Building My Pentium III 1.4ghz Retro Gaming PC

Building a Retro Gaming PC to use for lots of future content.
Hope you enjoy!
--System Specs--
InWin IW-A500 ATX Tower
Pentium III-S 1400 Mhz
"Banana Digital" Socket 370 Motherboard
PNY Geforce 3
Sound Blaster Live 5.1 SB0100
Sound Blaster 32 (Awe 32 'value') CT3600 W/ 32MB
384 MB PC 133 SD-RAM
80 GB SEAGATE ST380020A PATA Hard Drive
Special thanks to DecoySportsGame & Liqmatrix for donating most of the main parts in this machine.
Music made by Jellosnacks

[@kiba3x]

Diablo 1 was my first PC game, my first RPG and the fist game I finished.

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

Respect for Diablo 1 game

[@RomDump]

In case anyone is wondering the board is a IMV694X-ISA and appears to be from Alibaba, (can be found on E-bay now). Liqmatrix made a post on Vogons about it.

[@demonprincess5634]

hell yeah make it the 90's again.

[@OzzFan1000]

You have to be the funniest person doing retro-videos. Absolutely entertaining to watch! 🙂

[@rhysholdaway]

Nice video. Probably my last discovery of 2022. Just picked up a dual CPU 1ghz P3 and Ti4600 card for my 2023 build.

[@AliasTekTV]

OH MY GODDDD THANK YOU! I had this computer case when I was a kid, with a dual pentium 3 setup on an ECS D6VAA. I actually still have it and recapped the board and was looking EVERYWHERE to figure out what case it was originally in. Sadly I had no idea it was an old school INWIN case. It was lost in moves past....

[@mikv8]

Man, I've been into retro building, collecting and benchmarking for several years. Got almost every cool piece of hardware I ever wanted. Like Pentium Pro, Slot 2, i840, FX 5800 Ultra and Quantum Obsidian X24 level stuff (no Voodoo 6000, but if I wanted it badly I could). Well, after playing around with all that cool stuff I to date own I have to say that I feel somewhat disappointed. At first when I was began collecting I was like you "bored of this new hardware and stupid games, let's check stuff from the time when grass was greener" but in the end I have to admit modern stuff is better in every shape or form. Check for example Red Dead Redemption 2. Half Life, Quake was how it all started but compared to RDR2 it's a joke. Now hardware-wise there's watercooling stuff, RGB that was never possible back in the day. And while I enjoy old HDD and floppy sounds it's really hard to ignore how silent modern computers have become. Nevertheless, I still from time to time play with my old hardware.

[@vbstein]

Dude your video is amazing I wish you made more.

[@choco_easty]

Your videos are interesting!! You should definitely post more!

[@cardboardsnail]

Sweet case

[@gtc436]

Indeed, wish I had more of them.. maybe mod one into a sleeper case

[@outtheredude]

Very nice Tualatin retro build! Thanks for the video! :-)

[@gtc436]

Thanks for watching bro

[@Schule04]

The slowdown issue was probably caused by the USB mouse and not the keyboard. I had the same thing happen to me on some machines.

[@lordpurchase9189]

You can build a 386 from a PC CHIPS M811 VER: 3.1 board. They have a setting in the BIOS to where you can limit the RAM and processor speeds plus turning off performance and CPU cache. You can pick these boards up for 20 to 30 bucks. There have been quite a few 386 videos of this board so people are starting to catch on and prices are rising on these boards. They can play Wing Commander also.

[@Alex4SiliconValley]

All you need for good dos gamer is a Pentium 133 thru 233mhz, 32mb ram and 2mb video, card sound blaster 16 or AWE64. Where can you find a case like this today ?

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

Cool build. I never had a Pemtium 3 nor 4, even I got given lots of retro pcs. But I have Athlon xp at 1.25 ghz. I guess can go further with it better cooling. Also I have some k6-2 going around. Never thought this games would run any other retro game suggestions?

