Both the ESS and the Matrox are great options IMHO. ESS cards generally sounds great - including their OPL3 clone - and are easy set up. And the Mystique 220 is fast and produces a beautiful image.

Thanks a lot to everyone 😉

Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR-500? Damn, didn't even know that existed! Also, I've discovered the sound chip in my titchy little Acer TravelMate 313T is an OPL3 Yamaha chip, which is nice.

You've missed out on a lot then. It's "overclocking ram" and there has been many many brands that have 500 mhz DDR ram they sold. ADATA, GeiL, Kingston HyperX, Corsair, Patriot.. most of the name brands have one variety or another.

GeiL however is the only one I've ever known to sell 600 mhz DDR ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16820144341

EDIT: And because of your mentioning and looking up that Geil page, I just... happened to decide to browse ebay and found a single 512MB stick of GeiL DDR-550 ram for $7.50 total. Mine now. 😁

kithylin wrote:

You've missed out on a lot then. It's "overclocking ram" and there has been many many brands that have 500 mhz DDR ram they sold […]
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Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR-500? Damn, didn't even know that existed! Also, I've discovered the sound chip in my titchy little Acer TravelMate 313T is an OPL3 Yamaha chip, which is nice.

You've missed out on a lot then. It's "overclocking ram" and there has been many many brands that have 500 mhz DDR ram they sold. ADATA, GeiL, Kingston HyperX, Corsair, Patriot.. most of the name brands have one variety or another.

GeiL however is the only one I've ever known to sell 600 mhz DDR ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16820144341

EDIT: And because of your mentioning and looking up that Geil page, I just... happened to decide to browse ebay and found a single 512MB stick of GeiL DDR-550 ram for $7.50 total. Mine now. 😁

DDR RAM was before the time I started fiddling with computers, and I've never tried to build an XP screamer or anything like that. Fastest I've ever seen is DDR-400 😀

Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR RAM was before the time I started fiddling with computers, and I've never tried to build an XP screamer or anything like that. Fastest I've ever seen is DDR-400 😀

And here's where you think I'm crazy. Those two red sticks are going in my Windows 98 SE build.... The one with a AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.5 ghz, geforce 6800 ultra, and sound blaster live card.. and voodoo2 card.

kithylin wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR RAM was before the time I started fiddling with computers, and I've never tried to build an XP screamer or anything like that. Fastest I've ever seen is DDR-400 😀

And here's where you think I'm crazy. Those two red sticks are going in my Windows 98 SE build.... The one with a AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.5 ghz, geforce 6800 ultra, and sound blaster live card.. and voodoo2 card.

You're a mad man. 🤣

Private_Ops wrote:

kithylin wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR RAM was before the time I started fiddling with computers, and I've never tried to build an XP screamer or anything like that. Fastest I've ever seen is DDR-400 😀

And here's where you think I'm crazy. Those two red sticks are going in my Windows 98 SE build.... The one with a AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.5 ghz, geforce 6800 ultra, and sound blaster live card.. and voodoo2 card.

You're a mad man. 🤣

Why do you think I got specifically a 512 MB kit.. 😁 😁 😁 It's a nforce2-ultra 400 system.

kithylin wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR RAM was before the time I started fiddling with computers, and I've never tried to build an XP screamer or anything like that. Fastest I've ever seen is DDR-400 😀

And here's where you think I'm crazy. Those two red sticks are going in my Windows 98 SE build.... The one with a AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.5 ghz, geforce 6800 ultra, and sound blaster live card.. and voodoo2 card.

Not crazy, just have a higher budget than me (although that's probably because I keep accumulating laptop projects and take too long to finish + sell them!) My old games rigs are generally pretty basic.

Lukeno94 wrote:

kithylin wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR RAM was before the time I started fiddling with computers, and I've never tried to build an XP screamer or anything like that. Fastest I've ever seen is DDR-400 😀

And here's where you think I'm crazy. Those two red sticks are going in my Windows 98 SE build.... The one with a AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.5 ghz, geforce 6800 ultra, and sound blaster live card.. and voodoo2 card.

Not crazy, just have a higher budget than me (although that's probably because I keep accumulating laptop projects and take too long to finish + sell them!) My old games rigs are generally pretty basic.

Just keep at it and you will have some nice rigs someday 😀
If you want to get some nice things on a tiny budget check eBay at least daily and you will be surprised what pops up for peanuts sometimes. 😉

Took my a few years to rebuild my collection after losing everything to arson (made really bad choices when it came to making friends) 😢

kithylin wrote:

... those two red sticks are going in my Windows 98 SE build.... The one with a AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.5 ghz, geforce 6800 ultra, and sound blaster live card.. and voodoo2 card.

