LGR - Building a Socket 7 AMD K6 PC

I can't even remember how many times I cut myself on old cases.

SuperTekBoy

I upgraded my K2-233 system from 32 to 64MB back in the day and it certainly made a notable difference!

LGR

I wonder if the 32MB is a bottleneck for software rendering? I built a similar system in the 90's and remember being really disappointed by the fps in Quake (II, I think - it was certainly one of the Quakes). A friend told me to up the memory to 128MB which didn't make sense but I took his advice and the difference was night and day! It was a K6-2 333 but the gameplay in your video reminded me of it. In any case thanks for the great video as always, this one took me back.

Charles Wiltshire

That Mad About You pack-in title in that Best Buy Compaq listing is just dizzying in its blast-from-the-past impact.

John Covil

https://www.ebay.com/str/geekenspiel

LGR

Amazing. My first family computer was a Pentium 2 Packard Bell from Costco. Those wing speakers on the side of monitor. The gray wavy plastic on the bottom of the case. It came with KidDos and encarta 99. My favourite encarta version.

So nostalgic for me. The first PC I built from scratch was a K6-2 450. I love seeing this spec of PC as it was an era I missed between my family's ancient 486 DX2 66 and the K6-2 I built in 1998ish.

I like using the Dreamblaster S2. That's nice and tiny.

Eric Siegel

I forget the model, but I have a similar ASUS Socket 7 board. Mine is running a AMD K6 233. I also have the little USB board (which I found at Goodwill, just the USB board). I used to use a "normal" USB2 header connector and that worked fine. The USB works fine in Windows 98.

Eric Siegel

You really suck at Tomb Raider 2 don't you. Of course you're playing it while filming, lol

Alyxx the Rat

PC building. It's fantastic!

Deckard Games

Drinking some red vine at the cabin, watching LGR building a retro computer,,,Perfect :D I was hoping to see screamer 2 and screamer rally. My favorite 3dfx games :)

Uncleawesome

That was a relly fun game :) That and Monster truck madness 2

Uncleawesome

I need to build me a machine like this for Motocross Madness (the first one with the awesome ragdoll thing when you hit the edge of the map)

Zem Hysong

It could be something on my end, but theres a weird freeze in the video (not audio) at around 3:13, Reproduces on refresh and on a second computer.

Honorary Octopus

The 90s were only 10 years ago. right? RIGHT?!

Honorary Octopus

Do you have a link for the stickers? They look great and I need to replace a few.

Jared

Ah the memories of trying to get POD to work on a machine, fun times! Great game when you did though :)

Mark Elliott

"You don't need to see that Windows installation yet again" Clint, I think I speak for everyone when I say I'm pretty sure we'd be more than happy with a 10 hour video montage of you just installing Windows on different machines ;P

Mmmm, Socket 7. I recently build a "Super Socket 7" system myself. My board, a SiS530 based one, only has AGP "onboard", no actual AGP ports - but that's fine, really. AGP on SS7 can be very buggy anyway. I went with a K6-2 400MHz @100MHz FSB. 64MB PC100 SD-RAM SD2IDE A somewhat period correct 16x speed CD-ROM drive. Gotek floppy emulator. SB32 CT3670 with 2MB RAM S3 Virge 4MB Voodoo 1 4MB I disabled the onboard sound chip and "AGP". Machine runs fantastic, even runs Unreal at an acceptable framerate.

Martin Ravensholt

Seeing you building vintage PCs over the years makes me want to building one so so bad... If only vintage PC parts are easy to find here in Thailand...

Phakorn Sripayak

Great video - as always. PS: You should really consider a new table top - the scratches trigger my OCD (not diagnosed, but whatever ;-)).

Kim Voss Schrader

I was like "windows 95 doesn't support 32 gb, what is he talking about?" until I remembered that in these days you had incredible low limits for harddiskdrives. And it defiantly doesn't have 32GB ram.

Ezydenias

I remember one of the many odd gfx cards I got from the CompUSA came with Pod. :) Those were the days...

James Taylor

Dude! I had that same Canopus Pure3D card with the 166 MHz and 233 MHz Pentium chips. I played many of the same games at the time, with all of the various rendering engines. Great video!

Ryan Helinski

I am begging you to no longer refer to 1997 as "a quarter of a century ago" my old heart can't take such shock nowadays...

Tyler Kurth

I do love that uncommon Voodoo, but it does seem to counteract your goals here, unfortunately. BUT I'm even more excited to see what you have in store with early 3D acceleration!

Nathan (PixelPipes)

Nice, an old school AMD build!

nada

Oh wow, a Canopus Pure 3D. The very first accelerator card I ever used with my p166 non-MMX pentium. Hmm that early gloomy Quake 2 lighting

DOZENS!

Jeremy

Follow in my footsteps and build a rasteri weecee to save space! I'm almost done, just gotta replace the defective crystal chip! (SMT skills acquiring required). I'm dying to know if you'll collab/cover one eventually.

Nah he's got me beat! Especially on room to display stuff.

LGR

Do you think you've got more space now then Neil at the Mill?

Dave Velociraptor

Heh, I keep renting more space. I'm at around a thousand square feet now, stacked more or less floor to ceiling. I do at least try to get rid of some stuff before taking in new, larger items. But yeah, it's a constant 3D Tetris game

LGR

Hope you enjoy when you get to it, Justin!

LGR

So I'm aware you have a rented storage space and what not, but honestly with the amount of build videos you've got I've started to wonder just how big is it? I've been trying to get a laptop that is capable of running around the same games as this build and even that is a bit of an oof in terms of space for me

Hernando Heilbron

Heck yeah! Looking forward to watching this one.

It's mentioned during the assembly :) The case has it but there's no turbo header on this motherboard! It's from the era that was just a bit beyond where including turbo made sense.

LGR

The ultimate question is : does it has a Turbo button?

Frederic St-Georges