My "New" retro gaming PC

[Rethilgore]

So I have finally finished my retro (early to mid 2000's for me) gaming PC. I use the term finished loosely as i am still looking to swap in a better motherboard that will allow me to chance FSB and multiplier settings (current one is bios locked and i can't find a compatible bios to flash it with). 

 

This started out as me buying a shitty Compaq on eBay for about $20 with the goal just to muck around with it and i ended up going deep down the Rabbit hole and spending a whole lot more money (and a huge amount of time) on different components and learning some basic early 2000's modding (Like sleeving my own IDE cables). 

 

This turned into a pretty cool little project for me and it was great to build the computer i always dreamed of when i was a teenager 

 

Specs are as follows:

 

* AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (thoroughbred Core)

* 1GB DDR 3200

* ATi Radeon 9600XT

* Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Eddition (with Live Drive)

* 2x 160BGB 7200RPM HDD

* Wireless LAN

* DVDRW / 3.5" FDD

* Custom Sleeved IDE cables / Sleeved ATX Power extension

* Cooler Master Xdream III CPU Cooler

* Swanky Blue Lights

 

pic below for you to peruse 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mooshi]

She's a beaut, mate

[lmeneses]

Dope build, amazing how far technology has come, 1 GB of ram and 2 160 GB HDD

[Fasauceome]

I'm not into cougars or anything, but sometimes

 

vintage is sexy

[Rethilgore]

1 hour ago, lmeneses said:

Dope build, amazing how far technology has come, 1 GB of ram and 2 160 GB HDD

Yeah what i find the most interesting is that the CPU is Single Core, Single Thread, 32-Bit, No SSE2. etc etc etc. 

 

Multi core, Hyperthreading, 64-Bit architecture and new instruction sets are all things that i have come to take for granted and i forgot about them not existing haha!

 

Try finding modern software (Like Browsers) that will work on a Non SSE2 CPU the struggle is real lol!

 

[SteveGrabowski0]

Cool project, but you gotta go with one of these Antec cases from the era that everyone had to complete it tbh

 

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, SteveGrabowski0 said:

Cool project, but you gotta go with one of these Antec cases from the era that everyone had to complete it tbh

 

I got to build a sleeper in one of these because the guy's uncle gave him a "gaming PC" with extremely old stuff in it. The fans had blue LEDs and I used a gigabyte motherboard so the case glows orange and red through the side panel.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Gotta love that early 2000s era when overclocking required doing shit like this: