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Old/Retro PCs anyone? MAH SPECS!!!
8 years ago
I've told some people in other journals before about me attending a PC technician course this year, in which we once were assigned to make a working PC out of two broken/incomplete ATXs. Said activity was quite fun for me and brough back my love for old PCs, prompting me to make use of the old parts I had taken from past computers and stored in boxes, and get the missing parts I needed.
The specifications of my "Junker PC" are:
Motherboard: Soyo SY-6VBA 133, based on the VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset (info). Seller claimed to have replaced the cheap caps for which Soyo became known for.
Processor: Pentium III Coppermine 650 w/ slotket.
Memory: 256mb PC100 SDRAM (128mb x2).
Video: nVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 (buh) AGP 2X, maybe from TEPPRO.
Sound: Noganet A-6280. It's based on the C-Media CMI8738 chip, also found on Sabrent & Diamond XtremeSound cards. No DOS support for digital sounds, as the system wil freeze when trying to autodetect & configure the sound card for use with such games. OPL FM synthesis works fine.
Storage:
.Alps Electronics 1.44mb FDD.
.Samsung 4.3gb HDD (Win98 SE 2K7).
.Fujitsu 1.7gb HDD.
.Maxtor 30gb HDD (WinXP SP3).
.Hitachi-LG CD-RW drive.
Networking: Realtek ethernet card.
Other: USB 2.0 card.
PSU: 500w. Dunno what brand.
Case: Super Power ATX tower. The stickers on it said that it used to house an Asus mobo and a Pentium Dual-Core, prior to the case being discarded, which means I built a ricer PC. Is missing two 5 1/4" drive bay covers and an I/O shield.
Input: BTC 9000 keyboard & KEIO optical mouse. Both PS/2s.
Display: LG L177WS-BF, because we got rid of our CRTs many years ago. The TNT2 drivers included with XP provide 16:9 aspect ratio support, and a maximum resolution of 1280x720. THis can also be done under 98 with nVIDIA's final drivers for the card, although they don't seem to work well with games under DirectDraw.
Regarding the soundcard, I originally had plans to buy a vintage Sound Blaster or compatible, but those for sale in my area costed more than what I felt comfortable spending my money with. The C-Media card was the cheapest option, plus the claimed DOS compatibility drew my attention even further, but little did I know that by DOS they meant "AdLib and practically nothing else". Still, it works without problems with Windows & Linux's APIs.
Worth bringing to the topic:
Anybody else?
The specifications of my "Junker PC" are:
Motherboard: Soyo SY-6VBA 133, based on the VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset (info). Seller claimed to have replaced the cheap caps for which Soyo became known for.
Processor: Pentium III Coppermine 650 w/ slotket.
Memory: 256mb PC100 SDRAM (128mb x2).
Video: nVIDIA Riva TNT2 M64 (buh) AGP 2X, maybe from TEPPRO.
Sound: Noganet A-6280. It's based on the C-Media CMI8738 chip, also found on Sabrent & Diamond XtremeSound cards. No DOS support for digital sounds, as the system wil freeze when trying to autodetect & configure the sound card for use with such games. OPL FM synthesis works fine.
Storage:
.Alps Electronics 1.44mb FDD.
.Samsung 4.3gb HDD (Win98 SE 2K7).
.Fujitsu 1.7gb HDD.
.Maxtor 30gb HDD (WinXP SP3).
.Hitachi-LG CD-RW drive.
Networking: Realtek ethernet card.
Other: USB 2.0 card.
PSU: 500w. Dunno what brand.
Case: Super Power ATX tower. The stickers on it said that it used to house an Asus mobo and a Pentium Dual-Core, prior to the case being discarded, which means I built a ricer PC. Is missing two 5 1/4" drive bay covers and an I/O shield.
Input: BTC 9000 keyboard & KEIO optical mouse. Both PS/2s.
Display: LG L177WS-BF, because we got rid of our CRTs many years ago. The TNT2 drivers included with XP provide 16:9 aspect ratio support, and a maximum resolution of 1280x720. THis can also be done under 98 with nVIDIA's final drivers for the card, although they don't seem to work well with games under DirectDraw.
Regarding the soundcard, I originally had plans to buy a vintage Sound Blaster or compatible, but those for sale in my area costed more than what I felt comfortable spending my money with. The C-Media card was the cheapest option, plus the claimed DOS compatibility drew my attention even further, but little did I know that by DOS they meant "AdLib and practically nothing else". Still, it works without problems with Windows & Linux's APIs.
Worth bringing to the topic:
Anybody else?
