While i think Netburst in general is great for retro computing, i definitely don`t think its mainly retro-only. Its retro but it has CPU power depending on what you run. There are plenty of people running new 32-bit linux kernels with underground distros, or BSDs, or Haiku or other alternative OSes, …

The Pentium D 935 cpu has arrived. I feel something like a 150 to 200% increase in performance. Maybe software and current OSes are better optimized to take advantage of two netburst cores instead of one and of the extra 2mb cache, the 200mhz extra on each core, and 800mhz fsb. It realy feels a lot …

You'd get much more benefit from a better CPU. Even moving to a C2D would net you 2x-3x in performance. Also, I don't understand what your driver not loading has to do with bitrot. Surely you can obtain another copy of it. I think there must be some issue with the i945 driver port for illumos on …

As someone who also uses a Pentium 4 (Prescott 2.8 GHz, though in 32-bit & s478 flavor) on a daily basis for the web / daily driver, I find it hard to believe that you can watch 1080p @ 60 FPS and not get stutter. Even with MP4 / H.264 compression in MVK, I can't get 1080p @ 30 FPS without stutter. …

This is something i would love to have the money to benchmark using some version of UnixWare or something like that and compare to much older, performance-comparable RISC CPUs running on unix workstations of the 90s.

You'd get much more benefit from a better CPU. Even moving to a C2D would net you 2x-3x in performance. Also, I don't understand what your driver not loading has to do with bitrot. Surely you can obtain another copy of it. I think there must be some issue with the i945 driver port for illumos on …

Going by what you wrote you're using the machine for, I don't think you would benefit much from adding a dedicated graphics card. But getting it to work with your oddball OS... that process itself might still turn out be a weekend of fun. Whether that's worth it is for you to decide. I believe …

I really like netburst due to this single-core performance and especially for retro reasons. i currently daily use the machine for everything, but i wonder if getting something like the 64-bit 3.6 or 3.8 ghz pentium 4`s compatible with socket 775 would be fun, especially for overclocking. I just …

Please explain why, exactly, you want to stick with netburst for that setup? You're not being held back by the OS('s hardware support) and would be much better served with sth modern. Factoring in electricity costs and it being your main driver - probably cheaper, too, in the long run. Anyways, …

I currently run tribblix/illumos on this machine, it has a 64-bit 3.0 ghz pentium 4 524 and 4gb of ram. I really see the old aspects of the uarch which were a failure at the day aged like milk if you run the right OS and software. I can even watch 720p or 1080p 60fps video while doing compression or …