[@sergeys1199]

nice CT 3600

[@at-cj2iy]

My close enough Pentium 3 is Original Xbox its also a P3 CPU i softmodded it for a larger HDD Cool video you made awesome built

[@3DfxAslinger]

The Tualatin 1400 is a very nice, fast, and exclusive Retro CPU for Windows 98/2000 Gaming, and should also run fine with 1.6 Ghz without VCore increasing (latest SL6BY/tB1, tB1 stepping). The older tA1 stepping need more VCore for this frequency. Voodoo² SLI 12MB would be a nice upgrade for this machine. The GeForce 3 is a very good partner for this CPU.

[@gtc436]

Indeed, my CPU is the SL5XL and as you say, doesn't take more than 140mhz FSB on stock voltage. Voodoo would be nice, don't have any in my collection and prices are a bit high now though :P

[@nopeTitan]

He deserves more subs 😭😭

[@GAMMAXII]

My 98 rig is pretty similar to this, main difference is I got a P3C-E and a Voodoo5. Real nice video btw.

[@kaneCVR]

Same here. 1.4 GHz Tualatin, Abit ST6, 512GB of ram, Asus GF4 Ti 4600, CT6670 Voodoo 2 and a Yamaha DX-XG sound card.

[@andrefixa]

@@kaneCVR 512gb?

[@kaneCVR]

@@andrefixa my bad. Meant to write MB

[@andrefixa]

@@kaneCVR No problem

[@exxor9108]

Definitely use that 250GB hard drive for WIndows XP. That 80GB drive for Windows 98 is perfect.

[@heinritske8256]

Had two (paired) of the newer stepping on a tyan tiger 230t with 1,5gb ram and an agp 6200... Yes it did run far cry and was a server for a long time untill i gave ut away for free... Just a little regret there 😅 that combo is worth crazy money these days

[@TheEscape2012]

I need that motherboard!! Do you have any more information were these are made?

[@jamesross3939]

Built many PC in that era. I have a P-MMX 133 MHz and a P-4 2.x GHz but not a P-3. I need one.

[@plainsabertooth7828]

Nice build.

[@gtc436]

Thanks very much!

[@plainsabertooth7828]

@@gtc436 your welcome, I have a dual pentium 3 setup I'm going to use for modern day task.:)

[@gtc436]

@@plainsabertooth7828 Modern day? What OS do you have on there? Something like that would be a pretty funny video, making a youtube video on a 20 year old pc

[@plainsabertooth7828]

@@gtc436 debian testing lxde

[@gtc436]

@@plainsabertooth7828 how does it run? I was thinking If I can bump the PC from the video up to 1 - 1.5GB I may get away with running Lubuntu on it

[@mikv8]

BTW, the 1.4 Tualatin isn't the fastest Pentium III. Or at least not in every benchmark out there.

[@ezrafreemantle1824]

3 Years later i just bought the same motherboard and cpu doing a very similar build. I have found it to be a bit picky on graphics cards though. Must be a AGP pro slot

[@Paar86]

FIY, the hole in Doom 2 is intentional so sound can travel to the hidden closet with Imps in it. Maybe you know already.

[@aso8446]

Look at the size of those pci expansion card their massive

[@davidcreigh7718]

I love this! Thanks for sharing. I really wish I had a case like that. Finding old cases like that in good condition is getting harder over time. A PIII just doesn't feel right in a modern case! I also noticed some lower quality capacitors on your motherboard that have probably silently failed or are close. The brown/white and blue/gold ones are OST and are known to fail. Please let me know if you are interested in replacing them and I would love to help. Hate to see nice old boards like that fail due to caps.

