High end computing

"Nibby" (nibby68) 10/05/2016 at 16:16 • Filed to: None

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Antec SX1080 ATX Case
Tyan Tsunami ATX Slot I 440BX motherboard
Pentium II 400MHz (ordered a 600MHz PIII for upgrade)
256mb RAM
3.5" floppy drive
DVD/RW drive
CD/RW drive
120GB Seagate SATA Hard Drive (SATA to IDE adapter)
Windows 98SE
2GB Seagate ST32171W 68-pin SCSI
Windows 95C
Adaptec 2940UW PCI SCSI controller
NVIDIA GeForce MX440-SE AGP
Creative Sound Blaster Live! CT4780
3COM 3C905B-TX Ethernet

yes it will play Roller Coaster Tycoon

Tekamul > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:21

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Where the hell’s the Iomega Zip Drive? My cracked copy of StartCraft is on a zip.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:21

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Awwwwwwwwww I had an MX440 geforce card! It will almost run C&C Generals. Almost. 3 seconds per frame. It turns into turn based strategy.

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:22

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Still blows my mind that 20ish years later (P2s were late 90s?), most people carry around cell phones that are smaller than that processor, and exponentially more powerful.

Frank Grimes > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:22

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how many spreadsheets can you have open?

Nibby > Tekamul 10/05/2016 at 16:24

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shit son I don’t have one sorry

E90M3 > Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever 10/05/2016 at 16:24

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Moore’s law.

Nibby > Frank Grimes 10/05/2016 at 16:24

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infinite

Nibby > Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever 10/05/2016 at 16:24

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They’re more powerful than processors that came out less than *10* years ago

Nibby > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 10/05/2016 at 16:25

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Completely overkill for an older system like this but completely underwhelming for what you used it for :)

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:26

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I remember these days and yet I feel like I’m looking at a museum exhibit. How do you reconcile this?!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:26

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That’s pretty much the computer I spec’ed in ‘98, before we gave up and just grabbed an HP from Sam’s Club.

Nibby > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 10/05/2016 at 16:27

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Own one and you will understand.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever 10/05/2016 at 16:27

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That’s not the processor. The processor is on a huge carrier board wrapped in plastic, the rest of that is the heat sink and fan.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:27

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It was an old celeron 1.2 ghz I think? I don’t remember exactly. I just remember upgrading to a computer with a hyperthreaded P4 3.0ghzand popping in a 9600XT radeon and going “WAIT THIS GAME GOES FASTER?!?!?!”

S65 > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:32

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You had me at “yes it will play Roller Coaster Tycoon”

Nibby > S65 10/05/2016 at 16:34

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;D

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:34

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I owned something like this in the very late 90s. It was before my Dual processor P3 upgrade.

Wacko > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:35

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my first computer was a tandy 1000

but not this high end model, mine had only one floppy drive and a monochrome monitor, no HD. I played space quest, police quest, leisure suit larry.

my first Pentium computer was a P133 with a 1.2gig hard drive with a whopping 1mb ram. running windows 95(paid about 3500$ at the time)

I upgraded the ram to 2mb for about 200-300 $

when i upgraded the HD, i got one of the biggest i could find a 4.3Gb that cost me 500$

my buddy got a CD writer, that cost about 1000.00$ and blank cds cost about 20$

d15b > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:36

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So now you got it runnin’ now what?

Nibby > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 10/05/2016 at 16:36

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yesss

Nibby > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 10/05/2016 at 16:37

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dual P3, you baller you

Nibby > Wacko 10/05/2016 at 16:38

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and when you burnt a CD you had to let it do its thing for around 30 minutes-an hour

Nibby > d15b 10/05/2016 at 16:38

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time for old games

ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:50

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Damn son, 120GB is a piss load of storage for the time.

Wacko > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:53

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you don’t touch anything while it burns a CD, we even removed the screen saver.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 16:56

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Yeah, it was pretty sweet. But even it feels like ancient history in my mind.

The real “baller” thing I had back then was a 21" Sony G500 Trinitron monitor that had a maximum native resolution of 2048x1536. That thing was truly impressive for the era (kind of like my 34" Dell U3415W is today).

Echo51 > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 17:02

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Hahah oh man, i remember having a MX440 aswell... Back when dial-up was the thing

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 17:12

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But can it play Snood?

