A slew of HP Pavilion 7270 pictures http://imgur.com/a/PrGcM

So clean!

here is my p3 computer from the end of 99 - the first geforce with the first coppermine. i cover the 1995-2000 era with it. two things don't fit to this year, the hdd and the psu. i plan to replace the hdd, if i find the suitable ~30g 7200rpm drive. the psu is new, i don't want to risk with an old one.

mainboard Asus P3B-F rev 1.04 Intel 440BX
cpu Intel Pentium III 700B SL3XM
cpu cooler SECC2
ram Mosel Vitelic PC133 SDRAM 7ns 256M
video card Asus V6600 32M AGP NVIDIA GeForce 256
video card Diamond Monster 3D II 12M PCI 3Dfx Voodoo2
sound card (dos games) Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3910 ISA DSP4.13, CT1747 OPL3
sound card (dos demoscene) Gravis Ultrasound Plug & Play 1.0 8M ISA
sound card (win98) Creative Sound Blaster Live! CT4620 PCI
hdd Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40G
odd HP CD-Writer Plus E118405 24x4x4x CD-RW IDE
case In Win IW-A500
psu Chieftec GPS-350EB-101A

Very nice build! Where did you find that Chieftec case? Looks new

oeuvre wrote:

Very nice build! Where did you find that Chieftec case? Looks new

thank you.

it looks new - it is new inwin case (not chieftec) 😀 i have found it on the ebay. they released in 1998, but this piece is manufactured in 2000.

i could buy a new beige chieftec dragon case too (that was the first version), but it fits more to a pentium 4 or athlon xp config, so i rebuilt it to this more authentic case. always the nice condition drives, cases are the hardest to find.

i love this thread
so many great old 80s and 90s pc cases,

good to see that some survived from being destroyed, its hard to find those cases Compaq, IBM, etc

That's my retro-gaming rig!

Three retro-pc to cover in the best way all games before WinXP era.

1) Asus P3V4X, Intel Pentium III 1000MHz, 512MB PC133, Geforce 3 Ti200, 2x 3DFX VoodooII 12MB (SLI), Aureal Vortex 2 - WIN98SE
2) Asus P5A, AMD K6-2 (166-250-333-500 MHz selectable), 128MB PC100, Geforce 2 MX, 3DFX Voodoo Graphics 4MB, SoundBlaster AWE64 - WIN95
3) QDI MP4-P4U885P3, Intel 486 DX4 100MHz, 16MB SIMM EDO, S3 Trio64V+ 2MB, ESS AudioDrive ES1869 + DreamBlaster S1 - WIN 3.11

All PC also have an ethernet card and are connected to a KVM Switch, and then to a Sony Multiscan 19" CRT Monitor.

Neat system there. Please feel free to undress these ladies and show us their insides! 😀

colpoz wrote:

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That's my retro-gaming rig!

Three retro-pc to cover in the best way all games before WinXP era.

1) Asus P3V4X, Intel Pentium III 1000MHz, 512MB PC133, Geforce 3 Ti200, 2x 3DFX VoodooII 12MB (SLI), Aureal Vortex 2 - WIN98SE
2) Asus P5A, AMD K6-2 (166-250-333-500 MHz selectable), 128MB PC100, Geforce 2 MX, 3DFX Voodoo Graphics 4MB, SoundBlaster AWE64 - WIN95
3) QDI MP4-P4U885P3, Intel 486 DX4 100MHz, 16MB SIMM EDO, S3 Trio64V+ 2MB, ESS AudioDrive ES1869 + DreamBlaster S1 - WIN 3.11

All PC also have an ethernet card and are connected to a KVM Switch, and then to a Sony Multiscan 19" CRT Monitor.

Great little setup! Nice monitor, too. I'd pay money for one of those.
Do you know what the desktop case on the bottom shelf is? It is very relevant to my interests.

colpoz wrote:

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That's my retro-gaming rig!

Three retro-pc to cover in the best way all games before WinXP era.

1) Asus P3V4X, Intel Pentium III 1000MHz, 512MB PC133, Geforce 3 Ti200, 2x 3DFX VoodooII 12MB (SLI), Aureal Vortex 2 - WIN98SE
2) Asus P5A, AMD K6-2 (166-250-333-500 MHz selectable), 128MB PC100, Geforce 2 MX, 3DFX Voodoo Graphics 4MB, SoundBlaster AWE64 - WIN95
3) QDI MP4-P4U885P3, Intel 486 DX4 100MHz, 16MB SIMM EDO, S3 Trio64V+ 2MB, ESS AudioDrive ES1869 + DreamBlaster S1 - WIN 3.11

All PC also have an ethernet card and are connected to a KVM Switch, and then to a Sony Multiscan 19" CRT Monitor.

Is that bottom case ATX? It's so 90's!! 😁

DeafPK wrote:

Neat system there. Please feel free to undress these ladies and show us their insides! 😀

The next time I have to open them I will make some photos of the inside! 😀

llamaboy wrote:

Great little setup! Nice monitor, too. I'd pay money for one of those.
Do you know what the desktop case on the bottom shelf is? It is very relevant to my interests.

King_Corduroy wrote:

Is that bottom case ATX? It's so 90's!! 😁

The bottom case is AT, I bought it as NOS one month ago. Unfortunately there are no model or brand name written on the box, it is an "anonymous" case manufactured in 1998.

What damn shame! Honestly would love to have one of those 🤣. I've never been one for generic machines but damn that would be sweet. 🤣

FmTowns ur20
80486SX-20 MHz
Sony Trinitron 9"CRT

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FmTowns ur20
80486SX-20 MHz
Sony Trinitron 9"CRT

Here are the pics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u8YIcit0Ns

Really cool looking system, it looks a lot like both a classic AIO Macintosh (the floppy drives) and a CRT TV with a built-in VCR (the CD drive & display) mixed into one system.

What do you guys consider retro? I've got a few towers here and there however some might be too new to post here.

harddrivespin wrote:

What do you guys consider retro? I've got a few towers here and there however some might be too new to post here.

It's hard to say exactly what can be considered retro here as some people have loose definitions of that term, some people use a Core 2 Duo as an overkill 9x gaming rig while others use a Core 2 as their daily driver so I think anything that's old enough to not be your daily driver is retro in your situation, here's a topic discussing current PCs which you can post in if you're sure one of your systems is new enough to be your main.

Anything that has needed CMOS battery replacement...

HPI wrote:

FmTowns ur20 80486SX-20 MHz Sony Trinitron 9"CRT […]
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FmTowns ur20
80486SX-20 MHz
Sony Trinitron 9"CRT

Here are the pics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u8YIcit0Ns

Wow! I didn't realize they made an all in one version, that's wicked!

This is my only fully working "retro" PC. I use it for late 90s and early 2000s games

my "98" bundle, without case.

Asus P2B rev 1.10 Intel 440BX
Intel Pentium II 450 SL2WB
Toshiba PC100 SDRAM 8ns 64M x2
Diamond Viper V550 16M AGP NVIDIA Riva TNT
Diamond Monster 3D II 12M PCI 3Dfx Voodoo2
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 PCI Aureal Vortex2