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Elan Vital! Man, ahh... how I loved those! 🤣

I remember my friend building a kick-ass computer back in 2000 with that case. The twist to push power button was neat.

I ended up with it years later, after he had painted it 😐 (unfortunately all the items shown in this pic are long gone, including MSN messenger)

It actually doesn't look that bad in black, but the blue.. 😵

It is one of my favorite cases, built like a brick. Not very practical, for sure, but very spacious and very neat looking. I would buy another if I found it, or a dozen more.

appiah4 wrote:

It actually doesn't look that bad in black, but the blue.. 😵

It is one of my favorite cases, built like a brick. Not very practical, for sure, but very spacious and very neat looking. I would buy another if I found it, or a dozen more.

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🤣 (mini tower version though)

PS. Definately not mine. I tried to talk to him into lowering the price since I don't need the monitor and other staff, just the case, but he didn't budge 😊

PS/2. While they were in the market (1997-1998), most of the other options were very boring cheapest of the chineese shit. When compared to its contemporary rivals, it was actually wonderously practical 🤣

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appiah4 wrote:

It actually doesn't look that bad in black, but the blue.. 😵

It is one of my favorite cases, built like a brick. Not very practical, for sure, but very spacious and very neat looking. I would buy another if I found it, or a dozen more.

https://www.sahibinden.com/ilan/ikinci-el-ve- … 05709385/detay/

🤣

PS. Definately not mine. I tried to talk to him into lowering the price since I don't need the monitor and other staff, just the case, but he didn't budge 😊

That is not an Elan Vital T-10 though, it's not even the T-5 - notice there is no IR receiver on the front panel. That is actually a rather cheap generic knockoff ATX case that's done the rounds quite a bit, and the case I used in my PIII build (upgraded from the blow photos currently, but it will do):

There is also pretty much nothing interesting enough to warrant the price tag in that PC, except being apparently very pristine and clean, which is actually not something you see everyday now that I think about it..

Oh, my bad... It's good that the guy refused price reduction. I would be very dissapointed.

You probably know, during their life time, Asus Elan Vital T5/T10 cases had a front panel update (meh). I was thinking what this guy is selling was the later one (and obviously not a T10 but T5).

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Elan Vital! Man, ahh... how I loved those! 🤣

I remember my friend building a kick-ass computer back in 2000 with that case. The twist to push power button was neat.

I ended up with it years later, after he had painted it 😐 (unfortunately all the items shown in this pic are long gone, including MSN messenger)

I take it the ol bottle of Holy Gr/ail enhances yer gaming prowess???

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I remember my friend building a kick-ass computer back in 2000 with that case. The twist to push power button was neat.

I ended up with it years later, after he had painted it 😐 (unfortunately all the items shown in this pic are long gone, including MSN messenger)

I take it the ol bottle of Holy Gr/ail enhances yer gaming prowess???

I like to think so 😀

Certainly not 'aesthetic' as the other builds in this thread, but retro hardware regardless. It's not period accurate so much as it is utilitarian. Most of these components were chosen for a very specific purpose. We're mounting it on a rack for...things, later. Needs a tiny bit of cable organization yet, and maybe shorter leads for the internal audio routing.

finished my new win98 build

CANCEL

This is my "almost free" Pentium 4. I've had it for a couple of weeks now and I did a video on it but it's just a little side thing so not really worthy of its own thread.

I got this from my parents' acquaintance, it was just sitting in a basement collecting dust. Around the same time, one of my friends gave me a box of old (late 90s-mid-00s) parts. I decided to load this box up for parts storage if nothing else. It had an Epox EP-4B2A2 motherboard, 1.5GHz Willamette P4, no RAM, two 40GB hard drives, an S3 Savage of some description, DVD and CD-RW drives, and a Sound Blaster 128 PCI. One hard drive and the DVD drive didn't work so I tossed them, I swapped the Savage for a GeForce 2 MX, put in 512MB of PC133 (yes, SDRAM), threw in a USB/Firewire card, gigabit card (no onboard LAN at all), SCSI controller, useless TV tuner and new power supply. The only parts I actually paid for were the $5 SCSI controller, $10 power supply, and $7 fan I added a little later.

I put Windows 2000 on it, because why not. I'd wanted to try it for a while now. My plan was to dual-boot Me, but I ended up having to redo everything because it turns out you have to install them in the right order. The second try ended up a little bit weird, with Windows 2000 on G: drive and the letters different in each OS, but everything seems to work okay. Of the two operating systems I definitely prefer Windows 2000. I'd expected it to be crude and unfriendly like NT4.0 but it's almost like XP, while Me is barely evolved from 98SE. Yes, I realize Windows 2000 isn't that useful, but I just wanted to try something different. And there's always Me for 9x games I guess.

