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man, i absolutely love your selection of background b-roll music. thank you for this

Can I please have a hard drive 😭🙏

Just saw your Far Cry videos, nice! It's always interesting to watch how someone else is playing a game that one knows pretty well. To this day, this game is AWESOME.

dude what is the quality of psu on these workstations are they reliable..?

But why?

What hardware config do you use to play it?

The Smoking Cap, nice content I loved it

I need the drivers... please!

Your video will help me replace my belt. Thank you for your sharing!

Slam a 3dfx voodoo in it

I remember playing this 20 years ago. The carrier was so cool.

Just made a few Speedsys runs with the same controller and a 2.1GB Bigfoot + SD2CF adapter. Here are the results: DX2-80 Speedsys linear read speed FC-1307 SD2CF (old 1GB card): - VLB MR.BIOS 32 bit: 5226 KB/s - VLB MR.BIOS standard: 4123 KB/s - VLB WBIDE.EXE: 5343 KB/s - ISA: 3046 KB/s Quantum Bigfoot CY2160A: - VLB MR.BIOS 32 bit: - (boot failure) - VLB MR.BIOS standard: 3382 KB/s - VLB WBIDE.EXE: 4659 KB/s - ISA: 3043 KB/s

Timing! I recently finished my first full playthrough of FC1, but on a modern machine. I also played on realistic, had to save scum via console in a bunch of places later. Anyways, back in a day this game blew me away with the water graphics and physics. Alas, my PC could not run it at playable FPS.

New thing for me too never knew a multi i/o even had drivers !!!

I'm tempted to dig out my 486 now. I expected a lot more gains from the driver. Luckily, I got the same Quantum Bigfoot CY 2GB drive last year. I'm curious if my drive also bottlenecks the controller this much on my system. That's going to be fun.

0.1 ms seek times make no sense. Maybe there is some caching going on with the drivers?

That’s more like it, indeed. On a side note, I noticed a typo in the path for wbide.386 in the system.ini file (c:\drives instead of c:\driveRs). But I guess you would have corrected that afterwards.

Drivers can be found here. I used the 2.0 version as the 1.26 didn't seem to work with my card. Link as follows, theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/dfi-mio-2050#driver

Drivers can be found here. I used the 2.0 ones as the 1.26 ones didn't work for my card. theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/dfi-mio-2050#driver

You need the cards DOS drivers to activate 32 bit transfers. I have the same card, and it is supported by Mr.BIOS so I don't need the drivers to do that. I get almost twice the transfer rate when using the cards features. With a DX2-66@80MHz and an SD2IDE adapter, I get a bit over 5MB/s transfer rate, which is impressive for a 486 that slow.

Nice! When tearing and benchmarking VLB graphics cards, I like to just use an ISA controller. With flash based storage, Ibcoild never notice much if a difference. Maybe under Windows with 32 Bit driver but I tend to srick with DOS.

cool content man, brings back the memories.liked and subbed. I used to work as audio editor for a rather large pc tech review site around the time when this type of gear was bleeding edge. Was so cool getting these soundcards sent to me before the public got them to test out, was a great time for pc gear in my humble opinion. cheers james. ( i`m feeling every day of 38 reading what i just wrote lol)

greetings from germany: as much as it is a pleasure seeing you fixing old computer related stuff, as much it is a pain seen you play old pc games

nice new capacitor for long life of motherboard

Thanks for the trip down the memory lane :) Nice setup, but you know you would have been killed by any other administrator if you installed IIS on the primary domain controller in an production environment ;)... 34:00 never used Windows Messaging/Windows Mail, i knew that it was suuuuuuuuper basic and very cheap (not even closely comparable to Exchange) but now I am shocked that it by default is created in the WinNT directory and not the user profile dir at WINNT\PROFILES :-o David Cutler let that happen!?

I own the first model, luckely my device has the ram maxed out! But, no batteries, no accessories, only the charger and the machine itself. I bought it as faulty for 20 euros a couple of years back, but it wasn't faulty at all! The first model uses a 7.2 volts rechargeable Ni-MH battery, and when this battery is completely flat, the laptop does nothing, not even show an led that the power is connected, i left it on power once after i tought by myself "maby it jumps to live" and it did! But, the cables and the plug on the mobo were severely coroded, so bad in fact that with the slightest wiggle of the cable, the entire thing was loose! I was thinking first of installing 2 lithium ion batteries in series, but, this is not good for long time storage, so, today i had the brilliant idea to replace this battery pack with a capacitor, you can leave those drained for a long time, and the pc starts up in around 30 seconds (i mean to be able to turn it on) instead of waiting for a good 20 minutes! But, i can't find the drivers anywhere! it just has a generic windows me installation, but, i hope, 1 day, that i can find the original restore disks for my particular model!

Fun stream, nice one!

