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These are pictures of a vintage PC I built back in the 1995-1997 timeframe. All the pieces are original aside from the harddrive that failed years ago but it was replaced with the same model Western Digital unit.

Front showing 8x speed NEC CD-Rom

General shot of the guts- Sound Blaster 16 with wavetable board, 28.8 modem, 3com network board with 3 way interface, Diamond Monster and Hercules Dynamite 128 (ET-6000)

Motherboard is PA-2007 with 1 meg cache, 64 mb of EDO ram and Pentium 233 mmx running at 262 mhz (75 mhz bus)

Senstron 200 watt AT power supply

Closeup of cache chips, how did the pink feather get in there??

Vintage PC is no good without vintage apps! Background is one I used at one point too.

Some details via Everest, the only new app installed I think.

Duke Nukem3d loading up!

Descent with 3rd party 3dfx patch running!

You can see a video of it running here-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c8anBTbBlE

Hercules media player!

A long time coming but I finally got around to taking pictures!

Machine boots up in 21 seconds flat into Windows 95b.

Hi, thanks for sending me the link via youtube. I figured I might just as well register here. I'm a huge 3DFX fan and generally interested in old hardware, so I was especially impressed by this old system being in its original state.

The PC I'm currently building (almost done) is somewhat similar. I try to get authentic components from late 1996, with a few exceptions explained in the link in my signature, and build a high end machine with the best components available from that time.

Here's a little video I made of it running Need for Speed III:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2E41z850-U

I really like testing the limits of this old hardware and see what it can still run at a somewhat playable level.

Mystery wrote on 01.09.09 at 22:26:29:

I was lucky actually, several pieces had been scattered to the four winds!

1) The Monster voodoo graphics board had gone to my mothers PC for several years before being returned when she purchased a new PC. Yes, my mom likes games! I still have the box with all documents too.

2) The Dynamite board had actually been sold to a friend of mine 50 miles away... years later when he was moving his PC business I was rummaging through a $5 each bin there was the card! I still have the $149 invoice for the fine 2D adapter.

3) The sound board and modem saw use in my later PC's till they were upgraded with faster pieces years later. They continued to see service in backup units till there were returned to this pc.

4) The main heart of the pc I used for several years testing 3dfx boards when I started my 3dfx hobby a long time ago, 2001-2002 I think.

As for the software, I keep everything including old backups of my PC's so it was easy to bring up the old programs and backgrounds =)

Mystery wrote on 01.09.09 at 22:26:29:

The PC I'm currently building (almost done) is somewhat similar. .

The Asus P55T2P4 was one of the first motherboard to support 75 mhz bus, I had one back in the day. I think I just through the manual out several weeks ago when I started de-cluttering the house!

I was running a 133 at 75 mhz bus then a 166. Fast machine for its day!

Hey man. Thats a cool setup. I remember my original computer was a pII 350. I upped the fsb to 112 and got it up to 392mhz. Funny thing is. That computer booted to windows faster than anything ive seen since. ;)

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http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl General Section >> General Discussion >> Vintage Voodoo PC as promised http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1251581266 Message started by gdonovan on 30.08.09 at 00:27:45