This is my Pentium ii rig
Motherboard -ASUS P2L97
Cpu-233mhz 66mhz Fsb
Memory-160 mb 66mhz SDram
HDD- 8gb compact flash over a startech IDE adapter
Optical -LG Lightscribe CD/DVD IDE drive
Floppy- Samsung Floppy drive
Sound cards-
1. ISA Soundblaster 16 4170 waveffects
2. PCI Soundblaster Live
PCI-NEC USB 2.0 expansion card
Video card - Nvidia TNT2 M64 32mb AGP 2x
O/S - Windows 98 SE
PSU - 430watt corsair CX430M 80+ bronze ATX PSU
Case - Rosewill Challenger ATX Case

This is my mess of a 486 build

Biostar 8433UUD motherboard
AM5x86 @ 133MHz
16MB RAM
Trident Daytona 64T (who needs 3D? :p i do......)
Pine Tech PT-230X (ES1868F based) sound card
WD1003-WAH MFM controller paired with an ST-251 drive

if you're wondering, yes this machine is running Windows 95. Crammed onto that 42MB drive.

Why though? 😄

Calax395 wrote on 2021-07-03, 10:25:

This is my Pentium ii rig Motherboard -ASUS P2L97 Cpu-233mhz 66mhz Fsb Memory-160 mb 66mhz SDram HDD- 8gb compact flash ove […]
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This is my Pentium ii rig
Motherboard -ASUS P2L97
Cpu-233mhz 66mhz Fsb
Memory-160 mb 66mhz SDram
HDD- 8gb compact flash over a startech IDE adapter
Optical -LG Lightscribe CD/DVD IDE drive
Floppy- Samsung Floppy drive
Sound cards-
1. ISA Soundblaster 16 4170 waveffects
2. PCI Soundblaster Live
PCI-NEC USB 2.0 expansion card
Video card - Nvidia TNT2 M64 32mb AGP 2x
O/S - Windows 98 SE
PSU - 430watt corsair CX430M 80+ bronze ATX PSU
Case - Rosewill Challenger ATX Case

Welcome to vogons. The place you come to but can never leave...

I trust you have at least 10 blue LEDs in there...😉

devius wrote on 2021-07-04, 18:23:

Why though? 😄

Assuming this reply was for me, just because 🤣. I like to make up little challenges for myself to keep my computer knowledge on the up and up, and making different eras of hardware work together is challenging :-p

Work in progress. Voodoo5-6000 Build!

-Dual AMD AthlonMP 2800+ Thoroughbred-B.
-2x 1024MB PC-2700 @ PC-2100 ECC Reg.
-TYAN Thunder K7X Pro.
-3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A1 3700+ HanK Semenec's PCI Rework (Week 37, Year 2000)
-Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum Preview Sample (2503 - Week 25 , Year 2003)
-Onboard Intel /Broadcom 100/1000Mbit RJ45 Network Chip.
-Promise SATA300 Card with 250GB SSD/300GB Raptor.

That's a beautiful dual Athlon system I really love the VooDoo 5 6k. How's the performance of the system?

ST251 wrote on 2021-07-05, 01:03:

devius wrote on 2021-07-04, 18:23:

Why though? 😄

Assuming this reply was for me, just because 🤣. I like to make up little challenges for myself to keep my computer knowledge on the up and up, and making different eras of hardware work together is challenging :-p

Making systems do what they are not suppose to do is great fun...😉

^Voodoo 5s, Voodoo 5s everywhere..
This thread needs more Playdoh! 😉

Source: https://forum.plexmod.de/user-post-list/238-a … bundy/?pageNo=8

PS: For those who missed this funny old story (it's sorta a classic running gag, I think):
This will make you die inside (really) Voodoo 5 6000 "playdough"

Okay, that's all for now. I just couldn't resist, please forgive me. 😇

SWZSSR wrote on 2021-07-05, 14:23:

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Work in progress. Voodoo5-6000 Build!

