The 1997 Gaming PC Experience but without any 3dfx Voodoo parts 

Nice to see retro stuff around this time that does not need a 3dfx Voodoo.

I remember the salesman at pcworld in 1994, "4 meg of ram is good, 8 meg is a luxery"

​@@Mortalfarmerfor the price it maybe was 😅

a expensive and fast computer in 1997 was a 233mhz, 64mb ram, 8gb hard drive, voodoo rush video card.

They still say this dude. That's why i got angry and got the 13900k instead of 13700k 😂 some things never change.

I was told when buying a 2GB HDD it'd be like trying to fill a warehouse with match sticks.

It still is!

ironicaly, not single person had voodoo1 in my surroundings. It was overpriced, and many people didnt have computer at all, just was sparing for first one (usually Pentium 166 MMX, or K6-166). We had still DX2/66 during wholer 1997, 90% of my middle class friends, didnt have computer at all. Those who bought something new in 1997, usually had only some S3 Virge or Rage II inside. Never good 3d accelerator. So this is how in reality most of people played games in 1997... not like that 1% of enthusiasts, that put lots of money into it. The Pentium 166MMX-233MMX + voodoo1 build is out of the reality. It wasn't human-like computer. It was GOD-like computer, along with Pentium II 233-266. Only maniacs had it at home, or rich people, spoiled kids of rich businessemen. It's pity, that 90% content of retor computer, doing these maniacs. That's why everyone always build only Pentium 233 + Voodoo1 , in 90% cases. Only those maniacs, those 5% of population, remained maniacal about this hobby, and doing all retro stuff. Which isn't suprising. Normal people usually dont care about this hobby.

also, about overclocking. Not single person, in my surroundings, know about overclocking in 1997. It was only for biggest PC nerds and maniacs. It wasnt supported even by computer sellers, computer manufacturers, they always trying get rid of it. The people had fear from it, and there wasn't almost information (in 1997, still most of people didnt have internet, so computer pages as tomshardware, wasn't option). But even he started about overclocking in article in late 1996. So in 1997, 99,9% people don't know, or don't want to heard about overclocking. That's it. Overclocked machine, marked as "1997 build", is completly out of reality and historical correctness. I remember, the term overclocking I've heard first time in my life, in late 1998, when Celeron 300A was thing. But I didnt care about it, I only heard it like 2 or 3 times. I didnt have good feeling from it, so I never asked more about it, or trying to find out. (which was pity, now I know). Just saying, how it was in 1997.

Perfect for all build engine games. Blood , Duke, shadow warrior, heretic, etc. Boot into dos ;D

I still have a p133. It was a p100 but i swapped the cpu many years later. I never had a 3dfx either.

@@oldschooldude8370 Of course, I played all of them and also a lot of quake to this day.😄

@@blackterminal Cool, mine had OC and it was the only PC I did that to. A few months ago I threw away several P2, P3 and a P4 even a pentium 120 with a beautiful retro box, I had to get rid of them because I was running out of room unfortunately.😭

Also Virge S3 user from that time here, what a time it was. To bad I had to sell my first rig because otherwise I could not afford my next upgrade. Now having RTX 4090 I like to make a thought experiments on how many orders of magnitude there is a difference between the two, if one can only compare them in at least one discipline .

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Depends where in the world you lived.

same :(

I still have my 1997 PC with a Maxi Tower. Room for 5 DVD drives.

Having 1 video card certainly simplifies the setup, not having to bother with as many resource conflicts, not to mention the video quality benefits. I love the ESS Audiodrive too! Great card, I use one in my Pentium 3 build. Super good compatibility and great sound quality. I just so happened to have this SB16 sitting in my cupboard as I've never even used it since I got it. So it was a good opportunity for me and something a lot of people and OEMs would have picked back in 97.

@Agamaz5650, just like now :(

yeah you get drss on default xd@@eichi24

Its not insane, it is normal, what is insane is how badly games are optimized these days.

Now games run like shit on beast hardware XD

@@BuXnAMaN Dude. Exactly

Interstate 76 have always been a challenge, back then and even now in the retro-game era.

Yes, especially technology has accelerated quickly.

Ah, the times when you had to delete a game to play another game. My first pc was 166mmx with 16mb of ram, and, i think, 1 GB hdd. The space was a struggle.

I had the same issue, my Opti USB card is supported starting from Win98. I have an Aladdin onboard USB though which is supported by W95, but I did not have a header and back panel to actually test it apart from installing the drivers...

Windows 95b or 95c I believe has USB support

@@HDbacon That's not enough alone. You also need drivers for the USB host chip.

Yeah, I've been following the retro pc community on youtube for quite a while now and the landscape is definitely saturated by voodoo builds and detailing how magical they are. 😂 I do also have a soft spot for how some games look in software renderer mode. Don't get me wrong, the Voodoo 1 was an impressive card for the time, especially when paired with a lower end machine, and there are some DOS games to this day that can only be enjoyed in their full glory on one of them. But I do think the cult following they have is a bit over the top. Not to mention, that later cards were easily outdone by the competition. I do plan on doing a more in-depth video taking a look at the phenomenon and good alternatives.

I also went with the TNT. No agp slot in my motherboard

@@jimjones3482 Yeah, PCI :D