Restoring a 1998 Retro Gaming PC from Old Parts | MVG

I built a Windows 98 and DOS retro gaming PC from old parts I owned from the late 90s. Lets see how it turned out.

Music/Credits in this Video

► Epic Pinball - Original Composer: Robert Allen
► Future Crew Second Reality - Purple Motion

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#PC #DOS #Windows98

[MarcoGPUtuber]

Since this is an MVG-built system, No Mistakes Were Made.

[LGR]

Ooh, a retro PC build on MVG! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one 👍

Solid choice on the Voodoo3, can't really go wrong with that card and a Win9x system of that era. For some extra fun in the future, you could swap out that AWE32 with an SB Live or Aureal Vortex 2 for EAX/A3D support!

[atheatos]

The motherboard on the old PC is a Super Socket7.
This is collectors item, and ideal for win98 / dos gaming.
The max CPU for this board is a K6-3+ 550Mhz.
This is a very expensive model but someone can go with a k6-2+ 450mhz and overclock.
The performance should be similar to your PIII, the difference is that you can underclock the K6 to play older games.
Also the memory is not simm it is SDRAM, the same type as your PIII memory.

[Longlius]

The ABIT motherboard reminds me of a classic meme: "Make like an ABIT motherboard and stop posting."

[vnceigz]

It's interesting that after all these years, Second Reality is _still_ the go-to demo. That's just how revolutionary it was. 👍😀

[kokoseij]

I was born in 2005, Which means even my PSP-1005 is slightly older than me. but I am highly interested at such retro PC or consoles, and I own few old game consoles. and, Your videos are really helpful for me to understand How communities worked to bring us homebrew at that time, How they made such great consoles, and some stories about them. Your videos are really educational and fun to watch at the same time. Thank you for making such great videos.

[TombstoneChris]

This is so awesome. I was a teenager during this era and man does this bring back memories. Can't believe it was 20+ years ago. And that music that you used during the teardown of the computer and such takes me back to my rave days. This is one of my favorite videos by far.

[TheOriginalJGuns]

One of my favorite DOS games / creation system was ZZT. It's earlier in the '90s than the build, but the community built around creating games with the built in world editor was amazing to me as a kid. museum of zzt has plenty of great stuff, made mostly by a (then) younger audience. Highly nostalgic, and recommend looking into it.

[mikkomatilainen]

There never was 366mhz p3, slowest was the 450mhz model.. you have a 550mhz p3 but fsb is set wrong to 66mhz instead of 100mhz!

[ArpeggioPegasusMusic]

Last time I was this early, Modern Vintage Gamer hadn't changed his logo yet.

[GearSeekers]

Absolutely nailed it dude! Great build! Perfect parts!

[delsarcade]

OMG, the Second Reality demo at 9:00 brought back memories!

[JayFGrissom]

Wow! The Unreal footage at 3:00 took me back in time! I remember this on my old AMD K6 with a Voodoo card. Feeling super nostalgic now. LOL Thanks for sharing this!

You have to add Descent from Interplay to your retro lib if you don’t have it already. They made three of them from 94’ to 99’.

[MarcoGPUtuber]

Last time I was this early, DOOM was still a new game.

[moforetro]

I love your channel & content, probably my favourite channel tbh but moving into this era of PC gaming & hardware has been a fantastic move & I've really enjoyed it 👍

[Petar_GT]

10/10 my kinda video
would watch again

[aaron]

The replaced motherboard looks like a Lucky Star 5MVP3 board. Also a very capable retro board for DOS/Win98. When paired with a K6-3, you can use the setmul utility to change the multiplier and turn off caches to slow down DOS games that run too fast. I'd reconsider parting with it because of that unique quality.

[jmandawg]

"I bought an old vintage PC off ebay for $100".. Mistakes were made.

[mywy]

I remember i had this mainboard back in my youth, with severals PII and later on PIII processors, 256 mb ram and nvidia riva tnt 2 with 16 mb vram, hoock'ed with a Voodoo 2 accelerator, and nice soundblaster. It really brings back so many good memories, Lan parties with my neighbours, day's and nights of gaming such as : AOE, StarCraft, Warcraft, NFS se, Quake 1, 2, 3, Unreal Tournament, Diablo 1 and 2, Toomb Raider, some Duke Nukem series, Carmaggedon and so i wish i could turn back the time. This video was a real nice flash of the past. Well done m8.

[Litepaw]

Damn, i got chills when second reality started playing.
Legendary ❤️