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2002\2003 Build - Recreation of my first non 3dfx PC

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First post, by iraito

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CPU: AMD athlon XP 2800+
Mobo: Asus A7N8X-X - NVIDIA nForce2 400 rev C1 / NVIDIA nForce2 MCP rev A4
RAM: 1gb (512X2) Dual channel (DDR--400)
GPU: Radion 9800 XXL 128mb
Microsoft Windows XP
Soundcard: Sound Blaster Audigy 2

This started as a free PC i got many years ago (case\ram\cpu\mobo\psu), i tinkered with it quite a bit over the years and 1 year ago i also started working on the case, 1 week ago i finally finished the last piece and now the PC finally feels complete.
It's a recreation of the PC i had back in 2002 but not perfect recreation, i got similar but better pieces (9800 instead of 9700 pro and athlon XP instead of P4)

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If you wanna check a blue ball playing retro PC games
MIDI Devices: RA-50 (modded to MT-32) SC-55

Reply 1 of 5, by Warlord

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Cool, but doesnt your monitor vibrate much?

Reply 4 of 5, by iraito

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Bruno128 wrote on 2024-08-26, 19:45:

“9800 XXL” smells like Medion OEM to me. Possibly downclocked.
Is it really better than 9700?

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-9800-xxl.c443

No, it's actually much better, it's slightly less powerful than a 9800XT but like 10%, the top of the 9000 series wasn't lame even in oem form lemme tell you.

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If you wanna check a blue ball playing retro PC games
MIDI Devices: RA-50 (modded to MT-32) SC-55

Reply 5 of 5, by iraito

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I could up the clock up by 22hz for the core and up by 54 for the memory and it would be literally a 9800xt, it's not even worth it powerful as it is.

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If you wanna check a blue ball playing retro PC games
MIDI Devices: RA-50 (modded to MT-32) SC-55

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