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Just built a Pentium 2 system in 2021

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First post, by retrogamerguy1997

Posted on 2021-04-13, 16:14

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I just built a pentium 2 system in 2021 and I didn't pay a single cent (except for the $27 on the sound card and maybe $7 for the pentium 2 years back since the board originally had a 233Mhz Pentium 2 attached).

Specs:
Abit BH6 ATX Motherboard
Pentium 2 350Mhz
128MB of RAM
Diamond Multimedia Viper V550
AOPEN AW744L II
8.4GB IBM IDE Hard Drive (would like to maybe upgrade in future)
Some beige Lite-on CD RW Burner
Case with missing side panel (case was rebranded by a company called nobulous, but I've seen generic versions without the branding)

EDIT: this thread should probably be moved to system specs

Last edited by retrogamerguy1997 on 2021-04-20, 23:20. Edited 5 times in total.

Reply 1 of 6, by gerry

Posted on 2021-04-13, 17:15

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specs read well, graphics roughly same as TT2 i think and sound will be nice too

btw, with that topic title you'll now have to build "a Pentium 3 system in 2031" 😀

Reply 2 of 6, by paprika

Posted on 2021-04-13, 21:14

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Nice. Looks like a perfect build from the Windows 98 epoch — well done. Most of my machines are DOS only, but I need to build myself one with similar specs to have a Win 98 machine handy.

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Reply 3 of 6, by retrogamerguy1997

Posted on 2021-04-13, 21:20

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yeah but I'm having constant problems with the drivers. Any driver I use just hangs the system and even changing pci slots doesn't help

Reply 4 of 6, by Errius

Posted on 2021-04-13, 21:25

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Isn't the BH6 infamous for bad caps?

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 5 of 6, by retrogamerguy1997

Posted on 2021-04-13, 21:45

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Errius wrote on 2021-04-13, 21:25:

Isn't the BH6 infamous for bad caps?

I have no clue

Reply 6 of 6, by retrogamerguy1997

Posted on 2021-04-19, 15:27

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Got my AOPEN AW744L II in the mail today which has an sblink header added to it and sblink cable

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