Now all you need is an Asus sticker to put on a case xD

alexanrs wrote:

Now all you need is an Asus sticker to put on a case xD

🤣 Need a case too.... Asus perhaps.

I did a build with essentially the same mboard and CPU. Here is a current topic I created:

CF Card Through IDE - SLOW!

Having issues getting the correct speeds out of the CPU. The point of my build was to be able to span a few generations of hardware. Will play everything from 286 to CD-Rom, Pentium era games. I'm curious how this runs and would appreciate any notes on how you make out. Would be great if you took a look at my thread and had any suggestions.

Thanks!

Neat idea.

Even your ribbon cables are Asus branded 😀

I would go for a better quality psu.. If the weight is very low, mostly these are very cheap psus. You need a heavy one with Active PFC at least.

May I suggest the 440GX chipset over the 440BX? You can use 2GB of RAM in a GX machine, which with dual processors makes it pretty usable even for day to day tasks. I have a dual 1GHz Coppermine machine with 2GB of ECC RAM running at 100MHz FSB currently, but I have 2 1.4GHz Tualatins and 2GB of PC133 waiting for a decent price on the converters...

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I did a build with essentially the same mboard and CPU. Here is a current topic I created: […]
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I did a build with essentially the same mboard and CPU. Here is a current topic I created:

CF Card Through IDE - SLOW!

Having issues getting the correct speeds out of the CPU. The point of my build was to be able to span a few generations of hardware. Will play everything from 286 to CD-Rom, Pentium era games. I'm curious how this runs and would appreciate any notes on how you make out. Would be great if you took a look at my thread and had any suggestions.

Thanks!

Nice little machine you did. 😀 I am going to do some benchmarking's when the build is done, and will report it here.

philscomputerlab wrote:

Neat idea.

Even your ribbon cables are Asus branded 😀

Thanks. As I mentioned.
This build is to be looked at, as a sort of joke wich are on the Asus FanBoy's at the time of SS7-era.
Well... Actually on fanboy's in general, and I just happened to have all these Asus part's laying around.

You know... I hate it when fanboy's are like "Only this brand can do everything" and all that crap.
For me, technology is more like choosing the right tool for the job. And because, well, technology IS fun
in all it's aspects. Windows, OsX, Linux, Amiga-OS and other like BeOS are all equally cool when playing.
iPhone, Windows-Phone, Android and even old Nokia 3210 are equally cool. It all depend on need's.
I mean... Why get an Galaxy S6-something/iPhone 6S-Something, when all you need is to talk?

Robin4 wrote:

I would go for a better quality psu.. If the weight is very low, mostly these are very cheap psus. You need a heavy one with Active PFC at least.

The PSU chosen, is the LiteON, I found in an Acer machine.
It is stable enough, and I actually think that it is good enough, as it feels as there are more weight in it compared to cheap PSU's.
And it is silent, wich is good. As that 10K is really loud. It's a love and hate story regarding loud HDD's for me.
Both a retro-blessing positive feel, and a irritation-point when listening to music and soundeffects in games.
Love it. Hate it. 🤣

manbearpig wrote:

May I suggest the 440GX chipset over the 440BX? You can use 2GB of RAM in a GX machine, which with dual processors makes it pretty usable even for day to day tasks. I have a dual 1GHz Coppermine machine with 2GB of ECC RAM running at 100MHz FSB currently, but I have 2 1.4GHz Tualatins and 2GB of PC133 waiting for a decent price on the converters...

Nope. Sorry. Not going for 440GX chipsets. The venture into 440BX are more driven by me sourcing cheap parts.
I know this is our hobby and old computers are fun and have personality. And that is pretty much it.
But let's face it. It's all junk at the end of the day, right!? I mean. 10 to 20 year old stuff, with unknown history
of previous owners.... That is why I look at it as being more or less without value. With few exceptions.
Gravis cards are one of them. Yeah... They are really something worth paying something for. Not SS7 boards.

