PcBytes wrote:

Weird.Just installed a RTL8139D NIC in my PII rig,and Firefox 26(newest version of FF) just flies like a plane.I think it has to do with your internet connection.Obiviously,since Google recently Youtube bloated as hell,it can't play online videos,but that can be worked around by downloading them through Voobys which uses Java.
Also,in my opinion IE took a turn for worse since version 6.First time when this PII rig opened MSN,IE JUST CRASHED,everytime I opened it on MSN.I had to set homepage as Google to stop it from crashing.I replaced it with FF 26.0.

How do you run Firefox on a P2? I thought the latest version required SSE2 support.

I myself use Opera 12 on both my P3 and P4 systems. With OpenGL acceleration enabled it's currently the fastest browser around for single-core systems.

It runs perfecly on my PII.What it actually requires is XP SP2 or greater,as SP1 support ended.

Old rig from 5 years ago:

Specs of the old system:
Western Digital Caviar 6.4GB IDE HDD (Wfw 3.11/DOS 7.1) installed Windows 98SE on the HDD <-- died of Logic Board Failure
Maxtor 6Y080L0 80GB HDD (Windows 2000 Pro) <-- click of death
Lite-On 48x CD Drive (quit working)
ESS Maestro-2 ES1968S Sound Card (Sound Blaster Pro compatible) <-- still have this card and works great.
IBM 2115-001 15" CRT Monitor <-- still have this monitor (used with my brother's laptop since the screen broke on the laptop)
Old-style AT Keyboard (board shorted a year ago)
Microsoft USB Optical Wheel Mouse (with the PS/2 adapter in place)
DFI P5BV3+ Rev. B+ Motherboard w/ 1MB L2 Cache (died of CPU overload)
AMD K6-2/300 Processor (died of overload)
96MB-576MB SD-RAM (have more than that now)
RealTek RTL8029(AS) PCI Ethernet Card (wish I knew where this card is)
3Com Etherlink III ISA Ethernet Card (wish I knew where this card is)
Enlight AT computer case (great case, lost parts to it)
ATX PSU (IDK the watts)
Enlight 250W AT PSU (power switch broke but worked as a bench test)
SiS 305 PCI Video Card (died)
NVidia GeForce MX 4000 PCI Video Card (works like a champ)

Oldest retro system (board died after 18+ years as did the PSU):
HSing Tech M912 v1.7 ISA/VLB Motherboard (BIOS chip died after 18 years)*
230W AT PSU (died after 18 years)*
Shuttle HOT-433 v3.0 Motherboard (ISA slot shorted)
300W AT PSU (shorted when fixing the fan)
AMD Am5x86-P75 133MHz (still have this)
24MB SIMM-72 memory (still have the memory)
AMD AM486-DX4 120MHz Socket 3 CPU (still have the CPU)
Acer AL1917W 19" Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor (still have)
Lite-On DVDRW LH-18A1P DVD Burner (works as always)
WDC WD800JB 80GB HDD (died of bad physical sectors)
Maxtor 6Y080L0 80GB HDD (now in my Xbox Original after the original drive died of a logic board failure)
S3 Trio64 Bahamas 64 Paradise VLB Video Card 2MB Video Memory
Some 1.44MB 3.5" FDD (motor went)
Sound Blaster Vibra 16XV PnP ISA Sound Card (died of shorted pins)
Mutiple I/O ISA Card (1x IDE, 1x FD, 2x COM, 1x LPT, 1x Game Port)
NVidia GeForce MX 4000
ESS Maestro-2 ES1968S Sound Card (SB Pro compatible)
Belkin F5U219 USB 2.0 PCI Controller Card (still have)
RealTek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet (have 3 of these cards for my virtual firewall on my big desktop)
Corsair HX520W ATX PSU with the ATX to AT adapter
AT Beige Case with an Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 sticker as a decoration (still has the old flip switch, no turbo button/CPU speed)
Logitech PS/2 Keyboard with the PS/2 to AT Keyboard adapter
No mouse since the COM ports were broken

