rick6 wrote:

Just finished a 2001 era rig: […]
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Just finished a 2001 era rig:

- Pentium 4 1.7Ghz socket 423
- 640 mb of ram Rambus memory (800 mhz)
- Creative Geforce 3 TI500 64MB
- Creative SoundBlaster 5.1
- 2x 80GB HDD for dual boot Win98\WinXP

Just installed a few old steam games on the XP partition. Quite a trip to the year 2001 😀

Nice rig!

The PSU looks kinda cheap though.

Tetrium wrote:

The PSU looks kinda cheap though.

And it is! It's the original psu that came with the case i guess, although i did a full recap on the secondary part of the power supply. If i ever come across a good 2001\2002 original power supply i might replace it.

rick6 wrote:

Just finished a 2001 era rig:

Very nice looking. 😀 I'm almost there with my own P4 build too (case hasn't arrived yet) I bring it up because: I haven't bothered so much with "era accuracy" for the PSU and heatsinks - I originally was worrying about it, and on a lark tried a more modern 80-Plus PSU out (vs a ~2002 Thermaltake), and the power savings at the wall are noticeable (40-50W), not to mention it made it quieter going with modern PSU, coolers, etc. Just my 2c; ofc if you want it to be perfectly contemporaneous that's never a bad thing. 😎

Question: what's the third add-in card? Between the SB Live! and the AGP card? Question 2: Where'd you get the Asus case badge?

obobskivich wrote:

I haven't bothered so much with "era accuracy" for the PSU and heatsinks

Not that i use to bother much with such things too, but the machine was given to me from a friend already built with almost everything from 2001, it was his actual computer from that era, funny thing is that he mostly played solitary on this computer from day one..what a waste right? 😀
The only thing i couldn't keep very time accurate were the hard drives.

obobskivich wrote:

Question: what's the third add-in card? Between the SB Live! and the AGP card?

That's merely the network card.

obobskivich wrote:

Question 2: Where'd you get the Asus case badge?

As i said the computer was given to me pretty much with everything from 2001, but it had a dead network card, a dead exact same Creative Geforce 3 ti500 (lucky me for getting another exact functioning model), and a dead Asus motherboard, so guess that's were the case badge comes from. Even if there's not a Asus motherboard inside anymore it still goes nice with the Asus DVD player so i didn't took it of.

rick6 wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

The PSU looks kinda cheap though.

And it is! It's the original psu that came with the case i guess, although i did a full recap on the secondary part of the power supply. If i ever come across a good 2001\2002 original power supply i might replace it.

i'd make sure it's quality one like the antec tru power which would also need recapped. tbh you don't really loose any originality by getting a modenr quality PSU and can potentially help to get better overclocks. in fact newegg capstone series comes with a 7 warranty.

http://www.overclock.net/t/183810/faq-recomme … -power-supplies

Yeah and it would be smart to place with a good modern PSU. And the bigger issue with these cheap old power supplies (and also cheap newer ones) is that they can never ever output the advertised wattage. For example this one on my rig is marked as a 350 watts PSU and i bet it would blown itself apart if i would ever draw 250/270 watts from it.
I measured the wattage the computer was drawing and i got about 110\130 watts at full load (give or take). So since i rarely use this computer at the moment i'll keep the PSU untill i find a better replacement.

As for newegg i have never bought anything there since i'm from europe, but 7 years warranty is tempting!

rick6 wrote:

- Pentium 4 1.7Ghz socket 423 - 640 mb of ram Rambus memory (800 mhz) - Creative Geforce 3 TI500 64MB - Creative SoundBlaster 5. […]
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- Pentium 4 1.7Ghz socket 423
- 640 mb of ram Rambus memory (800 mhz)
- Creative Geforce 3 TI500 64MB
- Creative SoundBlaster 5.1
- 2x 80GB HDD for dual boot Win98\WinXP

Veeery NICE RIG! but look for this:
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium_4/Intel … 8JK200G%29.html

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/pentium42ghz/

eFatal2ty wrote:

Veeery NICE RIG! but look for this:
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Pentium_4/Intel … 8JK200G%29.html

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/pentium42ghz/

I'm really tempted to get one of those, i guess that would make the ultimate monster desktop for the year 2001! I've ran 3Dmark 2001 and i got 7180 3Dmarks, so a 2Ghz cpu should do even a bit better since it's so cpu dependant