I wouldn't recommend going above the GeForce FX series for a retro build as the 6 and up lose 8-bit palletized textures. I read something about VSync being locked as well. I don't know what the corresponding ATI variant would be.

Got a couple items in over the last week.

Tyan Thunder s2885 with 16GB DDR + two Cooler Master tunnel style heat sinks, not sure what's under them right now... will remove them later:

Asus K8N-DL with 12GB DDR + two Opteron 885s:

Lukeno94 wrote:

kithylin wrote:

You've missed out on a lot then. It's "overclocking ram" and there has been many many brands that have 500 mhz DDR ram they sold […]
Show full quote

Lukeno94 wrote:

DDR-500? Damn, didn't even know that existed! Also, I've discovered the sound chip in my titchy little Acer TravelMate 313T is an OPL3 Yamaha chip, which is nice.

You've missed out on a lot then. It's "overclocking ram" and there has been many many brands that have 500 mhz DDR ram they sold. ADATA, GeiL, Kingston HyperX, Corsair, Patriot.. most of the name brands have one variety or another.

GeiL however is the only one I've ever known to sell 600 mhz DDR ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16820144341

EDIT: And because of your mentioning and looking up that Geil page, I just... happened to decide to browse ebay and found a single 512MB stick of GeiL DDR-550 ram for $7.50 total. Mine now. 😁

DDR RAM was before the time I started fiddling with computers, and I've never tried to build an XP screamer or anything like that. Fastest I've ever seen is DDR-400 😀

I have a matched set of two sticks of these: Geil DDR550 😀 I'm planning to put them in my IC7-MAX3 setup

Also some DDR466 sticks too, OCZ's

m1919 wrote:

Got a couple items in over the last week.

Tyan Thunder s2885 with 16GB DDR + two Cooler Master tunnel style heat sinks:

Asus K8N-DL with 12GB DDR + two Opteron 885s:

Wicked stuff !

Lukeno94 wrote:

Not crazy, just have a higher budget than me (although that's probably because I keep accumulating laptop projects and take too long to finish + sell them!) My old games rigs are generally pretty basic.

Actually I'm on an awfully low budget, just been extremely lucky on ebay. You gotta look around and check out ebay daily.

I made a thread on it somewhere.. I'll have to look it up and I'll edit it in to this post in a few minutes. But basically I found someone on ebay selling a Gigabyte brand socket 462 motherboard. Nvidia Nforce2-ultra-400, dual channel ddr-400 slots (Supports overclocking) and it had a cpu in it under a crappy heatsink. Seller did not describe which CPU it was, and did not have the heatsink off in the listing and I bought it (mainly wanting the motherboard only) and when I got it here... turned out it was a AthlonXP 3200+ 400-FSB-Barton chip.

I paid $16 and some change buy it now free shipping for the entire listing, board & chip & heatsink, and it all works fine. Get it here, put a better heatsink on it and it clocks up to 2.5 ghz stable with the crappy ddr-333 ram I have in there now.

So no.. I didn't pay much at all for the entire system, I just got extremely fecking lucky. 😲

So keep at it! and you'll have nice systems if you keep hunting for em.

EDIT: Thread is here.. it kind of died off but I still have the kit and it still works great. ...

Space is also an issue for me, which is why I expend my energies on laptops instead 😀 speaking of which, I should receive another 6 (two of which are Pentiums and one is a P3) sometime today!

Lukeno94 wrote:

Space is also an issue for me, which is why I expend my energies on laptops instead 😀 speaking of which, I should receive another 6 (two of which are Pentiums and one is a P3) sometime today!

Laptops are my thing too. But PCMCIA sound cards are HARD to find!

I bought this package from "Russia" in Bulgaria! 😉

Thank you Artex for posting the link in the Ebay stuff thread!

Biostar MB-8433UUD-A with some other stuff, the price ended up beeing $31 + cheap shipping so it was a nice deal.

Good haggling 😁

Skyscraper wrote:

I bought this package from "Russia" in Bulgaria! 😉

Thank you Artex for posting the link in the Ebay stuff thread!

Haha - nice stuff and one hell of a deal! I'll make sure to go and buy a globe and practice my geography.

Today arrived something glowing,weird and made by Asus 🤣
Asus 6800 Gamer Edition(V9999GE/TD/N/256M/A)
An Frankenstein that has 6800 Ultra PCB,usual 6800 chip and 6800 GT clocks and amount of memory.

With this my RDRAM 478 project seems to have chances bring it to life 🤣

*Glow*