At least you're living up to your name, that is some real cursed silicon right there.

The biggest problem I have with "market used prices" is that if I wanted such prices, I'd just search for the same product on ebay and not have to leave my house. Heavy/bulky items can be found for good prices though, from what relatives have told me who still go there occasionally. I was at RE PC plenty in the 90s when I lived in the area as a kid, and while I didn't know as much about all the peripherals at the time, I imagine there were a lot of deals to be had. I assume the Wang 80286 I was given was from REPC in 1995, and likely the follow-up 80386 in 1996, if not the 80486 too in 1997 before I jumped up to be more "with the times" in 1998. I think the first thing I ever purchased from RE PC in 1994 was a CD with tons of shareware on it, with Doom (1) being the main cover art, to play on my father's 486. I still have that working CD and jewel case 30 years later!

What if I were to leave a comment for no other reason than to poke the algorithm to spread this around more? I think that's what I'll do heheheh.

I go to RePC quite often, I have found some great stuff, like a 9800 XT for 5 dollars. Also the people in the that location are really nice

Hey Gene!

The OG Xbox One makes a fantastic media device for things like Plex, youtube, twitch, and if you're willing to fork out for it, they are *great* for xbox cloud gaming -- if you have enough bandwidth for it to not chug too hard.

Sponsored by Destiny by Slagsmålsklubben as background music, respect! I thought it was my Spotify playing in the background at first haha

was looking at the best possible windows 98 PC that saw this, (I want to do this myself) + furry = subscribe lol

I've never really been into retro hardware, but your videos are super interesting lol!

I'm drooling over the selection of both old and new components and the network equipment, it's probably a good thing I'm on a different continent so I can't throw all my monry at it, haha! Also, I hope it's not weird to say, but you've got such a nice narration voice!

I'd love to explore the place myself! Shame I'm nowhere nearby. BTW the movement and slight choppiness was a little nauseating, although I'm aware not everyone will be affected by it. The slight choppiness should be fixed if you can lock your shutter speed to 1/120 for 60fps... it looks like the camera is using too fast a shutter speed.

Critical infrastructure hardware ✅ Furry ✅ Subscribed ✅ :D

Interesting

This brings back memories - I used to setup AS5350s for healthcare systems. And I certainly had a ThinkPad A22 about the same time.

What are you planning for the phone backbone? Surely you don’t have a full CO switching system squirreled away in the back room. Do you?

i thought i saw a nes in the thumbnail when it said $3 switch from Goodwill i know im dumb

excited for the next video! totally agree that there is so much underlying knowledge to cover, looking forward to seeing the whole setup!

looks like you're off to a good start!

was the G5 ppc workstation meant to be for compiling software for the WiiU by any chance as the WiiU uses the same architecturer? retrofitting the G5 with a modern AIO watercooling solution would likely be quite easy. and if you didnt want to go with liquid at all (because water and pooter bad) you could shove a noctua thing in there. i have done some looking and the NH-U9 TR4-SP3 should fit as it is 92mm wide and they should be powerful enough to keep those beasts under control, and quiet!

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I was here

great thumbnail

Impressive work, a lot of researchs to build an actual great 98PC, well done.

19:44 Ned Luke?

This video 'KILZ' me.

Excellent video. I built my Ultimate Windows 98SE PC with all drivers working(no yellow icons) including network and USB. Hardware is an Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA with a Core Duo Wolfdale E7600, with a very slight OC taking it to 3.1ghz. The video card is an Nvidia 7900gtx, hooked up to a 30" NEC 2560x1600 LCD. The sound is an Audigy Live! card, with both Windows and MS-Dos working. I have both a conventional HDD and removable SD(SD flash), so I can dual boot, the SD card has a custom 3 1/2 front plate, with just a slit for the card to pop it out. It also have a DVD burner, 3 1/2 and a DS/DD 5 1/4 floppy for making DD disk for other retro machines I have. It works perfectly and runs all games I tried, and all benchmarks too that run on Win98SE. The only quirk I have experienced, is it will not do a soft reboot, you have to shutdown and restart, but that is no biggie. This rig is insanely fast. It has the same software upgrade you did to make it more compatible, though have not tried your tool you made yet. To get the 7900gtx driver I took the latest drivers available , joined them together and updated the ID list. I tried getting the 8800gtx to work, but at the time back in 2017 or so there were no good VxD drivers I could tweak to get it to work. Also, one trick that worked well for me, was installing the Windows 98 on a normal machine, creating an image, and then move drive to the ultimate pc. That seemed to cause less errors than installing Windows 98 from scratch.

You focused a lot on the gpus and not on the mobo in my opinion, by the looks of it i would choose a different mobo or platform all together. Never checked the athlon 64 x2 on windows 98 so i don't know how compatible-stable it is on win98.

