner drive for SCSI
Will be installing Vooodoo 2 cards with Geforce 4 card when they get here!

i have been playing Master Of Orion 2 today 😜

I notice the mobo backplate is missing, know the feeling.
I've got a box full of old backplates, maybe 30 or so and when a board comes in I always say to myself 'bound to have one that fits'.
Never quite works out as I would wish though.....

The missing backplate on that machine is a standard ATX layout that usually came with new cases. It should be easy to source a replacement.

One would think, but those basic plates are getting rarer.

Hi all! I New here. And wish to show my upcoming Retro Rig Station.
Its 80% completed.

Corsair Vengeance C70 case White Edition
SuperMicro P6DGU (Made in USA)
2x Pentium III 650/256
4x 512mb Kingston ECC
2x Voodoo II 12mb (Sli)
NVidia FX 5950 Ultra (hand made green light)
2x IBM SCSI 143GB / 10000rpm HDD
1x Seagate 2GB Seagate Medalist IDE
1x Seagate 80GB IDE
Teac DVD-ROM
Sound Blaster AWE 32 + DB50XG
Diamond Multimedia MX300
Thermaltake Toughpower 600W
6x Aerocool Shark Evil Green Edition
3com Ethernet Network card
2year searching components for this project.

TODO:
-I think IBM 143GB 320 SCSI cant be work on this MB.. maybe it need to be replaced to 36GB!?
-I wish make some cool cable management for all wires and cable..
but not have time right now to do this
-Replace CPUs 650Mhz to 1Ghz

p.s. sorry for my bad English.

Very interesting build there, vikpc! Wondering where do you live in Moscow and whether you accept guests seeking knowledge?