I understand, I didn't get the humour initially! (For that I do apologise!) […]
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CoffeeOne wrote on 2024-02-03, 22:46:
That should have been a joke, I personally found it very funny.
I understand, I didn't get the humour initially! (For that I do apologise!)
The interesting thing about PC is that period correctness is difficult to define, as many people push their systems for a long time and through many upgrade cycles before retiring them. (In the case of my Dual P4 Xeon build I went absolutely crazy, with the goal of seeing how far I could push it, especially considering the net burst architecture was such a lemon.)
I'd like some of my systems to be completely period specific and others, such as this build to be a mixture of the old and the new. (As older hardware does look nice in a modern chassis, allowing for better cable management, which simply wasn't possible back in the day, as well as a way to better display the hardware itself, as most, if not all beige cases were completely closed.)
In the case of this system, most of the hardware is period specific, excluding the case, power supply and the drives (As they are the later SCSI variety, however the RAID card that I've chosen is period specific and features the same chipset as the controller on @luckybob's P/I-p65UP8.) In the case of the Voodoo5 5500 PCI (If I can get it to run in this system), such a card would only really have made sense in a system such as this one, as who in their right mind would have run a PCI graphics card if they had an AGP slot available? (Such a card was more than likely produced to extend the life of systems such as this one.)
My first PC was a 486 DX4 100 and I still have that very machine! So the 486 also has a very special place in my heart! I’ll never forget the day my family got that machine, it was probably one of the best days of my life! (This was in the 1994.)
The chip sitting on the top left of the system is the Cyrix CPU:
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I haven’t got to playing around with it from a hardware point of view yet. It originally came fitted with a Cyrix 486 DX4 100 CPU which I swapped out for an AMD back in the day, as a friend suggested that the AMD was better. I still have both CPU’s and will at some point benchmark the system to see what the difference between the two chips is, if any!
The system’s also fitted with a Creative SoundBlaster 16-Bit, quad-speed Creative CD-ROM and 32MB of RAM. The system doesn’t have any cache chips fitted, so I’d like to change that!
I also think that it may deserve one of these:
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I will definitely keep this machine period specific.
Seeing that this machine of mine lacks a PCI bus, I’d like to collect another one which does feature one. I’d like to collect a Gateway for this purpose, as I think they looked really cool!
I think that these systems are absolutely gorgeous:
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