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Part 1: THE CASE
We'll start with the case. I've owned this ATX case for 20 years and up until 2019 it housed my main rig. It's made by ELLE and calls itself the 'New Millenium Computer System', which is perfect for this build!
After sanding with P600 and applying the primer, it is time to pick to colour? Back to black? Meh. Beige or white? Not in 1999! Happy colours? This ain't no iMac! No, if I want to be BOLD, I'll have to go with GOLD!
Part 2: THE BOARD
Time to put the case back together and fill it with hardware! For the mainboard I'm going with this Jetway J-7BXAN. It has the great Intel 440BX chipset and I'll fill the SLOT1 with an Intel Pentium II 450. The board supports up to 133 Mhz FSB but that would be too much for this PII to handle. Luckely there is also a 112 Mhz option, which boosts the CPU to a whoppin' 502 Mhz.
To be utterly redicilous enough, the build must have more RAM than Mhz. The 3 slots can be maxed out to 768 Mb but as I'm planning to install Windows 98 SE, I'd better stick to these 2 sticks of 256mb each. 512mb is still redicilous enough!
Meet the Termaltake Hardcano 9 5,25" fan controller! That front design just screams rebellion and the backside is a cable management hell. But the dials work and the internal temperature is shown correctly on the front display, so it does what it has to do. And, as this is the early 2000's, all fan connections are molex. I had to mod a few cables to connect my fans:
We'll balance out that sensible video card with this overkill of a soundcard: The Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS! It supports surround sound up to 7.1 systems and has EAX, which will be great for some late 90's titles!
And as I might play the occasional DOS game (the Audigy's support for that isn't great), I'll add this Creative Soundblaster 16 CT2810 in the mix. The jumpers on the card help to configure it easily. To make it all a little more baller, I'll plug this NEC XR385 into the wavetable header. It's basicly a Yamaha DB50XG, which will give me some great MIDI music!
I'll want to make use of that Audigy 2 ZS's surround option, so I've got this Creative DTT2200 5.1 speaker set. The speakers were made by Cambridge Soundworks and sound quite nice for their size.
The monitor I'm using is a Philips 107S 17" CRT. It'll do 1024 x 768 up to 85 Hz and 1280 x 1024 in 60 Hz. Probably the best thing is that Philips didn't use ABS plastic so it will not yellow over time.
What did yellow terribly is the Azona KB810 multimedia keyboard but it has that great late 90's aesthetic and functionality. Who doesn't need a 'WWW' and a 'DOS' button? And no PC is complete without the standard Microsoft ball mouse, although mine has a scroll wheel!
I've been testing some of the games I wanted to play and I must say that I'm very pleased with the performance. Especially the sound really blew me away. Being able to hear enemies behind you in Half-Life, enhanced by the EAX sound effects really gave me the chance to experience the game like it was meant to be played back then. And it only took me 22 years to realise my dream build! I'll be on the look out for more games of that era using surround sound and/or EAX extensions, so if you have any recommendations, let me know!
I hope you've enjoyed my build log. The only thing that is currenty missing is a CD(R)-drive. I do have a few options but they do not really match the gold/silver theme. So I'm either going to repaint some generic drive or find a silver or black drive that will do well. Stay tuned for that update!
Nice build! Perhaps you're golden with the Philips PCRW1208 (and a few other models like PCRW2010) that might match the silver front. There are also NEC Optiarc's out there with a silver front which might be a tad or two darker in color.
Very nice. I'm still looking for a suiting case for my build. My 5ali61 with and k6-2+@500 MHz is unhappy in a case from ca 2005. That and a voodoo card but they are both equally stupidly expensive in my area.
Thandor suggested a few of them in his post above but I wasn't able to find one locally for a reasonable price. And a CDROM drive is quite the must in such a system, so I didn't want to wait for weeks/months to finally source one. So the spraycan was the quick and easy solution.
The Audigy ZS 2 has a header for a game/midi port connector, so why not make use of that? As you can see, I took off the USB part of the bracket, since this motherboard doesn't have a USB header. Seems a bit strange for that era.. but it has 2 USB connections in the I/O so that's good enough for me.
Before I'll try any overclocking, I'm adding a 40mm fan to my Voodoo 3 2000. The heatsink is glued on and doesn't have any fan connectors or inserts, so you'd need to take off the entire heatsink and replace it with a new unit. Or, you can get creative and mount the fan to the heatsink with a few wires. The wires go below the heatsink (next to the glued thermal pad) and through the mounting holes of the fan. The fan is really light so it'll hang in there pretty well. If you do this, be sure not to let the wires touch any of the components around the heatsink.
The PC runs stable with acceptable temps with setting #3. I'm happy I was able to push my V3 2000 all the way to the stock speed of a V3 3000. Going up to 175 Mhz started giving me errors and artifacts, so I think 166 Mhz is a fair point to settle on. It seems Quake II benefits the most from the extra boost to the videocard, but adding extra power to the CPU did next to nothing. It gives Unreal some extra frames but 3Dmark99 benefits most from this CPU boost. I find 3dMark99 to be a bit unstable when it comes to results. It's mostly best to take the average out of 3 or 5 runs to get a good feeling for the impact of the overclock.
Hooked up my old QuickShot joystick there from 1990. I used to play Freespace with keyboard only so it's been tricky trying to adapt to joystick controls but it's adding to the immersion. The 3d audio with EAX effects is fantastic! You can hear enemy ships buzzing around you or that lock on sound behind you when the supply ship docks to your vessel. Just awesome.
I read that Operation Flashpoint (from 2001) also featured 3d sound so I gave that a shot but my PC only barely makes the minimal requirements. It's only somewhat playable on the lowest resolution with absolutely all details to very low or off. Going from a kick-ass system in 1999 to COMPLETELY OBSOLETE within 2 years isn't something I miss about retro gaming ?.
Just as a small issue I've found with the mobo (I also have the 7BXAN, not sure about the revision, think it's a 2.1?) - should you ever want to go Win2000 at any point, ACPI support is pretty buggy or even nonexistent.
I have not experienced that myself, but I've never used Win2000 before. As 1998/1999 is the target for this build, putting Win2000 on it seems a bit strange. If I were to build an early 2000's build, Win XP would be my OS of choice. But as you mentioned, Win98 SE is just fine when it comes to ATX shut down.
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The Emerald Dream apparently has some kind of ancient link with the realm of Ardenweald, where souls close to nature, such as Ysera herself, rest in the Shadowlands,[9] essentially being opposite blooms connected to the same tree, with the former personalizing Life in its waxing stages, and the latter embodying Life in its wane.[10] Where the Dream represents the spring and summer of the cycle of life, Ardenweald reflects autumn and winter,[11][12] in essence, being the highest expression of the relationship between endings and beginnings - between Death and Life.[13]
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