[@Marfprojects]

My first computer had this exact case. Sadly i dont have it anymore. as it has been many years ago, it was a Pentium 2 400. 256 MB of ram. at the time i got a 160 GB harddrive, and i thought i never will fill that ever. now we have terrabytes of disks. great time :P

[@warrax111]

nice story dude. It's funny, how people used to remember their cases, even from 20 years ago. It's funny to read comments, like everyone mention it in comments. But even more funny are the ones, that remember case from 1995 486 computer, and so, that means 26 years into the past. Not sure, why I find it funny, but it always put smile on my face. Would probably didn't recognize my 486 case from 1996-1999 thought (in 1998-1999 used to Pentium 1, but in same case)

[@Marfprojects]

@@warrax111 I had that computer until 2007. At that time it was pretty painful. It barely ran windows xp.

[@andrefixa]

Hi mann, do you know where i can find Diablo II for free? I need it for my P4 RetroPc

[@plainsabertooth7828]

Btw where can I get those motherboards?:)

[@plainsabertooth7828]

@liqmatrix thanks x3

[@halilibrahimnetcon2071]

Via chipset had a bad setback issue . Whatever you do (latest driver , or change the gpu) it was running the gpu in agp2x mode . The chipset was faulty . So the motherboard you are using should have the same issue . The best chipset for tualatin cpus was the intels I815E chipset .

[@petrapackova2424]

The chipset is not faulty. It's Nvidia's drivers that force this because early 694X revisions had compatibility problems in 4x mode. CE steppings should be problem free.

[@SaudAhmedShaikh]

Cool! Can it run grand theft auto 3?

[@MidnightGeek99]

Yes, I've run GTA San Andreas on this 1.4 GHz CPU, with a Radeon 9600XT, and it runs great! Also, I've used a GeForce4 Ti 4200 and an Athlon at 1000 MHz, and again, it runs great.

[@soylentgreenb]

A later driver is going to have poorer CPU performance, not better. Thid is especially true for old games based on quake and half-life engines which use immediate mode rendering; one draw call per polygon for level geometry. This is not just slow but tends to be jittery. Later games likely work better with less bugs on newer drivers. There was also some cheating and controversies back in the day e.g. ”Brilinear” optimizations. This means a driver can perform faster also because it is reducing quality.

[@psychoticgiraffe]

what game is on screen at end

[@gtc436]

indeed it is Morrowind

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

0:22 - What game is that?

[@hasitvlogs6909]

I want help to build one dr

[@cppctek]

Can you show it plau unreal tournament and unreal tournament 2003

[@gtc436]

working on a video about robin hood: conquests of the longbow now. Hopefully after that I can do a video where it runs some benchmarks and include those games. Trying to get a copy of XP to go on it, that may help with UT2k3

[@plainsabertooth7828]

Did you sell that case?

[@gtc436]

no way!!

[@plainsabertooth7828]

@@gtc436 oh, I just got the same case from the theft store for 15 dollars it came with a pentium 2 233mhz no power supply though.

[@plainsabertooth7828]

@@gtc436 I was just asking btw.

[@gtc436]

@@plainsabertooth7828 No worries!! I'm hanging on to that case though, it's my favorite!

[@plainsabertooth7828]

@@gtc436 I'm gonna see if I can get mine cnc cut. I want to put a window and put 2 120mm led fans on it.

[@christhompson6010]

Lol.. could have given him my Dell I bought in 2001 for 2grand.

[@djpirtu2]

I'm using Geforce FX5900XT in my P3-S 1,575GHz system (150FSB), it can run even Flatout2 and Doom3 without problems. Other specs are: Asus P3B-F, Aureal Vortex 2, Audigy 2, Orpheus 2, Voodoo 2, 512MB RAM, 120GB HDD. Dual boots Win98SE and WinXP. 3DMark01SE gives 10800 points. That kind of score is just impossible to get with VIA 694T board, I have tried.

[@MiniBDog]

Wish I knew about computers but I'm just a dog🐺

[@gtc436]

My dogs are legitimate hackers now. You can do it too!

[@MiniBDog]

@@gtc436 lmao

[@yourname1245]

i have played pubg with this guy, hes out of control. yells "hot taters" when he throws a grenade and hes always blaming his bad sprays on keybinds. not sure how well he handles older games