Sorry people, I didn't know my microphone was so quiet. My testing didn't reveal this issue! Oh well, next time aye ;)

That case is amazing for its time, but some design choices made by Silverstone are just confusing. And the slide-out motherboard tray never caught on for a reason. I think it's almost pointless, you still have to disconnect everything before you can pull the board. As for the RAM - it's a bit sad to see a triple channel system run in dual channel mode... have you considered using the other memory kit? Also, you've partitioned the SSD during XP setup, which means your partitions are now misaligned. It's best to partition SSDs on a modern system before installing XP. The 3TB drives were not only too big, as you've discovered, but you also dodged a bullet with that Seagate ST3000DM001. Apparently, it suffers from extreme failure rates after only two or three years of use, due to some kind of material fatigue. And the big drives would have been a poor match for RAID 0 anyway, because the WD Green only runs at 5400 rpm, while the Seagate runs at 7200 rpm.

I'd like to build another one just like it for a retro system. The person that has the old one I built still has it, and it runs perfectly, never leaving the bottom desk enclosure since the day I placed it in, except for an occasional blowout and clean..

The X58 chipset was the best most stable system ever. I had one monster build! It had an Asus motherboard that was the exact same color as the motherboard you're working with. It was an X58pro I believe with 12 gigs of ram 3x4=12, an unlocked overclockable 3.2 6core Xeon version of the Extreme Processor overclocked to around 3.6g if I remember correctly, it overclocked higher if needed and was more stable than the 3.33 version when overclocked to high speeds, Gtx 980ti, a 256gig Raptor hd running win 10pro 2x1terrabite Raptors for storage and a 128ssd setup to be used as cash, a turbo Cool 850w PC Power&Cooling powersupply, the legendary pioneer Blu-ray burner installed in the 1st bay, a THX Sound Blaster Fatality audio card with a dope Boston Acoustics 5 speaker Dolby Digital Surround sound complete with matching powered subwoofer that was sold as an add on by Dell who's 5 channel amp sounded amazing with crisp detailed audio and true to life presence in gaming and movies, I believe it had a Panasonic floppy disk, tech multi card reader sized for a floppy drive bay but I used an adapter that sat it factory clean flush against the front of the case bezel in the 2nd optical bay, for the 3rd drive bay I installed a very handy secret draw that was flat & flush to the case so it looked like an unused bay cover making it nearly invisible. It was spring loaded so when pushed it clicked and popped open. It's where I kept thumb drives and memory cards. One being a bootable Acronis True Image recovery software drive that I made to access the hidden Acronis safe zone partition where a system image recovery clone was kept, along with a 2nd copy of the image on a card incase of hardware failure. Just replace the part, boot of the media, followed by about 3 minutes to copy the image to hard drive and done! Every program, setting application, done in 3 minutes or so instead of days of customized system installation & settings🎉❤🎉

Hey Smoking Cap, my secret to good SATA management over the years has been the ADCAUX thin SATA3 cables on Amazon, makes it way easier to achieve good cable management in cases/builds that don't otherwise support good cable management. I wholeheartedly recommend their products for just about any build that still uses SATA rather than board/PCIe addin mounted drives. Since you also have that top PCIe slot unused, I can also recommend any of the cheap USB 3.0 XP compatible cards available, having faster transfer off my external drives for my Snappy Driver Installer Origin archives/GOG installers is a huge QOL improvement for XP. I used a more modern case with front panel USB3 so I got one with the header for connecting front panel USB3. Also the DanielK XFi pack works wonders for me on my XP rig. My rig is an EVGA NF68 rig with an E8600 and 2 GTX 285s in SLI, so modern features have to be added in a little more than using the later board than you did.

The Hyper-X RAM is T1 Command Rate and might overclock a bit.

I really like this board. Would be really nice as a cloning bench, especially having usb 3.0. My Phenom II cloning bench is a beast, but I have to put a usb 3.0 card in there! Onboard IDE is a must have. I could run Windows 11 with this thing!

12:40 - Apparently 3 x 4GB = 6GB lmao?

nice build so far, but it wasnt a proper build since you didnt cut a finger and make a blood offering 😛 do you think the bottom card needs a support bracket, thought i looked like was sagging.

Damn. I always wanted to try SLI/Xfire but never had a chance and now there's no need. Looks good, I do wonder if you'll do some furmark or something and check the temps on them though.

Is First Gen Core i7 15:44

Hmm Xeon X5850 On XP Imagine That

X58 So Overkil For XP But Awesome You Can Use EP43-DS3 With E8600 AND HD5850 Is Great For 07 08

X58 So Overkil For XP But Awesome You Can Use EP43-DS3 With E8600 AND HD5850 Is Great For 07 08

12:53 These Ram Are DDR2?

Great👍

Monster machine, awesome

Great Video Brings back Memories

It uses the intel 820 Chipset. 820 chipset used RDRAM and the 815 used SDRAM. The Intel 820 chipset was very short lived.

have a 400MHz pII model, i added overkill parts with it th-cam.com/video/W0Vy8LKZCc8/w-d-xo.html

About the hard drive, updating the BIOS to the latest available for your machine may allow the it to recognize the 80gb hard drive and if not it should see the drive as larger than 15GB. I have an older DeskPro from the Pentium 2 generation and i could not use hard drives larger than 8 gb, but after i updated the BIOS and i am now able to use 20GB hard drives which i am much happier with.

RDRAN just failed because of cost, It was actualy better than SD / DDR

Ide love to get a copy of the modded vc is it downloadable any links? Thanks