retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org Mr.Mofu @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 mo. ago

Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!!

I've gotten really interested in old Computers since I got my Commodore PET 2 months ago, so to play some good ol MS Train Simulator and Stronghold 2, I got this massive beauty. Here is a little size comparison between it and my main PC

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Got a new windows 98 gaming PC

You weren't kidding. It actually looks brand new!
- Seems to also work pretty well if I discount Train Simulator having installation issues... but thats probably just the old CD not holding up from when child me handled it...
You think that's huge? That's a mid tower... You should see full towers!
- I hope a full tower is this big
  
  ☝️ Now that, that is a full tower!
- That's not a midi tower.
  
  Mid tower, not Midi Tower. And yeah it totally is. Looks big because it only has one fan in the front and most mid towers nowadays have more fans and less bays.
Can it run DOOM tho ?
- Brings back memories of playing Doom II all choppy on our old 486 and months later realizing that pressing the turbo button made it run smoothly. D'oh!
- I'll try it once I manage to get Train Sim to run on it!
  
  I was just meming but okay have fun with train sim
3 optical drives? Why?
- If I had to guess:
  
  1 is a dvd drive.
  
  1 is a high speed cd-rom read only drive
  
  1 is a cd-rw drive
  
  Oooo lightscribe!
  
  Seems to me that you are right with that. The top one reads data in lightning speed. The middle drive doesn't seem to work saddly and the last one got a fat DVD logo on it so im guessing thats right
  
  1 3.5" inch Floppy disk drive (720 KB and 1.44 MB)
- Yes
...and loud? Some old machines have noisy ~~jet engines~~ fans inside
- You could probably upgrade the fans.
  
  A lot of cases from back then only took 80mm fans. To move more air, they had to spin faster and produce more noise. The loud fans were the upgrade 🙈
- Only when you hit the turbo boost!
  
  Which apparently just sped up your games and why my SF2 record was like 1-99999 against the computer.
  
  The turbo button slows your computer down!
- Yeah its pretty noisy atleast compared to anything modern~
Holy shit a DVDRW!!

You should add a DVD bay so you can rip on the fly!! Trust me it's way faster than saving to your 5400 rpm disk and writing back.

I'll admit I like having images tho.
I own a very similar tower from my first build back in the 90's.

I use it next to my computer desk and have my mouse pad on it. Been there for 20 years now. I like my mouse down there and to the side much more than having it up at keyboard level and I'll never change my ways on it.
- Whhhhhat?
  
  Lol that sounds awful, you wild!
  
  Oh no. It's the best. Just on the other side of the arm rest and a little lower. Zero fatigue. No leaning forward. Just comfort and chill. Best way to game.
Yeah sure, a gaming computer without watercooling on the graphics card or rgb leds on the case and ram. Nice try but I'm not a noob !
- Don't tempt me!
  
  Please mod it like
Dont tease us! Give us some specs!
- These tests where done by the seller, hope this uploads in good enough quality to read!
  
  That's a beefy boy for win9x standards! 1600mhz, 512mb ram and a Radeon 7500! This is great for that pre xp era gaming! Cool find!
  
  And there's always !win9x@retrolemmy.com if you have questions or want to show off some more!
  
  Oooh, that mid-mobo power connector
Think of all the expansion bays to fill!
- I could probably fit a coffee machine in there somewhere heh
Pfft, not even a turbo button. How are you supposed to play Settlers 2 on that?!
- Interestingly, the turbo button didn't speed up your system. Turning it off deliberately slowed it down.
  
  This was needed since some games etc assumed a fixed clock speed. When the clock ran faster, the game ran too fast. Pressing the turbo button to off was one of the first attempts at an emulation of older systems.
I showed this to my girlfriend and now she's been distant and daydreaming all day.
I think we need a banana for scale.
Unclear just how big, can you take a picture with a 4090 next to it for scale?
- One sec ima buy a few and see how many I can fit in there!
She thicc. Like seriously, I've seen tall machines but yours is also very wide.
Bender will pull up to the bumper baby., kiss that shiny assmobile.
That's cool! Looking at your current PC though you'd probably like my Voodoo case. From 2007 at least and it's a beast

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