That's actually an old picture, but I don't have any newer ones of it running, sorry. Today I finally connected the 5.25" drive, though I have nothing to test it with. I also tried upgrading to a 2.8GHz Northwood but it seems this motherboard doesn't like it. Oh well, at least it got new thermal paste and a clean heatsink. I did buy a 9800 Pro for $10 a few weeks prior that I really wanted to use in this system but it artifacts like crazy... probably dead. Oh well, guess I'll stick with the GeForce for now.

It's a very fun machine that cost me very little so I'm actually taking a liking to it despite never really liking P4s before.

Cool, I wasn‘t aware that epox built Pentium 4 boards.. nice!
Despite the fact that early pentium 4s (especially with sd-ram!) are slow as hell, this Systems got flair 😎

IBM 380 with Pentium 166mhz, 48mb ram, 3gb. IBM travel-star HD, CDROM, Crystal Audio, 3com Ethernet PCMCIA.
Running WinNT3.51 and Win95b

Gateway 2000 486DX 33v

Mobo - Micronics
CPU Intel 486dx 33
ram - 64mb
cache - 256kb
Graphics - WDC WD90c30 VLB
Audio - Diamond Sound Chip
CDROM
Dual floppy drive by Epson
Network card - 3com 3c509
HD - 520mb WD.

Was a pain to get restored but it works.

64mb is a little bit overkill for this config, 8mb maybe 16 would be suitable.

re the gateway 2000 + ThinkPad -

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IBM 380 with Pentium 166mhz, 48mb ram, 3gb. IBM travel-star HD, CDROM, Crystal Audio, 3com Ethernet PCMCIA.
Running WinNT3.51 and Win95b

Is it an active or passive matrix? I passed up on one due to being a passive matrix very recently..

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This is my "almost free" Pentium 4. I've had it for a couple of weeks now and I did a video on it but it's just a little side thing so not really worthy of its own thread.

p4a-2.jpg

I got this from my parents' acquaintance, it was just sitting in a basement collecting dust. Around the same time, one of my friends gave me a box of old (late 90s-mid-00s) parts. I decided to load this box up for parts storage if nothing else. It had an Epox EP-4B2A2 motherboard, 1.5GHz Willamette P4, no RAM, two 40GB hard drives, an S3 Savage of some description, DVD and CD-RW drives, and a Sound Blaster 128 PCI. One hard drive and the DVD drive didn't work so I tossed them, I swapped the Savage for a GeForce 2 MX, put in 512MB of PC133 (yes, SDRAM), threw in a USB/Firewire card, gigabit card (no onboard LAN at all), SCSI controller, useless TV tuner and new power supply. The only parts I actually paid for were the $5 SCSI controller, $10 power supply, and $7 fan I added a little later.

p4a-1.jpg

I put Windows 2000 on it, because why not. I'd wanted to try it for a while now. My plan was to dual-boot Me, but I ended up having to redo everything because it turns out you have to install them in the right order. The second try ended up a little bit weird, with Windows 2000 on G: drive and the letters different in each OS, but everything seems to work okay. Of the two operating systems I definitely prefer Windows 2000. I'd expected it to be crude and unfriendly like NT4.0 but it's almost like XP, while Me is barely evolved from 98SE. Yes, I realize Windows 2000 isn't that useful, but I just wanted to try something different. And there's always Me for 9x games I guess.

p4a-3.jpg

That's actually an old picture, but I don't have any newer ones of it running, sorry. Today I finally connected the 5.25" drive, though I have nothing to test it with. I also tried upgrading to a 2.8GHz Northwood but it seems this motherboard doesn't like it. Oh well, at least it got new thermal paste and a clean heatsink. I did buy a 9800 Pro for $10 a few weeks prior that I really wanted to use in this system but it artifacts like crazy... probably dead. Oh well, guess I'll stick with the GeForce for now.

It's a very fun machine that cost me very little so I'm actually taking a liking to it despite never really liking P4s before.

That two digit POST LEDs. I don't think I've seen them as big as that.

my latest 486 build. I've been wanting something faster than my AT for DOS gaming (which was lagging in SCI sierra games) and i had a hankering to play me some wing commander, so i raided my parts bin and put one together.

build log if anyone's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87F0yFk9k8

This is my Retro Rig, I call it WOPR Jr. (Not really. :P)

It's an IBM 5150 shell with a 5160 chassis, an Asus P5S-B motherboard, AMD K6-II 500MHz CPU, and 512MB RAM.

On the left side is a power conditioner, NEC MultiSpin 4x and an IBM 7861 modem that are just for looks, the right side has a KVM switch, slot-load DVD drive, dual floppy drive, and a CF card reader I use to swap hard drives depending on which OS/configuration I want to run, and a SB Audigy plate because I had an extra slot and I think it looks cool. (There's also a Raspberry Pi on top of the KVM switch that displays event logs from my main PC.)