I remember playing Quake in 320x200 on my Pentium 75 with 16 Mb of ram... Thanks for the video!

Can't wait to see the difference when you add the upgrades 🙂👍

I remember upgrading my dx4-100 with a p1-133 oh man those were the days. After that i OC'ed the 133 to 166MHz, then got a 200 and ended the p1 era with a 233mmx. After that I went straight to a p3-1GHz which I had for AGES!

I started with the old office 386 from my father in early 1995 and got my pentium 100 in the summer of 1996... Can't remember when I got my 200mmx, but it stayed with me for a long time. Till I got a pentium 3 in 2004. The rapid increase in performance was really breathtaking in these days. Now upgrading from a i5 4460 to a i7 10700 does not feel like the worlds that where between the machines from 20 years ago

Hearing the sounds again, seeing the games, makes my heart warm :) Thank you.

The last game you play is actually Microprose's Grand Prix 2 released in 1995, the older brother being Formula 1 Grand Prix , released in 1991. Btw, Formula 1 Grand Prix was released in some countries with the title of World Circuit.

The Pentium 75 was in my first home PC! My family bought it for Christmas 1995 when I was 15. Such awesome memories! Windows 95 was a big advance but also a mess and I ended up using DOS only in the end before stepping up to a P200 MMX. I still remember the hassle of installing the DOS drivers to make the sound work. Beside all the games mentioned by the OP and in the comments, I used to play Heretic, Hexen, Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Stunts (best driving game in years imho) on the P75. Duke Nukem 3D struggled to run smoothly at 800x600 (= slideshow) though the PC mounted one of the first 1-MB Matrox GPUs. Evidently 1 megabyte of video memory wasn't enough LOL! Ah, I also remember that the system had 8 MB of RAM and an 800 MB HDD. Both of the PC's I mentioned were thrown away but I still have the parts of the first PC that I bought with my own money in 1999: a P3 450 with a Voodoo 3 3000.

I remember when I was finally able to play NFS 2 SE! I also remember playing games all the time in really choppy framerates ahhaha We didn't have much money. I always had old PCs. Dad did computer work, as I said, but it was just a side gig. We lived in mouse infested dumps and lived pay to pay. I was lucky to have older machines because of trade ins for work. Built a gaming machine this past December, first time in 8 years since having built my FX 8350. I'd bought a house back in 2016 for 15k out in the country, so much of my money had been going toward getting a drilled well, engineering a sewer myself, getting a new roof etc. Lived with just power, no plumbing for almost 2.5 years. Now that all that is squared away, I was finally able to engage in the joy of building a new system.

When I was in computer education school back in 1994 we used IBM Pentium 75 thru 90mhz computers. We ran Win3.11 and WinNT351 and Novell Server. And did allot with this CPU. Then I got a job working at a BIG computer company in Silicon Valley and we used Pentium 100mhz CPU on everything from WinNT40 workstation and server. And it ran everything from Oracle database to HP Openview, to Clustering, domain server and file servers, etc. We ran our entire World Wide corporation on the Pentium 75 thru 100mhz CPU. We had an NT Network that span the entire USA, America(s) and some Pacific Islands.

RetroSpector78 I love your channel and graphics cards upgrades you dig out in the end, brilliant! thank you

These Vobis Pentium 75 episodes were special to me, cause that's the first CPU i had in my very first PC. Before i was satisfied with playing console games on my SNES and Mega Drive. The P75 was soon replaced with a used Cyrix p-133 though. Then my ATI Rage IIc got a voodoo1 upgrade. My motherboard was a pretty horrible PCChips thing in a giant PC case someone had spraypainted red before i bought it. The total ghetto show *lol* I still have thr P75 CPU right next to me on a shelf in an antistatic box. Even though those PCs could only do a fraction of what's possible now, they were more fun to me than RGB light pimped monsters of today. Yep, I'm getting old *lol*

Same here, looking forward for the upgrades! Great Video, brings back so many memmories :)

This configuration is exactly how I’ve started my PC journey! Love it! I’ve had the motherboard with the sound addon, which was awesome, due to its capabilities of playing sound through the PC speaker! That was cool!

I used to love playing Wacky Wheels with my brother (on another computer) via a serial cable!

Very nice video, hope to see the next one about this machine soon. Thx!

