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Introducing the "Beige Beast": My Windows 98SE gaming build (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My Desk

Specs-
MOBO: Intel D875PBZ board
CPU: Pentium 4 3.0GHz
RAM: 512MB DDR
GPU: Nvidia 6800 GT
Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy SB0090

Keyboard: IBM KB8923 Mechanical Mouse: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical

Display: Compaq S710 CRT 1024x768 @ 85Hz

I have the whole thing connected to the Belkin SoHo KVM with my Windows 11 PC (behind the cabinet on the left) and my NUC that I use as a home lab server (on top of the Blu-ray drive on the right)

A blog post on the build will be forthcoming but feel free to suggest games and software I should load onto or AMA about the system.

It was a really fun project

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

RAM: 512GB DDR

Windows 98: "You want me to load the entire Internet into RAM?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Amazing build! It all looks so new! Although that case seems a bit over the top flashy what with the black and beige.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I will replace the case eventually with something more bland. It’s just so expensive to find authentic PC cases from the time period. There is a local shop that does PC recycling, I’m going to see if I can get anything from them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Does that imply that my old beige computer cases that I still have laying around are actually worth something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Doesn’t mean they are worth something but means you can list them on eBay for $75+

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Going to guess you mean 512MB, since that’s the perfect amount for 98 and it can only address 4GB lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Haha I didn’t even notice. Yeah I’m not running deepseek on my 98 build

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Would run doom at max settings for sure tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Do they make (or did they make cuz I probably can't get a brand new one) widescreen CRTs? I would love to use a CRT again, but I don't wanna go back to 4:3 ratio. For that matter: is there any CRT that uses HDMI? Cuz I just realized that's the only output my GPU has lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

There were a few widescreen Carts but they were super expensive. The coolest was actually two 4:3 tubes in one bezel.