Why won't age of empires 1 work?

There's plenty of KZbinrs you fix faulty electronics incouding GPU's. It would be great if you could get one of them to try and fix the 7 broken x850's and video it.

Not at all controversial. I like to fidget with my computer instead of getting real work done, and that's why I use Linux.

Ah Hello there

6:01 That sounds like a crap choice of motherboard. Try Asrock.

A like just for the commitment with the Gpus 😊

What a coincidence, I'm watching this during another heatwave.

I'm on this exact journey right now and just stumbled onto this channel while trying to figure out what the hell I am doing. (Currently picking out parts for the build). I also decided to go with a VIA chipset because it seems to have the best 98 compatibility well after 98 was put to rest in favor of XP. I was looking at Socket 939 boards though as I also decided to go the AMD route. AnandTech had some good benchmark data for boards still equipped with AGP of that era (2004ish). However Abit and Asus both have PCI-E models that are basically just incremented VIA chipsets that support PCI-E on what is more than less the same board... But I'm not finding those listed on ebay. I am finding the Asus M2V you've shown here though. So now I'm just kind of scratching my chin and deciding where to go. You're project goals are largely the same as mine. Stupid fast 98 on fully supported hardware. I hadn't even considered Socket AM2. Really interesting. I would like to keep some DOS compatibility though. Of course DOS doesn't need this kind of hardware, but neither does 98 at the end of the day. For me DOS is kind of part of the 98 experience. So... I'm starting to drift back towards the idea of using GeForce FX or older GPUs. Asrock does make a Socket 939 board with a ULi chipset that actually supports both PCI-E and AGP... I don't know man. It's a rabbit hole. LOL. Anyway, thanks for the video. It's literally the only one I have come across with the same ideas I had in my head so this was super helpful, and congrats on a build well done!

How do you put this on a original xbox. New to emulation and want this bad

TOO PHOOKEN BLURRY

man you have to be the only person i've seen test pso:bb. You earned a like!

I have dedicated weeks to figuring out problems on my linux, only for me to come out the other side as a more capable user, and never having to worry about those problems ever again

SSDs offer no speed boost whatsoever. Just excessive wear and no trim

Consulting the greybeards is not always the best solution for these sorts of things. They will all tell you that things like SATA can never work. You can't have AC97 audio. You can't have PCIe. You can't use USB drives you can't have fast USB. You can't use large hard drives. You can't have more than 256MB of ram. Yatta yatta on and on but if you are willing to put in the legwork researching drivers you can often find edge cases where you can get these things working. Getting all of them working on the same board is going to be a challenge of finding the right board tho.

33:18 Not only is it 25fps, but instead of the frame times being 40ms, it alternates between 33ms and 47ms every frame for some fucking reason. Fun fact: that extra 14ms on every other frame also applies when you turn off the frame limiter, so it's impossible to get more than 142fps(or 200fps on the steam/rgl versions). Just thought I'd mention this.

A smart person realizes that for games from the Windows 98 era you need older drivers. I went with an Nvidia Geforce FX5700 (256mb), DirectX 9.0a, Detonator driver version 56.64, and Nglide version 1.05. I run 2gb of PC3200, 400mhz Kingston memory, with the ram limitation patch found online.This combo allows me to play all my Windows 98 games, all 82 of them in Direct 3D, Open GL, or 3dfx glide. For sound I have a Sound Blaster Audigy pushing sound to my Bose speakers.

Fastest Windows 98 PC but at what cost

Based

Never give up 💪👍

what are the controls?

I'm currently in the process of getting the parts for mine. The only differences are that the board I'm using is the M2V-MX SE (since I'm building it inside a Compaq Presario 5000US microATX case) and that the GPU is a 512 MB 7950 GT (since the only 512 MB 7800 GTX I could find on eBay costs $300). Since the M2V-MX SE has a slightly different chipset, will it have the same issues as the regular M2V?

The term "Ultimate" is very subjective. In terms of compatibility versus performance or stability there are always trade offs. Pick too new parts and lose compatibility. Pick too old of parts and lose performance. Pick crappy chipsets and lose stability. After messing around with many different configurations with windows 98se, I have found that a 3+ ghz P4 with 2x256mb ddr400 in dual channel on a intel 865 chipset with a nvidia gpu no newer then a FX series card seems to be the sweet spot. The 865 chipset offers SATA that works in IDE mode and has all the drivers for win98se, the 3ghz p4 has plenty of grunt to push the FX series cards, supports AGP 8x. The intel 865 chipset is rock solid in 98se. For sound I normally stick with Audigy. I don't try to play XP era games on my 98 machines. Oh and as for graphics drivers under win98, Early Nvidia drivers offer better performance while ATi drivers got faster with later versions. That's why many older games run faster on a Geforce2 then a later card like a fx 5200.