$50 Retro PC Road Trip! Pentium II + Rare Sound Cards Found

🚗 A 100km road trip for a retro computer… was it worth it?

I drove from Melbourne to Ballarat, Victoria to pick up a retro PC and parts I found on Facebook Marketplace — and for just $50 AUD, this turned into an incredible late-90s hardware score.

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📦 What I picked up:
🖥️ Pentium II 450MHz system
🎵 Sound Blaster AWE64
🎶 Sound Blaster Live!
🔊 Aureal Vortex (3D positional audio legend)
🎮 S3 Trio3D graphics card

🏛️ Along the way, I talk a bit about Ballarat’s gold rush history — a town built on gold, and this time I might’ve struck some retro gold of my own.

🔧 Back home, I fully unbox everything, explore the internals, take the system completely apart, clean all the components, and carefully rebuild it for the moment of truth…

⚡ First boot: SUCCESS.
The system powers on perfectly and the bargain pays off.

If you love retro computers, Pentium II builds, classic sound cards, Windows 98 era hardware, and marketplace treasure hunts — this one’s for you.

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00:00 Intro
00:38 Listing
01:25 Journey and about Ballarat
04:30 Look at parts
09:15 Look at system
12:10 Pull apart and clean
23:10 Rebuild and boot

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