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First post, by Living

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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

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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:

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

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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:

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

Last edited by Living on 2014-02-03, 01:11. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 7, by borgie83

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@Living, I have almost the exact same case. Could you please upload a photo of the internal side of the front display unit so I could see the jumpers? Have you left it to display 100mhz or has that since been changed given your cpu speed? Btw nice rig!

Reply 2 of 7, by JayCeeBee64

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Last edited by JayCeeBee64 on 2019-11-02, 16:00. Edited 1 time in total.

Ooohh, the pain......

Reply 3 of 7, by PcBytes

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PCChips M571.....make sure it doesn't crash or weird things happen and you're okay.

"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 4 of 7, by Skyscraper

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PcBytes wrote:

PCChips M571.....make sure it doesn't crash or weird things happen and you're okay.

I like PC-Chips socket 7 boards 😀.
PC-Chips socket-7 boards dosnt seem as bad as their Slot-1 boards.
At least the two M577 boards I own work great!

New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 5 of 7, by PcBytes

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Yes,M577 is good too.I wonder if one would have a PC with those parts inside that he could run Windows 7.(patched)
512MB RAM(2x256MB PC100,MVP3 doesn't like PC133)
a 80GB SATA HDD (on a PCI controller obiviously)
a PCChips M577
600MHz AMD K6-2 or K6-III
FX5200 AGP video card (M577 uses MVP3 chipset,and has AGP)
Just for fun,as I don't think one can get something usable out of it.To make Windows 7 usable you'd need at least a 2.66GHz Celeron D and 512MB-1GB RAM.

"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB

Reply 6 of 7, by Half-Saint

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Windows 7 on 512MB of RAM? I don't think so... even 1GB is pure torture 😀

I recently had to remove 1GB from a laptop which originally had 2GB and it turned into a snail...

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Reply 7 of 7, by PcBytes

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I run Windows 7 on a Sempron 3400+ with 1GB RAM and 64MB onboard GPU and it's fast,even Sony Vegas 11 works.

"Enter at your own peril, past the bolted door..."
Main PC: i5 3470, GB B75M-D3H, 16GB RAM, 2x1TB
98SE : P3 650, Soyo SY-6BA+IV, 384MB RAM, 80GB