r/retrobattlestations

Upgraded with a Boca Research Se1440 sound card
And 16Mb of ram
Running a 386 at 16MHz

Here's a weird duck in a couple ways.

Case - Lian Li PC-100 "Hammer" - backwards motherboard layout. XL-ATX support.

Board - Gigabyte G1 Assassin. Integrated X-Fi, Integrated Killer NIC, USB3. Pain in the ass form factor.

CPU - i7-970

Graphics - GTX 580 SLI. Might go Tri one day

Storage - 15K RPM 300GB SAS, 2x 500 SATA

I'd love to do Quad SLI, but the case needs modding and the heat / power use will just be cruel

So yeah. Your "Front" IO is under a door. Recessed.

All your cables get to pass THROUGH a channel in the case, out the back. What a mess.

Gorgeous case, though.

I need to do a bit more work on it, and find one of by better 775 chips

E6550

Striker Extreme

2x2GB G-Skill 1066

Coolermaster Geminii with a custom backplate

3x 9800 GTX+

74GB Raptor (Should be RAID 0, can't find my second)

This is now the... fourth? Case that I've packed the framethrower into.

The removable top panel makes wiring the thing SO much easier.

Gonna run Vista Ultimate x64. I want my widgets!

Those console boys should know who ruled physical.

>!^(This Sony thing has entertained me to no end.)!<

NZXT Vulcan Micro-ATX LAN Party Rig

I’ve been searching for this case ever since I discovered about 10yrs ago but by then they were discontinued. A very rare and interesting case with a sturdy carrying handle with an “aggressive” style somewhat in the silhouette of a gatling gun.

Picked it up on FB marketplace and came with entry level 2012 era parts:

AMD A10-5800K APU

8GB DDR3

500GB Seagate HDD (super slow)

Asrock FM2 MATX Mobo

Corsair H80 Thick 120mm AIO

DVD RW Drive (broken)

NZXT Orange Touch Screen 5-way fan controller

Orange LED lighting

MSI AMD Radeon HD 6670 which allows for “dual graphics crossfire”

I plan to just play with the parts as is for YouTube shorts content, run a few benchmarks, then clean up the case and put in a modern setup inside. It’s honestly compact for an MATX case.

This dv5-1032eg has an Intel C2D P8700, 8 GB of DDR2-800 RAM and a nVidia 9600M GT (512 MB DDR2, OpenGL 3.3) which should already be safe from bumpgate. I replaced the original glossy LCD, which had yellowed, with a brighter matte panel from a later Compaq 6730s. It is otherwise in very good condition and has just received a thorough cleaning and a fresh Grizzly KryoSheet to improve heat dissipation. Vista is patched with the January 2026 Server 08 updates. I use Supermium for web browsing, Escargot for MSN Messenger, and WebOne proxy for very modern HTTPS encryption, which IE9/WinHTTP under Vista no longer understands.

Makes my liveaboard the only boat with a mainframe. The PDP-10 (well, yes, replica PDP-10) runs ITS, frozen in the mid 70s. It's been running with basically no downtime for more than a year now.

Tons of software to work and play with makes this machine a fun almost-daily driver, much more useful than an MS-DOS computer from 15 years later (to me, at least). This thing was ahead of its time.

The Thinkpad is used as a Knight TV Terminal, letting me use the mainframe anywhere I want.

Just finished building this - I wanted a pc that could run windows xp & windows 7 since those OS's are compatible with windows 95, 2k, vista, etc. It turned out great and I've been having a blast gaming on a speakers!

Specs:

Motherboard: ASUS P5QL

​Processor (CPU): Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

​Graphics Cards (GPU): NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

​Memory (RAM): 8GB DDR2 Corsair XMS2 RAM

​Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (I have a Sound Blaster Xtreme Fidelity I will upgrade to soon.)

​Storage (Mixed Deployment):

​Windows XP Drive: 500gb Mechanical SATA Hard Drive

​Windows 7 Drive: 500gb Solid State Drive (SSD)

​Optical Drives: ASUS Blu-ray Drive, ​Sony DVD Drive

​Case / Bench: Fractal Core 1100

​Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 955df CRT Monitor

​Keyboard: BTC 5100C Keyboard (in the mail)

CASE STICKERS: https://geekenspiel.com/collections

THE POOR CABLE MANAGEMENT IS ERA ACCURATE!

Its great playing these games on their era accurate hardware and monitor!

Put together this setup in the last month which has been a lot of fun. Largely sourced just from Marketplace.

Most notably including a "non functioning 90s computer" ie the Monitor. I guess when they turned it on and it said "no signal" they assumed the "computer" was broken lmao

Also has turned into a favourite cat spot

If you're wondering where all the G4 Minis went, they've been grabbed by Wave Design to build the world's weirdest render farm.

Jokes aside though, the G4 Mini is actually the ideal system for rendering old school 3D animation. They're close in CPU speed to an early-2000s Power Mac while requiring a fraction of the space, and can use a modified software restore to run OS 9.

Shown here is a test scene in Infini-D split across the five Macs. It might also be possible to split workloads in Bryce, Lightwave, and MacRenderman. The systems are still being brought online and troubleshooted.

Sharing some pics of my retro HTPC for 1080p streaming and gaming, hope you all enjoy! Specs and info below.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
HSF: Zalman CNPS8900 Quiet
MB: Asus P5QL-VM EPU
RAM: 4x 2Gb Patriot Gaming DDR2 1066Mhz
GPU: Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD4980 Zalman edition
Tuner: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
SSD: 1x Western Digital Blue 250Gb SATA SSD
HDD: 3x Hitachi 2Tb 3.5” 7200rpm SATA HDD
ODD: HP BD-ROM Blu Ray drive
PSU: Rosewill VNW 550w power supply
Expansion: Orico 5.25” to 3.5” SATA hot swap
Controller: STW 4 channel 5.25” bay fan control
Fans: 2x Arctic P12 PWM + 1x Arctic P8 PWM
Case: Lian Li PC-V351B all aluminum cube case
OS: Windows 10 Pro IoT LTSC edition

Currently using this machine for 1080p OTA cable streams plus some media storage, backups, and legacy disc watching. I have two of the 2Tb drives in the internal 3.5” bays in RAID1 backup and the third drive in the hotswap 5.25” bay for easy transfers.

Windows 10 LTSC is surprisingly light and capable with all of the bloatware stripped out. It’s still snappy on the C2Q even though it’s almost 18 years old now. Idle RAM usage is usually under 3gb as well.

I was happy to find this red and black trackball that matches my Nabu s joystick

• Amd k6-2+ 500 (overclock 550)
• 512mb sdram pc133 (256mb hynix 256mb jetram)
• Asus p5a-b
• Geforce 2 mx400 32mb
• disconnected awe64
• vt6421a st-lab sata
• Samsund hd120ij
• Quantum Fireball lct15 for system
• Windows 98se; directx 8.1
• le zdoom and brutal doom v21
• high, extreme blood, 640x480x8

Как же я долго мучался с таймингами и 105 шиной для mafia. Нужно достать еще geil gl2000 памяти. Спасибо что ему не надо никакого звука.