Compact Year 1998 Gaming Build + Case Modding

ketfri8002

Compact 1998 Gaming Build

Hers a project i did some months ago. Was bored and didnt want to drive a old empty server case to the dump. So choosed to do somthing awesome with it instead.

Long story short, this is based on a old AT server case, and thought that it would be nice to do a year 1998 Windows 98 gaming build in a AT case! Have done it in ATX cases and but now AT. (Or atleast not a Pentium II build in a AT) But thers not many Slot 1 AT boards, but i managed to buy one with a BX chipset!

The project is not completed yet, as i want a Quantum 200SBI instead of those two Voodoo2's. It will free a PCI slot and in that slot can i put my Wildcat 4000 as a 2D card. But havnt got that 200SBI yet... Lost my job.
The final build will also have a AWE 64 Gold instead of the SoundBlaster Live. And two seagate medalist pro 7200 harddrives instead of the Quantum Fireball's.

The current specs is:

Gigabyte GA-6BA
450Mhz PII + Thermaltake Fan
512Mb 4x128 133mhz SDRAM with heatsink's
Soundblaster Live (Wish a SoundBlaster AWE64 gold)
2x Quantum EL 5,12Gb (Wish two Medalist Pro 7200)
2x Voodoo2 12Mb SLI (wish a green Q3D 200SBI)
Matrox G200.

Here are some pictures from before the modding:

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/ZM2UvFa.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/utZCclK.jpg]

Here is some pictures from when the modding was done:

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/fkwo8xf.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/TSzyYHe.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/IsG4dxO.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/xZueSmM.jpg]

And here's some pictures from when the hardware was added:

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/5GPRXuR.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/fOhAzON.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/8eXWPla.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/Ehue1Mx.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i.imgur.com/vIZGuhz.jpg]

Hope you Enjoyed it!

Kaitou

Really nice!

I have some questions:

- Why are the hard drives sticking out?
- What material is the decal made of? Vinyl?
- Did you just add regular DDR - heatspreaders to SDR-DIMMs?
- Why not a G400MAX? Or at least a G450, since they are more abundant?
- What's your favorite game on it?

There was a reeeally cheap offer for 200SBi not so long ago, maybe you have luck. I am looking for Quantum3D stuff, too

styvi

Looks like TwinMOS HS casing usual SD-Rams

ketfri8002

Zitat von Kaitou

Really nice!

I have some questions:

- Why are the hard drives sticking out?
- What material is the decal made of? Vinyl?
- Did you just add regular DDR - heatspreaders to SDR-DIMMs?
- Why not a G400MAX? Or at least a G450, since they are more abundant?
- What's your favorite game on it?

There was a reeeally cheap offer for 200SBi not so long ago, maybe you have luck. I am looking for Quantum3D stuff, too

#1
The harddrives sticking out and painted in 3dfx colurs is my own idea, thought it would look totally awesome. And i think it did. I personally like it, but also know that others dont.

#2
The 3dfx logo is cutted out of a old desk mat and painted.

#3
It's just regular DDR heatsinks, not totally agecorret, but thought it fitted nice to the thermaltake heatsink.

#4
Both G400 and G450 came in 1999. But i ofcourse own the cards, both in 16 and 32mb edition. But they would be too new for a 1998 build.

#5
I'm a "Jurassic Park: Trespasser" fan, the game also came out in 1998 and was so extremly hard for even high-end computers to run. But it has a fantastic gameplay (Or atleast when the game dont glitch itself to death) and the real heavy engine only makes it more challenging for retro gaming builds. And must admit i'm a bit of a Jurassic Park fan.

Yes there was a black 200SBI on ebay sold for liturally nothing some months ago, but i want to get the green boards as i later can use them in a brick Just have to get enough of them. (I allready have the Aalchemy Module and Riser Cards)

Yoshi

Nice rig you got there. How did you get the front so clean? New paint or some special cleaner?

GrandAdmiralThrawn

Could be RetroBright bleaching?

Yoshi

Never heard that before, but after some google-ing this looks really interesting: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Retrobr…ution/?ALLSTEPS
Thank you.

Aslinger

It looks like this retro Gaming High End PC from 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stfgb1lbyac

He use a Riva TNT.

ketfri8002

I just painted all of it with radiator paint, had to paint it no matter what cuz of the metal work.

I have the rare Riva TNT from ELSA, but keep in mind that the card have to be used as a 2D card, G200 was way better when it came to 2D.

I have a lot of other high-end 1998 builds where i use Dual P2 450. What makes this special is cuz it's inside an AT case, usally people would have got a K62 but this have Slot 1, Slot 1 with BX chipset in a AT was a rare thing to see...