Nice choice of games!! Really liked how you showed the dramatic difference in performance just from changing graphic modes

Looking forward to you making further videos with the various upgrades

Fellow Belgian here :) played GP2 and monster truck Madness on our pentium 1 200MHz. Even played rollercoaster tycoon at a friend on a pentium 90MHz :) it was kinda slow with lots of objects on screen but we didn't care back then

i love these videos about gear i grew up with .. :) .. we also had a highscreen computer, but it was just a 486 SX25.. but still a massive improvement coming from an 8 MHz 8086 ;D .. i attended the introduction show for the pentium processor at CeBIT 1993 .. it was a very exciting time when this thing came out! but pentium PCs were expensive.. so it was only in 1998 when i had earned my first own money to afford my very first own pentium PC, which was a pentium II - 233. i was almost only playing flight simulator, but i remember having some great fun playing GTA 1 which we saw in the video :D

Nice video. Cool little machine. 3d acceleration extended the life of these older machines quite a bit. I remember running a first generation voodoo1 pass through card that was a pre production/ engineering sample. On a machine from this era also. The difference (when it ran) was jaw dropping. I had to epoxy heat sinks to it, and pointed a desk fan at it to keep it from locking up. Prior to that, NO gpu had heat sinking or fans. They just didn't exist. Same deal with overclocking. I added a 66mhz crystal to the motherboard on a 386 SX33. It booted and worked twice as fast. It generated a ton of heat. Heat sinks and desk fans to the rescue again. Lol.

Great stuff, I love how you take us on these journeys, like 1:28, clicking on ‘Details’ always felt like unwrapping a present. What did it find...? 😮 Yes, the Intel card! 🥳

i like the point you make, that before it wasn't about achieving max framerate or details, but about the playability.

Nice vid. I had Pentium 75 MHz back in the day and played most of the games presented in this video. One note - that's not F1GP (which was released in 1992 for PC), it's Grand Prix 2 which was released in 1996.

Your videos are awesome and your voice is so good to listen (I really like your accent) Keep going with the excellent work, bro! I may not comment a lot, but I'm always here watching your content and giving my thumbs up. Greetings from Brazil O/ ^^

Screamer! Absolutely love Screamer, easily one of the best looking software rendered DOS games of all time. But it does require a pretty beefy PC to max out. I play it on my K6-233 MMX :)

As always.. Excellent video!! it's nice to see that there's a lot of room for improvement with the system.. L2 cache, faster CPU & on the graphics area. I'm working on a similar system setup with a Pentium 90Mhz, so I'll be using your work as a baseline!! You can still get good deals/findings on a Socket5 or early Socket7 platform, if you are looking for an alternative to a 486 (very expensive lately), for later DOS / early WIN games.

Wacky Wheels at a LAN party in the mid nineties with an ‘el cheapo’ coax network…. Great memories!

Whacky Wheels is something that hits all the nostalgia and childhood memory spots. I remember every little detail about that game. I had so much fun playing it as a kid.

I remember when I got a PC fast enough to play Road Rash! I played the heck out of that. and Warcraft 1, 2, Starcraft 1, AOE, Total Annihilation, Doom 1 and 2, Wolf 3D, Duke Nukem, Redneck Rampage... man I could go on and on and on. Ahhhh the nostalgia!!

oh man what a trip in the past! I actually played many games you show in this video, hours and hours spent playing, good times.... good memories... (love road rash!)

I was playing most of these on a p60! So much nostalgia watching these old games with Doom 1993 being my altime fav game of all time. I was 13 when it came out so was playing on school computers. The IT teachers used to delete doom and then we would just reinstall it again lol

You played through all my childhood favorites

My first pentium was a NEC 100mhz which later I paired with a 6MB Canopus Pure 3D ...gaming heaven...smoked the consoles of that time!

Almost the same system I had and the games I played back in the day, I had the P100 non MMX and ran that Diamond Stealth card. Oh the memories.

I remember many of those games back in my days of rocking a 486DX2-66 (it was the only 486 in the department building, the computer room was mostly 386 based, save for one Mac). Be fun to see those other cards in there. Also - what happens if you populate the empty chip slots in those graphics cards?

Wow, first time I've seen Wacky Wheels on any retro PC gaming video. Wacky Wheels was my first PC game I played back in the day. Loved that game.

I can't help but smile any time I see NASCAR Racing being showcased, being a big fan of Papyrus Racing's history.

I remember adding a COAST module with 256kb of cache to my P133 system and it made a massive difference in MechWarrior 2 at the time, would be interesting to see what happens with this P75.

what a machine!!! :D Love it!

gosh I remember playing on one like yesterday and it's 25yrs ago already :-)

I have the 100 MHz Intel Pentium in a Packard Bell Legend desktop/ mini tower. The Windows 95 start up chime always brings back memories of my childhood with such an underpowered computer (when it comes to Windows gaming in the mid to late 90s, DOS gaming was still quite good). I take apart the Packard Bell from time to time just to get a look at the processor, motherboard and daughter boards.

