There should be a jumper on your board that switches between an FSB of 100/133Mhz and 166MHz. Had the same trouble on my Soyo KT600 DragonPlus V2.0.

PcBytes wrote:

Athlon XP 2500+ - detected as 1100MHz,any fix for that? It should read 1833MHz. (real speed of 2500+)

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My Retro Rig for 97-2001 games

Specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.67 Ghz
Memory: 768 MB DDR 266
Mainboard: ECS K7S5A Pro
Videocard: GeCube Radeon 9600 (398(core),400(mem))
PSU: Logic 350W
SoundCard: Integrated CMI9738
Harddisk: Seagate 7200.7 200GB
Opticaldrives: LG DVD and SONY DVD
Floppy: Panasonic 1.44
USB Card: 2.0 with 5 ports on NEC chipset and I have 11 usb ports (5x2.0 from card, 4x2.0 from MOBO and 2 front 1.1 from MB)

Photos:

My another rig and that`s for dos games only

Specs:
Processor: Celeron 433
RAM: 128 MB PC133
Mainboard: Procomp BVC3A
Videocard: S3VirgeDX 4MB
Soundcard: ESS1938
Harddisk: WD Caviar 10GB
Optical: Sony CD-ROM

I use with that rig PSU from my AMD rig, Logic 350W.
Photo:

If you have got a Facebook account and like to watch pictures of old hardware (systems, motherboards, videocards, soundcards, etc.), you may take a look at my retro-pc group. It is an open group and it's called "IG Altsilizium". It's a pretty new group, and we are not very much people yet. So visitors and, maybe, new members are welcome. Atm all is written in german, but english spoken users are welcome and I'll answer in english then.

Nahkri wrote:

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Set it,thanks for the PDF.

Finally installed Windows 7 SP1 on my 80GB SATA HDD,after I first had to install it on my 40GB Maxtor IDE.

Needless to say,SATA is faster than IDE. Also upgraded the BIOS to the latest version - 1013.

BTW,any ideas why there's no POST Reporter? (speech function)It worked before I updated the BIOS,and the option for it is enabled in the BIOS.

I'm in the middle of replacing/upgrading my systems - this week I moved to my older boxes. I figured I could get some shots of the "old" machines while taking pictures of one of the "new" ones (I'm waiting on parts for the other one).

You can see the "old" towers:

I've already started to cannibalize parts for the "new" builds, which is why they have no optical drives (among other things). The tower on the left in some more detail:

Specs:

-Asus P4B-LA
- P4 2GHz
- 512MB PC-133
- GeForce 2 Ultra + Voodoo 2 + Creative DxR 3
- SB Live

I've taken the rear fan, DVD drive, and some cables and other minor parts out of this one already (it was the first to be replaced). I may yet take the Voodoo as well. While it's a nifty machine, it hasn't been powered on in a few months, and the primary reason for that is it just doesn't fulfill any useful niche - it's too slow or too fast for most games I want to play. Believe it or not the image quality with both loop cables really isn't that bad - there's a slight "softening" compared to straight-out from the GeForce, but it's not blurry or wavy. The DxR 3 was fun to play with, but ultimately is not fun to live with - I'm glad we've moved past such accessories.

The machine on the right:

Specs:

- Asus PC-DL Deluxe
- 2x Xeon 2.8GHz 512k
- 2GB DDR333
- GeForce 6800 Ultra + FX 5200 PCI
- SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum

I've taken the Audigy 2 ZS PCI card and DVD drive out of this one, and will be taking the motherboard, power supply, etc when new parts arrive. The 6800 was a "stop gap" replacement; originally this had the 5800 Ultra in it (and that will be returned in the new build), but the 5800 Ultra does not work well with this case's positive pressure design. While the CPUs and motherboard reported lower temperatures with postive pressure, the 5800U ran much hotter, so I swapped it for the 6800. The 6800 seems to get along just fine with positive pressure; it runs fairly cool in this box, but I dislike the whiney fan. The FX 5200 is just there to support additional monitors.

The first of the new builds is based on a Shuttle XPC that I found a few months ago. It's a surprisingly quiet machine, and very compact, so it seemed like a good replacement for the mATX. It's also fast enough to handle newer titles, so it has more utility. Unfortunately, it's about as photogenic as a Borg cube...

I cut the grilles off on the back to improve airflow and reduce noise - it seems to have worked as desired. The fans don't cycle as often, don't cycle up to maximum RPM, and are much quieter now that they aren't pushing through an almost solid piece of metal with thin slits cut into it. I didn't put a wire grille on the back because the heatsink fins (that's actually the CPU heatsink right there) should do a good enough job of keeping my fingers out. 🤣

And the best shot I could get of the inside:

From the other side all you see is the PSU, and top-down you just see the optical drive in its caddy. I didn't feel like disassembling it just for another picture. 😊

Specs:

- Shuttle FB65
- Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition
- 2GB DDR400
- Quadro FX 700
- SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (no room for the 5.25" bay though)

The Quadro FX 700 is indeed a passive card. It's based on the GeForce FX 5900XT, but clocked lower - at 275/550, as opposed to the 5900XT's 390/700. It still offers good performance though; the machine scores around 14k in 3D01. The FX 700 also offers 16x AA. It hits performance pretty hard, but I'm hoping it's playable in some games. Overall it's a very quiet machine (very nearly silent) - the BIOS controls the single 80mm fan at the rear, and it doesn't turn on too frequently. I've seen no temperature reported higher than 45* C either - the CPU, VRMs, motherboard, and hard-drive all report very acceptable temperatures in the 30-40* C range (the hard-drive will report somewhat lower). The FX 700 does not appear to have a thermal monitor, but the card itself doesn't get that hot while running, so I assume it's also not doing too bad. It's also fairly light on power consumption - average idle draw at the wall on this box is around 75W, and load in 3DMark and other 3D applications ranges from 130W to 160W.

