I loved working on these machines back in the day. So easy to upgrade. Extremely rugged and well built. If you feel the urge, you can upgrade the motherboard on this with something that has built in sound and better graphics, as they used this case well up until the P-III era, unchanged. Otherwise, a 233MMX will fit in with no problems. YOu might notice the three holes in the back plate where sound jacks would have gone, were it so equipped. I was disappointed when Dell went with their rounded "Darth-vader" black cases in the 2001 timeframe, as they were ugly, weren't as nice to work on as these and they had that horrible capacitor plague. Your particular machine appears to have had a bunch of IBM parts added. The HDD has an IBM warranty notice and your RAM also is IBM badged. As new these had either 2gb 4gb or 8 gb hard drives, IIRC. Super nice machine. I use the Mini-tower Pentium III variant of this family (GX110) as my "tweener" machine. Modern enough to run XP, but I can dual-boot DOS or Windows 98. With a 1.2M, 360K and an LS-120 for 1.44 floppy it makes it easy to move files from a USB stick/SD card to floppy for XT class machines.
Cool. I sae a few adverts that said some kodels had built in sound. Not sure where the Ibm part came from. They are very nicely put together machines, especially for the time! Might be fun to see if I can get a motherboard up grade!
Interesting its been upgraded upgraded to a P166MMX, this board is designed for the standard Pentium P54CS 3.3V, not the Pentium MMX P55C 2.8V - its also got the original Intel i430FX chipset - you could squeeze more performance if you swapped the board to a GSi (i430HX) GN+/N (i430TX) and gain USB support.
I have always loved that design, along with Compaq Deskpro.
Its a cool looking thing!
Like! P166 MMX with 48 mb ram and Voodoo 1 is a very nice 1997 gaming PC. Even Quake 2 should work well on it.
Yes I thought about quake 2, I will give it a try.
very nice condition for a machine that old. the curvy shape must have been striking back in those boxy days haha
Yes I dont remember there being kuch variety back then
I remember getting Battlezone packed in with an IBM Aptiva I got. Never really played it.
It seems fun, now I've started I'll probably play it through.
I loved working on these machines back in the day. So easy to upgrade. Extremely rugged and well built. If you feel the urge, you can upgrade the motherboard on this with something that has built in sound and better graphics, as they used this case well up until the P-III era, unchanged. Otherwise, a 233MMX will fit in with no problems. YOu might notice the three holes in the back plate where sound jacks would have gone, were it so equipped.
I was disappointed when Dell went with their rounded "Darth-vader" black cases in the 2001 timeframe, as they were ugly, weren't as nice to work on as these and they had that horrible capacitor plague.
Your particular machine appears to have had a bunch of IBM parts added. The HDD has an IBM warranty notice and your RAM also is IBM badged. As new these had either 2gb 4gb or 8 gb hard drives, IIRC. Super nice machine.
I use the Mini-tower Pentium III variant of this family (GX110) as my "tweener" machine. Modern enough to run XP, but I can dual-boot DOS or Windows 98. With a 1.2M, 360K and an LS-120 for 1.44 floppy it makes it easy to move files from a USB stick/SD card to floppy for XT class machines.
Cool. I sae a few adverts that said some kodels had built in sound. Not sure where the Ibm part came from. They are very nicely put together machines, especially for the time! Might be fun to see if I can get a motherboard up grade!
The voices in that game sound so similar to conquest frontier wars!
Cool, never played it, I will check it out!
@@66mhzbrain One of the most underrated RTS games of all time!
Interesting its been upgraded upgraded to a P166MMX, this board is designed for the standard Pentium P54CS 3.3V, not the Pentium MMX P55C 2.8V - its also got the original Intel i430FX chipset - you could squeeze more performance if you swapped the board to a GSi (i430HX) GN+/N (i430TX) and gain USB support.
Yes some one mentioned motherboard uograde, I'll keep an eye out. Would be nice to have usb and a 200/233mmx.