Gammitin (Ben) 💾

19 Sept

Let's build my ultimate Windows 98 retro PC! Highlights: - AMD Athlon Thunderbird Slot A 1Ghz - Gigabyte GA-7IXE - 512MB ECC RAM - 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 - Soundblaster Live! + Live! Drive - Creative INFRA CD-ROM - Intel Pro NIC Here's the Pre-Build line up:

Any other suggestions for pinpointing the exact moment where everything in society got substantially worse?

Is the first gen - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) retro yet (2008)? 🤔 I suppose it's all down to the individual and how old you are really.

As it has a floppy connector, it also boots into MS-DOS and runs my favourites:

Oh, also IBM Booters

Is the first gen - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) retro yet (2008)? 🤔 I suppose it's all down to the individual and how old you are really.

Uncapped Quake 3, it's maxed out the highest the game will run at: 1000FPS!

Crysis runs between 110 and 200 FPS on max settings.😍

Is the first gen - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) retro yet (2008)? 🤔 I suppose it's all down to the individual and how old you are really.

Drivers installed and ready to test some things......

3DMark 2001 SE doesn't know what the heck is going on, the POWAAAARR! 😂

Is the first gen - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) retro yet (2008)? 🤔 I suppose it's all down to the individual and how old you are really.

So, I'm running XP, so I need to hack the Geforce 368.81 drivers.

Well that worked!

Is the first gen - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) retro yet (2008)? 🤔 I suppose it's all down to the individual and how old you are really.

Let's slap this in, one of my kids cast offs (GTX 980):

Changed the PSU for a bronze one and we're good to go.

Is the first gen - Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) retro yet (2008)? 🤔 I suppose it's all down to the individual and how old you are really.

Interestingly, I just discovered that it supports 48GB of RAM, despite what all the info about it states! 6x 8GB DDR3! 😍

184-pin RIMM's RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic Random-Access Memory)

Night night, I'm thinking I want to do a side by side shootout between a: Slot A Athlon 500Mhz & Slot 1 Pentium III 500Mhz #BattleOfTheSlotCPUs

Happy Friday Frens; tonight I'm playing with a Soyo motherboard (1999) with a Slot 1 500Mhz Pentium 3, 1GB RAM and gigabit LAN. I just installed Haiku on Sata RAID (no converters) and it's bootable, damn it's fast! 🤓

Looking to repair this faulty motherboard I was given (thanks Anthony), quite a cool unusual board as it has 32bit PCI, AGP x8 and also PCle! I was told that, it was 'partially recapped' but not working and to try to see if I can repair it. It's an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2

Well it now powers on and off correctly.

But it's dumping 12v on the VCore output straight into the CPU socket (should be 1.35v). 💥

All done the old fashioned way, I still love to take my time with braid and a simple solder sucker.

Before / After clean up (the previous recap was very heavy handed from what I can see 😔)

We're gonna need a clean-up in aisle one. 😬

I'm going to first tackle the VRM caps to see if I can get it to post. I don't want to waste a load of capacitors if it's too far gone. I've removed them all and colour coded each type.

Frenemies

It's probably not helping that whoever did the recap to try to bring it back to life, put all the VRM caps in backwards 🙃

Toshiba Pasopia IQ HX-10 MSX (1984): The Goonies by Konami (1986)

Digital DECpc LPx (1993) Motherboard + Intel i486 DX2-66

#SundayFunday

Setting up a remote desktop session from a SPARCstation LX over to a Sun Ultra 1. Using the LX like this, makes the experience so much faster, super zippy!