1998 Gaming Dreambuild! Pentium II 450, 3DFX Voodoo 2 sli

Let's go back in time and build the Dreambuild of 1998 to play games! This build was the best configuration for gaming. 1998 Gaming Dreambuild! Pentium II 450, 3DFX Voodoo 2 sli

The cpu is the brand new Pentium II 450 we go only for the best! With 256mb we have a huge amount of memory. To play video games at the highest framerates and settings we have a Riva TNT 16mb and 2x Voodoo2 12mb in sli. Because you need to have a large harddrive to store all your games so we got a 13gb harddrive! The soundcard is offcourse a Soundblaster Live for 4channel surroundsound. The highspeed network connecting is a 100mbit 3Com 3C905B-TX so on lan party's we have the best connection. We have a fast 40 speed AOpen CD-ROM player to cut down loading time of the games. And a Phlips CD-RW to backup our games! To house all this goodness we got a AOpen HX45 miditower with a strong 250 watt powersupply.

Get something to drink and some popcorn and enjoy watching!

It took me over 1.5 years to get all the parts. And the most difficult part to find was the case in good condition. And most cases from 1998 and very ugly. The only part I bought was the Diamond Viper V550 for 5 euro in a thriftshop and the rest was free.

Specifications:
Intel Pentium II 450
2x 128mb pc100 sdram
Asus P2B Motherboard
Diamond Viper V550 Riva TNT 16mb
2x Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo2
3Com 3C905B-TX
Sound Blaster Live! Value
AOpen HX45 with 250 watt psu
Quantum Fireball lct 13gb 5400rpm
AOpen 40x CD-ROM
Philips CDD3610 CD-RW
1.44 floppydrive

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To make this video I used:
2x Panasonic GH3 camera's
Canon FD lenses 17 f3.5 (tokina), 24 f2.8, 35 f2, 50 f1.4, 85 f1.8 + macro ring ,macro converters and focal reducer.
Panasonic 12-35 f2.8 lens.
2 tripods - 100cm camera slider - 120cm motorized lego dolly track.
2x CCFL studio light with Umbrella's - 2x LED panel
Rode NTG2 shotgun microphone

Music: Teknoaxe
1. Doing Hard Time
2. The Ranks of General Nymm
3. Running On Air
4. Midnight Run (sans vocals)
Check out Teknoaxe he has great Royalty Free music!

[victorbart]

200.000 views!! Thanks you all for watching <3 :)

[GreenHamGaming]

The camera work is incredible and your attention to detail in all of your shots is incredible. 

Very very nice video. 

[globalzero]

My first pc was a pentium 233Mhz and a Voodoo2. Age 15, saved money long time and asked my parents for so long to get it. SLI voodoo2 and pentium 2 450, CD writer that was insane back then. Eventually I got myself a JVC cd writer 2x and for me and my friends was a revelation! Thanks for the video!

[taradead]

Our first computer was a win98, pentium II 450 MHz. Cost $3000, new. I upgraded it as much as I could with winXP, 1 GHz pentium III, 512 MB RAM, DSL modem, etc. Kept using it for 10 years and then sold the tower for $100.

People would make fun of it today, but it pretty much did everything modern computers can do...except you just had to go eat lunch or do something else while it got heavy duty tasks accomplished (video, audio editing, etc)

[ShumanGore]

Great video, Victor. Those times when PC gaming was something all of us wanted, but only a few could afford, reminding me the 486 I had for almost 10 years when I was younger. Now, I'm writing this from a i7 4790 xD

[MrIsmaeltaleb]

Hi Guys. first time i've ever commented on youtube. Anyway my first computer i ever bought (mum bought it - i was 13) was in 1998. It was a Compaq Presario 2294 which had an AMD k6-2 350 - 6GB HDD - 4MB shared Video - 14 inch Monitor - Windows 98. It was $2500. Wouldn't even play Daikatana. Mind you since then i have never moved to Intel. All AMD builds since then. Current machine is a FX6300 (4.3Ghz) - 16GB DDR3 1600mhz - 1TB HDD - Windforce 760GTX. Waiting on AMDs new chips for my next upgrade.
Have a great day.

[romandulce]

For that money in 1998 you could buy an apartment in my country :D

[nimoon]

We've come a long way in pc building. It's really nice to watch the old stuff sometimes.

