Hello from Argentina! i been watching several threads and that gave me the strenght to finish my last project!

when i started as a computer technician in June 1999 i sold my very 1st computer to the 1st client that came to my workshop (he needed just for learn to use a computer), after 10 years that client passed away at the age of 83 and the wife gave it to me. It was incredible to recover my 1st pc, was nearly the same condition and with the same hardware (AMD 486 DX4 100Mhz, 32MB Ram, Pcchips w/fake cache, Genius Sound card w/crystal 4235, Quantum 270MB, US drives 32x, Windows 98 SE) all with a nice 14" SVGA and a Epson Stylus 300

over the years, i been collecting much hardware. Most came from donations ("you want it? otherwise i'll throw it") and upgrades, so i didnt need to buy anything for this project, all came from hardware that actually cant sell.

I wanted to achieve 4 things with this:

1) Push to the max my 1st computer leaving the case and other things that dont impact on the performance, therefore the motherboard has to be AT.

2) Have a computer where i can play all pre-2000 games

3) Try all that games that i played in a S3 Virge DX at the maximum quality (in 1999 a Voodoo or TNT2 was in another league for my wallet)

4) Try the always tricky 83Mhz Bus from the Socket 7 and get it stable

I ended building this:

AMD K6-2 500Mhz (6x83) + Coolermaster Fan
Pcchips M571 v3.2a (sis 5597)
128MB Ram PC100 (2x64)
40GB Samsung IDE SP0411N 7200RPM w/jumper set to 32GB @ ATA 33
Voodoo 3 2000 16MB PCI
US Drives 32X
Sound Blaster AWE 64 ISA
Floppy 1.44MB
ATX Form CARD (2 USB 1.1 + Ps2 Mouse + IR)
FM Radio Card ISA
3com Ethernet 3c905-TX PCI
AT Case w/250w Generic PSU
Windows 98 SE

Some Pics:

Benchs (Sandra 99 and Speedsys 4.78) and Screenshot with all the games:

The system is perfectly stable and i can run for example Unreal Tournament @ 1024 x 768 all Max @ 25FPS avg (20min, 45 Max). Also i didnt go for 256MB because the SIS 5597 cacheable memory is 128MB, plus PRE-2000 games dont need it. Im really happy to give another live to my 1st computer 😊. Next week im gonna make some videos 😀

PS:

Original Hercules from 1984 i pulled from a 386 about 8 years ago 😀