Pictures would have to wait. But for now here's two sets of specs...the original build from 1999 (my 1st year of college) and the current status:
ORIGINAL BUILD
MID-ATX Case
350-Watt ATX power supply (don't remember the brand)
ASUS P2B Revision 1.02
Intel Pentium II MMX 350MHz CPU (minimum required to get 100MHz bus for performance)
128MB PC-100 RAM (again, 100MHz bus made great performance and 128MB was total overkill in 1999)
Diamond Stealth II G460 8MB AGP (uses the Intel i740 graphics chip)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold 8MB ISA (the full-blown beast of a sound card!)
33.6 PCI Modem (for internet access back in the day)
10GB Maxtor IDE HDD (this drive failed and I got pissed and never bought another Maxtor ever again. Replaced with a 30GB Western Digital. MUCH better!)
36x CD-ROM (Upgraded to a 16x CD-RW eventually and started burning PlayStation game copies because I couldn't afford to buy the games at the time. I don't do that anymore.)
100MB IOMEGA ZIP Drive ATAPI IDE
DexDrive - PlayStation (a must when you have 40+ burned games and only 15 memory card slots to save to on your card)
Gravis GamePad Pro (for all the NES/SNES ROMs I had on that system)
RETRO REBUILD
MID-ATX Case (similar to one above, but a few years later on)
500-Watt ATX power supply (reuse from older Windows Vista PC)
ASUS P2B Revision 1.02 (original motherboard from above, replaced CMOS Battery with new CR2032 cell and flashed BIOS to latest version so I can see 40GB HDD below)
Intel Pentium II MMX 350MHz CPU (original CPU from above, disassembled and replaced the TIM with Arctic Silver 5, reassembled and tested)
256MB PC-100 RAM (Just added another 128MB chip, so now I have 2/3 slots filled, ECC memory but ECC disabled in the BIOS)
Diamond Viper V770 32MB AGP (nVidia RIVA TNT2 chipset)
Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB PCI (Voodoo2, most stable board)
STB Voodoo2 12MB PCI
STB Voodoo2 12MB PCI (no, I didn't accidentally copy that, it's intentional. It's an SLI set that works, but sometimes doesn't show up in Display Properties due to conflicting drivers with Monster 3D2. I think I might try reinstalling Windows fresh with these to see if it's more stable like the Diamond is...either that or get a 2nd Monster 3D2 8MB card and SLI those instead.)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA 4MB (I didn't feel like paying over $150 for the AWE64 Gold again and I don't have my original part)
10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI (on home network, allows internet access AND file sharing from my Windows 10 PC.)
40GB Western Digital IDE HDD
40GB Western Digital IDE HDD (really nice to copy Windows 98 CD to this D: drive so I never have to swap disks again. Also good for archiving drivers between "reinstalls" while I work the bugs out of the system.)
42x CD-RW ATAPI IDE
250MB IOMEGA ZIP Drive IDE (inherited from an older Windows XP build from 2003.)
So I'm wondering that since my 350MHz Pentium II is pretty much holding my Voodoo2 cards back, I should be ok doing SLI with two 8MB Diamond Monster 3D II cards instead of the 12MB STB versions since all the games will pretty much be CPU limited. On that motherboard, I can only upgrade to a Katami Pentium III 550Mhz. That's the best the MB can support, but the P2 350 works fine right now, so I'm in no rush to spend more money. The TNT2 card is POWERFUL for these old games, but I only use it when I can't get better graphics performance with the Voodoo2 (i.e. DirectX games). I couldn't get the movies to play in Final Fantasy VII the first time I rebuilt this because I had installed DirectX 7 first. FF7 uses DX5. So I reinstalled Windows fresh and installed FF7 first with DX5 - videos play perfectly. The game LOVES the Diamond Monster. I've never seen menu color transitions that smooth and pretty. And the framerate is nice.
Unfortunately, I'm using an old 4:3 LCD monitor...best I have. I'd love to find me a nice working 19" CRT monitor as I think the Glide games will look TONS better, but eh...
Anyone else find that GLQuake...the framerate is perfectly smooth walking around, but the monsters seem to almost jump from frame to frame in their movements and animation. Weird. I'm thinking about how to record and upload a sample of that. I don't think it's the monitor. I mean, it's Quake 1, for cryin' out loud! On a Voodoo2! The framerates ought to be screaming.