And damn, 2Ghz in 2001? We really left the ghz race a long, LONG time ago! And funny thing is that even today when i ask peaple what computer they have they still say "it's something at 2Ghz/3Ghz" as if that was important in anyway today 😀

Yes, huge leap forward theese times (between 1999-2001) from 500MHz IP3 in 26-Feb-99 to 2GHz IP4 in 27-Aug, 2001 within 2,5years period +1,5GHz

rick6 wrote:

I'm really tempted to get one of those, i guess that would make the ultimate monster desktop for the year 2001! I've ran 3Dmark 2001 and i got 7180 3Dmarks, so a 2Ghz cpu should do even a bit better since it's so cpu dependant

And damn, 2Ghz in 2001? We really left the ghz race a long, LONG time ago! And funny thing is that even today when i ask peaple what computer they have they still say "it's something at 2Ghz/3Ghz" as if that was important in anyway today 😀

My 2GHz P4 (I have an S478 chip) will put up around 8000 in 3D01 with my 5800 Ultra (I don't have an NV2x to test with), and an SDRAM equipped i845. With PC-800 you could probably expect somewhat better performance though (see here for example: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1096&page=4). I've toyed with the idea of going i850 with RDRAM for mine, just to "complete the set," but I don't want to hassle with a new motherboard.

3Dmark 2003 would scale better from a Geforce 3 ti to a Geforce 5800, although SDRAM bottlenecks your machine a bit. One thing that would be interesting to try one day is one of those PowerLeap 423/478 socket adapters, but then byebye time accurate machine.

3dmark 03 is very gpu dependant and I like it because of that. 😁

Ohohoh, just found this gem from computer chronicles. Their ideia of a good computer from 2001 matches almost exactly my rig 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEOCElJ8-44

And now...

Something completely different...

Group shoot 😎

Oldest 286/16... newest P-IV 3.0GHz and everything in between 🤣

1. ATX, Gigabyte GA-5AX Pentium MMX 233 @ 300, 128MB SDRAM, Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
2. AT, 386DX-33, 64kb cache, 8MB ram, PAS16&matching CD unit
3. AT, 386SX-33, 4MB ram, Tseng 4000AX 1MB, Creative SB16 non-PnP
4. AT, 286-16, 4MB ram, Trident 8900D 1MB
5. AT, 386DX-40, 256kb cache, 32MB ram, Tseng 4000AX 1MB, Creative SB16
6. AT, AMD K6-2 300 @ 366 (not complete yet)
7. AT, ST486DX2-66, 64MB ram, VLB ALI 1MB
8. AT, Pentium 133, 64MB ram, PCI S3 964 4MB
9. mATX, P-III 833MHz, 512MB, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, AWE64 ISA
10. AT, AMD 5x86-P75, 133MHz @ 160, 64MB, PCI S3 725
11. AT, Cyrix 486DX2-66MHz, 64MB, VLB CL-5426 1MB
12. AT, Pentium II 400MHz, 256MB, AGP Matrox G???
13. mATX, P-III 866MHz, 512MB, AGP Geforce 4 4200 128MB, Voodoo3 3000 PCI, SB Live!, 320GB HDD, DVD-RW NEC-2500 (Win98&WinXP Dual boot)
14. ATX, HP Vectra VL400, P-III 1GHz, 256MB, 40GB HDD, Windows 2000
15. ATX, P-IV 3.0 Prescott, 512MB ram, AGP ATi 9600PRO 256MB, 120GB HDD
16. ATX, AMD Sempron64 2800+, 512MB, AGP ATi 9600XT 256MB, 80GB HDD

Edit:
Replaced the picture. I realised there should be no empty 3.5" and 5.25" unit. Also added numbers for future reference 😅

Edit2:
Added quick specs for all computers.

Oh wow!
Is any of them still being actively used?
I dare you to post the specs of every single one, by order! 😁

rick6 wrote:

Oh wow!
Is any of them still being actively used?
I dare you to post the specs of every single one, by order! 😁

Actively... not really. There are just too many to use more than a few times a year 🙁 And this are just the PCs. Also missing is P-1 233MMX Laptop. Then I have like 20+ motherboards (286... up to P-4 s775), a few boxes of different add-on cards (ISA, VLB, PCI, AGP, no PCI-e), a few boxes of old HDDs, floppies & CD/DVD units.

