Blurredman wrote:

At the risk of being made fun of what is that PCI Matrox card? 😅

Matrox m3D with 4MB RAM, with a PowerVR PCX2 3D accelerator. I had one of those in my second PC, so I can spot those from far away.

ASUS A7M266-D Dual Athlon motherboard
2x Athlon MP 2800+
2 GB PC2100 ECC Kingston RAM
AGP ATI HD3850
40GB WD Hard Drive
Snazzy Cooler Master Elite 361 Case

My oldest Retro Rig is a 8086 Olivetti M240 (10MHz?)

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Gotta love those Olivettis!

maybe my latest $5 recycler rescue is worthy of my first post

Surprisingly good web surfer for what it is, although the lack of browser support on NT makes it hard to get anything done on such a javascript-centric internet. Still need to finish cleaning it, bump the RAM up to 512 MB and find a matching Zip drive, maybe snag a faster CD-ROM drive and a tape drive as well for the full experience. I should probably try some cable management too.

petro89 wrote:

ASUS A7M266-D Dual Athlon motherboard 2x Athlon MP 2800+ 2 GB PC2100 ECC Kingston RAM AGP ATI HD3850 40GB WD Hard Drive Snazzy C […]
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ASUS A7M266-D Dual Athlon motherboard
2x Athlon MP 2800+
2 GB PC2100 ECC Kingston RAM
AGP ATI HD3850
40GB WD Hard Drive
Snazzy Cooler Master Elite 360 Case

Nice system, buts thats a Elite 361 and not a 360. Thats case has so much room for modding too. I have one myself.

frisky dingo wrote:

petro89 wrote:

ASUS A7M266-D Dual Athlon motherboard 2x Athlon MP 2800+ 2 GB PC2100 ECC Kingston RAM AGP ATI HD3850 40GB WD Hard Drive Snazzy C […]
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ASUS A7M266-D Dual Athlon motherboard
2x Athlon MP 2800+
2 GB PC2100 ECC Kingston RAM
AGP ATI HD3850
40GB WD Hard Drive
Snazzy Cooler Master Elite 360 Case

Nice system, buts thats a Elite 361 and not a 360. Thats case has so much room for modding too. I have one myself.

You are correct! Thanks for the correction 😀

perkunas wrote:

maybe my latest $5 recycler rescue is worthy of my first post

Very nice system!

@perkunas

VERY nice system. I've often dreamt of owning such a thing. Enjoy!

sgt76 wrote:

@perkunas

VERY nice system. I've often dreamt of owning such a thing. Enjoy!

I bet that thing cost a small fortune when it was new.

I changed my rig with Athlon 2000+ on ECS K7S5A Pro board because is sometimes unstable and I see someday that I don`t have one capacitor near CPU and that board with it still running for some time, but because of that I changed to new specs:

Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-8IDX
CPU: Pentium IV 2.0 Northwood with 512kb L2 and 400 Mhz FSB
RAM: 768 Mb SDRAM
GraphicCard: GeCube Radeon9600 with 400/400 GPU/RAM
HD: Samsung Spinpoint 80 Gb
SoundCard: SoundBlaster 128 PCI
Optical drives: Liteon and LG DVD-ROMs
Floppy: Panasonic 1.44
And Nec USB 2.0 card

I tried 3dmark03 on both rigs with same graphic card and with Athlon 2000+ I have 2640 point and with PIV 2.0 I have 2820 points even Athlon 2000+ is on DDR266 ram and PIV 2.0 is on PC133 SDRAM and now with PIV that rig is far more stable 😀 I like Intel and AMD but that score from 3dmark03 is a bit confusing for me 🤣

Neat P4 setup. Is that 9600 one of those "EZ Edition" cards? On the higher score in 3D03 - I personally started noticing things like that with NetBurst chips vs Athlon/AthlonXP around '04 as well. It seems that SSE2+ started to be used by games and such to some benefit. I've observed this with Oblivion, Hitman 4, NWN2, Age of Empires 3, and so forth. AthlonXP systems will gladly install all of those games, and if the graphics card is up to it, will run them all too - but the same graphics card in a NetBurst (or Athlon64) machine will do a (in some cases much) nicer job of things, even if the benchmarked x87/MIPS/etc performance between the two setups is otherwise similar.

In 3dmark2001 Athlon 2000+ with R9600 have 8000 points and PIV 2.0 have there 7600 points, and at DOS-game Settlers II GOLD Pentium IV 2.0 is slower than Athlon 2000+, that Videocard have right of the radiator text "R96PRO/9550" and on back is "R9550U" but everywere driver recognizes that videocard as Radeon 9600, even when I use three different drivers and I see "Radeon 9600", I don`t now is it EZ Edition, I buy her from other hand without BOX and I added photos from that videocard. And when I overclock that PIV to 2.3 Ghz with SDRAM at 153 Mhz I have at 3dmark03 2890 points and at 3dmark2001 I have 8000 points, normally I don`t overclock processor here, and only pain here is that I have on board only USB 1.1, but I used that rig few years and I have zero problems alltime, that motherboard is rocksolid 😀

Okay, it most likely is an EZ edition (I had to look it up to confirm; I had one of those cards years ago too) - it has the full 400MHz clock on the core, like the 9600 Pro, but only 400MHz RAM, like the 9550 (9550 and 9600 use the same RV350 GPU, and some applications will misidentify 9550 as 9600 as a result). The "full" 9600Pro is clocked at 400/600, while the 9550 is clocked at a much more modest 250/400. AFAIK the 400/400 card was done as a lower power option; I know GeCube made them (mine was a GeCube IIRC), and PowerColor may have also. Not an awful card by any means - it's not like the 9550 is a bad card, and this should be a decent bit faster. For comparison, my Diamond 9550 scores around 6000 in 3D01 with a 2GHz Willamette and SDRAM. With the latest drivers (under WinXP) it would probably support the transparency AA hack too - not sure how many games it could run at decent frame-rates with that though.

Also not surprising the XP 2000+ is faster in older applications - that was a common divide between the Pentium 4 and Pentium3/Athlon back when. I think either should be a suitable companion for the 9600, and I'd probably preference the Intel because I've had very good successes with their chipsets over the years.

so I finished installing Win95 on my 386... what to add?

Here's my Retro Rig (Main rig still needs a case).

Athlon XP 2700+
1GB DDR400 (at 333)
FIC AU13 Nforce 2 Motherboard
PNY 256MB Geforce 6200
M-Audio 5.1 Revolution Sound card
Seagate IDE 160GB HD
Lite-On DVD Burner
Lian Li Lancool PC-K7B Case
Windows XP SP2

Updatin my post here. Finally got a case for my main rig.

Celeron G1820 2.7Ghz (G3258 planned upgrade)
8GBs G Skill DDR3-1600
Evga Z97 FTW
MSI GTX750 1GB
Intel 330 240GB SSD
SATA DVD Burner
Lian Li PC-K7B Case
Windows 7 64bit

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8086-ProGamer wrote:

Very nice system!

sgt76 wrote:

VERY nice system. I've often dreamt of owning such a thing. Enjoy!

thanks guys!

I've been hunting for one forever, can't say it wasn't worth the wait 😀

devius wrote:

I bet that thing cost a small fortune when it was new.

An XU 6/200C with dual processors, 64 MB of RAM and a single 2 GB hard disk was $11,326 in early 1996, pretty insane.

The 6x86, before it was doomed to a life of running Windows 98 again.

PERKUNAS - the image in your sig is reporting malware. Sort your shit out!

badmojo wrote:

PERKUNAS - the image in your sig is reporting malware. Sort your shit out!

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