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First post, by oeuvre

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My Aptiva's case is falling apart since the front door's plastics are brittle due to age. Sending it to an IRC buddy and replacing it with this.

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An excellent retro gaming box.
Pentium II 266MHz
256MB RAM
3.5" floppy drive (doesn't work, disabled in BIOS)
CD-ROM drive
20GB 7200RPM IDE hard drive
MS-DOS 6,22
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 98SE
System Commander 7 handles multi booting
2MB ATI RAGE PRO onboard
8MB ATI Rage XL PCI video card
Crystal CS4236B sound card onboard
Creative Sound Blaster 16 CT1790 ISA sound card
3COM 3C905-TX onboard ethernet card
2x serial ports
Parallel port
PS/2 keyboard + mouse ports
2xUSB 1.1 ports
VGA
Line in/out jacks
Ethernet
HP LaserJet 5MP printer

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It was quite grimy and scratched up when received. Pretty dusty inside as well.

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Cleaned up nicely! Not completely done yet, but much better.

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Side A

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Side B

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Rear

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Inside, has ISA + PCI slots

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ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI

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Creative Sound Blaster 16 ISA sound card with YMF262 chip

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Quantum FireBall ST 3240AT 3.2GB IDE hard drive (not working)

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Western Digital Caviar 36400 6.4GB IDE hard drive (click o' death)

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BIOS screen

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System Commander 7

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MS-DOS 6.22

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output of mem

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NSSI system info

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of course

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Sound Blaster Organ

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Dr. Sbaitso

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Talking Parrot

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Windows for Workgroups 3.11

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Network ready!

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Windows 98SE desktop

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Programs

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Programs II

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AIDA32 system info

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HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
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Reply 1 of 2, by buckeye

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Nice rig! How do you like the Rage video card in comparison to the other usual choices - Matrox, S3 Virge and etc.?

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Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Radeon 7200 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
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Reply 2 of 2, by oeuvre

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It's fine... I like that it has 8MB VRAM instead of 2 or 4MB like the Matrox or ViRGE. Enables higher resolutions... for DOS games it's pretty decent.

HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
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