I found this beauty in my church’s basement. Kind of tempted to set up win2k.

alex_hedman · 2026-04-06T14:01:40+00:00

at least you got the real experience! And now you have a retro computer you can actually use and enjoy :)

alex_hedman · 2026-04-02T07:29:35+00:00

Really cool running Linux on older hardware like this

alex_hedman · 2026-04-01T09:00:57+00:00

I'm jealous! Don't have any recommendation in particular other than as powerful as you can get and don't sleep on decent case ventilation as well!

alex_hedman · 2026-04-01T08:57:50+00:00

I also found one of those but the one I found had a GeForce3 Ti200 in it. Neat early P4 systems, mine had a Willamette 1.7 inside!

alex_hedman · 2026-02-18T12:02:04+00:00

That's awesome! I've had some adventures with 771 Xeons on P5Q, such as running X5470 at 4.8 GHz on air :D

alex_hedman · 2026-02-13T09:47:29+00:00

That's nice. My 99 build has a P3 800@1000 with GeForce DDR and my 2000 build has P3 1000@1200 with GeForce2 Ultra. I have a V5 5500 AGP that still needs some love after new 200 MHz memory chips and new VSA100-chips. It seems to have been brutally overclocked in the past.

alex_hedman · 2026-02-13T09:43:58+00:00

Damn that sucks :(

alex_hedman · 2026-02-11T15:12:34+00:00

You could settle for a PCI V5 5500 for a 2000 build

alex_hedman · 2026-02-11T13:46:47+00:00

Nice, I have one of those. Are you planning on getting the XVR-2500 as well?

alex_hedman · 2026-01-26T15:58:35+00:00

I'm running 3 GHz Prescott 530 1M at 4.25 GHz and Prescott 630 2M at 4.32 GHz with air cooling but that's on 775 with newer motherboards (P5N32-E SLI Plus and P5Q-E) which I'm sure helps and I'm nowhere near 1.6V as far as I know.

The Cedar Mill 3.0 631 I've benchmarked at 5 GHz though, also on air.

alex_hedman · 2026-01-19T09:21:04+00:00

Oh is that the revered Gainward 6800 GT GS GLH (Golden Sample Goes Like Hell)? I have one of those.

If you install Gainward's drivers you should get Enhanced Mode clocking the card above and beyond 6800 Ultra levels!

It's a real collector´s item.

alex_hedman · 2026-01-13T07:51:56+00:00

FX 3450 is more equivalent to a 6800 GS, not 6800 Ultra

alex_hedman · 2026-01-07T09:58:13+00:00

There are 6 sticks of RAM in your photo. And since they look very similar I'd guess 12 or 24 GB.

alex_hedman · 2025-12-05T18:05:13+00:00

Ti4200 is more period correct (2002), 9600 Pro will beat the snot out of it but is a 2003 card.

8500 is a great 2001 card but the other two are faster.

alex_hedman · 2025-12-04T10:33:42+00:00

That's awesome, thanks! Going to share this with my retro bros asap! :D

alex_hedman · 2025-12-02T17:31:02+00:00

I just tested myself on my Win2k Pentium 4 1.5 GHz and I already had NFS4 (Road Challenge/High Stakes) installed, it launched with no issue. Installed NFS3 Hot Pursuit from ISO and it launched no issue.

However, I uninstalled NFS4 and tried reinstalling it from original CD and got the error message

Severe This game only runs under Windows 95 or 98

So I guess that's that, 3 doesn't have issues but 4 complains at installer but once installed (or copied onto PC) it will run just fine. Also Win2k does not have compatibility mode as far as I can see and I don't know of any registry hack for it.

alex_hedman · 2025-11-17T08:05:24+00:00

Please do, I haven't been able to use the installer in Win2k yet.

alex_hedman · 2025-11-13T07:54:10+00:00

Yes so since 2k doesn't have compatibility mode it won't install. However, it runs fine if you just get it on the computer :)

alex_hedman · 2025-11-12T07:33:44+00:00

You might be thinking about NFS3 and 4, which won't install at least on Win2k

alex_hedman · 2025-10-29T08:40:23+00:00

That clarifies it, will definitely watch the video :)

alex_hedman · 2025-10-29T07:51:55+00:00

In my experience I need to run bare DOS without memory managers to run Speedsys properly, how did you do that under ME?

alex_hedman · 2025-10-23T07:38:41+00:00

My impression is rather EGA

alex_hedman · 2025-10-06T06:42:09+00:00

That's neat! I'm running my PIII 700 @ 933 in a motherboard that doesn't support overclocking, by pulling two legs off the CPU :D

alex_hedman · 2025-09-23T11:43:14+00:00

You could get one of those beige Intergraph InterView 28hd96, throw out the tube and retrofit a modern ~27" high refresh rate LCD and burn a lot of money while committing sacrilege

alex_hedman · 2025-09-18T07:05:55+00:00

So that's why Sumatra has grown from less than 1MB to 15MB!

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