That slim case reminds me of a P2-era Dell I have, but I like the Micron badging much more. It also appears to be a totally standard ATX case, not the proprietary stuff Dell was doing.
I don't think I ever saw any Micron prebuilts, I've only read of them in old magazine articles.

shamino wrote on 2024-02-26, 22:00:

That slim case reminds me of a P2-era Dell I have, but I like the Micron badging much more. It also appears to be a totally standard ATX case, not the proprietary stuff Dell was doing.
I don't think I ever saw any Micron prebuilts, I've only read of them in old magazine articles.

Yeah, it seems like Micron went to the same OEM for the cases, they are identical to the Dell towers of the era. And yeah, the power and reset buttons are regular 'ol ATX front panel connections, as are the LEDs etc, and yeah I much prefer the Micron badging, and that anodized aluminum heatsink 😁

Which Win9x games are you playing?
Early Win9x games didn't really use A3D, EAX but did use MIDI, something the Yamaha does very well.

Personally I find the real-life performance gain of SCSI doesn't match the hassle but it is fun to play around with. Depends on what your priority is.

Definity recommend adding network, Honestly it's well worth the time to setup if your after QoL upgrades, and this one is even period correct. Even a cheap Realtek card is enough, no need for anything fancy.

BUT I'd recommend enjoying it for a few months first as is.
Voodoo, SCSI, this would have been 1 hell of a PC back in the 90's. So use it, find out what what life would have been like back then if you had the money, what hasn't stood the test of time and upgrade accordingly.

chinny22 wrote on 2024-02-27, 03:06:

Which Win9x games are you playing? Early Win9x games didn't really use A3D, EAX but did use MIDI, something the Yamaha does very […]
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Which Win9x games are you playing?
Early Win9x games didn't really use A3D, EAX but did use MIDI, something the Yamaha does very well.

Personally I find the real-life performance gain of SCSI doesn't match the hassle but it is fun to play around with. Depends on what your priority is.

Definity recommend adding network, Honestly it's well worth the time to setup if your after QoL upgrades, and this one is even period correct. Even a cheap Realtek card is enough, no need for anything fancy.

BUT I'd recommend enjoying it for a few months first as is.
Voodoo, SCSI, this would have been 1 hell of a PC back in the 90's. So use it, find out what what life would have been like back then if you had the money, what hasn't stood the test of time and upgrade accordingly.

Actually now that I look at it, there aren’t really any games pre 98 that I’d play on this that even support a3d v1, so maybe I’ll just keep the scsi but drop the dvd and dxr2 and throw the 10/100 in there.

It has the benefit of cleaning up the video signal as there’s one less pci card the video signal has to travel through, plus I can always just enable the on board sound and use that for windows games which should be cleaner sounding than the sb16 which I can either just keep for dos compat or remove altogether and invest in some midi boxes.

seeing that makes me think of duke3d, doom, quake, terminal velocity, command & conquer 😀 i always like these late pentium power houses!

That's an awesome looking build! Those parts make for the quintessential 1997 gaming rig. 😁

That Micron heatsink looks interesting. Is it just a heatsink or a heatsink/fan combo?

gn0me wrote on 2024-02-26, 17:39:

The other option could be to just ditch the sb16 altogether and use the Yamaha onboard sound, but not sure how I feel about that.

What Yamaha chip is it? You could possibly use both? Love this build btw, I bet it performs as good as it looks 🙂

scooosi.

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-02-27, 15:44:

That's an awesome looking build! Those parts make for the quintessential 1997 gaming rig. 😁

That Micron heatsink looks interesting. Is it just a heatsink or a heatsink/fan combo?

It's a passive heatsink. It has a black plastic tray that clips over the sides of the cpu itself, then you screw the anodized heatsink into it to secure it against the IHS, then place the cpu into the socket and close the retention arm. Sits close enough to the rear exhaust fan that I suppose it manages the thermals adequately. The CPU is only a p5 200mmx so it's not like it runs awfully hot or anything to begin with.

gn0me wrote on 2024-03-01, 22:38:

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-02-27, 15:44:

That's an awesome looking build! Those parts make for the quintessential 1997 gaming rig. 😁

That Micron heatsink looks interesting. Is it just a heatsink or a heatsink/fan combo?

It's a passive heatsink. It has a black plastic tray that clips over the sides of the cpu itself, then you screw the anodized heatsink into it to secure it against the IHS, then place the cpu into the socket and close the retention arm. Sits close enough to the rear exhaust fan that I suppose it manages the thermals adequately. The CPU is only a p5 200mmx so it's not like it runs awfully hot or anything to begin with.

I have two of those Micron heat sinks but no brackets. I was going to try and resin print one but would like to find an original.

Micron! You don't see many of those. Awesome machine!

gn0me wrote on 2024-02-26, 23:54:

shamino wrote on 2024-02-26, 22:00:

That slim case reminds me of a P2-era Dell I have, but I like the Micron badging much more. It also appears to be a totally standard ATX case, not the proprietary stuff Dell was doing.
I don't think I ever saw any Micron prebuilts, I've only read of them in old magazine articles.

Yeah, it seems like Micron went to the same OEM for the cases, they are identical to the Dell towers of the era. And yeah, the power and reset buttons are regular 'ol ATX front panel connections, as are the LEDs etc, and yeah I much prefer the Micron badging, and that anodized aluminum heatsink 😁

Both Dell and Micron used Palo Alto case with different front panels. I have a Micron Millenial XKU I bought from a Micron store (former Zeos store) and I love that case and the front panel Micron used looks better than the one Dell used.