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First post, by KurtHectic

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Hello ladies and gentlemen,

I really loved this forum and how everyone have amazing configurations and all the pictures and benchmarks.
I will start doing some reviews of classic games from DOS and Windows 98SE for a blog ( http://gamerdesconstrutor.blogspot.com (PT-BR)) and i'll use this machine for the job.

Config:

Intel Pentium IIIE 550Mhz, 256KB Cache, FSB100, Slot1
256MB RAM PC133 running at 100MHz (2x128MB)
Intel Seattle SE440BX-2 (Slot1, 3 DIMM, 1 AGP 2X, 4 PCI, 2 ISA, Sound)
Nvidia Geforce FX5200 128MB AGP 8X@2X
HDD 80GB Samsung IDE
HDD 20GB Seagate IDE
Sound Blaster AWE 64 ISA CT4500 (I love this card 😀 )
Yamaha YMF 740C-V (Onboard, need check the specs)
Realtek RTL8139 10/100 PCI card.
PSU Generic 200W

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Stable and nice motherboard
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Yamaha Sound Chip
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Pentium III 550MHz
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I wanna do some upgrades like 1ghz cpu, better video card, new psu and some reviews of Yamaha Sound Chip.
Comments are welcome 😀

W10: Phenom II X6 1090T@3.2GHz/6GB DDR3 1333/Radeon HD 6450 1GB DDR3
XP: *building* Athlon X2 6000/2GB DDR2 800/Geforce 7950GT 512MB
DOS/W98SE: PIII 550MHz/256MB PC100/Geforce FX 5200 128MB

Reply 1 of 4, by candle_86

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If going for Era approiate reviews wouldn't it make more sense to use a Voodoo 2/RivaTNT/Rage 128 based video card?

Reply 2 of 4, by KurtHectic

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I have a TNT2 and Geforce 2 MX, i don't know if i'll have problems with FX5200. If anything happens, i'll change.

W10: Phenom II X6 1090T@3.2GHz/6GB DDR3 1333/Radeon HD 6450 1GB DDR3
XP: *building* Athlon X2 6000/2GB DDR2 800/Geforce 7950GT 512MB
DOS/W98SE: PIII 550MHz/256MB PC100/Geforce FX 5200 128MB

Reply 3 of 4, by chinny22

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That's a real nice motherboard! Intels all time best motherboard IMHO
Had a Gateway with a SE440BX-3 (3 = OEM) growing up with on-board Ensoinc sound, it was ok
Then got the same motherboard in a Dell few years back with Yamaha sound (and non ATX power connector)
Yamaha has very nice midi, but unlike no Dos support, which was important for me back then (to play network games with my 486) so guess at the time the Ensonic was more useful.
Now though I like the Yamaha better and just play dos games from within windows, and you get a proper ATX connector as well, I'm bit jealous.

Personally I'd put a newer soundcard in for Win98, but apart from that nice system

Reply 4 of 4, by psychz

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Nice! As far as the FX5200 goes, I believe it'll fit the bill just fine regarding late 90s DX games. As chinny22 said, a newer PCI sound card would do this build justice (EAX/A3D maybe?), I'd keep the AWE for an earlier build (P1 MMX/slow P2), but that's just me 😉

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Its not like components found in trash after 20 years in rain dont still work flawlessly.

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