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| Thread ID: 110196 | 2010-06-07 05:19:00 | digital venturis 466 Project Thread | icow (15313) | PC World Chat |
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| 1107629 | 2010-06-07 05:19:00 | Continuing on from the 30 pin RAM thread. I decided to share my project with you all. Anyway yesterday I received the pc and to day I upgraded the CD-ROM to A DVD-ROM. AOE 1 is installing now. Here are the specs as the pc is as of now: CPU: 66mhz (or higher ie unconfirmed) AMD processor RAM: 16mb (2x 8mb 30 PIN) HD: 502mb Screen: Original Digital CRT Does anyone think blue neons in the case would be a nice touch? I also found I could buy 16mb sticks from here (www.memoryx.net) My Shopping List: USB PCI Card Ethernet PCI Card Video Card (If possible Sound Card (direct-x 5 or up) AOE 2 New CPU? Case Fan To Do List: Install 40gb HD What other things could I add? Any suggestions? |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1107630 | 2010-06-07 05:28:00 | AoE2 realistically needs a 166Mhz+ Pentium to be happy. It can play on less but it lags frequently (In my experience back in the day). RAM will be the other issue, so getting 32MB+ will definitely help :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1107631 | 2010-06-07 05:30:00 | A Voodoo card, maybe? | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1107632 | 2010-06-07 05:52:00 | The BIOS will limit what you can do, eg maybe only 504MB, or 8GB will be recognised. I have 6 or 7 Intel 486DX100 cpus, and maybe some AMD, you could have, will have a look. Got rid of all my old stuff, including a heap (about 12) of IBM XTs some years ago :) Video card will be a problem and getting drivers, also ISA cards are rare now. I also threw away box loads of old motherboard manuals from 386/486 days too:crying, but you really need to get hold of a manual if at all possible, so that you know what cpu and memory options are open to you. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1107633 | 2010-06-07 09:27:00 | A Voodoo card, maybe? Doesn't look like there is any AGP or PCI-E slots, so I'm looking at ISA which are hard to find. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1107634 | 2010-06-07 09:59:00 | No PCI? (PCI-E is different) | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1107635 | 2010-06-07 10:13:00 | No PCI? (PCI-E is different) You can get graphics cards that go in PCI? I thought it was AGP,PCI-E or ISA. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1107636 | 2010-06-07 10:15:00 | A bit of Google says that this machine takes 72 pin fast page ram, not 30 pin. Has at least one PCI slot that has a S3 Trio 1MB video card, and one other slot which would be ISA or PCI. www.memorystock.com www.easyhelpguide.com www.buycomputermemory.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1107637 | 2010-06-07 10:28:00 | You can get graphics cards that go in PCI? I thought it was AGP,PCI-E or ISA. Yes you can I have an AMD K6 550 With a PCI S3 savage connected to it is a VooDoo2 PCI 3d card this gives about 15 MB total video RAM and 3D 800x600. en.wikipedia.org |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1107638 | 2010-06-07 10:50:00 | In fact you can get new ones, this is an FX5500 with 256 MB vram www.trademe.co.nz |
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