I know the specs of them all. Not to the last component, but it's enough to know the general info 🤣

EDIT:
General spec added to the previous post.

+1 for the effort of posting the specs for all the machines! 😀

I wonder what kind of case format is that from the computer nº13 ( P-III 866MHz )
All-in-all, nice collecion!

Kixs, awesome!

Nice overclock on your 233MMX 😁

And I may have case #6 and #11

rick6:
this is the case:
http://lc-power.de/index.php?id=113&L=1

Its mATX format. BTW this is my first "retro" computer built around 2008. I wanted one PC for Win98 and early XP games that weren't compatible with Vista and Win7. Mainly for Need for Speed series.

Tetrium:
I'm glad you like it 😁

That Pentium 233 goes up to 315MHz on 3.0V but it isn't fully stable and I didn't want to push the voltage much higher.

Plan is to reduce the number of computers and to build just a few with the best components that I have. But at the moment (that lasts a couple of years) I have too much fun just tinkering with different boards, cpus, graphics cards... it takes a lot of time 😉

1:
Intel 386SX-16 + Ulsi 387SX Mathco
Hedeka HED923 MB + 5MB RAM (1MB 30pin SIMM x 4 + 44256 DIPP x 😎
OAK 067 512KB VGA/EGA/CGA/MDA ISA
Sound Blaster 16 CT1740 ISA
Adaptec AHA-1520B ISA
3com 3C509B-TP ISA
Generic Multi I/O Controller ISA
CF to IDE adapter (back panel)
Maxtor 7210AT 210MB IDE
3.5" NEC 1.44MB Floppy
5.25" Teac 1.2MB Floppy
IBM CDRM00203 CD-ROM SCSI
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11

2:
AMD 386DX-40 + IIT 487DLC40 Mathco
Unichip 367C / UNI-386WB MB + 64MB RAM (16MB 30 pin SIMM x4)
Cirrus Logic GD5429 2MB ISA
Sound Blaster AWE32 PNP CT3670 ISA + 8MB RAM (4MB x 2 30 pin SIMM)
Adaptec AHA-1540CP ISA
3Com 3C509B Combo 10BASE-T ISA
Western Digital Multi IO Controller ISA
Startech Serial x 2 ISA
CF to IDE adapter (back panel)
Quantum Fireball EX3.2 3.2GB ATA
Quantum Fireball ST3.2S 3.2GB SCSI
3.5" Mitsumi 1.44MB floppy
5.25" Ye-Data 1.2MB floppy
LG CRD-8522 52x CD-ROM IDE
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11

3:
Intel Pentium MMX 233
PC Chips TXPro M560 MB + 256MB RAM (64MB x 2 PC100 SDRAM, 64MB x 2 72 pin SIMM)
Asus 3DP-V3000TV 4MB PCI
Sound Blaster AWE64 Value CT4500 ISA + SIMMCONN + 8MB 72 pin SIMM
Adaptec AHA-2940UW PCI
3Com 3C900B Combo PCI
Generic WinModem Voice PCI
CF to IDE adapter (back panel)
Maxtor Fireball 30GB 2F030J ATA
Maxtor Fireball 30GB 2F030J ATA
Compaq BD01863 18GB SCSI
3.5" Mitsumi 1.44MB
Asus CRW-3212A CD-RW IDE
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 / Windows 95

4:
Intel Celeron 466
Zida/Tomato ZX98-CT + 256MB RAM (128MB x 2 PC133 SDRAM)
3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP
S3 Trio64V2/DX 2MB PCI
Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4380 ISA + SIMMCONN + 32MB 72 pin SIMM
3Com 3C905B-TX PCI
Slot Fan
CF to IDE adapter (back panel)
ActionTech PC700 Card Reader Controller ISA
Quantum Fireball Plus LM 20GB ATA
Quantum Fireball Plus AS 20GB ATA
3.5" Alps Electronic 1.44MB
LG GCE-8525 DVD-RW IDE
HP Colorado T3000 Tape Backup
Actiontech PCMCIA Card Reader
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 / Windows 98SE

