Retro Gaming Builds
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That’s great. I really tried to educate the boy, but he loves Macs and plays on consoles. It breaks my heart
Eww. Just eww.
Thanks for the comments guys. Perhaps a mod could move this thread over to the Retro gaming sub forum? Seems more appropriate over there now. Don't think it existed when I started this.
Was contemplating buying some appropriate graphics cards today (GeForce 2 MX, 3D Prophet 4000XT, Matrox G450, Savage 4 Pro S540) to benchmark on it but came to the conclusion I have the best card already (Voodoo 3) and my CPU isn't really powerful enough for anything better. Ordered just the 4000XT (needs a new heatsink/fan so was quite cheap) as that was the first video card I ever bought and will be good to see what improvements it offers over the Voodoo.
Have ordered some more blank CD-Rs and an SD to IDE adapter though, as nice as the hard drive noises are.
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Casually browsing eBay for retro bargains...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1990s-Beige-AMD-ATX-Windows-98-Computer-Tower-AGP-Retro-Gaming/223596839345?_trkparms=aid=777001&algo=DISCO.FEED&ao=1&asc=20170615105047&meid=2b64df74fa3a4398a21c65f7c19b3471&pid=100656&rk=1&rkt=1&&itm=223596839345&pg=2481888&_trksid=p2481888.c100656.m5063&_trkparms=pageci:9b821ee9-b057-11e9-ba36-74dbd1804765|parentrq:32ee975116c0aad9a21d0674fffef35c|iid:3
Is that an OcUK sticker on the case?
Not impressed by the PCChips motherboard though...
In other news, I got a Pentium II 450MHz off eBay for £8 but it appears to be faulty (either L2 cache or temperature related) so the seller has refunded me but I might as well try and get it working anyway, as it's a MASSIVE 28.5% increase in clockspeed. Decided to stick with the Voodoo 3 in the end over the 4000XT.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1990s-Beige-AMD-ATX-Windows-98-Computer-Tower-AGP-Retro-Gaming/223596839345?_trkparms=aid=777001&algo=DISCO.FEED&ao=1&asc=20170615105047&meid=2b64df74fa3a4398a21c65f7c19b3471&pid=100656&rk=1&rkt=1&&itm=223596839345&pg=2481888&_trksid=p2481888.c100656.m5063&_trkparms=pageci:9b821ee9-b057-11e9-ba36-74dbd1804765|parentrq:32ee975116c0aad9a21d0674fffef35c|iid:3
Is that an OcUK sticker on the case?
Not impressed by the PCChips motherboard though...
In other news, I got a Pentium II 450MHz off eBay for £8 but it appears to be faulty (either L2 cache or temperature related) so the seller has refunded me but I might as well try and get it working anyway, as it's a MASSIVE 28.5% increase in clockspeed. Decided to stick with the Voodoo 3 in the end over the 4000XT.
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That's not 90s, it's 1GHz+! And is that onboard RAM?Casually browsing eBay for retro bargains...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1990s-Beige-AMD-ATX-Windows-98-Computer-Tower-AGP-Retro-Gaming/223596839345?_trkparms=aid=777001&algo=DISCO.FEED&ao=1&asc=20170615105047&meid=2b64df74fa3a4398a21c65f7c19b3471&pid=100656&rk=1&rkt=1&&itm=223596839345&pg=2481888&_trksid=p2481888.c100656.m5063&_trkparms=pageci:9b821ee9-b057-11e9-ba36-74dbd1804765|parentrq:32ee975116c0aad9a21d0674fffef35c|iid:3
Is that an OcUK sticker on the case?
Not impressed by the PCChips motherboard though...
In other news, I got a Pentium II 450MHz off eBay for £8 but it appears to be faulty (either L2 cache or temperature related) so the seller has refunded me but I might as well try and get it working anyway, as it's a MASSIVE 28.5% increase in clockspeed. Decided to stick with the Voodoo 3 in the end over the 4000XT.
Looks like it. Onboard video probably.
Can't get the Pentium II 450 to work no matter what I do - must be faulty.
Can't get the Pentium II 450 to work no matter what I do - must be faulty.
Been a while since I updated this -
I got another Pentium II 450MHz which worked first time, and replaced the HDD with an SD to IDE adapter and a 32GB SD Card - maxes out at 25MB/s due to the chipset but that's plenty fast enough:
Was trying to get Age of Mythology to run on it yesterday to no avail - kept getting an XML parsing error so there was no fonts in the game menus. Tried installing MSXML4.0 but didn't fix it. Think it's a bit too new sadly for this machine anyway, even in the menu it was struggling with the 3D backgrounds.
I got another Pentium II 450MHz which worked first time, and replaced the HDD with an SD to IDE adapter and a 32GB SD Card - maxes out at 25MB/s due to the chipset but that's plenty fast enough:
Was trying to get Age of Mythology to run on it yesterday to no avail - kept getting an XML parsing error so there was no fonts in the game menus. Tried installing MSXML4.0 but didn't fix it. Think it's a bit too new sadly for this machine anyway, even in the menu it was struggling with the 3D backgrounds.
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Ah, the UI of Windows 98. Brings back memories!
Is there any chance you still have the beige Antec case shown in the middle of your bottom photo in post #11?
Is there any chance you still have the beige Antec case shown in the middle of your bottom photo in post #11?
