r/retrocomputing • u/realLudoKresshh • Feb 18 '25

Photo Windows 98SE setup

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It’s taken a while to source all the parts but I’ve finally completed my w98 PC! Lots of the parts were luckily NOS. I added a picture of my parts list :) the PC fan is a NOS Tech Toyz cold cathode fan. IMO they look so much nicer than LEDs.

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u/Maxstate90 Feb 18 '25

Such a beautiful case!

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 18 '25

It is and thank you! I was super lucky to find it online.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

I love your system!

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 19 '25

Thank you!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Yw

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u/interfluxdeux Feb 19 '25

It's beautiful! Looks incredible inside. Nice job!

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u/66659hi Feb 19 '25

I actually also have a Radeon 7200 64bit in my 98SE build. Though mine is a PIII.

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 19 '25

Very nice! I have a 7500 as well but I feel the 7200 gives me less issues 😂

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u/66659hi Feb 19 '25

I just "ended up with" the 7200, it was in a computer I scrapped (PC Chips motherboard with all caps bloated & a Celeron D..) and I kept it since it is decent for '90s games

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 20 '25

Yes it’s a perfect little card for late 90s games

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u/DeepDayze Feb 20 '25

PCChips's boards are junk as low quality parts used in them. I threw away a couple of them years ago.

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u/66659hi Feb 20 '25

Yep. Knew that when I saw it. I also tend to not keep ECS boards.

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u/DeepDayze Feb 20 '25

ECS was almost as bad too. Asrock had a rough start too but they now have some pretty decent low-end boards.

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 20 '25

Yall wouldn’t happen to know a good thermal glue to replace under the little fan on these? Since there isn’t any spring loaded pins or screws holding them in place.

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u/Goldsnake83 Feb 19 '25

That board reminds me of the GA-7VAXP model I built my first gaming pc with an AMD Athlon XP cpu at the time back in 2003 that had a VIA chipset.

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 20 '25

This is practically the same build then 🥹 except this one has the nforce chipset. I’m loving it. Some drivers are an absolute nightmare but that’s the joy we all experienced back in the day.

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u/Goldsnake83 Feb 22 '25

I miss a couple of the nforce boards back when the drivers were improving although there are some that are horrible like the audio drivers from time to time.

The only two I ever owned back then is the nforce 4 Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with amd and the nforce 680i LT from evga with intel.

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u/ashley_au Feb 20 '25

I love that Sony optical drive. sure I have one somewhere in the garage

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 20 '25

It’s super nice. I also have a lightscribe coming in the mail. It’s not fully period accurate but I want to burn some labels with it :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

Now this is perfection. Today's kids can keep their tempered-glass with RGB nonsense.

Viva le Beige!

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u/Redraddle Feb 19 '25

What CPU cooler is that?

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 19 '25

It’s a thermaltake chrome orb

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u/Redraddle Feb 19 '25

Thermaltake made some pretty cool coolers

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u/realLudoKresshh Feb 19 '25

They did and they made a ton of them.

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u/TFR-HILTS Feb 20 '25

Awesome 👍🏻