Building a Pentium MMX 233 Ultimate Retro PC
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Building one more Retro PC for LAN Parties in the basement
Specs:
Motherboard: Intel AN430TX Anchorage
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz 66 MHz FSB
RAM: 256MB
HDDs: x2 Compaq DDRS-34560 4.3GB 7200 RPM 68-pin SCSI
CD-ROM Drive: Nakamichi 5 disc mini changer MJ-5.16 SCSI 50-pin
Floppy Drive: SD Technology 120MB LS-120 FD-3120A 3.5inch
Video card: Matrox Mystique 220 PCI VRAM: 4MB
Network card: 3COM EtherLink III 3C509B-TP ISA
Sound card:
Yamaha OPL4-ML wavetable synthesizer soldered to the motherboard
Yamaha OPL3-SA3 3-D audio codec soldered to the motherboard
Keyboard: Dell RT7D5JTTW
Monitor: NEC Multisync FE772
Speakers: Roland MA-8 Black
Mouse:Digital Research Designer Series Serial-PS/2
Case badge stickers: geekenspiel.com
Playing Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition
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This takes me back. My Dad & I sat and picked out a Dell XPS D333 one time, and ordered it. Spring of 98 I believe, 333 P2, 128mb Ram, 16.8 GB Hard drive. Quantum Bigfoot I believe. 56k modem, Riva128, TB Montego sound, DVD Drive, Zip Drive, Altec AC 97? 2.1 Speakers, 19" Dell Trinitron Monitor. It was TITS at the time. I think Dad spent around 3500 for it back then. Not even 6m later, the P2 350/400 came out and introdcued the 100Mhz FSB. Around 2 yrs after we got it, it was mid pack at best. Crazy how fast things moved back then. 4 years later I built my first PC with an Athlon XP 1800. 333Mhz to 1.8 (1.5) GHz in 4 years lol. Dad still had the PC up until about 2 or 3 yrs ago. It still worked great for what it was.
Wow... I just watched the entire video and was worth every second. Clean editing, Cool music, and No comments. You deserved my sub and like!❤️
Thanks for the nice relaxing video. Like stepping back in time again. Had experience with all the exact parts you used with the same sound card, video, network, motherboard and even the case. Had that tower for a while and finally got rid of it in early 2000s because didn't have room for it anymore. Such a great golden time.
Great build! Alot of effort here with the camera angles and sliders! 360 views are great. The music does take away from it a bit, perhaps reupload this one with no music or a much less loud track on loop as ambiance. I bet the YT algo will reward you!
you made me feel like a child again, I was happy and carefree
Wooow this takes me back. I used to work at a computer store in '96. At that time though, they were selling their own prebuilt Pentium 200s. They kept me in the back building external drives. Our main tech was a guy named Norm that would blast KMFDM every shift. On loop. lol good times really. Life was much simpler.
[Edit: Beautiful tower sir!]
[Edit edit: Only a 33.6?? 🤣]
33.6 is enough speed to get connected to my garage payphone and reprogram it 😁
Nice build! The OPL3 goes nicely with Duke Nukem 3D I reckon. I can appreciate the old hard drives as well, people weren't using CompactFlash adapters back in the day!
This reminded me of the time when all I had was a pentium 133, and I dreamed of having one of those mmx. I played games like wolf3D, Doom2, mortal kombat 1, Jazz jack rabbit, dune 2, grand prix and others on it. And my father used to play F19. 😄
Ah, I forgot my favorites, Keen 4 and Prince of Percia.
Yep that pension mmx 233 was the mac daddy for a while. I was stuck on a knock off Cyrix 166 in 1996-1998. The thing I remember best about the mmx CPU’s was the tv adverts.
Good video, but there are some room for improvements:
This is a new age RUclips music und too modern for a retro pc vintage channel.
The i430TX can only cache until 64MB RAM with enabled L2 Cache. All over >64MB memory runs without any L2 Cache.
The small hdd cage is somehow an indictment of this big tower, the hard disks will also get very hot without an air gap in between, due to the 7200 rpm. Especially SCSI hard disks.
Yes, it is a little strange that the case was sealed New Old Stock server tower, but the hdd cage is regular size. I use one hdd to boot DOS, and the second one is for W95. Will add some hdd fans
Well Done Sir!
Our 3rd computer was finally a 233MMX, but didn't had a descent video card to play anything cool lol
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You put the heatsink on backwards. The notch in the aluminum is suppose to sit over the socket name. Although I feel that's more or less for Socket 462 motherboards because of their exposed on-chip die.
Yes, I think it's Socket A heatsink. The fan is old and noisy. I'm going to replace it soon
Thanks god it was not a coppermine (exposed die) type of CPU, it would have fried.
Couldn't get SCSI to work on my AN430TX with onboard Rage II. The Adaptec 2940AU SCSI BIOS initialized the disks but fdisk didn't find them, even though I tried two known working HDDs. My guess is the motherboard BIOS tried to shadow the SCSI BIOS but there was not enough space in UMB as the Rage II, USB and other onboard components take so much UMB that it failed and the SCSI BIOS wasn't fully shadowed. SCSI CD-ROM worked though as that doesn't need SCSI BIOS to work. Decided to use a SD-IDE adapter and haven't regretted it. Great board all around, especially the onboard Yamaha OPL3/4. As for the voltage setting, as far as I could research it only affects single voltage CPUs, MMX CPUs always default to 3.3V I/O, that's why I left it on VRE. Which is the default from Intel and the board was shipped this way with a 166MMX installed that I upgraded to a 200MMX overclocked to 233Mhz. I also saw that your Etherlink III doesn't have RJ-45 - are you running BNC with terminators and all? That was a royal pain back in the day :D
Yes, I use BNC. I tried to replicate the same apartment network I had with my friends in the 90s. So far, so good, but I remember the pain 😄
Great setup and video. Like it👍
Nice, i recently made a retro build like this with same cpu too
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Nice build. Though I found the pace a bit slow (for me) and so admit I skipped through a lot of it. Some people like that pace though. It would have been nice to show it running more than one game. I also am building a Pentium MMX 233Mhz system. In my case though I am running it at 300Mhz and have Voodoo 1 and Riva 128 for early 3D games. I also want it for DOS games, including speed sensitive ones. I plan to allow the bus speed and multiplier to be changed without opening the case. Haven't decided how I will accomplish that yet. Ideally I also want a 3 digit display like yours to show the CPU's current speed.
Nice! Can you add to video date of dev/producing of hardware and software, please?
interesting, thanks!
Cool
for a retro computer with a pentium 1 processor uses fpm 256 megabytes of ram memory but a clean processor and cooling on the processor is not rubbed with alcohol or other processor cleaner because microscopic damage is done and the pentium 1 processor version that does not support mmx instructions is better quality a usb plug in a retro computer is a gateway for hackers with a virus on a mobile memory stick
Great video
I have this CPU ❤
I Love it and I like It two computers ás these for conect to lan
Все конечно очень круто, но модем зачем? Есть мини АТС и второй PC который будет выступать в качестве сервера, что бы соединятся по модему?
When are the parties?
you are good
Why not a Super Socket 7 board with AGP, 100mhz fsb and a 1 mb L2 cache
I tried to get a similar home LAN party setup what I had in 1997
@@Vitaskhr that i can understand then
Great✌
No 3d accelerator card?
Voodoo 2 has been added later
Please stop the music.
Can't just emulate?
I prefer real hardware
God the music in this is so bad. Would be better with no music.
I tried to watch it silent. Looks unfinished. I do not like it. Will try to find a better source of background ambient music
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