Tweakstone

Fantastic looking build with cool hardware
I also have a AT Slot1 Machine, perhaps you like it http://voodooalert.de/board/index.ph…8663#post358663

Voodoo_Freak

Nice looking 3Dfx System. Nice idea with that 3Dfx logo on the side and with the harddisks sticking out of the case. I like it.

Kaitou

Zitat von ketfri8002

[...]I have a lot of other high-end 1998 builds where i use Dual P2 450. [...]

What do you mean by "a lot"?

ketfri8002

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Zitat von ketfri8002

[...]I have a lot of other high-end 1998 builds where i use Dual P2 450. [...]

What do you mean by "a lot"?

Well, i dont know how many Slot 1 systems i have, and it's NOT like i'm collectiong them. Have actually dumped a many of them. But i have 12 "Slot 1" systems in local stoarge. Dont know how many i have in the boxes at my external storage.
Keep in mind i often sort stuff out as thers space for more hardware, and i'm not really intrested in Socket 7, Socket 370 and Slot 1 systems. So it's usally those wich gets to the dump. As thers space for more intresting stuff.

But here's pictures of the 12 "Slot 1" systems i have at home right now.

Gold Leader

Lovely stuff man I'm Obi Wan kenobiV6K from x-3dfx you may know me from Facebook as Willem B.
As for an AWE64 Gold there were two models of those made

The commonly older model the CT4390 and the later refreshed smaller model the CT4540, I have both since well the AWE64 Gold was in my humble opinion the best soundcard of all time.

Creative Labs CT4390 & Creative Labs CT4390 from Week top:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4355…+CT4540+top.JPG

Creative Labs CT4390 & Creative Labs CT4390 Rear:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4355…CT4540+rear.JPG

Creative Labs CT4390 & Creative Labs CT4390 Headshot a:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4355…40+headshot.JPG

Creative Labs CT4390 & Creative Labs CT4390 Headshot b:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/4354…mp_+outputs.JPG

What I can do is help you find an AWE64 Gold it will most likely be a CT4390 since they were greatly mass produced as for the CT4540 these are very hard to find.
It's that found out via ebay after buying mine from some dude in Taiwan back in 2005.

**Update**

You got a PM man

ketfri8002

Thanks a lot for the pm Gold Leader! Nice to see you here.

Have now bought the one of them you linked to Thought it would be less risky than choosing the one i found along with the gold-recovery scrap hardware. Bet i cant be lucky every time.

The one i bought:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-L…cwAAOSwx-9W013N

S2 Sedan

Slot1 is one of the best. fast enough for the most of all 3dfx cards. and it comes with the greatest variants of memory

If you like to have only "high end" in your systems, what do you want with those cheaply Creative consumer shit?

Gold Leader

Zitat von ketfri8002

Thanks a lot for the pm Gold Leader! Nice to see you here.

Have now bought the one of them you linked to Thought it would be less risky than choosing the one i found along with the gold-recovery scrap hardware. Bet i cant be lucky every time.

The one i bought:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-L…cwAAOSwx-9W013N

Hey no worries amigo If you need help finding things, that's what I'm here for; helping out in general
And nice catch there

Zitat von S2 Sedan

Slot1 is one of the best. fast enough for the most of all 3dfx cards. and it comes with the greatest variants of memory

If you like to have only "high end" in your systems, what do you want with those cheaply Creative consumer shit?

I still have my Intel Pentium !!!/E 650Mhz with 3x 128MB PC-133 @ PC_100 Samsung Original on an EPoX EP-BX3 Ver 1.1
It has a 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB Rev.A 2500 at the moment, but I plan to use my Ati Rage 128 Ultra AGP 32MB + Quantum3D Obsidian2 X-24 PCI 24MB with the AWE64 Gold CT-4390
All with Win2K Pro + SP4 and NuAngel's x-3dfx drivers for the X-24.

Just gotta find some space to do this all But yeah iBX440 was probably one of the most successful chipsets ever in PC gaming history, P3's Slot1 = SECC 2 short for Single Edged Contact Cartridge 2, PII had SECC 1 just named SECC.

ketfri8002

Zitat von S2 Sedan

Slot1 is one of the best. fast enough for the most of all 3dfx cards. and it comes with the greatest variants of memory

If you like to have only "high end" in your systems, what do you want with those cheaply Creative consumer shit?

Are you thinking about any paticular soundcard? Have actually tried looking for professional soundcards but without any luck. But i need a soundcard for the year 2000 build so if you know any professional soundcards then please tell me
But i think i'm gonna stick with a AWE64 gold in that Compact 1998 AT Build, sinze it allready is a costumer level build.

Voodoo_Freak

Can you give us some more information or photos about the third system from above? Looks really interesting.

Yoshi

I'm not sure if it is "professional" enough, but I would recommend the Aureal Vortex2. Amazing card, way better than anything that Creative offers.