Yeah, quite nice.

I see a Roland MPU-PC98II, a PC-FXGA, what appears to be two Voodoo IIs in SLI configuration (by the ports that are shown), and some unknown sound board.

Here's a picture of my machine:

speaking of japanese retro pc`s....this is by far my most favourite system...the sharp x68000
short specs: x68000 xvi-hd,cz-614d monitor with speakers and remote, sharp midi board, xsimm10 memory extension,aztecmonster scsi,3d glasses

I see that Ghouls 'n Ghosts is being played on it.

My Sharp X68000XVI and X68030 old system
This 33MHz 68030 ,SCSI-2 HD 80MB ,8MB RAM and MC68882 math co-processor module ,X68000XVI 16Mhz ,and Xellent30 PCB (MC68030 +68882)

HP PIII Ultra Slot 1

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AMD K7 Armored Interceptor+

CPU--------------AMD Athlon​XP-M 2600+​/3800+ 2.6​GHz
CPU Cooler--------------Thermaltak​e Sonic To​wer Rev.1 ​Silent CPU​ cooler
---------------------------Cooler Mas​ter Aero 7​+ copper s​ocket 462 ​cooler
Motherboard--------------ABIT NF7-S​ V2 socket​ 462
Memory --------------G. Skill 2​GB DDR 400​+Dual Chan​nel Kit
Storage --------------Seagate Ba​rraCuda 72​00.10 ST33​20620A 320​GB 7200 RP​M
Seagate Ba​rracuda ST​3500830A I​DE ATA/100​ 7200 RPM
Video Card-------------- HIS ATi Ra​deon HD 38​50 IceQ 3 ​Turbo 512M​B (256bit)​ GDDR3 AGP
Case -------------- HP XW50​00​ Intercept​or+
Power Supply -------------- ENERMAX Li​berty ELT4​00AWT 400W​ CrossFire​ Ready Mod​ular Activ​e PFC Powe​r Supply

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Compaq PII GTO

CPU --------------Intel pent​ium 2 450M​Hz
Motherboard-------------- Gigabyte B​X 2000
Memory --------------X4 SDram P​QI 128MB
Storage -------------- Quantum Fi​reball lct​10 - IDE 1​0.2 GB ATA​-66
Video Card --------------nVIDIA Riv​a TNT2 Pro​
---------------------------- 3Dfx Voodo​o Rush 6MB​ PCI - Aco​rp

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Rebuilding and repairing Compaq AP 550 Pro Workstation

CPU -------------- x2 Intel P​III 1GHz C​oppermine
Motherboard-------------- Compaq AP5​50 Motherb​oard
Memory --------------x4 256MB 1​GB SDram S​amsung
Storage --------------Fujitsu En​terprise M​AJ3182MP 1​8.2 GB - U​ltra160 SC​SI

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AMD Opteron/ LanParty NF4 smoke machine

CPU -------------- AMD Optero​n 165
CPU Cooler-------------- Zalman - C​NPS7000C-C​u
Motherboard-------------- DFI LanPar​ty Ultra-D​ NF4
Memory -------------- Corsair XM​S DDR 400 ​Xtreme
Storage -------------- Hitachi 80​GB 8MB 720​0 HDS72808​0PLA380
Video Card -------------- Palit Rade​on HD4670
Power Supply-------------- Thermaltak​e Xaser Si​lent Purep​ower 480W

frankmonk wrote:

Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management […]
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Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management

Hercules MT Tower
Asus PCI/I 486SP3G using SCSI on Board
32MB
AMD AM5x86 133Mhz
Video: Ark Logic ARK2000 PCI 2MB
Pionner 305s Slot-in DVD RomSCSI
Sound 1: Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 with Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard
Sound 2: Gravis Ultrasound Classic rev 3.7
2GB Seagate SCSI HDD (needs to be replaced by something quiter soon)

i have the same case , it was used for a 286 motherboard and goes up to 20mhz or soemthing like that

the sad thing i found on that case is that if you open it there is a big PBC full of jumpers with no documentation anywhere on that board, and i was not able to fully get controll of all the bars that make up the numbers, so for example i was not able to set it as 66mhz , but i was able to set it as 20mhz for example.

Cga.8086 wrote:

frankmonk wrote:

Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management […]
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Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management

Hercules MT Tower
Asus PCI/I 486SP3G using SCSI on Board
32MB
AMD AM5x86 133Mhz
Video: Ark Logic ARK2000 PCI 2MB
Pionner 305s Slot-in DVD RomSCSI
Sound 1: Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 with Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard
Sound 2: Gravis Ultrasound Classic rev 3.7
2GB Seagate SCSI HDD (needs to be replaced by something quiter soon)

i have the same case , it was used for a 286 motherboard and goes up to 20mhz or soemthing like that

the sad thing i found on that case is that if you open it there is a big PBC full of jumpers with no documentation anywhere on that board, and i was not able to fully get controll of all the bars that make up the numbers, so for example i was not able to set it as 66mhz , but i was able to set it as 20mhz for example.

actually it only has 2 rows of dipswitches 😉......

you can never have enough DIP switches

frankmonk wrote:

Cga.8086 wrote:

frankmonk wrote:

Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management […]
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Almost finished my new 486 build. still need some fine tuning and of course cable management