Current retro rig:
Abit AB-TX5 motherboard with 512KB L2 Cache** (allows the change of the CPU speed both FSB and multiplier in the BIOS called CPU Soft Menu)
256MB SD-RAM PC-133
AMD K6-2/300 Processor
Maxtor 6Y200P0 200GB HDD (8.4GB for MS-DOS 7.10, the rest for Windows XP Pro SP3 nLite)
Corsair HX520W ATX PSU
Lite-On DVDRW LH-18A1P DVD Burner
Gigabyte OEM CD ROM/Player 52x Max
1.44MB 3.5" FDD pulled from my broken Dell PowerEdge 6300 Server (PSUs went bad, and the CD Drive broke)
ESS Maestro-2 ES1968S Sound Card (SB Pro compatible)
Sound Blaster Vibra 16XV PnP ISA Sound Card
NVidia GeForce MX 4000 PCI Video Card (have a dual-monitor setup)
IBM 2115-001 15" CRT Monitor
Logitech USB Wheel Optical Mouse (connected to a homemade USB to PS/2 Adapter for MS-DOS and Windows)
Logitech PS/2 Keyboard with a PS/2 to AT Keyboard adapter
Roland MT-32 Rev.0 Synthesizer connected to my sound card's MIDI/Joystick Port and SoftMPU v1.9
iHome for the sound with Skull Candy headphones
Same case from the oldest retro rig
2 buttons: restart, power

*brownouts and power outs almost 2 years ago caused both the board and PSU to stop working (the old setup was fantastic 1994-2012) and I was surprised the old AMD Am486-DX4 120MHz processor still worked.
**Can use either ATX or AT PSU***, detects CPU (has CPU Soft Menu), and can run on either SIMM-72 (2x same size; speed type), SD-RAM PC-66/100 or both.
***No jumpers - BIOS detects it automatically

If anyone needs both of my old 486 processors and the memory, shoot me a message and I'll send it to you.

IBM PS/2 70
386DX-16 /w Coprocessor
4MB On-Board + 2MB Expansion card
8514/a Adapter (love to know how much video memory!)
1.44MB 3.5 inch Diskette drive
120MB Hard drive
-Don't have stock monitor and/or keyboard
Running DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.
I might experiment with Windows 95 if I can find my box of EDO, even though 6MB should be enough.

Socket 3 Machine
Percomp brand pcchips m912v1.7 with dreaded 8dy chipset
pentium overdrive 83@100(2.5*40)
256KB of socketed 15ns UMC branded cache in one bank appears to be real(haven't quite worked out stable settings so its currently disabled)
64mb ram( had to change bios setting for alt-bit in tag ram from 7+1 to 8+0 otherwise the system would slow to a crawl)
SB16 easy ct2750 with external 62pin cdrom connector
generic s3 805 VLB with 2MB vram( invasively removed chips from a dead trident pci card)
10Gb quantum bigfoot TS
2x 1.44mb floppy drives
generic 52x cdrom drive with the headphone jack , volume dial, and play/pause button for audio cds
Winbond VLB Multi-IO card
3com 509B twisted pair 10Base card
Debian potato,tried sarge, but XFree86 stopped supporting old s3 card in version 3.3.6, and the generic vesa driver did not work well in 4.3.0
In an old ATX case for an austin brand computer
Sparkle PSU with ATX to AT adapter with power-on lines constantly shorted, if i want to shut off the psu i just throw the main switch on the back.