The second "new" machine will re-purpose the PC-DL in a new case, with new 3.06GHz 1M chips, 2-3GB of RAM, and FX 5800 Ultra. I haven't decided exactly what I'm doing for storage, additional add-in cards, etc (I have a big box of PCI cards, and PC-DL is now the last motherboard I have in regular service that has more than 1 or 2 PCI slots, and can support most of those cards).

Retro is getting more and more of a grey term 🤣.

King_Corduroy wrote:

Retro is getting more and more of a grey term 🤣.

What is "retro" meant to be? A specific set of hardware? Or a specific age-range? Or what? 😕 😊

obobskivich wrote:

King_Corduroy wrote:

Retro is getting more and more of a grey term 🤣.

What is "retro" meant to be? A specific set of hardware? Or a specific age-range? Or what? 😕 😊

I think it's something very personal, although we* can all agree that a PC-XT is definitely retro. For me a Pentium 4 is not retro, mainly because it's too good and fast for that, but for somebody else whose first PC was a Pentium 4 it probably is.

* The members of this forum

I was just joking because I recently got ran out of the Vintage computer reddit with downvotes and hostile comments for posting a Pentium 3 machine there. 🤣

There are so many "retro" and "vintage" computer snobs out there it's incredible. Personally retro for me is 1980's and before, vintage is 1998 and before. My personal favourite systems to collect and work on being mid 90's PCs. 😜

I don't consider P4 machines retro or vintage while P3 machines I might include in vintage if I'm feeling generous, but just because it personally doesn't click with my nostalgia centres doesn't mean it can't for someone else. I think ultimately what we want is a blend of old and new not a 2 camps of purists battling it out. 🤣

King_Corduroy wrote:

I was just joking because I recently got ran out of the Vintage computer reddit with downvotes and hostile comments for posting a Pentium 3 machine there. 🤣

Yikes. 😵 Guess that's somewhere I'd rather not visit then - snobbery has no appeal to me. Sorry if my question was somewhat confrontational - I wasn't sure if NetBurst "counts" yet or not, but since I use those machines primarily for "old games," they count as "retro gaming boxes" in my book. 😊

My AMD K6-2 400Mhz @ 450Mhz (Max. 6x83 = 498Mhz stable)
128Mb FPM 70ns (need faster EDO)
Asus SP97 with SiS Chipset. (2xUSB, PS/2)
Terratec EWS64 XL with 18Mb Ram, Frontpanel
Radeon 7000 32Mb PCI Graphics (Flashed PC Bios to Mac Edition. Who needs Mac?)
WinTV Go! Hauppauge TV-Card.
Floppy Drive and 20Gb Harddrive.
Pioneer SlotIn CD-Rom Drive
Floppy Drive, 1,44Mbyte.

Escom Greymate 486SX 25Mhz, 4Mb Ram

Escom Blackmate 386SX 33Mhz/FPU IIT 387 20Mhz@33Mhz, 2Mb Ram ,540Mb Harddisk, Covox Soundplug, RS232 to PS/2 Adapter (Optical Mouse, Yeah!)

My retro rig:

350W Sumvision KY-450ATX PSU
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
ATI Radeon HD3450 512MB
Winfast TV2000XP Deluxe TV Tuner
2x HDDs - 80GB SATA and 40GB PATA
2x DVD-ROMs - no writers in it)
Floppy drive
1.50GB RAM
Titan D9TB cooler - Delta fan on it
ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe v1.04 motherboard

BTW,anyone noticing this system is 5v heavy?

Dual 1Ghz PIII Coppermines on MSI 694D Mainboard.
Radeon 9550 256Mb Ram,
1Gb Ram ( 2Gb max.)
80Gb Harddisk
DVD-Rom
Soundblaster 24bit!
Gbit Dlink Networkadapter (Realtek)

That's a really pretty case! The gloss black paint must be a finger print magnet though... 🙁

The case is far from retro, but it's the insides that count:
PII 350
192Mb ram
Asus P2b
8Gb Samsung HDD
Tech works Voodoo II SLI
Vitsuba PSU 550W!
Basically what I had lying around..

Here's mine. I don't really like old white boxes so I painted this one.
Probably not the most sought after, but it's running Privateer 2 and other older games without pushing it into super speed unplayable mode (unlike the 850mhz Athlon T-bird cpu I have).
Had the system shock 2 themed keyboard custom made from someone on Amazon.com to go with a system shock 2 themed case I made from scraps. I use a KVM switch between them. Everything listed here probably cost me less than $150 this past year so I'm pretty happy with them.

Gateway FlexATX with
667mhz Intel Celeron
20gb HDD
512MB Ram
Geforce 4 mx 4000 128MB
CREATiVE CT5807 sound card
Windows 98SE

Here's my System Shock 2 themed case PC:

Pentium 4 2.4ghz
2x 80GB HDDs
Geforce 5900 Ultra 256MB
512MB DDR Ram
Audigy Platinum Soundcard
Windows XP

Previously had in it:

AMD T-bird 850mhz
Aureal Vortex 2 Soundcard
SB Audigy Soundcard
1.5GB RAM
Geforce 3 Ti 200 64MB (had dual voodoo 2s running through a matrox mystique but they both crapped out completely unfortunately , though the Geforce 3 is probably better overall anyway)
Windows 98/Windows 2000

I may scrap another case together for the AMD build just to have it, if I do I'm thinking of making it Unreal Tournament on one half, Quake 3 Arena on the other.

To think, you made the Cooler Master HAF XB before it was a thing.