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LGR - Building a Socket 7 AMD K6 PC (Patreon)

Published:
2021-06-09 23:24:16
Edited:
2021-06-11 14:30:15
Imported:
2021-07

Content

https://youtu.be/9yT9KPQqBtE

Here's the first draft of a new LGR build video! This time it's a 1997-era system running the AMD K6-166 Socket 7 processor. And of course, it's paired with a 3dfx Voodoo card, a wavetable-equipped sound card, and the venerable Windows 95. Lovely.

This one's somewhat of a follow-up to the 486 SBC build from a while back. Eh, sorta kinda. Towards the end of that video I was reconsidering what I'd just put together and stated that I was thinking about redoing the entire thing using a different backplane. And I decided that I will. In the future, in another case!

So in the meantime, having removed those components I was left with an empty Baby AT case that I quite enjoyed. So I decided to use the case, power supply, and previously-chosen drives to put together a new rig built around an absolute legend of a motherboard: the Asus P/I-P55T2P4. It's one of those boards I've wanted to do something with for ages and this seemed like an ideal chance to do so. Mostly to run POD. Heh.

Hope you enjoy this one, and have a good week!

Files

Building a Windows 95 PC! Socket 7 AMD K6 & 3Dfx

Assembling a 1997-era Socket 7 system running an AMD K6 processor paired with the classic Asus P/I-P55T2P4 motherboard! Of course, it's also packing a 3dfx Voodoo card, a wavetable-capable sound card, and good old Windows 95. And it plays POD. Lovely! ● LGR links: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● All background music courtesy of: http://www.epidemicsound.com #LGR #Retro #Computers

Comments

Anonymous

The ultimate question is : does it has a Turbo button?

LazyGameReviews
>>61567409

It's mentioned during the assembly :) The case has it but there's no turbo header on this motherboard! It's from the era that was just a bit beyond where including turbo made sense.

Anonymous

Heck yeah! Looking forward to watching this one.

Anonymous

So I'm aware you have a rented storage space and what not, but honestly with the amount of build videos you've got I've started to wonder just how big is it? I've been trying to get a laptop that is capable of running around the same games as this build and even that is a bit of an oof in terms of space for me

LazyGameReviews
>>61569049

Heh, I keep renting more space. I'm at around a thousand square feet now, stacked more or less floor to ceiling. I do at least try to get rid of some stuff before taking in new, larger items. But yeah, it's a constant 3D Tetris game

Anonymous

Do you think you've got more space now then Neil at the Mill?

Anonymous

Follow in my footsteps and build a rasteri weecee to save space! I'm almost done, just gotta replace the defective crystal chip! (SMT skills acquiring required). I'm dying to know if you'll collab/cover one eventually.

Anonymous

DOZENS!

Anonymous

Oh wow, a Canopus Pure 3D. The very first accelerator card I ever used with my p166 non-MMX pentium. Hmm that early gloomy Quake 2 lighting

Anonymous

Nice, an old school AMD build!

Anonymous

I do love that uncommon Voodoo, but it does seem to counteract your goals here, unfortunately. BUT I'm even more excited to see what you have in store with early 3D acceleration!

Tyler Kurth

I am begging you to no longer refer to 1997 as "a quarter of a century ago" my old heart can't take such shock nowadays...

Ryan Helinski

Dude! I had that same Canopus Pure3D card with the 166 MHz and 233 MHz Pentium chips. I played many of the same games at the time, with all of the various rendering engines. Great video!

Anonymous

I remember one of the many odd gfx cards I got from the CompUSA came with Pod. :) Those were the days...

Ezydenias

I was like "windows 95 doesn't support 32 gb, what is he talking about?" until I remembered that in these days you had incredible low limits for harddiskdrives. And it defiantly doesn't have 32GB ram.

Kim Voss Schrader

Great video - as always. PS: You should really consider a new table top - the scratches trigger my OCD (not diagnosed, but whatever ;-)).

Phakorn Sripayak

Seeing you building vintage PCs over the years makes me want to building one so so bad... If only vintage PC parts are easy to find here in Thailand...

Anonymous

Mmmm, Socket 7. I recently build a "Super Socket 7" system myself. My board, a SiS530 based one, only has AGP "onboard", no actual AGP ports - but that's fine, really. AGP on SS7 can be very buggy anyway. I went with a K6-2 400MHz @100MHz FSB. 64MB PC100 SD-RAM SD2IDE A somewhat period correct 16x speed CD-ROM drive. Gotek floppy emulator. SB32 CT3670 with 2MB RAM S3 Virge 4MB Voodoo 1 4MB I disabled the onboard sound chip and "AGP". Machine runs fantastic, even runs Unreal at an acceptable framerate.

Anonymous

"You don't need to see that Windows installation yet again" Clint, I think I speak for everyone when I say I'm pretty sure we'd be more than happy with a 10 hour video montage of you just installing Windows on different machines ;P

Mark Elliott

Ah the memories of trying to get POD to work on a machine, fun times! Great game when you did though :)

Anonymous

Do you have a link for the stickers? They look great and I need to replace a few.

Honorary Octopus

It could be something on my end, but theres a weird freeze in the video (not audio) at around 3:13, Reproduces on refresh and on a second computer.

Anonymous

I need to build me a machine like this for Motocross Madness (the first one with the awesome ragdoll thing when you hit the edge of the map)

Uncleawesome

Drinking some red vine at the cabin, watching LGR building a retro computer,,,Perfect :D I was hoping to see screamer 2 and screamer rally. My favorite 3dfx games :)

Anonymous

PC building. It's fantastic!

Alyxx the Rat

You really suck at Tomb Raider 2 don't you. Of course you're playing it while filming, lol

Anonymous

I forget the model, but I have a similar ASUS Socket 7 board. Mine is running a AMD K6 233. I also have the little USB board (which I found at Goodwill, just the USB board). I used to use a "normal" USB2 header connector and that worked fine. The USB works fine in Windows 98.

Anonymous

I like using the Dreamblaster S2. That's nice and tiny.

Anonymous

So nostalgic for me. The first PC I built from scratch was a K6-2 450. I love seeing this spec of PC as it was an era I missed between my family's ancient 486 DX2 66 and the K6-2 I built in 1998ish.

Anonymous

Amazing. My first family computer was a Pentium 2 Packard Bell from Costco. Those wing speakers on the side of monitor. The gray wavy plastic on the bottom of the case. It came with KidDos and encarta 99. My favourite encarta version.

Anonymous

That Mad About You pack-in title in that Best Buy Compaq listing is just dizzying in its blast-from-the-past impact.

Anonymous

I wonder if the 32MB is a bottleneck for software rendering? I built a similar system in the 90's and remember being really disappointed by the fps in Quake (II, I think - it was certainly one of the Quakes). A friend told me to up the memory to 128MB which didn't make sense but I took his advice and the difference was night and day! It was a K6-2 333 but the gameplay in your video reminded me of it. In any case thanks for the great video as always, this one took me back.

LazyGameReviews
>>61797467

I upgraded my K2-233 system from 32 to 64MB back in the day and it certainly made a notable difference!

SuperTekBoy

I can't even remember how many times I cut myself on old cases.