Hercules MT Tower
Asus PCI/I 486SP3G using SCSI on Board
32MB
AMD AM5x86 133Mhz
Video: Ark Logic ARK2000 PCI 2MB
Pionner 305s Slot-in DVD RomSCSI
Sound 1: Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 with Yamaha DB50XG Daughterboard
Sound 2: Gravis Ultrasound Classic rev 3.7
2GB Seagate SCSI HDD (needs to be replaced by something quiter soon)

i have the same case , it was used for a 286 motherboard and goes up to 20mhz or soemthing like that

the sad thing i found on that case is that if you open it there is a big PBC full of jumpers with no documentation anywhere on that board, and i was not able to fully get controll of all the bars that make up the numbers, so for example i was not able to set it as 66mhz , but i was able to set it as 20mhz for example.

actually it only has 2 rows of dipswitches 😉......

im sure i was not able to set 66mhz or 99mhz

can you check if yours can? i belive the only options the switches gave me was to put a number like 20 or 8mhz
but there was always a bar that did not light up.

can you take a picture of how you have the switches setup i the back?
on mine i also tried to setup the turbo and it did not work... i always had one speed on the display, maybe you can help me out will send you a private message

Back somewhere in the period 2003-2005 I used to have quite a large collection of all sorts of classic computers. Here are just some of the systems I once had (enjoy! 😊 ):

Wow, sweet collection! Thanks for the pics, nice sight for tired eyes. You got rid of some of it later? I hope it's all in good hands.

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finally got around to finish my PIII blue setup 😀
The Geforce 4600 TI are rare already let alone getting a blue one was I wanted, didn't want to pay 200 for the only one on ebay currently<.<
also found a good use for that spare Aopen tower I painted last year, fitting blue colour ofcourse, still considering getting a Hercules sound card or asus XHigh-fi
Specs:
- Gigabyte GA-60XT socket 370
- Pentium III-S 1400 Mhz Tualatin (with athlon cooler)
- 2x 256 sd ram with blue heatsinks
- Geforce 4 4200 TI Club 3D
- Antec Truepower 330W
- Netgear network card
- 80 GB HD partioned 3 way for dual boot and storage.
- Sony DVD burner
- Philips DVD-rom (needed to fill the slot)
- Card reader/FDD

small update due popular requerst. got some AC-Ryan mod cables with my last order (seller was also selling these and for €2,00 a piece a nice deal).

I've setup a trio of old machines for retro gaming

Top machine:
Windows XP.
Athlon64: 3400
1GB ram
160GB HDD
Nvidia 560ti
Creative Audigy Live
DVD Drive
Floppy Drive

Left Machine
Windows 95
Pentium1: 200mhz
32mb ram
Sound Blaster 16
80GB Hdd
ATi Mach 64 2mb
Orchid righteous Voodoo 1
PCI network
DVD Drive
Floppy Drive
Gotek Floppy drive

Right Machine
Windows 98
Pentium3:600Mhz
128MB ram
Sweex PCI sound card
80GB HDD
Diamond Speed Star AGP
Voodoo 2 x2 SLi
ISA network
Slot based DVD drive
Floppy Drive

The Win95 machine doubles as a DOS box as well, I had hoped to use the 98 box for that job but something about the machine doesn't like Vesa2.0 modes and crashes every time.
All three of them connect to a KVM switch (which then connects to a second KVM switch) to a CRT monitor, keyboard and mouse.

What chipset does your Athlon 64 machine use? It might support Win98 as well as XP.

I think it does support 98 (not sure if I could get drivers for the GPU), but I'm happy for the range of hardware and having the twin voodoo 2 cards is fun!

TheGouldFish wrote:

I've setup a trio of old machines for retro gaming

Nice. What model is the black case on the left?

The case is a "CiT Jet Stream", I spent ages looking for a case that was big enough for the mobo that I had gotten second hand.
It doesn't look the part of a 90s machine and its not all that well built (very thin walls), but it was cheap and seems to work nicely 😀
It seems to be getting harder to find cases that are large enough for 7 or so expansion cards and still have 5.25" and 3.5" slots on the front.

I have more retro computers, I'll post them up once I've taken some better pics

Picked up this machine last week, spent the weekend cleaning it up.

Its the Amstrad PPC640, its XT clone.
NEC V30 (8088, 8086 clone) at 8mhz
It doesn't have a harddrive so it has 2 720kb floppy drives,
640kb of ram
CGA graphics
green monochrome LCD screen, but has video out that gives colour.

2004 Pentium 4 retro setup / bedroom PC:

Specs:

CPU: Pentium 4 HT 3.0 Prescott
Mobo: GA-8SGXLFS
RAM: 2gb DDR1
GPU: Radeon 9800 PRO 128mb
HDD: 2x 40gb Seagate
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
Monitors: 2x 17" CRT, Samsung Samtron 76E and Philips 107E

I still need to get a longer S-Video and 3,5mm-RCA cables so I could connect it to that 28" Philips CRT TV. And a better CPU cooler... One that I'm currently using is from a Celeron 1.8GHz which was the original build in that case.

Pasi123 wrote:

I still need to get a longer S-Video and 3,5mm-RCA cables so I could connect it to that 28" Philips CRT TV. And a better CPU cooler... One that I'm currently using is from a Celeron 1.8GHz which was the original build in that case.

You might want to search for a DVI-I to RGB cable. I've personally seen one and the quality is pretty crisp compared to composite or S-Video.