Speaking of cheap parts and what I can get my hands on. I will be recieving a haul on monday for 400 Danish Kroners.
Wich is somewhat really cheap if I look at what I will get. 400 Kroners is roughly the same as 60 US Dollars.
I will be getting the following:

Asus P2B-DS, including 2 x 550 Mhz Pentium3 CPU's
Asus P2B-S, including 1 x Pentium2 CPU (speed unknown)
One A-Open HX45 atx-Case
One A-Open HQ45 atx-Case
2 unknown (at the moment) motherboards wich I am qurious about.
And a collection of different cards and other hw, wich is stuff like SCSI controllers and GFX cards.

In other words. I am building from what I can get my hands on for cheap.
As I really do not want this hobby to spiral out of control, money-wise. No GX, BX it is. 😀

What, no ASUS sound card? 🤣

oerk wrote:

What, no ASUS sound card? 🤣

Hehe.... Yeah, that crossed my mind too the other day.
I actually do not know anything about what Asus branded ISA soundcard that would be better than an AWE64-Gold.
Would be nice, if Asus did V2 back in the day's. Imagine an Asus branded V2-SLI setup. That would be a thing. 🤣
Honestly... Even fanboys back then, had to get other type of brands. And I guess they would have used quality parts.

brostenen wrote:

Nice little machine you did. 😀 I am going to do some benchmarking's when the build is done, and will report it here.

Thanks, thought I was nailing it with the config based on what I was looking to do. It would be great to see your bench results with the same tools I used.

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oerk wrote:

What, no ASUS sound card? 🤣

Hehe.... Yeah, that crossed my mind too the other day.
I actually do not know anything about what Asus branded ISA soundcard that would be better than an AWE64-Gold.
Would be nice, if Asus did V2 back in the day's. Imagine an Asus branded V2-SLI setup. That would be a thing. 🤣
Honestly... Even fanboys back then, had to get other type of brands. And I guess they would have used quality parts.

I have an I-A16C which has a Vibra chip, and... yeah, stick to the AWE64 🤣

Now Brostenen, you do know that your next machine will have to be the another Super Socket 7 Build - "The Hater" 🤣

oerk wrote:

I have an I-A16C which has a Vibra chip, and... yeah, stick to the AWE64 🤣

Even fanboy's must give up.... Hehe.
Yeah. I will stick to the AWE64-Gold.

philscomputerlab wrote:

Now Brostenen, you do know that your next machine will have to be the another Super Socket 7 Build - "The Hater" 🤣

Uhhh.... That would be comprised of the most shitty SS7 board ever, the most unbalanced and low powered GFX for this board (PCI though the board should have AGP port) and the worst soundcard for Dos. (CT:5803) Hmmm... Perhaps it should have a really loud fan and some 80mm server case-fans, screaming at 120db. (2 of them in fact)

Yeah. This should be a real hatefull pc. 🤣

Edit:
Not to forget.... Such a pc, shure could use some MFM-Love as storage.
And be build into a leather suitcase.

brostenen wrote:

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philscomputerlab wrote:

Now Brostenen, you do know that your next machine will have to be the another Super Socket 7 Build - "The Hater" 🤣

Uhhh.... That would be comprised of the most shitty SS7 board ever, the most unbalanced and low powered GFX for this board (PCI though the board should have AGP port) and the worst soundcard for Dos. (CT:5803) Hmmm... Perhaps it should have a really loud fan and some 80mm server case-fans, screaming at 120db. (2 of them in fact)

Yeah. This should be a real hatefull pc. 🤣

Edit:
Not to forget.... Such a pc, shure could use some MFM-Love as storage.
And be build into a leather suitcase.

Dude, just get a PCChips M590/M571 where the onboard vídeo is wired to the AGP bus (and it is not exposed as a slot)! Then something like an AD SoundPort, OPTi 83C931 or ALS120 based sound card. Oh, and a Cyrix processor... or an IDT WinChip.

Cyrix is way to mainstream and popular for "The Hater". IDT WinChip seems much more suitable 🤣