Photos of your Retro Gaming PC Build (1995-2005)

[MonsterMawd]

Hey guys, I've started a Retro PC build series* on my YT, here's ep 1 "Mod like it's 1999"

I'm planning 2 -3 more videos and asking for photos of your Gaming PC builds from 1995 - 2005. (for photo montage at end of video)**

I will include at least one of your photos posted here and credit your OC screen name in the video.*

Photos can be taken today, but All hardware must be from 1995 - 2005 era, including the case.

 

[Maviryk]

Unfortunately, all my images were uploaded via Imageshack and Photobucket, and have been purged from the internet.

 

[MonsterMawd]

Sorry to hear that!

 

[godevskii]

Hey, saw your videos and they brought back old memories...
Here's a friend pc, from that era, that i modded 4 years ago, the pc came to replace a psu and mb that had bios corrupted.

It had an Abit KN8 replaced by Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe,
AMD Athlon 64 socket 939 can't remember exactly but i think its was a 3000+,
Nvidia 7600 GT,
2x512mb ram i think,
It had an old generic psu replaced by the Corsair VX450W,
And the case i believe was a Cooler Master i had to make a couple of holes to do the cable management.

It turn out good, i also have some images from my old P3 if i can find them i will post them.

Keep up!

 

[godevskii]

Found some images from my P4 frankenstein, it was a full atx pc in a very small custom build case, the 1st psu got broken when i was cutting the pcb trying to make it smaller, but i cutted too much, and because i had some connectors hot glued and the hdd was riveted on top of the 20 pin instead of taking it all apart i just rigged the wires onto another psu.

P4 1.5ghz
256 mb ram
hdd seagate 20gb
gpu riva tnt2, sadly died out of nothing, got swapped for the ati 9200 got images with both cards...

 

[ihrsetrdr]

Photos of your Retro Gaming PC Build (1995-2005)

I don't have access to my file server atm, but I've got pics of "modding like it's 1999".

 

[DaveB]

Here's a photo montage of dual socket computers I built in that era. All were for general purpose use, including gaming. I have single-socket builds from that era also, but need to find the old photos. I used a variety of ATI and nVidia GPUs and have photos of quite a few of them somewhere.

 

[DaveB]

As for single sockets …………….

Here's my 2003 Socket 754 Athlon 64 rig based on an Albatron motherboard. Ended up selling it to a graduate student at Cal Tech who needed a computer to run 64-bit Linux. I believe it was an Athlon 64 3200+ running on an Albatron K8M800 motherboard with 184-pin DDR memory. The video card was likely an ATI 9600 Pro as I had a few of those around that time.




And next is my Abit KN8 Fatal1ty build from 2004 likely with an Athlon 64 3800+ and an ATI X800XT video card.




Next are some random AMD Athlon socket 939 builds:

 

[Niku-Sama]

seems as if most of my old system pics are gone but I did manage to find one that surprised me was still hanging around...



your eyes do not deceive you, that is a complete in box system.
If memory serves me right its a Pentium 2 or socket 370 Celeron or a socket 370 Celeron on a slocket adapter in a slot Pentium board, 64Meg o ram, a 12 or 8 gig Samsung pata drive, floppy, onboard everything else...

I managed to get everything in the box, except the hard drive, it would rattle around and short out on things in the "case", that's why its on that pink anti static padding on top.

while we are on the topic of pink antistatic padding stuff I do remember when I made this I cut a piece to the same size as the bottom of the box and poked holes for the stand offs but instead of mounting it normally with stand offs, because we all know it wouldn't work, I threaded the screw from the underside of the box through the foam and into the stand off on the top side of the board so it would cinch it down into the foam and keep it in place, that's also how the floppy is able to be above the IO like that, there was a cd rom similarly on another side but it also rested on the PSU.

and sorry about the quality, its was taken with one of those Logitech web cams that doubled as a still camera that you would take off of the stand and run on batteries, if your old enough you know what I am talking about

 

[MonsterMawd]

Thank you everyone for being patient! Here's Ep4 of my Retro PC Build Series,

thats the FIRST wave of photo submissions, I will have more in next Ep!