-Dual AMD AthlonMP 2800+ Thoroughbred-B.
-2x 1024MB PC-2700 @ PC-2100 ECC Reg.
-TYAN Thunder K7X Pro.
-3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A1 3700+ HanK Semenec's PCI Rework (Week 37, Year 2000)
-Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum Preview Sample (2503 - Week 25 , Year 2003)
-Onboard Intel /Broadcom 100/1000Mbit RJ45 Network Chip.
-Promise SATA300 Card with 250GB SSD/300GB Raptor.

Nice

Is the case some sort of Chieftec Dragon?

ST251 wrote on 2021-07-05, 01:03:

...just because 🤣.

That works!

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-07-05, 16:56:

ST251 wrote on 2021-07-05, 01:03:

devius wrote on 2021-07-04, 18:23:

Why though? 😄

Assuming this reply was for me, just because 🤣. I like to make up little challenges for myself to keep my computer knowledge on the up and up, and making different eras of hardware work together is challenging :-p

Making systems do what they are not suppose to do is great fun...😉

I know right? I really enjoyed getting that MFM controller to not only work on a 486, but also getting Windows 95 installed on a hard drive that's only 38MB formatted.

devius wrote on 2021-07-05, 20:23:

ST251 wrote on 2021-07-05, 01:03:

...just because 🤣.

That works!

One day I'll actually get a video of it uploaded somewhere.

The remake of my second PC. It was bought in late October 1999.
Not all the parts are the same, but the motherboard, CPU, graphics card and sound card are identical. Even the case configuration is identical.
This build is supposed to have the same hardware of the original build, so no fancy extra hardware.
The original build had 64MB of ram. In late 1999 128MB was starting to be the norm for decent spec systems. 64MB was to short for Quake3 in 32bit. I choose 256MB for this build, because 128MB is not enough for some 2001 games.

CPU - Intel Pentium III 450MHz
Motherboard - Legend QDI BrillianX 1S
RAM - 256MB 133MHz SDR SDRAM @ 100MHz CL2-2-2
Graphics - Matrox G400 Single Head 16MB SDRAM Rev.A
Sound card - Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 CT4700
HDD - Seagate 20GB IDE ATA100 5400rpm
CD-ROM - Creative 52x

More pics

Oh, it was an honor to be allowed to look - nice, clean build, good job!

That's amazing! Is "ribbon cable folding" a new art form I'm not aware of that's gaining a lot of traction?

I need to work on my cable management in my main desktop.

It's not 90s generic mid-tower computer, if insides are not spaghetti.

This is my K62 Rig

Motherboard -Asus P5A
CPu-K62 500mhz 100mhz FSB
Ram- 1x 256mb SDram
Optical drive - Yamaha CD-R 16x Scsi drive
and a Generic 32x speed CD-R IDE
Floppy- Samsung Floppy drive 1.44m
GPU- ATI 128 Rage pro All in wonder 32mb AGPx2
Sound card - SB AWE64 ISA
and a SB Live! 5.1 PCI
Adaptec Scsi adapter PCI
HDD- 30gb Maxtor 5400rpm IDE drive
Case- Cheiftec Full tower case
PSU - EVGA 450BR ATX PSU
Cooling - 3x 80mm Artic Case fans
and cpu is cooled with a Startec low profile cooler

I love this system but i really dislike the ALI chipset i've had to fight with it extensively to get it to run things properly and that scsi drive seems to conflict alot with certain games so it's actully unplugged as of right now to prevent those conflicts
and the Generic IDE cd drive is neat but i didnt like the way it was behaving so i actully have it changed out with a Liteon drive thats black so it messes with the looks but it's more consistant
part of me really wants a DVD drive in this system since that Rage card has a decent Mpeg2 decoder
this system also originally had 512mb for ram but it gave me issues in certain games (math blaster oddly enough )

Ydee wrote on 2021-07-19, 16:22:

Oh, it was an honor to be allowed to look - nice, clean build, good job!

That´s clearly and over statement, but thank you 😀