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Wanted to show off the PC here too!
It's an HP Kayak XM600 professional workstation, mfd 11/02/2000 for Verizon but never actually used. It sat NIB in storage for 22 years before I picked it up last December and set it up. It runs an Intel i820 "Camino" chipset, truly one of Intel's best (eclipsed only by the i840 IMO, but those are impossible to find these days), and the board has dual Slot 1 Processors in which I'm running a matched pair of 1ghz Pentium III's.
It runs a dual operating system with Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 Server, though I use it in Windows 98 for the majority of the time so the OS doesn't make use of the second processor, unfortunately, unless I boot it into Win2k. The Camino chipset can run 1gb of RDRAM but again because of the limitations of Windows 98 I don't usually take it beyond 512mb, though I have plenty of RDRAM to swap up with if I want to run something stupid in Win2k like A|W Maya (which I have no clue how to use yet LOL). The i840 chip can do 2gb on a dual channel board like a Tyan Thunder, and if you find the right arrangements of server boards, Win2k can theoretically operate up to like 32 cores and 64gb of ram if you run the Datacenter iteration of the OS and link everything together... but like, who the fuck is gonna do that! I'll admit though the thought of building a vintage server tower is VERY tempting... if time and money ever allowed lmao. Maybe it can be a render farm. Oof.
In other parts, I'm running the Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (SB0100) for audio, which is a truly killer sound card. Unfortunately these camino boards generally lack ISA so I couldn't put the SB 16 in there for that blessed genuine OPL3 FM midi sound... but whatever, the Live! gets close enough and I hardly ever play DOS games on it. It's mostly just for art. On graphics, it's an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500, which is technically a little anachronistic being from early 2004, but it's what I had in my closet when I was setting this up. Maybe I'll put something more period correct for Y2K into it eventually, but for now it's fine.
Software wise, been doing all my digital art lately here in Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 with the original Wacom Wacom Intuos (GS-0405-R, the little one, I kinda hate big tablets), and it's worked like a dream. Exactly the style I'd been hoping for!
The monitor matches but is nothing special really, I forget the model number but it has good balance/calibration when you run the Adobe utilities on it, and a reasonable refresh rate. I want to get a good trinitron tube monitor at some point, if I can find a nice one locally, but they're becoming scarcer by the day. Haven't even seen a grody one for sale in ages, much less one I'd actually want...
Overall I've put way too much time and effort into this thing lol.
It's an HP Kayak XM600 professional workstation, mfd 11/02/2000 for Verizon but never actually used. It sat NIB in storage for 22 years before I picked it up last December and set it up. It runs an Intel i820 "Camino" chipset, truly one of Intel's best (eclipsed only by the i840 IMO, but those are impossible to find these days), and the board has dual Slot 1 Processors in which I'm running a matched pair of 1ghz Pentium III's.
It runs a dual operating system with Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 Server, though I use it in Windows 98 for the majority of the time so the OS doesn't make use of the second processor, unfortunately, unless I boot it into Win2k. The Camino chipset can run 1gb of RDRAM but again because of the limitations of Windows 98 I don't usually take it beyond 512mb, though I have plenty of RDRAM to swap up with if I want to run something stupid in Win2k like A|W Maya (which I have no clue how to use yet LOL). The i840 chip can do 2gb on a dual channel board like a Tyan Thunder, and if you find the right arrangements of server boards, Win2k can theoretically operate up to like 32 cores and 64gb of ram if you run the Datacenter iteration of the OS and link everything together... but like, who the fuck is gonna do that! I'll admit though the thought of building a vintage server tower is VERY tempting... if time and money ever allowed lmao. Maybe it can be a render farm. Oof.
In other parts, I'm running the Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (SB0100) for audio, which is a truly killer sound card. Unfortunately these camino boards generally lack ISA so I couldn't put the SB 16 in there for that blessed genuine OPL3 FM midi sound... but whatever, the Live! gets close enough and I hardly ever play DOS games on it. It's mostly just for art. On graphics, it's an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500, which is technically a little anachronistic being from early 2004, but it's what I had in my closet when I was setting this up. Maybe I'll put something more period correct for Y2K into it eventually, but for now it's fine.
Software wise, been doing all my digital art lately here in Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 with the original Wacom Wacom Intuos (GS-0405-R, the little one, I kinda hate big tablets), and it's worked like a dream. Exactly the style I'd been hoping for!
The monitor matches but is nothing special really, I forget the model number but it has good balance/calibration when you run the Adobe utilities on it, and a reasonable refresh rate. I want to get a good trinitron tube monitor at some point, if I can find a nice one locally, but they're becoming scarcer by the day. Haven't even seen a grody one for sale in ages, much less one I'd actually want...
Overall I've put way too much time and effort into this thing lol.
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I just want to commend you for how mint the condition is, it looks brand new! I mean, I know you said it was in storage for 22 years, but even in storage, things tend to deteriorate badly if not stored properly, which happens more often than not.
In any case, a great little blast to the past! Reminds me of my childhood and playing with Paint on my cousin's PC. :)
In any case, a great little blast to the past! Reminds me of my childhood and playing with Paint on my cousin's PC. :)
Yeah it rolled a 100 on the conditions score! At least visually haha. The first i820 board it came with caught fire when it powered on, something bad happened to one of the chips in the intervening 22 years... but nothing a fresh, identical board wasn't able to fix LOL. Really only the monitor has any visible wear on it, and even there not much.
MS Paint will always be the best~
MS Paint will always be the best~
Nice little rig. I recommend you look up the Yamaha Pci cards (such as YMF724 or YMF744) for audio. Very good option, and has some of the best Soundblaster compatibility you'll find in a Pci card. It also had real Opl3 onboard and a ton of features. Not as good as isa, but really helps bridge the gap.
My personal rig has a K6-2+ 500Mhz with a SS7 motherboard with rare 1MB of cache on board. Have a Voodoo Banshee for video and dual sound cards; a SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS for 98 games and a Yamaha Audician 32 card with a Dreamblaster X2 for midi. It's in the final stages of configuration.
The nice thing is that it ought to do pretty well in 98, but I can lower the multiplier and disable on chip caches in software for good 386 and 486 game compatibility. Running the board at a 124Mhz FSB could hurt that compatibility, but the cpu is rock solid at that speed so I'll try it.
I love retro computing. Lol
My personal rig has a K6-2+ 500Mhz with a SS7 motherboard with rare 1MB of cache on board. Have a Voodoo Banshee for video and dual sound cards; a SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS for 98 games and a Yamaha Audician 32 card with a Dreamblaster X2 for midi. It's in the final stages of configuration.
The nice thing is that it ought to do pretty well in 98, but I can lower the multiplier and disable on chip caches in software for good 386 and 486 game compatibility. Running the board at a 124Mhz FSB could hurt that compatibility, but the cpu is rock solid at that speed so I'll try it.
I love retro computing. Lol
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