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Quest for the ultimate 1999 rig

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I have a PII 350, PII 450, and PIII 550 mhz chip, all slot 1, looking for a good home cheap if you want them. Just ask.

I also have a Duron 700mhz socket A that I hear overclocks well. Again, cheap.

I think in 99 I had my Athlon 800mhz socket A. I certainly remember playing NFS😛U on it. It was right around the time I went from my PII 350 to the Athlon 800. Graphics card was a 32MB Ati rage pro (which had compatibility issues with NFS, had to call Canada to get that cleared up).
 
Late 1999 or thereabouts I was running a Celeron 2 566 @ 952.

Later sold it & ran a Coppermine P3 700 @ 933.

I still sometimes miss my old BX133 systems.

Viper GTS
 
Yeah, those were the days. I was running a Katmai 600 - I think I could push it up to 733 MHz if I remember correctly. THe cache was the issue when it came to o/c'ing ...

I build just a couple of weeks ago a file server with dual 1GHz Tualadins and 1 Gig of registered SDRAM on a Tyan HESL-T (or something like that). It's kinda overkill, but back in those days Tualadins were all the rage, but priced way out of my range - so I always wanted to do that. Seems like tons of businesses are throwing out their PIII-era servers, so there's quite a fair number on offer on eBay (at least when I bought mine).

Grafics wise I still used my trust Riva TNT in 99 - wanted to support the underdog nVidia back than (and didn't have the money to upgrade). Advised my friends to go with 3DFX though 'cause I didn't believe nVidia would make it...

Cheers and good luck with your system.
 
I actually have two machines from 1999.

K6-3 400
512MB ram
6.5 GB HD
Matrox Millenium G400 16MB

Celeron 300A @ 450Mhz
3dfx Voodo 2
256MB of ram
10GB HD

The K6-3 still works and was used up until about April by my dad.
The celeron 300A had leaky capacitors on its BH6 and hasnt bee working for years.
 
If you wanna go retro, pick up a good slot 1 440BX mobo, and pick up a slot 1 coppermine, or get a slocket and throw a s370 coppermine on there. 512MB SDRAM, 3dFX voodoo 5500 probably want PCI version, but AGP will work.

That would be fun to play with.
 
My 1999 system is:

Abit BE6-II
400mhz PII (have a 450 PIII but i like the PII better, more sturdy looking)
640 MB PC100 SDRAM
Geforce 4 TI-4400 (bit out of spec for 99 but w/e)
4GB seagate medalist
10GB WD caviar
some old case i got free from a friend

All it needs is a sound card and a copy of windows 98. Its sitting under my desk at home with xp on it just now.
 
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