Very cool! Welcome back to the Win 9x era of retro computing. 😀 Those should be good for that era.

Socket 7 systems are quite fun and perfect for that DOS / early Windows 95 era.

CRTs are nice to have too, but holy heck are they coming hard to come by. At least for any CRT in decent shape.

The GP6 400 was my very first PC (as in belonged to me and not the entire family) I optioned up the video to a 16MB TNT and 10GB HDD (I can't remember what base config was)
It's a but rusty but still lives and stored in my parents garage.
Mine still has the original CPU so haven't tested but safe chance it could take upto a P3 600 Katmai. Maybe more depending on the revision of the motherboard.

You'll have to keep us posted on the upgrade/restore progress

If you pimp your retro computers with AGP graphics cards that have DVI output you easily can connect them to a HDMI port of your big flat TV 😀

nice purchases and great basis for enjoying lots of old stuff

Well my 1st piece has come in! Got the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS arrived first. The only two things missing is the driver CD and the 2-wire digital audio connector.

Box contents... This is actually the first sound card I bought that had the retail box.

Does anyone know what these audio cable is used for? I've never seen one with 3 connectors on the one end.

This different ends are for hooking up to different sound card / CD drive connectors.

Well, my first system came in finally. This is the Gateway 2000 GP6-400 system with a PII 400MHz. Started it up and had to install the integrated sound card drivers, then started having BSOD, Windows Protection Error's. Tried formatting the HDD and could only get to 20% then it would freeze. Tried another HDD and was able to get into the setup, but only could get so far before I would get Windows Protection error. Tried removing ram and still getting same issue. Took and removed all but 1 ram stick and then started testing them. Found that 1 stick of 128MB was no good. So now I'm done to 384MB, running a fresh install of Win98SE, has a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM, then replaced the TDK CD-RW drive with a Plextor drive. Found the floppy drive needs to be replaced as only sort of works. Also added an 80mm case fan to the front to bring in some air. Video card is a ATI Rage 128 GL AGP with 90MHz core/memory clocks.

Here's a couple benchmark runs that I did with the system. 3DMark99 and 3DMark2000

johnvosh wrote on 2023-04-30, 14:33:

Well, my first system came in finally. This is the Gateway 2000 GP6-400 system with a PII 400MHz. Started it up and had to install the integrated sound card drivers, then started having BSOD, Windows Protection Error's. Tried formatting the HDD and could only get to 20% then it would freeze. Tried another HDD and was able to get into the setup, but only could get so far before I would get Windows Protection error. Tried removing ram and still getting same issue. Took and removed all but 1 ram stick and then started testing them. Found that 1 stick of 128MB was no good. So now I'm done to 384MB, running a fresh install of Win98SE, has a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM, then replaced the TDK CD-RW drive with a Plextor drive. Found the floppy drive needs to be replaced as only sort of works. Also added an 80mm case fan to the front to bring in some air. Video card is a ATI Rage 128 GL AGP with 90MHz core/memory clocks.

adventures with old computers! its frustrating yet often satisfying when resolved and you've ended up with a decent system there

That looks like an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard with onboard sound. Is it? If so it's a great system for DOS, with Yamaha 74x PCI audio onboard, which contains a real OPL3 FM synth.

dionb wrote on 2023-04-30, 19:16:

That looks like an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard with onboard sound. Is it? If so it's a great system for DOS, with Yamaha 74x PCI audio onboard, which contains a real OPL3 FM synth.

This is an OEM Intel board for Gateway. It does have the 440BX AGP chipset. The sound chip is the Ensoniq 1371 onboard audio.

dionb wrote on 2023-04-30, 19:16:

That looks like an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard with onboard sound. Is it? If so it's a great system for DOS, with Yamaha 74x PCI audio onboard, which contains a real OPL3 FM synth.

Dell has the Yamaha onboard but the fake ATX connector.
Gateway has the Ensoniq AudioPCi but a real ATX connector.
Life is always a compromise 😜

Got my 3rd system in today, just waiting on the second one to get released from stupid customs! This one is a Dell Dimension XPS T700r system. I don't know why, but I really like the look of these Dell's. This one has a Pentium 3 700MHz/256K/100 FSB Slot 1 CPU. I would like to try and upgrade it to the 1GHz CPU. It has 640MB PC-100 SD-RAM, Promise ATA66 IDE card, Turtle Beach sound card, ATI Rage 1280 Pro 16MB AGP video card, CD-Rom, 100MB Zip drive, floppy drive, I installed the TDK CD-RW drive from the Gateway system in this one replacing the Tape Drive it came with. It didn't come with an HDD, so I installed a 6GB test drive for now with Win 2000 Pro SP4. I was looking back thru Maximum PC and it looks like this system was $1,400 to $2,400 USD in Apr-June of 2000 depending on how it was equipped. I'd love to find the Altec Lansing ACS-340 speakers and 17" E770/P780 FD Trinitron monitor and matching Dell Keyboard/mouse to complete this system.

Sound card

Tape drive that was with the system. It runs on the floppy bus. I couldn't see it in windows, so I don't know if I need special drivers or how to set it up. Think it would be cool to get some tapes and get it working. Does need a good cleaning on the inside though.

My XPS T500 works fine with a 1Ghz CPU. My motherboard is the one with onboard Yamaha sound which I think is older then your one with no onboard sound so would think your safe to upgrade the CPU.

Even though I owned a Gateway back in the late 90's with slightly different faceplate but same metal case underneath I also prefer the Dell styling accept the cover over the floppy drive, never liked that.

johnvosh wrote on 2023-04-30, 14:33:

Well, my first system came in finally. This is the Gateway 2000 GP6-400 system with a PII 400MHz. Started it up and had to install the integrated sound card drivers, then started having BSOD, Windows Protection Error's. Tried formatting the HDD and could only get to 20% then it would freeze. Tried another HDD and was able to get into the setup, but only could get so far before I would get Windows Protection error. Tried removing ram and still getting same issue. Took and removed all but 1 ram stick and then started testing them. Found that 1 stick of 128MB was no good. So now I'm done to 384MB, running a fresh install of Win98SE, has a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM, then replaced the TDK CD-RW drive with a Plextor drive. Found the floppy drive needs to be replaced as only sort of works. Also added an 80mm case fan to the front to bring in some air. Video card is a ATI Rage 128 GL AGP with 90MHz core/memory clocks.

This case looks very nice, never seen that one before.
Seems to be in good condition and the air circulation looks like the (as we could see things nowdadys) poorly optimized as was basically standard before the P4/Athlon era.

What does it weigh? 😜