Gateway G6-450
Gateway i440BX board made by intel
768mb ram
320gb maxtor 7200.10
20gb quantum fireball
panasonic dvd-rom
Windows Server 2003
Broadcom single port gigabit NIC
realtek based dlink nic
Broadcomm dualport gigabit nic
intel dualport gigabit nic
nvidia fx5200 agp
onboard soundblaster 128

Here a short list of my retro computers.
Not all of them are ready-made rigs. Some of them are used only for testing purposes.
I use different videocards for them but mainly Voodooos

AMD

Socket A:
MSI KT3 Ultra2 @ Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton, FSB 333 MT/s) x2 with 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP and ATI Radeon X850 PRO
Asus k7V333rev2.0 @ Athlon XP 3000+ (Barton, FSB 333 MT/s) with 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP / ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Asus k7V333 @ Athlon XP 2400+ (Thouroughbred, FSB 266 MT/s)with ATI Radeon 9700 PRO
Abit KR7A RAID @ Athlon XP 1600+ (Palamino, FSB 266) with ATI Radeon 8500
Abit KT7A @ Athlon 1400 MHz (Thunderbird, FSB 266 MT/s) with ATI Radeon 7500
Abit KT7 RAID @ Athlon 1000 MHz (Thunderbird, FSB 200 MT/s) with ATI Radeon 7200 DDR

Slot A:
AOpen AK72 @ Athlon 800 MHz (Pluto, FSB 200 MT/s) with ATI RAGE FURY MAXX
MSI MS 6191 @ Athlon 600 MHz (Pluto, FSB 200 MT/s) with 3DFX Voodoo 3 3500 AGP

Super Socket 7:
ASUS P5A-B @ K6-III+ 400 MHz with 3DFX Voodoo Banshee PCI

Socket 7:
ASUS TX97-E @ AMD K6 200 MHZ with 3DFX Voodoo 1

INTEL

Socket 775:
Asrock 775DUAL-VSTA @ Petnium 4 3 Ghz (Prescott 2 mb, FSB 800) with Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2

Socket 478:
Asrock PE PRO HT @ Pentium 4 3,06 GHz (Northwood HT, FSB: 533) with 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP / GeForce 6800 GT
ABIT SA7 @ Pentium 4 3,06 GHz (Northwood HT, FSB: 533) 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP / GeForce 6800

Socket 423:
Asus P4T @ Pentium 4 2 GHz (Willamette, FSB 400) with GeForce FX 5950 ULTRA

Socket 370:
ABIT ST6 @ Pentium 3 1400 MHz (Tualatin, FSB 133, 512 kb cache) with GeForce 4 Ti 4400
ABIT VH6T @ Pentium 3 1400 MHz (Tualatin, FSB 133, 512 kb cache) with GeForce 4 MX 460
ASUS TUSL2-C @ Celeron 1400 MHz (Tualatin, FSB 100) with GeForce 4 Ti 4600
ABIT BX-133 @ Petntim 3 1000 MHz (Coppermine, FSB 133) with GeForce 2 Ultra
Asus CUV4X-D: @ 2 x Petntim 3 1000 MHz (Coppermine, FSB 133) with Voodoo 5 5500 AGP / Rage Furry MAXX
Asus CUV4X @ Pentium 3 800 (Coppermine, FSB 133) with Voodoo 3 4500 AGP

Slot 1:
Abit BE6-2 @ Pentium 3 600 MHz (Katmai, FSB 100 mhz) with Voodoo 2 3000 AGP
Asus P2B-D @ 2 x Pentium 3 500 MHZ (Katmai, FSB 100 MHz) with Voodoo 2 SLI and Riva TNT2
Abit BE6 @ Pentium 2 400 MHZ (Deschutes, FSB 100 MHZ) with Voodoo 2 and Riva TNT
Abit VA6 @ Celeron 400 MHZ (Mendocino, FSB 66 MHz) with Voodoo 2 2000 AGP

Socket 8:
Chaintech 6ITM @ Pentium PRO 200 MHz (256 kb cache / 1 mb cache) with Voodoo 1 and ATI Mach 64VT

Socket 7:
MSI 5196 @ Pentium MMX 200 MHZ with Voodoo Rush

These are the PCs I currently have on my desk: Digital Venturis 575 (Pentium 75, NEC PowerMate Plus 286 (80286-12), Leading Technology 5000AT (80286-12) and IBM PS/ValuePoint (Pentium 60 OD).

I prefer OEM desktops: well documented, very stable and usually pretty cheap. Most people who like vintage computing are self builders. I just play games. 😀