This brings back memories. I bought a Pentium 90 back in 1995, with IBM motherboard, to run OS/2 on. But I wasn't aware of the single-threaded input queue bug at the time. Non-IBM boards could be hit or miss with running the OS, but one errant driver or app would lock up the queue and give the impression of a total lockup. I'd stay with OS2 until 1997 and then went Windows NT 4, which blew my mind over its improved speed and stability. Full 32bit architecture... other platforms did full preemptive multitasking and using

Cool! My oldest retro PC is also a Pentium 75 with a Mach64 VT2 :)

I guess I was playing a lot of games back then. I had a 486 DX2/50 and got a Packard Bell Pentium 150MHz open box cheap so I connected the two and we had LAN games (like Doom, ROTT). Good times.

Wonderful video! I really enjoyed watching it! I wonder why CPUs were made with ceramic back in the day?

Pentium 75 was my first PC! Built by AST. I remember setting up a network at home with my younger brothers and playing Quake Death Match in 1996🤪

In addition to the upgrades mentioned at the end would also like to see if the P75 can handle a fsb increase for an overclock. Also how well does it work with a 3dfx voodoo1. Back in 1996 I upgraded from 486 dx2-66 to P133 so never experienced a slow Pentium.

For me it was Mechwarrior 2 I played the hell out of that game back in the day

I wish there was a book on PC history covering say the 286 to the pentium 3 and showing what games were popular and playable at each stage and maybe struggles like mine, of trying to play newer games on older pcs. I'd write it myself if I could remember my childhood more hahahah. My dad fixed computers as a side job when I grew up in the 90s as a child. So from age 5 in 1990 to 91 onward I always had some older generation PCs which people would often trade in so dad could fix their newer computers etc. I had the 8088, 286, 386, 486, 486DX, pentium 75, 90 100, 120, 133, 166, 200, 233, 266, 300 onward. until the pentium 3 I got new as a teenager, I always struggled to run modern games on my older tech.

Alien Carnage, from Apogee I hope to replay someday on a classic machine.

amazing. my first pc had a pentium 2 on a slot a, and a trident pci card, which wasn't a 3d accelerator, thus I couldn't play most of the games that required a gpu. when I was a little bit more older, I bought a pentium 133 with a 3dfx voodo, but I tried to make use of it as proper machine, not as an old vintage gaming machine. I'm all in on with the idea of swapping the processor on this board to one that has a faster fsb and adding a better video card!

I bet on S3 trio64v+ VBE/Core 2.0 for Ultimate DOS experience. Regards

6:06 that's about how well my computer ran this game in regular VGA mode lol. Not sure if it was a pentium or 486 though. I was really young. Also had no sound because I don't think it had a sound card.

one of the things i want the most is to find my first pc again. it was a 486 dx4 100mhz with 8mb of ram (i upgraded it to 16) and some huge board that included a sound blaster, a modem and network, a 800mb drive and a 4x cdrom drive. i really want to build the exact same pc i had then, software included. i made a batch file that ran from autoexec and showed a list of all my games showing shortcut batch files to them. it was such a cool time, i miss it. i want to overclock the hell out of it to see what could have been. i heard those cpus could hit 186mhz stably. imagine that. so much suffering i'd have not went through...

Nice.

i remember playing colonization on my packard bell pentuim 75mhz in late 95 or early 96. one of the two. oh man im getting old. ;)

Good video

hi mate, awesome stuff! I really enjoy these intel mainboards, the endeavor is a great piece of hardware for a non mmx cpu! is there a follow up to this video, where u did add l2 and maybe another graphics card, for comparison? cheers!

Had the Nascar Racing on my 133mhz Pentium with a Matrox MGA Millenium GPU - it was the first an only game which took advantage of the 3D performance of the Millenium. It was running in SVGA full details smooooooth :)

I was stunned how fast a matrox mystique is in my P75.

I'd like to see you max the thing out!

I can remember upgrading my system multiple times to get Nascar Racing to run with full SVGA detail.

"...the game itself was superior to the fps..." best quote ever. thank you. i remember me play GTA on a 486DX-40 with the lowest settings and i just didn't care about fps...

very cool PC

Hi there, I've been on the look out for some nostalgia. My dad owned a Tiny Pentium 75 back in the 90's. Over here in the uk, there were 2 companies Tiny and Time. Both have disappeared and theres little information about their computers online. Where would I find out about these old systems, and even possibly owning one?

Around 1:25, you asked what that Wizard is actually doing. I'm here to tell you :) The Wizard is scanning every bus address in the system recursively. Each time it finds a device at a bus address, it checks the vendor and device IDs against the Hardware Information Database in Windows. For each device that is a match, Windows will show it by name and help you with driver installation. Devices that are found but not immediately identified by Windows (doesn't match vendor/device ID in the Hardware Information Database), show up as an "Other Device" and would then prompt the user to install third-party drivers. Hope this helps answer your question.

