While cheap Dell boards are going for 15-20 USD on Ebay the more expensive or premium ones are selling for 40-50 USD at the minimum. Listed, not “selling”. The exorbitant prices you name are meant for businesses replacing specific part numbers in their industrial solutions. It’s a niche of …

I never expected retro hardware to be so expensive and so difficult to get nowadays. 386 and older, yes. A good WinXP computer is a free curbside pickup on trash day. If you don't believe me, try selling a s775 board yourself and see how much reactions you get. Pardon me for I am bit of a greenhorn …

I have to say your build is great and probably the most resource efficient build for a decent Win XP experience. If I had discovered some of the "not so retro hardware but runs retro software" builds on this forum earlier I think I would have stuck with the modern builds. I never expected retro …

Nothing special but I present my "retro" XP build based on my childhood 478 socket Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor. It took me quite a lot of time and effort to assemble this but with the help of the forum members I finally managed to piece together something close to what I wanted. I changed the …

Congratulations. Getting these big brand OEM boards working in anything accept the original case is always a massive pain, especially if your only just getting back into the hobby. Thank you. The forum did help me a lot. I had little to no experience with pre-2012 builds and I also did not do my …

MB1723 wrote on 2024-01-05, 14:35: I used this on my 233 mhz PC and it quickly identified and worked great with my 8gb sata ssd https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/ide2sat2 I ended up getting one from startech and one from Kingwin. They worked without any problems.

Update: I finally managed to get the Dell 3000 motherboard working. It was a real slog but after using the IDE to Sata adapter to connect to my SSD, and after configuring the BIOS I have managed to boot into win XP with the help of a Dell OEM XP Cd I got from Ebay. The integrated display was so …

Thanks everyone, for your suggestions. I think I will get a 775 socket. My biggest mistake was buying the cheap Dell Dimension motherboard which did not come with the mounting brackets for the cooler or a PCIe slot. Also I did not know I had to buy a connector for the 40 pin IDE slot. I have been …

This is my first post on this forum and I wanted to ask for some advice regarding a retro PC build I wanted based on my childhood PC. I had a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz processor with 256 MB RAM, a 40 GB HDD and XP installed on it. I do not recall the specifics too much but I have surmised that the processor …