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 17:19

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When the name Plextor still meant something. The only thing you are missing is a LS120 drive. It’s sad I can still remember all my computers. My rig of that era would have been.

Abit BX-6 MB

Celeron 300A overclocked to 450

192 MB PC-100 of Micron RAM (RAM was expensive yo)

2 x Quantam Fireball 4.3GB

16MB RivaTnT AGP card

2 x 12MB Voodoo2 PCI cards

Adaptec UW SCSI controller

Soundblaster AWE 32 sound card

Pioneer 4x CD Burner

Pioneer DVD Drive

Hauppage DVD Decoder PCI card

Compaq branded 21" Trinotron

Damn that was a lot of money when you type it out like that. It even had a gold case lol.

Nibby > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 10/05/2016 at 17:32

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DVD decoders were fancy in 1998

Nibby > ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy 10/05/2016 at 17:32

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it’s just an old laptop HD I had lying around

Nibby > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 10/05/2016 at 17:33

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I have a U2515H and it’s great... that PC is on a Dell 2007fp which is a 1600x1200 4:3 flat panel!

Nibby > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/05/2016 at 17:33

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yes I have it actually :D

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 17:42

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Yes they were. There was a sweet bonus virus called Boza on the driver disks. It completely screwed my fresh Windows install, which was a lot of work and time back then. Still the only virus to ever infect one of my desktops.

Chariotoflove > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 17:53

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I think you would have loved my freshman roommate’s Commodore 64. It had one 5 1/4" floppy drive. We wrote all our papers that year with a bootlegged word processor that was crammed onto a single floppy by making it double-sided. See, you could take a single-sided disk and make it double by cutting a notch on the other side. The word processor didn’t save reliably though. So, when one of us took a break from writing, we’d turn off the monitor to prevent burn-in and put a sign on the screen saying to not touch anything until it could be printed out.

But, the best thing about this computer was the monitor. It was a nice color display that we could also hook up a VCR to and play movies. Even better, he had been an exchange student in Germany and came back with all kinds of bootlegged games for the C64, because they had a big Commodore culture over there. We played lots of Ultima IV, but also lots of games I don’t even know the name of and never saw anywhere else. It’s a wonder we ever turned anything in on time.

Ahh, memories!

Nibby > Chariotoflove 10/05/2016 at 18:04

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That sounds like a blast.

Did you later on play Wolftenstein 3D? It amazes me when kids ask me what a floppy disk is...

Chariotoflove > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 18:48

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It was. I kind of missed the Wolfenstein boat, but got hooked on Doom while in grad school. That was a time of many late night experiments with time to kill, and someone had it installed on a PC running OS2 (the startup sound on that computer was a sound clip of the IBM CEO declaring “OS2's DOS support flat out kicks NT’s butt!” to give you an idea of the era).

Also played 7th Guest on that computer, but definitely did not get hooked.

Nibby > Chariotoflove 10/05/2016 at 19:36

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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 21:29

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I’m a cheap bastard, so every time I upgrade the gaming PC I reuse the same Antec case like yours. That thing must be about 15 years old or more, but it gets the job done. I neither want to see or hear my computer, so some flashy case is of very little importance to me. Give me space for a ton of drives and I’m happy, and this one seems to do the job.

I did add a fan controller in place of the floppy drive, but it’s completely and totally pointless. The fans I use don’t really make much noise, so running them at full speed isn’t a problem, and therefore no need to slow them down.

I do have to be careful when I use the beast; in the winter, the combination of this computer and a space heater equal tripped breaker, but then again, the computer itself functions as a nice space heater. In the summer it trips the breaker if I use it on the same circuit as the window air conditioner; too bad it doesn’t put out cool air in the summer, but instead just makes the room unbearable. I guess that’s why it hasn’t been fired up in months...

Chariotoflove > Nibby 10/05/2016 at 22:20

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Nice!

Nibby > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/05/2016 at 22:36

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These cases are nice but newer ones (I use a Thermaltake G42 for my main desktop) have more drive bays and proper cable management.

Frank Grimes > Nibby 10/06/2016 at 18:21

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dang. ever taken it off any sweet jumps?

Nibby > Frank Grimes 10/06/2016 at 18:35

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all the time