I built an LGA775 rig today. Core 2 Quad Q9400 Asus P5LD2-VM Motherboard 4GB DDR2-667 R7 250 2GB SB X-Fi Pro Elite Super Multi drive 3.5" FDD with card reader 240GB SSD Win 10 (productivity), Win 7 (games) This will be my go-to machine for playing the original version of Crysis. It will also be used …

Received this in the mail today: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=120263 NOS Boca GD5426 1MB, complete with documentation and drivers. I will have a rig set up tomorrow that can handle floppies and will rip them and post the disk images to the driver site. This will be my first …

I wanted to run Windows 10 on a PIII too but that instruction set thing is an issue. Looks like I will be giving it a go with an Athlon 64 x2 instead to try and get it running on the oldest possible hardware. I will be running Windows 7 on the PIII instead. Looks like it is still a pretty functional …

A PMMX SOC would be nice, with broadly variable CPU and bus timing so you could have it run like a 286 through PII levels of performance. It would have multiple graphics and sound chipsets provided and everything would be BIOS configurable. It would have every I/O option from that era available as …

That's nice. Although these are "budget" cards. I just ordered a Rage 128 Pro GL AGP 16MB for around $12. I am building a MMX on a SS7 board. The Rage XL would be overkill for my 486.

I have a soft spot for them, as i) they seem to work in any AGP slot ever, if you're just trying to get video out of a board to see if it works, trusty POS 6326 card saves the day. ii) they're actually not too bad image quality compared to some that were all grunt and no refinement, iii) they stand …

I just got an AGP 6326 today. It is a late production model and appears to have 16MB onboard. There can be issues with these cards in DOS apparently but a later driver release fixed most of the issues. I also suspect that when I get to testing it, it will perform well. If they addressed the issues …

Interesting. I just got an SIS 6236 16MB AGP which is based on the S3 Virge. I was intrigued enough that I just ordered a Rage Pro 128 16MB AGP upon reading this thread. I love benchmarking and comparing video cards and I just took a deep dive back into vintage hardware. With modern GPUs, it is …

So I was gonna do a whole big thing, but I've had little time, so I figured I would throw a few pics up. Tested a ton of RAM and a few HDs and CDs/DVDs. And then there's a brace of these: !DT505A.jpg They don't power up, but I haven't had time to take them down and check. Missing a few minor bits …

Recently, I have been sorting through old PC junk from stuff I got free and hadn't looked at yet, looking for incidentals I need for upcoming retro builds. I have found stuff like a MSI LGA775 gaming MB, 2 IDE HDDs, lots of cables, some IDE optical drives, FDDs, including one with built in multi …

Definitely the coolest of my recent acquisitions: Won auction on eBay for $63 plus shipping. The listing kinda sucked and they just had a single photo, with cooler obscuring the Am486DX4-120 CPU so I took a chance. I am glad I did. The MB is a Pine PT-430. There was also a ridiculous 48MB of RAM …

I think just because some people are whiny children is no reason to avoid discussing difficult topics, like religion or hardware prices. I would imagine the 5x86 133 is very rare. Sometimes people buy things for more than they should because their want is disproportionately high. A lot of times, …

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I missed out on PII and PIII. There are about 3 years from 1999 to 2002 where I didn't play any new PC games. During that time, I had an N64 and Dreamcast. I also didn't play many PC games between 2009 and 2019. But I had new PC hardware in that time.

Interesting. I built a P4 650 HT with a 7800GT for XP gaming. It never occurred to me that it might run 98. But calling it a "Windows 98 Gaming PC" is a bit spurious since it is total overkill for 98 and isn't really a machine that is likely to have originally had 98 running on it. I have 2 other …

I got back into PC gaming a couple of years ago and have been wanting to do some retro builds for some time. I finally have everything I need to proceed with 4 special builds. I am having knee surgery soon and have plenty of time on my hands to play with old junk. #1 386-486 KLH 386 board and …

I have two of these old Toshibas. One is a 486DX4-100 which my mom used in grad school in the late '90s. I did some of my first mobile gaming on it, playing things like Doom, Duke3D, Wolf3D, SC2000 and C&C. The other is an old business hardware acquisition I picked up from the local dog track last …