Guru3D Rig of the Month - May 2021
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vestibule
He, he. What a nice beat up looking reto machine and a good fun exercise in winning a prize from the Guru3D.
There is a lesson in there. Im off down to the tip to rescue a W95 machine. I have some paint in the garage. 😉
brogadget
I love the Cherno- "DUST" - cloud in/on the case
Mpampis
This is excellent
AlmondMan
Great looking build. Cool to see some retro love 🙂
Lost opportunity to run 3dmark01 and post those scores though 😛
D1stRU3T0R
I really like and appreciate retro builds, but this one, IN MY OPINION, is really one of the worst ever made (it looks REALLY great, but the "heart" of it is really terrible).
Socket A had really bad support, but at least he could have went with Barton (Athlon) 3000+, offering slighly better performance. Windows 2000? Why not XP, since it was widely more accepted and supported.
Using FX 5300 for GPU, one of the most failure GPU-s is just a big no-no, he could have find the ATI RADEON 9800 XT with the same price.
The problem is not that this PC is old (i gave my friend an Athlon X2 6000+ with HD6670, he uses it as main PC, playing BF3 now at 24+ FPS at "ultra"), but that the components are nowhere near honorable or usable. It's like buying in 2040 a Ryzen 1500 with a GT 1030 on Windows 8 for retro build... what's the point of it, when neither of them had been honorable/used/praised/gamechanger. Availability? Hell nah.
just my 2 cents
Airbud
Love it!
Noisiv
Worst retro build because Božo used 2500+, when "he could have went with Barton (Athlon) 3000+, offering slighly better performance"
One of the craziest posts I have ever read 😀
D1stRU3T0R
I knew that some people couldn't take it, but at least respect for the OP guy to explain his decisions.
Noisiv
yeah but YOU still haven't explained why using 300MHz slower CPU makes this "one of the worst ever made"
or Win2000/XP 5600/9800 for that matter
You made an elephant out of completely arbitrary personal preferences
PS
2000 is way cooler than XP which looks like children's OS.
schmidtbag
@D1stRU3T0R
It's a form over function build... If he really cared about the best possible performance, he could just use an emulator. Building a retro PC these days is typically just for fun, because there's otherwise no practical reason for it other than to use some niche piece of hardware that you may have a dependency on.
Anyway, I'm glad to see this win. It's a very refreshing RotM.
AlmondMan
Windows 2000 was way better than XP for quite a long time and supported equally. I didn't switch from 2k till XP SP3 was released because XP was so bug ridden and performance hungry comparatively.
fantaskarsef
cool
CrazY_Milojko
@Božo Kaurić Nice one neigbour! As @schmidtbag already said this one is refreshing RotM
Still have exactly the same one PC case, DTK made it backthen in mid 90s iirc, quallity made case for sure. Remember like it was yesterday somewhere in late 1998 when I've bought that case together with Celeron 300A (Slot 1), Chaintech 6BTM motherboard... Case alone costed me 110DEM (funny how still remember those prices) but can't remember if that price was with or without PSU. Guess all inside that case still should work, Celeron 300A OCed to 450MHz, Quantum 40GB HDD... PC is retired years ago, not sure about the state of motherboard capacitors after all these years, probably they need replacement so not gonna bother to fire up that PC 🙂
Also my DTK case doesn't have a wheels, guess you've added wheels on your case later.
Quick jump to take a pic in the basement where I keep my HW collection, here it is:
demented brave
Yes! the barton 2500, one of my first forays into overclocking. If I remember correctly it was a great bang for the buck cpu that overclocked nicely. Cool build, how many roentgens you reading off that thing?
rl66
I just love this machine.
Well done.
rl66
-The only REAL update would have been Athlon 3200 barton 1st gen, bigger cache, faster link frequency (400 instead of 333), wider OC range... so the one he chosen is ok as it should be as fast as the 3000+ once OC (it's for that nearly no one have bough the 3000+)
-FX 5300 were standard in these days and i can't see a game that don't work with it... ATI or NVidia a question of choise and also high end were really getting hot and so don't last in time.
-Just for fun, because our PC:
-just can't run 16 bits code
-need "remastered" version to have old stuff running fine on them
-cost too much for what we get
I know, there is linux, there is dosbox... but it's like car, you can drive a neo-retro car, but driving a real retro car is a way better experience.
alanm
Awesome rig!
12. Your 3DMark scores
3D What?
13. Do you have any future updates planned?
This one is done.
:D
Mineria
Like the dane I played D2 with back in the days.
waltc3
Takes me back (although systems 20 years ago never looked this beat up, but that's his theme! ) I clearly recall how many Win64 device drivers (remember that one?) I had to use when I first began running Vista x64...! I lacked a lot of 64-bit drivers and then I was dual booting between Vista32 and Vista 64 until the drivers finally arrived at which time I dropped Vista32.
But I swear I seem to remember a version of Windows called "Windows 64"...that's where I got my first 64-bit drivers so that I could actually use Vista x64 when it was brand new. But was it "Windows 64" or was it "win2k 64"...? Just can't remember where I got those drivers--except that the OS I found them in pre-dated Vista. Do you by chance remember?
SamuelL421
LOVE IT!
Socket A is my favorite platform since you can do Win98-XP generation builds that run the majority of games and older apps. The airbrushing and self made parts fit the vision well, very nicely done.
I think some comments were from people who haven't owned Socket A or generally don't know what they're talking about. The 2500+ could be clocked about the same as the 3200+ chips (or the mobile variants) with the right board and cooler.
