First post, by junk_box
My version of the ultimate win98 retro rig. This is my first post on vogons. Have read a bunch on this forum through the years though. About time my rig is seen.
Bought this case in the spring of 98 and preceded to create a blowhole through the side cover as my lil p2 233 on a bx6 1.0 needed much ventilation for the overclock to 350 MHZ. Upgraded to a celeron 300a overclocked to 450 before the end of summer that year. From there up to a p3 1000 on a cusl2 and geforce3 in 01. Ended up with a p4 2.53 and some Pc1066 rdram and a ti4600 by the end of 02. Paid big bucks for the samsung rimms and still have them, but the asus motherboard died when my mom was doing her taxes...go figure. Oh and i had painted the case black at that point...looked worse then 🤣. Finally a athlonxp 2500+ overclocked to a 3200+ on a abit nforce2 motherboard. Ended up giving that motherboard and cpu to a friend who wanted to play Far Cry. Case then went into closet storage for long time, just couldn't toss it out like i have many others.
But now its back! I painted it beige again (i know it needs another coat and a bunch of detail work) and it sports a Abit Bh6 1.2 with a slot_t adapter. Have a cherry picked P3s 1.4 that overclocks to 155fsb @ 1627mhz easily at 1.4 vcore. Went through a couple and also an unlocked engineering sample before i found this one. Unfortunately the es needed 1.55v for 150fsb at 1575mhz not bad though. Was cool to be able to clock down to 266mhz at 4x66 for sure. Might end up putting that chip back in as it was able to hit 143fsb at 1516mhz with 1.4v. Talk about flexibility. Current chip is a TB1 stepping and runs at 1.35 up to 1575mhz as i dont wanna blow my mofsets. 🤣 A msi geforce ti4600 @ 300core and 700 mem. 512mb of cas 2 pc133 helps this rig put up a good fight against those athlon xp's. Also Two 12 meg voodoo2's and a voodoo1 at 65mhz with a 3dfx cool card and heasinks applied. Kinda crazy with all the pass through cables, but signal quality is decent surprisingly. Need at least a rev E Diamond monster3d, as earlier revs had major signal probs with my lcd. I boot this beast at 700mhz and use soft_fsb to kick it up as needed. Best 3dmark 2001se about 10,670 so far. Can't run cas 2 at 155fsb.. too bad. Have had a celeron 1000a at 150 fsb in this rig scores 9560. Also tried a celeron 1.3 at 1733 using1.65 vcore and this also scored a very similar 9540. Very close to a p3s @ 1.4. Also the voodoo1 doesn't work unless im at 100fsb or less. A big plus of using the bx chipset with voodoo1 is that static link glide games work no prob. Can't do that with an 815 chipset or later. I've enjoyed hot rodding this old case through the years. Gonna play some UT at 1920X1200 tonight, or maybe some screamer2 with the original 3dfx patch. The heavy filtering of the voodoo helps a bunch on my large lcd..but old games still look better on a smaller crt. This rig even plays bf1942 half decent on medium settings 1920x1200 if set at 150 fsb or higher. I enjoy playing old games much more on this old machine running win98 then my newer systems. My kids smile at me when they hear win98 boot up 🤣. Oh btw ive never seen anyone else with this case. I ordered it from Bunta tech in 98 as a mid-tower atx case site unseen. I liked it as soon as i unpackaged it though. Id be curious to know if anyone out there has seen it before?
