My latest retro build - Pentium 2/Voodoo 2 power house
Posted by mortau@reddit | retrobattlestations | View on Reddit | 7 comments
You're looking at:
A Pentium 2 350mhz with my OG Powercolor Voodoo 2 12mb, my old AGP GeForce MX400 64mb for when more horsepower is needed, and a SB AWE32. There's a USB 2.0 card (absolutely essential) and a neat adaptor so I get at least one front panel USB connection.
For the lighting I recycled a car LED kit with remote so I can cycle colour vibes in the case at the press of a button. I thought about cathodes but... Meh.
As much as I wanted to go spinny on the IDE hard disk, my initial candidate drive failed immediately after I imaged it (which was fortunate), so I'm using a 128gb SATA SSD. I also managed to find slim IDE cables at junk shops while I was in Japan earlier in the month.
Unfortunately the Sound Blaster AWE32 doesn't have any additional ram and finding it is almost impossible. I'm otherwise enjoying the Cadellac of DOS sound cards. It's also impossible to find CDROM audio cables now so I sort of bodged myself one together.
I'm really stoked with the build! And yes I did install a floppy drive inside the case.
Ok_Fix3639@reddit
Wow the way you mounted the floppy is so clever. I need to remember that one!
DeepDayze@reddit
This is one badass machine where Win98 absolutely flies on it.
Trick-Research-7352@reddit
Incredible build. I think Pentium Pro/II were the greatest leap in computing history
DeepDayze@reddit
Agreed. Intel made a smart move that was the first salvo in the CPU arms race.
Background_Yam9524@reddit
It's glorious!
L0stG33k@reddit
Love the fully internal floppy disk drive hah.
bio4m@reddit
The AWE32 takes standard 30 pin SIMM RAM, you can find it on eBay usually, in the UK I can see a bunch up for sale
I have a very similar build myself , its kind of the sweet spot for DOS and Win98 gaming