This makes me miss my first pc. AMD K6-2 with a SIS 530 onboard graphics chipset.

neat vid

As I watch this video on my laptop a clone of my 1996 Tulip 486 with Pentium Overdrive lies ready to be assembled. I remember playing Quake with no problems then, will be fun to try it now

I was playing starcraft 1 on a Pentium 75 with like 16Mb ram or whatever in the late 90's . It was terrible, but it played, and I was able to play reasonably good by myself.

We made the big jump from a 386sx to a PII 233, but I remember playing Screamer for a long time. If the damn game didn't crashed so much. Doing championships needed to hope it would make it until the end

Nice

Cant get over how good F1GP looks in SVGA for 1992!

My God! F1GP, Jean Alesi on Ferrari at old spa circuit, LOVE IT!

But can you get Screamer running in SVGA high settings properly without changing the motherboard? Only the CPU, GPU and RAM.

Can it run Project Cars 2? The first pentium computers I remember were the 900s which were probably advertised in magazines around the time I was thinking of getting a computer for the first time.

There was a pentium 100 that made use of the 50mhz bus on socket 5 with a 2x multi. Though I think it was embedded laptop only. I remember seeing it listed on intel Ark some time back. How prevalent it was, I have no clue. I can't imagine it was all too common. I have never seen one in the several p100 laptops I have used over the years.

Curious if you've played CART Precision Racing? Its contemporary to monster truck madness and its a lot of fun but not often remembered for some reason.

Looking back, I can't believe I used to play Quake 2 on my Compaq Deskpro 575; 75MHz with 32MB ram lol

holy shit, my uncle had that Nascar game on his computer. instant nostalgia

ET6000 FTW!!! I had that card, blazing fast 2D due to big memory bandwidth (128bit memory interface).

Highscreen was Escom or Vobis brand? cant remember....my Dad bought P90 and performance was jaw-dropping compared to my old 486-DX66

That PC is rather capable :)

Good ol' German Vobis craftmanship. :D

Need to connect the power LED on the case... or maybe it burnt out :) My system around that time was P133, 32MB, Matrox Mystique 4MB and SoundBlaster 16.

Watching this video makes me realize that I valued the games that actually ran on my 486DX2 and later P200 MMX way too little as I always wanted to play the newest games. A shame as today I'd know a ton of fun games to play with those vintage machines.

The 75Mhz Pentium was a second generation, released as a value PC. A Pentium 90, 1st Gen is significantly faster.

Retro Spector 77 here, just subscribed! Greetings from Portugal by the way! Could you please do this video again with a 3DFX Voodoo2 running on this PC? Thanks! :)

Did he ever make a follow-up video? I can't find one...

Never even had a classic Pentium myself, just a MMX 166 :)

Was it overclockable? FSB to 66MHz makes it a P90 which is a huge step!

My pc was a Pentium 75 with S3 1MB video card + 32 MB EDO ram. Only software render was available. I was playing dos games under Win95 like DOOM 1-2, Duke nukem, death rally, warcraft, KKND in 320x200 resultion NFS 1 was also dos based. I remember playing Age of Empires 1 in 640x480 and Diablo 1. Later I tried NFS3 in sw rendering and low resultion, but without 3dfx card a Pentium MMX 200 was also not faster. The Voodoo or Geforce 2 card was that time a real upgrade to play with NFS 3 and above, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex etc. I remember many years later I got an "old" dual pentium pro 200 computer (was a workstation). The dual pentium pro was fast, with a lot of L2 cache, but lacked the MMX instruction set. I remember that I could not play any avi video in VLC. Later I figured out, that I have to download some earlier VLC version, and switch off the MMX, SSE and all the multimedia instructions in the expert settings. After this I could watch a AVI video.

I wanna play some old games on a CRT one day, I dont have much experience with that and I just dont have the space for a setup like that

I had a Pentium 75 in high school that I overclocked to 100. Paired it with a Rendition Verite 1000. It could play many early 3d games reasonably well, especially if they had a version specifically for verite cards. I believe Myth and Quake both ran and looked quite well.

It would be cool if you could adjust the aspect ratio so that even modes with non-square pixels like the 320x200 mode look 4:3ish.

The Raptor actually runs well even on a 33 MHz 386DX. I know coz I played it yesterday on my 386. :)

What about the FDIV bug in the floating point unit in the Pentium 75. "The FDIV bug affects the 60 and 66 MHz Pentium P5 800 in stepping levels prior to D1, and the 75, 90, and 100 MHz Pentium P54C 600 in steppings prior to B5.

What device do you use to capture video from the screen?

Speaking of 1990s PC games, I thought it was funny how one of the Belgian Olympic relay runners today was actually called Doom lol.

Id be curious to see what upgrading to a mid-grade Pentium (133/166 ish) would gain you with the rest of the system as is.