Just wanted to clarify as I've been getting quite a few comments about it recently: While Afterburner was reading that the CPU was running at 100*C, this wasnt the case (luckily). Unfortunately due to a temp sensor issue it was reporting the wrong temperature. The CPU cooler was fitted perfectly snug despite the lack-luster "zip-tie" solution. Thank you all for your comments though!
I had a old case and motherboard I decided to finally finish building. It just happened to have the exact same MB you are using. Thanks for the video. I will use it as a guide.
That pc looks amazing i love to see old pc/hardware getting some love. i just completed building my nostaligia pc as well it has: A good condition whit old case Pentium 4 3.0ghz Asus p4pe mobo Nvidia fx 5950 2gb ram Sounblaster audigy 2 platinum And even managed to get a good crt monitor for a good price. And i have to admid i love the pc im almost using it more than my main gaming pc😅.
Managed to build an XP PC similar to yours mobo: ASRock P4VM800 CPU: PrescHOT 2.8E Ghz RAM: 2GB Kingmax GPU: MSI FX5200 Sound card: on the hunt for an Audigy 2 ZS Still more powerful than my first PC, even though back then I had the FX5500. The few games I played on it run pretty well, such as Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Morrowind, Worms 3, No One Lives Forever :D 5:04 yep, the same "purr" as mine and something that I don't miss from this era of PCs
I have a 128mb pny 5200fx agp, sadly no dvi just two vga ports and an s video, I should really get a 478 rig, came across 10 dell dimensions and only too the ram and some cpus and a gpu out wish I had taken the whole rig
Great video ,though you are trying to play games released around ??? ..2010.. ??? (Euro Truck , Driving Speed 2) with a low-end GPU from 2003 ??? My own retro-PC ( Athlon64 FX60 , GeForce 8800GT , 4GB RAM) would have served your gaming interests way better ,since i build it with having in mind to have some extra "headroom" for certain old but demanding games. Still , you built a great retro-PC , but the games you chose to play aren't inline with this PC's age.
hi if it is called dream machine , why don't we make it dreamy my own setup is: 865PE NEO2-P platinum edition MSI motherboard 4 gigs of DDR 400 ram (it only recognizes 3gigs in XP 32 bit but what the heck ) pentium 4 Prescott FSB 800 3.2 GHz 1m l2 cache CPU and wait for it ...... 1 GB of AGP ATI hd4670 Graphics card with this system even impossible says i'm possible of course on XP 32bit OS
The only “Acer” part in this entire system is related to the motherboard, and even then it’s only the BIOS that distinguishes it as an Acer part. The board is actually manufactured by Foxconn
I loved this. I'm kind of a hardware hoarder. I have my old Dell dimension from 2002 still. It was our family pc and I've upgraded it to a Pentium 4 3.06ghz and I bought a gt 610 that is made for the standard pci slot so now I can use HDMI. It's a lot of fun.
Or a UGreen DVI to HDMI adapter, or two, which works both on a graphics card's DVI output port, as well as an HP 19" 1280x1024 LED backlit monitor's DVI input port that had no HDMI input beforehand.
I just picked up a computer from the dump and it has a pentium 4 clocked at 3.6ghz and has 4gb of OCZ DDR-433 and a AMD ATI 800X 256mb of ddr3 and a 480W PSU, it works fine except the smaller fan on the motherboard is shot and it needed a hard drive. But some one just threw it out and I don't know what to do with it now.
1 week ago I built a socket 478 pc of retro parts I had in my attic and it works like a charm on windows xp, then yesterday I've installed windows 7 home premium 32x bits, because it uses less ram and resources than ultimate edition, but it's fine. Here's my retro pc specs: Intel Celeron single-core 2.40 Ghz 128k cache northwood ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP 1gb ram ddr 400 single-channel 400w PSU Torrent Computers 80gb laptop hard drive (I didn't installed a desktop hard drive, because all were broken and corrupted). Windows 7 works very well but the cpu is bottleneck on games. I'm planning to upgrade the cpu to pentium 4, maybe northwood or prescott, but prescott CPUs are more hotter than northwood CPUs, ram to 4gb and a desktop hard drive.
Damn!!! My first build in 2005/2006 had almost the same specs as yours!! This video hit me hard with nostalgia :) If I remember correctly my build had: Pentium 4 3.0 2GB RAM GPU I think was a PowerColor Radeon HD 3650 512MB AGP 320GB Samsung HDD I remember back then upgrading the case with some big fans with blue light and nice airflow (cut holes on the front of the case), HDD cooler was a thing back then too and I had one. Stock CPU cooler. Cable management was a mess and I'm pretty sure I was not running proper drivers as back then I didn't even knew what drivers were. I was 16 back then... Good times... I still have most of the parts stored except the case and HDD. Maybe someday I'll revive that pc for the sake of nostalgia. Great video.
