i guess (shrugs), Mainstream support for Windows 98 and 98 SE ended on June 30, 2002. Extended support ended on July 11, 2006. and Mozilla Firefox 2 last update was December 18, 2008. so... your mileage may vary.
My PC in 1999 - Windows 98 SE, Celeron 466MHz, 128 MB RAM, TNT2 Ultra, Voodoo1 6MB (scavenged from previous PC for the Glide games), SoundBlaster Live, 8-9GB (IIRC) HDD, those very same Cambridge Soundworks 4.1 Surround Sound Speakers here (I'd won both the sound card and the speakers in an internet sweepstakes!), and the Sidewinder Gamepad. I don't recall what my joystick was at the time. Regular floppy drive, a DVD drive (don't remember the speed), no zip drive. I'd eventually added 256 MB more RAM and upgraded the CPU to a Penium 3 800MHz, and ... kept using it as my gaming PC through 2007. IIRC I was using a 15" Trinitron CRT for most of its life, with a 17" for last few years. But why would you play 4:3 games stretched to widescreen??
Nice rig. I totally support the idea of building a system based on old magazine articles. It makes them feel a bit more tied into the era so to speak. And good choice of speakers. I have a set of those myself, and they sound good to this day.
Please restart after every driver. I once made the same mistake and broke VIA chipset drivers, had to write them to a CD so Windows could find appropriate files.
Apple-style (colored transparent plastic) cases are the fucking best. Imagine making a 98 machine with mid-2000s components and a refresh rate NONEXISTENT during the operating system's entire lifespan...
Nice build, i had a pentium III 800Mhz with a voodoo banshee and a riva tnt 2 too after some months it work very nicely, and i had at the time the cambridge soundwork 5.1 with a sb live card, old good time :D
i had at first a voodoo banshee, than i switch to a riva tnt 2 :) in the same rig. i can't have all two card togheter obviously :P( sorry but my english isn't very good) @@kinkykane0607
I remember getting a TNT2 Ultra in 1999 and 2 weeks later the GeForce 256 came out. Luckily my local store let me refund my TN2 Ultra and pay $20 or so more and get the GeForce lol. Had those same speakers. The sats are great...the sub is too weak and if you turn it up its just awful. Tachyon the Fringe is one of the best space games ever. Had an SB Live! at the time too. used it a long while.
This is pretty close to what I was rocking circa 99/2000. It was my third PC and the first I'd built from components. Abit BH6 Coppermine P3-650 Voodoo2 SLI I had that specific Pioneer slot loading DVD drive. And an SB Live. Also a Sigma Designs Realmagic Hollywood+ DVD decoder card. No free PCI slots I even had the Cambridge speakers, although mine were the 4.1 version.
Man hard to think back then 256mb of ram seemed like a lot when currently I have a pc running 64gb of ram. Always throws me off to think the amounts that are petty now, were amazing back in the day. I think I remember maxing out my hp pavilion back in the day and thought I had a lot lol.
So.. not only is that poor M64 video card technically not even a TNT2.... but it's also missing it's heatsink!... and on top of that, you completely blocked all of it's airflow with the plastic back of the blower... But at the same time, you care very much about.......HDD cooling?!!?!!?!! **facepalm**
@@jamesjan Wrong, that's the absolute garbage TNT2 "Vanta" m64 card clocked at only 80mhz core and 100mhz memory. It's absolute garbage. A voodoo 3 is twice as fast.
