Building a Windows 95 PC! Socket 7 AMD K6 & 3Dfx
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Date: 2022-04-14
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MadnerKami
Nostalgia be damned, I would never ever give up the luxury of SSDs or, at the very least, USB-drives if I ever would build up such an old machine. I mean, sure, you'll still be limited by the IDE/SCSI-interface speeds, but I shudder at the thought of going through a windows loading screen for longer than it needs to.
Also had a good laugh at the CD-tray closing on you during start-up. So many memories of getting a CD stuck in the half-open tray because I tried to be faster than the windows starting process (when Windows loads the drivers for the CD-drive, it restarts the drive which causes the closing.
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Nostalgia be damned, I would never ever give up the luxury of SSDs or, at the very least, USB-drives if I ever would build up such an old machine. I mean, sure, you'll still be limited by the IDE/SCSI-interface speeds, but I shudder at the thought of going through a windows loading screen for longer than it needs to.
Also had a good laugh at the CD-tray closing on you during start-up. So many memories of getting a CD stuck in the half-open tray because I tried to be faster than the windows starting process (when Windows loads the drivers for the CD-drive, it restarts the drive which causes the closing.
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CHRISMENENDEZ
Thankfully videogames have come a long way since then and you don't need to install an specific version of them to run on your system anymore, at least if you're using Windows as an OS.
My first computer was from 1996, but I never knew graphics cards until 2003. The difference was like night and day. I don't know if any modern game can still run on -software mode- (I really doubt it, but I'm glad those times are long gone. What I don't like is what scalpers and crypto-miners have done to us PC gamers by making graphics cards a lot more expensive than they should.
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Thankfully videogames have come a long way since then and you don't need to install an specific version of them to run on your system anymore, at least if you're using Windows as an OS.
My first computer was from 1996, but I never knew graphics cards until 2003. The difference was like night and day. I don't know if any modern game can still run on -software mode- (I really doubt it, but I'm glad those times are long gone. What I don't like is what scalpers and crypto-miners have done to us PC gamers by making graphics cards a lot more expensive than they should.
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Kyle
Oh man! I miss these days! My first 3d card was the Matrox Mystique, 2mb! Came bundled with the AWESOME Mechwarrior 2 and battlezone. All my buddies at school were playing n64 but here I was rocking a system that kicked their asses. POD was AWESOME!
We had so much choice back then, S3 Virge, PowerVR, 3DFX, Rendition Verite, Nvidia. ATI? lol! Even with video game systems, there's so little choice anymore. Gotta love monopolies eh?
Great video! Love the blast from the past.
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Oh man! I miss these days! My first 3d card was the Matrox Mystique, 2mb! Came bundled with the AWESOME Mechwarrior 2 and battlezone. All my buddies at school were playing n64 but here I was rocking a system that kicked their asses. POD was AWESOME!
We had so much choice back then, S3 Virge, PowerVR, 3DFX, Rendition Verite, Nvidia. ATI? lol! Even with video game systems, there's so little choice anymore. Gotta love monopolies eh?
Great video! Love the blast from the past.
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Andrei
Awesome. I would like to collaborate/meet up one way.
My first computer was an AMD Duron 700 MHz (I still have the CPU, 20GB (18. 6GB) Seagate drive with a black plastic cover all over, 32 or 64MB or SDRAM, GPU nVidia Riva TNT2 32MB VRAM. Hercules, Age of Empires II, oh man. First things you never forget and you love them. I would like to redo this setup.
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Awesome. I would like to collaborate/meet up one way.
My first computer was an AMD Duron 700 MHz (I still have the CPU, 20GB (18. 6GB) Seagate drive with a black plastic cover all over, 32 or 64MB or SDRAM, GPU nVidia Riva TNT2 32MB VRAM. Hercules, Age of Empires II, oh man. First things you never forget and you love them. I would like to redo this setup.
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Fat
Kids nowadays will never understand how absolutely revolutionary the 3dFX cards were: they were literally a game changer. I had two Voodoo 2-s in SLI mounted on a motherboard with an over locked Celeron and it was the 90s 3090Ti and probably cost as much if I recall. Playing Quake, Unreal Tournament at 1024x768 with no frame drops, I was the LAN party king!
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Kids nowadays will never understand how absolutely revolutionary the 3dFX cards were: they were literally a game changer. I had two Voodoo 2-s in SLI mounted on a motherboard with an over locked Celeron and it was the 90s 3090Ti and probably cost as much if I recall. Playing Quake, Unreal Tournament at 1024x768 with no frame drops, I was the LAN party king!
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Rodjer
I remember when my Dad brought home 5-6 towers from this era when I was single digits old.
They were from his work and they were throwing them out.
For whatever reason, he decided to grab them and bring them home for me to play with.
Tinkering with them and learning stuff on dial up internet is what created my knowledge and love of PCs today.
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I remember when my Dad brought home 5-6 towers from this era when I was single digits old.
They were from his work and they were throwing them out.
For whatever reason, he decided to grab them and bring them home for me to play with.
Tinkering with them and learning stuff on dial up internet is what created my knowledge and love of PCs today.
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member57
Brought back lots of memories with this build. I cut my teeth building and repairing socket 7 systems. I had a bunch of old machines I recycled a few years ago from this era. I got them while working as an independent PC and network repair and install tech. Anyways I salvaged a bunch of processors from them that I still have and lots of RAM too.
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Brought back lots of memories with this build. I cut my teeth building and repairing socket 7 systems. I had a bunch of old machines I recycled a few years ago from this era. I got them while working as an independent PC and network repair and install tech. Anyways I salvaged a bunch of processors from them that I still have and lots of RAM too.
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Bong
I love those old gold Asus circuit boards. I found a TON of those double usb port pci bracket boards still brand new in the bag when I went dumpster diving after a local radio station closed down a couple years ago. And about 200 Windows 7 and Vista install discs with reg key stickers and tons of other stuff. Never paying for Windows again!
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I love those old gold Asus circuit boards. I found a TON of those double usb port pci bracket boards still brand new in the bag when I went dumpster diving after a local radio station closed down a couple years ago. And about 200 Windows 7 and Vista install discs with reg key stickers and tons of other stuff. Never paying for Windows again!
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eightbit
I used to install Quantum Bigfoots as upgrades for customers. They were unreliable from the get go. I have had those fail right in the process of cloning the customer's original drive to their NEW Bigfoot. That drive SUCKED BALLS. It is probably a testament to their suckiness that you never hear anyone using one today.
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I used to install Quantum Bigfoots as upgrades for customers. They were unreliable from the get go. I have had those fail right in the process of cloning the customer's original drive to their NEW Bigfoot. That drive SUCKED BALLS. It is probably a testament to their suckiness that you never hear anyone using one today.
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ShambleS
I learned most of the stuff i needed to start my life messing with pc's thanks to pod and a pentium 166. -the amount of complete re-installs of dos and then windows is more than i can count-
and any slight change -even if it was the weather- would mean pod stopped working, and i had to reinstall everything.
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I learned most of the stuff i needed to start my life messing with pc's thanks to pod and a pentium 166. -the amount of complete re-installs of dos and then windows is more than i can count-
and any slight change -even if it was the weather- would mean pod stopped working, and i had to reinstall everything.
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