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Ultimate DOS Gaming Rig

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im building a gaming rig for dos

i want it as high spec as possible

money isn't an issue

parts suggestions required thx

mother nature dictates that if you develop a custom kernel for the snes, it gets worked up, steam comes out the cartridge port, then it kills itself

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You could use basically anything for that.

 

I'll post a list shortly, but anything you have lying around should work.

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Alternately, you could also just have a secondary boot drive for DOS gaming on your current rig.  That would actually be the best option, in my opinion.

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This is what I like to call "stupidly overdone"  Breath of the wild at 8K is the only thing that will come close to this level of spec

 

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/c287gL

 

CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 1800X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor  ($498.49 @ OutletPC) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid CPU Cooler  ($149.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock X370 Taichi ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($198.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-4266 Memory  ($264.97 @ Jet) 
Storage: Samsung 960 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($329.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC2 Video Card  ($719.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Glass ATX Mid Tower Case  ($179.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.99 @ Amazon) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($92.99 @ Amazon) 
Total: $2545.39

Want to custom loop?  Ask me more if you are curious

 

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uhm.. dos gaming rig.. 133MHz pentium, 64MB ram, s3 ViRGE VGA card, sound blaster live, and some other bits and pieces?

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Just now, manikyath said:

uhm.. dos gaming rig.. 133MHz pentium, 64MB ram, s3 ViRGE VGA card, sound blaster live, and some other bits and pieces?

Zelda @4k runs 30fps stable on a gtx 1070, maybe that is the end goal?  Or some sort of franken  8K?

Want to custom loop?  Ask me more if you are curious

 

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Just now, Damascus said:

Zelda @4k runs 30fps stable on a gtx 1070, maybe that is the end goal?  Or some sort of franken  8K?

look, i know you're shitposting, and OP may be as well, but the end goal is this:

15 minutes ago, techman980 said:

gaming rig for dos

 

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Just now, manikyath said:

look, i know you're shitposting, and OP may be as well, but the end goal is this:

 

Not shitposting, Zelda BOTW really is playable @4k

 

Want to custom loop?  Ask me more if you are curious

 

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1 minute ago, Damascus said:

Not shitposting, Zelda BOTW really is playable @4k

 

but how does that even come close to this topic?

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3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

look, i know you're shitposting, and OP may be as well, but the end goal is this:

 

GTX 1070 and i7 6700K 30fps

 

Want to custom loop?  Ask me more if you are curious

 

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Just now, Damascus said:

GTX 1070 and i7 6700K 30fps

 

yes, you just sent me a video, i dont need two of them to see that it still doesnt apply to this topic.

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1 minute ago, manikyath said:

but how does that even come close to this topic?

Thought tha was what DOS is, its an emulating platform yeah?

 

Thats why I just went HAM and got max specs as requested

Want to custom loop?  Ask me more if you are curious

 

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Just now, Damascus said:

Thought tha was what DOS is, its an emulating platform yeah?

 

Thats why I just went HAM and got max specs as requested

PLEASE tell me you're shitposting.. people cannot be this dense..

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Just now, manikyath said:

PLEASE tell me you're shitposting.. people cannot be this dense..

2 AM for me, had 5 hours sleep yesterday...  I'm probably extremely dense ATM

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wow i didnt know people thought DOS was an emulation system

mother nature dictates that if you develop a custom kernel for the snes, it gets worked up, steam comes out the cartridge port, then it kills itself

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30 minutes ago, ArduinoBen said:

Alternately, you could also just have a secondary boot drive for DOS gaming on your current rig.  That would actually be the best option, in my opinion.

i tried that, dos won't boot though due to the amount of ram i have (16 GB)

mother nature dictates that if you develop a custom kernel for the snes, it gets worked up, steam comes out the cartridge port, then it kills itself

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AMD K6-III, ALi Aladdin motherboard, 128+MB SDR, ATi Radeon 64 DDR, Sound Blaster Live!

That used to work pretty well long time ago. Those would be my choice for a nice rig.

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Just get a used PC from craiglist or ebay for few bucks with C2D, P4, Celeron D, P3 or their AMD counterparts with GPU and soundcard included. For about 10-15$. If possible and if you are lucky you can get something like this 

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going over this again, i'd put it like this:

 

scout around for computers aged 18-24 years old, preferably the ones going for pocket change or scrap value (or free).

 

i'm actually gonna add that it may be hard to find hardware from the right era, because pretty much most of it has been dumpster'ed already, or has been bought by an "enthousiast" before you. i'd pin the hardest finds on IDE hard drives, because hard drives essentially are a ticking clock that breaks when it runs out, and because they are the primary target for people who spare no expense protecting their data.

 

beyond that.. your most "original" experience may actually turn out to be a raspberry pi running dosbox, if you can manage to figure out the frikking keyboard drivers, because they tend to completely screw up.

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let me tell you what i have

a case (mesh matrix, to be precise)

soundcard (sound blaster live)

video card (nVidia GeForce 2 64mb)

ram (256 mb)

and a generic 56k modem/fax card

 

mother nature dictates that if you develop a custom kernel for the snes, it gets worked up, steam comes out the cartridge port, then it kills itself

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18 hours ago, techman980 said:

i tried that, dos won't boot though due to the amount of ram i have (16 GB)

oh boy

yes you can have a modern day dos system but this is a hell of a project

first you must teach dos all the new goodies that are even on the mobo like pciexpress usb the new memory sizes and timings

but yes it has been done

this is not a project for anyone who cannot write in binary as that where the teaching needs to be done

although it would be the fastest most efficient use of todays hardware

but you are going to eat bottles of aspirin getting there

unless you us msdos

now you may call each board component as if its a website and each component handles its self

but even this method has issues to overcome

dos really only understands 16bit PICs

you need to use 64bit PICs for a lot of operations and 32bit PICs for almost everything else

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well, looks like i might be addicted to medicine after this project

mother nature dictates that if you develop a custom kernel for the snes, it gets worked up, steam comes out the cartridge port, then it kills itself

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