5:
Intel Pentium III 733
Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+ + 1GB RAM (512MB x 2 Kingston PC133 SDRAM)
Matrox Millenium II 4MB PCI + 8MB Add-on
3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP
3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB PCI
Sound Blaster AWE64 Value CT4520 ISA + SIMMCONN + 32MB 72 pin SIMM
Adaptec AHA-29160 PCI
Surecom EP-325 Realtek 8029AS PCI
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 30GB ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 30GB ATA
Samsung SpinPoint V40+ 40GB ATA
Maxtor Atlas 10K V 73GB SCSI
Maxtor Atlas 10K V 73GB SCSI
Maxtor Atlas 15K II 73GB SCSI
Fujitsu MAP3367NP 36GB SCSI
Seagate ST33607LW 36GB SCSI
3.5" Mitsumi 1.44MB
5.25" Teac 1.2MB
LG GSA4040B DVD-RW IDE
HP Surestore DAT8 Tape Backup
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 / MS-DOS 6.22 + Desqview / MS-DOS 6.22 + Calmira / FreeDOS 1.0/ MS-DOS 7.1 / Windows 95/ Windows 98SE/ Windows 98SE + Revolution Pack / Windows NT 4.0 WS / Windows 2000 / Windows ME / Windows XP / BeOS Personal / OS2 Warp 4

6:
Intel Pentium III 1400
Gigabyte GA-6VTXE + 512MB PC133 Kingston SDRAM
Leadtek Winfast Nvidia Geforce2 Ultra 64MB AGP
Diamond Monster 3D II Voodoo 2 12MB PCI x 2 in SLI
Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold CT4640 ISA + SIMMCONN + 32MB 72 pin SIMM
Adaptec AHA-29160 PCI
3Com 3C905C-TX-M PCI
Samsung SP1213N 120GB ATA
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB ATA
Compaq BD14688278 146GB SCSI
IBM eServer 8D07310 73GB SCSI
3.5" Mitsumi 1.44MB
3.5" Gotek USB Floppy Emulator
5.25" Ye-Data 1.2MB (for cosmetic purposes - not connected)
LG GSAH44N DVD-RW IDE
3.5" CF to IDE Adapter
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11/ Windows 95 OSR 2.1 / Windows 98SE / Windows ME / Windows 2000

7:
Intel Pentium MMX 233
Asus TXP4-X + 64MB RAM (64MB x 1 PC100 SDRAM)
3Dfx Voodoo 3 16 MB PCI
Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 ISA + NEC XR895 Wavetable
Adaptec AHA-2940UW PCI
3Com 3C900B Combo PCI
Aztech MSP2950-W Modem PCI
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB ATA
Compaq BD07288277 73GB SCSI
Compaq BF03685A35 36GB SCSI
3.5" NEC 1.44MB
5.25" Epson 1.2MB
Pioneer DVR-A18LBK DVD-RW IDE
3.5" CF to IDE Adapter
Iomega ZIP 250MB IDE
MS-DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 / Windows 95 OSR 2.1 / Windows 98SE

8:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Asus A8N-SLI Premium 4GB (1GB x 4 Kingston DDR 400)
Zotac Nvidia GTS 250 ECO 1GB PCIe
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS SB0350 PCI
Onboard Realtek ALC850
Adaptec AHA-29160N PCI
Onboard nVidia nForce NIC
Ricoh R5C485 PCMCIA Cardbus PCI
WD Black 500GB SATA
WD Black 500GB SATA
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80GB SATA
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB SATA
3.5" Alps Electronics 1.44MB
TSST Copr SH-S222A DVD-RW IDE
TSST Copr SH-S222A DVD-RW IDE
Manhattan All-in-One Card Reader Black
Windows XP SP3

Extra Stuff:
Microsoft Serial Compatible Mouse
Quickshot 5 Joystick
Sidewinder 3D Pro Plus Gameport Joystick
Sidewinder Precision Pro USB Joystick
Iomega ZIP Drive 250 MB Parallel
External IBM DVD-RW SCSI
External Multi Card Reader SCSI + Yamaha CD-RW
Iomega ZIP Drive 250 MB Parallel
HP UM9800-W USB 56K Modem
Hayes External V92 Serial Modem
Acrox USB Hub
Dazzle 6 in 1 Card Reader USB (W98 drivers)
USB/Firewire home made External HDD 120 GB x 2 (W98 drivers)

As they are seen above, number 6 (PIII 1400 - mainly Windows 98), number 7 (MMX233 - mainly DOS + Windows 3.11)and number 8 (Athlon64 X2 3800+ - Windows XP) are all active, sharing a 2-display setup with my main rig (core2 quad - windows 7) via an Aten 4-way KVM/sound/USB switch.