What a throwback, I played a ton of Team Fortress at 15-20 FPS on one of these Pentium 4 Dell laptops as late as like 2011. Minecraft ran a bit better with Optifine but the single gigabyte of RAM meant it would always crash after about a half hour due to low memory. Seems like a fun novelty nowadays but I don't see the point of putting any more money into it
@@Tech86807 just make sure you do your research due to compatibility. i know of 2 laptops that has a removable gpu. the dell C610 witch i use to have but it had too much problems and a inspiron 9300 witch needs a new keyboard. also the fact of buying new old stock/used parts there's like 50/50 that it might be dead or not fully working due to sitting around in a box ask how i know lol, after buying a geforece go card.
A cool piece of retro tech! A little more modern but I managed to get two Thinkpad T430s' for 20 CAD recently. One had an i5-3320m and the other an i7-3520m. They were supposedly broken but swapping the ram sticks around got it to stop hanging before turning on.
Lotta good times in high school on this era of laptops, things would run Runescape in browser without skipping a beat if you got one of the nicer P4 ones at the time, and you have the top tier spec. Also, a Radeon 9200 won't be a ton faster than a 7500, since the 9200 is a cut down 8500 (if my memory serves me) with AGP 8x support. Definitely repaste it but those P4's ran hot regardless, so having to use it on a desk is to be expected. If you can find any AGP laptop gpus kicking around these days they should all work assuming the drivers are compatible with XP.
I had the 3.0ghz prescott version of that notebook. COOKER. You gotta figure the other graphics option was an intel chipset. And anything they would have crammed in from Nvidia at that pricepoint would have been roughly the same in that era.
yeah, to put desktop performance in a laptop at the time certainly came with its compromises. i have a blue toshiba A75 with a 3.2ghz hyperthreaded Pentium 4 and while it doesnt get too hot, the fans are loud and the whole thing is pretty chunky. its a good portable xp system, but im so glad that laptops can now have good performance, small size and battery life
i dont know how this would work but you if you can swap out the fan for one with more fins because the fans on those old laptops usually have less many, thick heavy fins.
You could try to delid the CPU and replace the thermal paste to make temps better. Some of those old GPU's also have an IHS so you might be able to do the same with that.
Even in the day OEMs like Dell referred to machines like this as “desktop replacement” PC’s, effectively meaning they were meant to be an all-in-one PC that you can move around if you need to. Whilst the graphics adapter is upgradable I only ever found a Geforce 4 Go MX 440 for mine, so if you see an upgrade, grab it.
@@Tech86807 yeah I'd add a little bit of MX5 to the GPU if you can take off the Heatsink. Also the GPU you showed in the eBay listing is for a Compaq laptop, not sure if these would be compatible as dell uses a weird socket for their GPUs
@@Tech86807 kinda funny how well it still works and how good this laptop is i upgraded mine with more ram and a wifi card and its very usable even for some modern tasks with firefox
lol we used to call some of them "portable workstation"...those were even worse...but in a weird way i miss them and those times...maybe i'm just that weird lol@@Tech86807
If some dude in Mac came over to me and said "Do you want to buy Laptop for just 5$ with a Intel Pentium IV and Radeon Mobility 7500 in it? Like I want cheeseburger and cola but I forgot money at home", ofc I will buy that amazing pc. I also got a 2004 Asus laptop with SiS 450M Graphics Card and 1-core Celeron 2.79 Ghz, this thing is fun to mess with.
a fileserver wouldn't fit a laptop like this because of how hot it gets and how much power it uses plus it uses ide hard drives. a old linux distro might be a good idea but I am a fan of XP.
Would be cool if you could test and see if a cedar mill pentium 4 works in this, it runs much cooler. I can send a 3,4ghz one to you for the cost of shipping. If it works I think it would be the most powerful laptop possible that utilizes a 4:3 screen
