I have a Radeon 9200 in my Windows 98 computer (Intel P4, 1GB RAM). Would a Geforce 4 Ti4200 be an improvement? I use it mainly to run FPS games up until 2002-2003.

Wow, how can you tell they are bad from this blurry photo? Simple, I can notice the different reflection on those two as opposed to all other caps. ASRock boards from that era tend to develop bad caps quite a lot. So... is it worth to change the caps or better just through the whole board out? I am …

Really, with that in mind, it's not surprising at all the PSU fan apparently gets loud at load, even considering that OP didn't tell us which P4 they're using. I don't see any case fans in there, either, so naturally it's up to the PSU fan to exhaust all that Netburst heat. The CPU is an Intel …

1. You have two bad caps near the CPU socket 2. Where's the heatsink? Wow, how can you tell they are bad from this blurry photo? But you are right. I just took a closer look and their end caps look a bit bulgy. And those two are not the only ones :depressed: The heat sink is on the right. This is …

Well, hello there! This is my first real post in this forum, although I have been a reader for a while. Today I finished my first retro rig! Most parts I got cheap on eBay, some I had l lying around. ASRock P4-478 Combo Motherboard Intel Pentium IV 1GB DDR 400 RAM Mitsumi 1.44 Floppy Drive Gotek USB …

Thank you for that helpful info! I will definitely try wiring up a port to the mouse header. That would actually be much more useful to me than USB. And my southbridge chip does not seem to be the right version anyway.

I'm in a bit of trouble. I have this very old Pentium computer and it only has a DIN connector for the keyboard, two serial COM ports and a printer port. My old serial mouse is long gone and right now I'm having trouble finding a new one. So I'm thinking about alternatives. I have tried connecting a …