Exploring my Custom Pentium 200 MMX System and a Minor Repair! 

Nice retro system. In Quake 2 you can select 1024x768 or 1280x1024, it will have the same frame rate as in 640x480 because the Voodoo 3 3000 is totally bottleneked by the P200 MMX.

With this system most 3D games from 1996-1999 will work very well.

Don’t remember 5 1/4 drives being widely used on high end systems in 1997. My mid range computer came only with a standard floppy in 1996. Cool build and trip down memory lane though

I would move the Voodoo card up a slot, and install a PCI slot exhaust fan below the card to draw hot air away from the card, and exhaust it out the back, that is what I did.

I have the exact same Voodoo 3 3000 PCI GPU and they were notorious for running hot and burning out! I actually mounted a small cooling fan on it many years ago after learning about this. The first one I had bought from CompUSA only lasted about 2 weeks before it burned out and they replaced it for me. That is when I decided to mount the fan on the new ones heat sink. Simple and quite effective as I used it for a long time before upgrading to a system with an AGP graphics slot and a faster card with more built in memory. Maybe think about mounting a small fan with at least two screws on yours to extend its life as they are now considered expensive collectable retro items as you probably already know. Very nice video and really cool and sleek looking case by the way! It was also brave of you to do a BIOS flash on the system as I, myself, am very reluctant to do so after I bricked one of my favorite retro systems years ago by attempting to update its BIOS. It is still often VERY tempting to do so once in a while just to see what benefits you get. 👍👍 I watch Shelby at TechTangents as well by the way and man does he own a LOT of retro software! I thought I had a lot, but his collection is just MASSIVE and makes mine seem "teeny weeny!!!" 😵

Monster truck madness 2 is one of my go to games, among many lol...came back to watch this again, I have one of those Creative infra drives. Now I know why mine does not work...was connecting it to the standard IDE header on the board lol

I had the same CPU. I was excited to move the jumper and get it to clock at 233mhz. Had a Voodoo 2 in it. Those were amazing times!

I wanted one of those Creative CD-ROM's with the little remotes back in the day.

I had my 5 1/4" between the two opticals, to help with their heat dissipation, as the 5 1/4" is somewhat open as well as being a hefty cast aluminium chassis. This was my notorious "7 bays in a desktop" setup, not sure if I still have that lurking somewhere... Front right, the 3x 5 1'4" stack, to the left a 2x vertical 3 1/2" carrying floppy and Iomega Ditto tape (had to saw part of the case metal as the tape drive had out of form factor bumps in the top plate), and then 2x HDD in the PSU side bay hanger (drives staggered with one in a more forward position to aid cooling). If I recall, it was also a P200MMX, with a viciously hot linear regulator aided by a front fan wafting toward it. Slots were also STUFFED, with an ISA 56k modem, sound card (SB16, what else?), Ditto dash controller for the tape and additional LPT dedicated to parallel port scanner. Maybe I'll dig out the beast if I do still have it somewhere

I wish I could remember exactly what motherboard and other configuration I had on my old Pentium 233MMX system. I only remember that I had upgraded from a Cyrix 150Mhz "PR200" CPU back when everything was compared to Pentium CPUs with a PR rating :)

Great video! Just discovered your channel and I'm really enjoying your work so far, looking forward to seeing more

A very capable 200Mhz MMX machine! Even has the right sound card for Duke Nukem 3D, so I reckon anyway 👍

From the position of the thermal paste, I think you had the copper heatsink installed backwards. The relief cut for the ZIF mechanism was towards the cpu power circuitry. Hope you could replace the fan, those copper coolers are nice.

Your Pentium 200 MMX is very nice, I really liked the case and the stickers. 👑

Awesome video. Always wanted a voodoo card at the time. I Kept the amd route due to it being cheaper for the GPU for awhile. Related to this pc, I was rocking a 133mhz, 96 mb of ram, 40gb hd, creative lab cdrom, plextor cdrw ,don't remember GPU one of those rage amd ones or so. Had soo much fun with doom, quake, 1, 2, unreal tournament,half life, counter strike and many more. Thanks

A voodoo Banshee would fit better here.

Fun video but one thing confuses me as I have a pair of those creative speakers, but you seem to have them in reverse stereo mode. My speakers are set up with the unit with the controls on the right. Is your sound card a mono only?

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Nice build...a small piece of advise : watch your in tower temperature as I see that cooling isn't that well taken care off. How does the hot are leave the cage...only by the power supply fan (?)....watch out for HD crashed!

Nice

quake 2 on keyboard, so sadistic, and for all my life i didnt know, that you play quake 2 from dos command prompt 🤣🤣🤣

Interesting system, like!

Holy optical media! 🤣🤣

I have that issue with my banshee card and duke3d colors look kinda washed out

Hi pal, nice content! Wondering if any custom PCBs are required for any upcoming work? If so, would love to sponsor freely, and if possible, will be nice to achieve any cooperation together. 🤗(PCBWay zoey)

Try Windows 7