Still have my 478 machine, a Dell Dimension 4600 upgraded to 3.0 GHz and 3 GB of ram with a HD3650 AGP which was a thriftstore find Also has 2x 160 GB IDE HDD’s and a 60 GB Sata SSD, which worked for some reason
Nice, I have a 478 Xpc Shuttle in the loft 3.2 ghz with a Ati 9600 pro 128 mb.. This video has made me quite keen to dig it out. Agp graphics cards prices seemed quite pricey last time I looked, upgrading could be pricey. But you are well aware of that & you seem happy with the rig.
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What? XP nostalgic? OMG The time pass, is true. For my XP era is too close, yesterday Ohhhhh this vídeo have 03 years!
Thought I'd share my first PC, cuz why not. Pentium DualCore E5300 (basically a cheaper core 2 duo) Gigabyte p31-es3g or something like that 2 gb DDR2 Single Channel 800 mhz Palit Passive 9500GT 512MB ddr2 I think And of course, lovely Windows XP.
Wow that's almost the same as mine's Core2 duo e8400 Asus p5q 4gb dual channel ddr2 666 mhz 9500gt (upgraded to 8800gt) Windows vista (upgraded to 7, skipped 8, got 10 for free)... Used it untill the 2015s ish before the psu died taking the entire system along with it
Smile ツ alot is subjective, so sure. But the cpu is the same, they are both wolfdale cpus if you look at them under a microscope you wouldnt be able to tell them apart.
....an FX 5200...Really? The 5000-series of graphics cards is the worst family of cards ever made by Nvidia, and your graphics card choice is the worst card in the worst family of cards from Nvidia. I know AGP cards's aren't that easy to come by nowadays, but you'd really be hard pressed to find a worse card to use. I mean you struggled to run Doom, that should really tell you all you need to know about it.
Because as already explained, this machine wasn't built to be the "best in it's class", I wanted a machine that replicated the gaming experience on the hardware I had in at the time
@@Techwen I understand that, but you still missed your goal. If you wanted to build a system that could replicate the gaming experience you had in the past, and then it fails to do that in select titles then you clearly haven't accomplished what you set out to do. You said yourself that you put a lot of time into playing Driving Speed 2 in the past, and I'm sure you didn't always play it with significant graphics issues like you had here. You also really weren't able to play Euro Truck Simulator, and you struggled to run essentially everything else. The video title indicates you wanted to build your "dream Socket 478 Retro gaming PC". That doesn't necessarily mean you wanted something best in class or that was really cutting edge at the time, but it does give the impression you wanted something that would provide a relatively good gaming experience. You may have got decent performance with some titles, but you can't honestly pretend this system did everything you wanted when it clearly didn't. This doesn't mean you need to rebuild the system with cutting edge parts, but you can't really deny that you need a better graphics card in this system. It doesn't need to be the best in it's class, it just needs to not be one of the worst graphics cards of all time. Your video also causes me some concern for those that may attempt to follow your example and build a similar system. You didn't talk about the FX 5200 much, but what time you did spend discussing it you made it sound like a quality component to have in your retro PC. I could understand entirely if you said this was all you had so you were using it until you got something better, but that's not what you did.
Nice setup, build with available parts that don't cost too much. I just got some cards from the same era (P4 2.8, Intel865, Radeon 7000, SB Live Value, 2GB DDR400), maybe for a dual boot (Win98SE + WinXP). Let us know of a any upgrades on the way.
You probably would have gotten a bit more performance out of the machine if you weren’t running XP on it. Obviously you were doing it more for nostalgia rather then performance. But XP has a lot of overhead for a Pentium 4 to deal with. Especially when dealing with service pack 2 or later. That’s when 3+ gig Pentium 4’s or better yet multi-core systems start making more sense. Pentium 4’s are more at home in a Windows 98/2000 era build since by the time XP was maturing there was a growing multi-core presence in the market and by the time XP was being phased out multi-core supporting games for the XP platform were already available. My current XP build has a 4790K and 4 gig GTX 960 not because it’s necessary but simply to run my XP era games at max settings and never have frame drops. Plus I’ve seen Quake 4 and Doom 3 use up to 4 threads so having a multi-core platform does help despite a lot of people claiming all you need is 2 cores for XP. Having said that, after watching videos like this and others it’s made me want to build a ‘best of the best’ Pentium 4 based machine for a while now. Might have to do that sometime.
