If I could have just one retro PC setup it would be Pentium 3-1400S: brutally fast and still mostly compatible for Win98 and being relatively rare. I'm not really all that fond of Super7 with bad experiences in its heyday. On the modern front Nehalem CPUs are well on its merry way of its 10th year …

The only times AMD decisively won in performance post-P5 against Intel's best was Athlon Classic vs P3 Katmai, Palomino AXP vs Wilamette and A64 vs P4 era, and it wasn't until 2002 they finally got a chipset that doesn't suck.

Luckily I got my 32GB DDR4-3200 for cheap at the start of the year so I could spring for a 1700 non-X in the case my current 4790K build goes bust. But TBH I'll just get a replacement H81/B85 ITX board or downgrade to a $120 i5-3470 refurb. I just don't really need so many threads at the moment, …

I have no idea about web radio, but Socket A is terrific for Windows 98. One challenge is power draw, it pays to check the lists and pick one that's not to thirsty. Also check out the Duron, they are quite lovely also. I would grab a XP-M Barton, since they are supposedly the best binned K7s ever …

Nah I don't overclock my 4790K, there's little point getting a measly 10% OC for a lot more power draw and when I'm nowhere even near being CPU bottlenecked in gaming. If you leave it at stock you can shave ~50W off that 140W you mentioned, and running games will also use far less power than stress …

So if they're good enough for HP mission-critical servers, they should be good enough for your home computers. If you search on google for PDF documents there's lists of FSP group units (FOR OEM) that are actually 80+ multi-tier of different color segments too. But FSP doesn't advertise this on the …

http://i.imgur.com/GIybkNy.jpg 4790K + GTX1070 + Win10. Pretty sure I will get way higher scores with WinXP. My old XP1700 Tbred B @ 1833/333 and 9800 Pro did 13K, IIRC. Like you i have a Radeon HD7870 and 3dmark won't run on it claiming i don't have enough video memory. I guess 2GB of video memory …

Built for free in 2001: -K6-2 350MHz -32MB PC100 SDRAM -Gigabyte GA-5AA -6GB IBM HDD -S3 Virge PCI -Crappy AT case and PSU Awful for 32-bit 3D games and somewhat OK for 32-bit 2D games. I can't imagine how I survived with any 3D acceleration back then...I remember the Nvidia TNT1 my friend lent me …

Got a P3 Coppermine 1GHz and stock HSF, mATX Acer OEM i815 mobo, 2x256MB PC133 SDRAM. All for $27! I'm looking at Tualatin 1400-S with S370 to S370 adapter from Ebay for $50 but I have no idea whether the stock HSF even fits.

We are now on our 7th Generation of Core I3/5/7 CPUs. Thats the same number of generations between the 8088 and the Pentium2. Using that same rough math a Pentum 2 is to a late Core 2 Duo is what a Core 2 Duo is to a 6th Gen i7. That being said I agree late 775 systems are still VERY usable but …

The machine that I put together in mid 2009 is still my main rig. It's a C2Q (Q9550) on an Asus P5Q Premium (I think it's PCIe 2.0), has DDR2 4GB RAM, SATA2 mechanical WD Black drives, and an Asus GTX560 Ti. It's running Windows 7 32 bit. I also added an USB 3.0 I/O card, since mobo has nothing to …

I'm not gonna argue about the retro thing but longevity of Core 2 can't be denied. Q9650/E5450 @ 4GHz with a strong enough modern GPU is still pulling an average 60 fps in Witcher 3. That's incredible for an almost 9 year old chip! The platform will always have a spot in my heart for offering still …

If I have to say which is the best Socket A board, it would be the early version Abit NF7-S with black DIMMs. Pros: ATX12V to CPU, all Rubycon caps Cons: The chipset fan would have long died by this point.

Look at how close the P3-S is to the 2083MHz Barton despite being 500MHz slower and hampered by a 150MHz FSB, and also how Yonah is destroying the K8 X2 in Doom3 while easily clocked to 3GHz before C2D even showed up. Yeah, I find that, with an overclocked bus, PIII-S paired with the Apollo Pro 266 …

Look at how close the P3-S is to the 2083MHz Barton despite being 500MHz slower and hampered by a 150MHz FSB, and also how Yonah is destroying the K8 X2 in Doom3 while easily clocked to 3GHz before C2D even showed up. AMD was only lucky in 2001-2005 when Intel screwed around with Netburst, otherwise …