brostenen wrote:Basically speaking, you are looking for what was the fastest CPU/Mobo combo, the month before the next card was released?
A bit like: The fastest P-II in Jan. 1998, because V2 is from Feb. 1998. Is this correctly understood?
I sence you have a plan, when talking about museum... Can you tell what your plans are?
That's the idea...
I won't really be doing a museum, I just said that to give an idea on what I mean about authenticity and not really caring about fastest performance.
I WILL be putting them on display though, but for my personal hobby in my "playroom".
I don't care about super-rare either Anthony , I am not doing this for bragging rights nor for putting photos in here and trying to make people jealus just because they can't afford to buy the super-rare parts in ebay. That's not me.
What drives me is nostalgia of those ages and inability to build those PCs back then. I was born in 1984, started from a 80286 that was in the house with test drive 1, and my first "good" PC was a Pentium 90mhz that was my Xmas 1996 present. From there on started my PC hobby and I remember drooling over the Voodoo1 in magazines but couldn't buy it. My first 3dfx was the Voodoo2 much later than it was produced (a couple of months before V3 was introduced, late 1998).
So basically on one part I have nostalgia for those "golden" (for me) years of gaming and on another point, I'd like to build some machines around them because now it is very cheap to do so, just for fun/nostalgia/memories.
In the end those PCs will be scarcely used for gaming with appropriate ERA games and the reason I will put them on display, is because I dont have the space for 5-6 PC boxes, so I am thinking of mounting the motherboards on plexiglass pieces with cpu+ram+vga+sound+hdd and on the wall and then using a single PSU+monitor I can connect whichever I want to use at the time. This way I save space, and I can see the parts instead of having them hidden, but I don't really care for WoWing people, it's not like most of my pals would understand what this "junk" (in their eyes) is anyway...
The authenticity part stems from the idea that I'd like the machine to be as if I would have bought it back in the day supposing I had unlimited funds (within reason) so using the latest or 1 step down cpu etc. Moreover since there will be 4+ machines there is no reason for overkill since there will be pentium mmx + pentium2 + pentium3 etc, so no reason to max out an Asus P2b for example (with a PIII) when there will also be an Asus P3b with a PIII... better to spread the available speeds.