Hello,

I wanted to share a cool little project of mine.

Let me start by saying I'm an absolute noob, so I make mistakes constantly, but I try to compensate by researching and learning from them.

I had a Gateway P5-120 back in the 90s and i've been on the lookout for a replacement, since I lost my original one throughout the years.

A few years ago I found a P5-75 in incredible condition, but it was noticeably slower. I tried overclocking the CPU, added a S3 Trio GPU, but the processor bottleneck remained an issue.

Last month I finally found a P5-120, the caveat being that it had SCSI in it. I've only heard about SCSI and never delved deeper in that rabbit hole. I did some research and understood the basic idea, which is awesome, but it strayed away from the idea of my project.

I decided to use the P5-75 as a donor and transfer the IDE drives and HDD in the 120.
It turned out to be very straightforward. The HDD booted my Windows build, which I didn't expect, given it's a HDD transfer onto a totally different system. The only issue is that I unfortunately broke a pin on the P5-120 floppy drive and the one in the P5-75 isn't working for some reason. I'll try to replace it.

The gpu in the 120 is an S3 Trio64V+ which is a bit of a disappointment. I was expecting a Matrox Millenium, like the one I had back in the day, so I ordered one and i'm waiting for it to arrive so I can swap it. The S3 is a bit weak for stuff like Worms Armageddon and Age of Empires, as they don't work as smoothly as I remember (AoE doesn't start at all).

I am seeing instant results from the CPU boost though, Diablo is running a lot smoother, as are some other games like Duke 3D and Doom 2. Hoping to also test games like Gruntz, Monkey Island 3, maybe even Hercules and Tarzan. StarCraft has small hiccups, so i'll retest with the Matrox card.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with the upgrade and can't wait to finish it with the new GPU. This 120 has 64 ram, which is a lot more than the 16 i had back in the day, but I think i'll leave it all in for now. I want to also add a Voodoo 1 and try some early glide stuff like Tomb Raider, Pod and Descent.