[Pulverrostmannen]

This build reminds very much of one of my old computers that I actually built around this time and still use today for retro gaming, it is fun to see you hit the spot this well. Well done

[zusurs]

Amazing build, brings back nostalgia like nothing else. I'm blown away by the attention to details down to the tiniest things - like the real HDD instead of CF/SD-to-IDE adapters, and cable management. Also camera dolly shots are simply amazing. Only thing missing from total perfection is the internal ZIP drive placed under the floppy. :) Thank you very much for the video, man! As retro PC enthusiast and collectioner myself, I take off my hat to you, sir!

[Aranimda]

I wanted this setup so much in 1998. If I just had the money...

This is the dream system for Unreal 1 1998.
Especially when paired with a SoundBlaster Live! and surround speakers.

"Unreal delivers this cutting-edge realism on computers using a Pentium 166 or higher. And for those of you lucky enough to have a Pentium II, MMX technology or a video accelerator, the Unreal realms will become your reality."

[chriskerley]

Back in 98, all I had was a Cyrix GX 166mhz computer.. My friends all had Pentium CPU's so basically until 1999 (when I decided to build my own), I couldn't play anything 3D, (could barely play Duke 3D). I use to drool over the graphics cards reviewed in PC Gamer magazine.

[hudsonball]

Taking me back to my teenage years there. I miss that time.

[icnclast]

Your B-Roll game was on point here! Really great shots and editing! The build took me back to my middle school years!

[BigJoshGaming]

man you deserve so many more subs. this is probably the most well done retro build video I've seen on youtube. I absolutely enjoyed every moment. I have a lot of old computer stuff going back to the mid 90s. I enjoy playing some of the old titles on my updated i7 6700k with gtx 1070 but it's just not the same as it was back then. I believe I'm going to have to do some retro builds and resurrect some of my old pc gear. I still have my Diamond 3dfx voodoo 2 video card but never did get a second one for sli. it was something I always wanted to try. now that I'm 40 maybe it's time to go back and relive some of that fun times.

[MJ-uklu]

Thanks to this video, it convinced me to build high end year 2004 PC. Specs:
DFI K8T800PRO-ALF socket 754
AMD Athlon 64 3200 + 2.2GHz socket 754 (NewCastle)
2x1GB Transcend DDR400 CL3
2x WD Raptor 740GD 10k rpm in RAID 0
WDC 1200JB 7200 rpm (IDE)
Samsung Spinpoint 80GB 7200 rpm (IDE)
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB (AGP 8X)
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (PCI)
Scythe Andy Samurai Master + Arctic Cooling MX-2
Chieftec A-90 GDP-550C
Fractal Design Define R4
TSSTCorp SH-S222A (IDE)
Sony 3.5" floppy disk drive (IDE)
D-Link DFM-562IS 56K modem (PCI)
TP-Link TL-WN851ND WiFi adapter (PCI)
2x Fractal Design 140 mm + 1x Scythe SlipStream 120mm 800 rpm
Windows XP Professional 32bit SP3
Not the ultimate, but truly something. ATI Radeon can reach Core clock 540 MHz/Memory clock 570 MHz. CPU's limits are unknown, because at 224 CPU clock system BSODed and SATA HDD data corrupted, so now I have to reinstall Windows. I named computer as Athlonium 64.

[TurboSol]

Dude, I played so many hours of need for speed 3 back in the late 90's. But one of my favorite computer games was tank wars on DOS floppy disk, so much fun when I was 5.

[NikkoHUN]

Awesome video, good job! :) I'm 40 yrs old and started to use(and love) computers 31 yrs ago. In 1998 this really was a dream build. That time i can bought only a waaay worse machine. And always jealous when i saw someone who can buy PII and two voodoo2, that performance amazed me then. :)

[PrzeszczepiX]

Remember guys, if you are laughing now at this 1998 PC, pay attention that your i7 6700K GTX1080 32GB RAM PCs for 15 years will be worth $20 for total and ridiculed by your sons.

[izaakfewton]

Those parts back then were indestructible...you could break your fingers but couldn't break parts...Great idea mate! I still can't throw away my 3dfx Voodoo. Keep it up!