New 486 pc

[HercTNT]

yea, thier are plenty of dos games going up all the way to 98, but need some serious horse power to run for some of them. games like screamer, and build engine games like duke and blood are way to much for my machine in svga mode. in normal mode they run but look pretty crappy. worms 2 for example needs a pentium 90 and even an overclocked 486 comes just a hair short.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

I think thats mainly why I don't have any issues selling Pentium 1 systems Ive built or restored. A lot of people wanting to play straight Dos games or early Win 95 stuff just want to skip over the 486 completely. Personally, I'd rather not sell anything that cant handle Doom or Duke 3D anyway, so that makes my life easier.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

Herc, honestly you may want to go with a Socket 7 setup of some kind, either Pentium 1 or K6 cpu. I think it would solve all of your speed issues, and still keep it retro enough for you. If your case needs a AT style motherboard, there are plenty of AT Socket 7 boards out there.

Anyway, thought I'd chime in with info on this latest build I did. Been sitting on a ATI Rage Fury MAXX graphics card for a little while now. Really just had not had the time to do a build for it. Had always wanted to have one system dedicated to it, and another for the 3DFX Voodoo 5, the two best legacy Direct X dual GPU cards from that time period. Anyway, its up and going now. Pulled out my Gateway AMD Jabil Kadoka Slot A motherboard for the install. Probably one of the best Slot A boards I have ever owned. High quality parts onboard, and the board is pretty hard to get a hold of now, usually with a price tag over 80 bucks. 3D Mark 2k default score is just a tad over 4000 points on this build. This one will sit beside my Voodoo 5 Athlon XP 2400+ build.
Specs:
Gateway AMD Jabil Kadoka Slot A motherboard
Athlon 900 mhz cpu
Seagate 160gb harddrive
TDK CD Burner
512 megs PC 133 SDram
Rage Fury Maxx graphics card
SoundBlaster Pci 128 audio
Windows ME installed

[HercTNT]

That rage fury maxx sucks, i think you should give it to me;)  Dammit, two years ago to, i had a chance to buy a brand new rage fury maxx for $30 and i passed. I have always wanted to build a pc based around one as well. Yea, i know that socket 7 is the way to go, but i just dont have the money. I put my 486 together fairly cheap over many months. i still have an evil kyro agp card i wanted to build a system around and never got the chance. I like the 486, its runs well, it just cant run all the dos games i wanted. Mostly, the only games i cant run are the late 96 dos games and up. build games wont do svga, screamer wont do svga, stuff like redguard and any early 3d games are out of the question.

[BlueBMW]

Herc, here's one of the two video cards I found.  The other is still in the machine (its ISA)  This looks like it should be the better card....

[spenoza]

Tridents are not much good for 3D, and they're not even really good at higher-resolution 2D, but I really like them for VGA.

[HercTNT]

Blue i really appreciate, but i no longer need it. a local friend of mine has an s3 card he is gonna give me. thank you for looking. I did not find out this news until a few hours ago.

[BlueBMW]

No problem

[Mishran]

Herc, honestly you may want to go with a Socket 7 setup of some kind, either Pentium 1 or K6 cpu. I think it would solve all of your speed issues, and still keep it retro enough for you. If your case needs a AT style motherboard, there are plenty of AT Socket 7 boards out there.

Anyway, thought I'd chime in with info on this latest build I did. Been sitting on a ATI Rage Fury MAXX graphics card for a little while now. Really just had not had the time to do a build for it. Had always wanted to have one system dedicated to it, and another for the 3DFX Voodoo 5, the two best legacy Direct X dual GPU cards from that time period. Anyway, its up and going now. Pulled out my Gateway AMD Jabil Kadoka Slot A motherboard for the install. Probably one of the best Slot A boards I have ever owned. High quality parts onboard, and the board is pretty hard to get a hold of now, usually with a price tag over 80 bucks. 3D Mark 2k default score is just a tad over 4000 points on this build. This one will sit beside my Voodoo 5 Athlon XP 2400+ build.
Specs:
Gateway AMD Jabil Kadoka Slot A motherboard
Athlon 900 mhz cpu
Seagate 160gb harddrive
TDK CD Burner
512 megs PC 133 SDram
Rage Fury Maxx graphics card
SoundBlaster Pci 128 audio
Windows ME installed

That looks similar to an Athlon (600MHz) tower I have. Would love to get my hands on a decent Voodoo card to play Ultima 9 on it. Damn game crashes every 5 minutes on Direct X.

[HercTNT]

I really like the clear blue plastic on the tdk cd rom.

[ProfessorProfessorson]

Herc, I mean to ask, did you ever get to mess around any with the Evil Kyro card prior? I'd wanted one before, or a Kyro II, but have never got to own one. I've seen reviews prior where the Kyro II card when paired with a decent cpu didn't have too much of a issue handling Serious Sam or Max Payne, but in the end those cards got the shaft on most of the Direct X 8 generation of games.

[HercTNT]

Yes, i have owned two before. A powercolor evil Kyro and a hercules 4500 kyro2.  My first Kyro could play quake 3 at 800x600 with 4x anti aliasing turned on. That was a pretty impressive feat for a card of its generation. Keep in mind the kyro chipset has two major drawbacks: Antiscopic filtering is not possible, and overclocking the card by even 1mhz is practically impossible. Matching up a Kyro or even better a kyro2 to a socket a platform makes for some great gaming. the kyros image quality sans the Antiscopic filtering is excellent. I have had a 32meg kyro collecting dust for the last year. When i decided to build my 486 i cancelled my kyro project. let me know if you want to play around with it, i will send it your way.

[SuperPlay]

Herc, here's one of the two video cards I found.  The other is still in the machine (its ISA)  This looks like it should be the better card....

Not seen one of these for a while.  The computer store that I worked at in the 90's sold these by the bucket load :@)

[fraggore]

LOL way does spring to mind.

you guys would be gutted if you know how many pc's i have helped to scrap over the years working in IT about a year ago we scraped a brand new bbc micro color monitor in the box never been used was a shame to see that go.
but if you enjoy it good luck in finding parts