GOTTA HAVE THAT ZUNE THEME! One that came out I installed it as Default to Every & Any PC I fixed since I was the Local PC nice guy for everyone. That was my Jokers Card @ the Crime Scene LOL
My retro machine: pentium 4 2.8 w Hiper Treading enabled, 2gb ddr2 800 dual channel, Palit gt 240 512 mb ddr5, 550w FSP psu w Active PFC, WD Caviar Black 160 gb sata, Seagate Barracuda 320 gb sata, generic HP DVD drive, windows xp proff sp3. Socket 478! All thanks to Asrock p4i945gc w sata, pci-e and ddr 2. It's so fun and interesting to build such a system!
I bet this machine run old game fine Manyngame you try is little new imo And this is best for emulator gba 😊 I play the damn out of my xp pentium with gba
CPU at 100 celcius means the heatsink have to be reseated. This looks more like a Windows 98 machine project. Just diminish the ram. XP could run on a multicore CPU like fx8350 and lower and Ivy Bridge intel and lower like 3xxx. An AMD 270x and NVIDIA GT 960 would run with it.
Im just building my Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo 600 and Compaq Presario SR1610NX atm from back in the day and man we are so spoiled with automatic driver installation and updates nowadays...
I have the exact same rig with an ati chipset. "(hp board) mine is a pentium d960 at 3.6g. i am using the ati onboard graphics with similar results. the case is difficult to wire up. mine triple boots 98, xp & vista.
Yes, i have a pretty similar machine, and i plan to use for high end w98 gaming. Asus p5p800 se, p4 3.2ghz, 2gb ddr400 dual-channel, fx5500 256mb, sound blaster live 24 bit. At first i have a ati radeon 9000 pro that has similar performance, better video acceleration and maybe better image quality. But i think the fx5500 has better compatibility and that is the most important for a w98 gaming machine like this.
Why 64 bit for SP2 and 32 bit for SP3? If you're gonna use SP2 for compatibility with really stubborn software that doesn't run on anything else, shouldn't you use 32 bit so that you can utilize that compatibility properly?
Playing retro games on actual Hardware is actually the best way to play rather than using emulators which a lot of times can be very glitchy and require so much tweaking.
You got that xp disc in there just in time as the drive got initialised. Reminds me of my first pc I built from new parts bought at a pc expo. P4 2.8GHz, some crappy case, a gigabyte entry atx mobo and a GeForce FX5200, some ram and I had the rest. Still got it now and used as a game server but won't run anything as hdd never stops lol
You should overclock that 2.8ghz pentium 4! my Pentium 4 2.8ghz northwood goes to 3.7ghz with stock voltage :)). I also have a 2.93ghz celeron D prescott that does 3.5ghz stock voltage :P. Also pickup a new gpu for that machine, go for a Geforce 5600 Ultra or better. Heck even a Radeon HD 3850 AGP or 4650 AGP
Not that 'retro'. I still use a HP Pavilion 472uk with Pentium 4 (2GHz), 2 x 1GB RAM (was originally 128K), MX 450 video card, add-in USB 2.0 card (was originally USB 1.0), on-board audio, Windows XP SP2, original keyboard and mouse. The system was purchased (factory refurbished) in 2003 and has been used almost every day since. I'd upgrade the Pentium to 2.8GHz but I've yet to figure out how to remove the non-standard heatsink. The RAM is maxed-out at 2GB. The operating system was supplied on EIGHT separate CDs which have to be loaded in a fixed sequence. It has so far defied all efforts to update to SP3.
Recently put together a pretty similar P4 retro xp build, that was based on an Advent T9100 obtained for free off the kerbside. It's now running a Socket 478 P4 3.20E Prescott, with an ASRock P4i65G motherboard, 2GB (2x1GB) of Kingston Hyper-X DDR 400 memory, a 256MB XFX 6600GT AGP card, and an Audigy SB0090 PCI audio card. Also using a Seasonic SS-500ET PSU, 160GB & 320GB Hitachi SATA drives, dual Lite-On DVD PATA drives, and a Masscool copper CPU cooler, complete with a floppy drive & internal card reader that came with the case. For improved airflow though I had to ghetto jam in a Noctua NF-P12, as the T9100 case, great looking as it is in metallic blue and silver, didn't come with anywhere to mount a case fan natively.
Loved this video,I'm also going to build a socket 478 gaming pc I'm so exited, just waiting for the parts to arrive, windows xp and a northwood p4 and an fx5200, similar parts to your build.
Hahahaha Win XP. I still remember when 3.1.1 was the latest craze. 10 floppy disks. 99% of the time it would load properly and you had to install it all over again. Hold it, I just remembered when DOS was a disk that you put in the computer to make it not a sinker. But hey my first computer was a Vic 20.
