There is no such thing as a Pentium 3 133mhz?

Your motherboard looks like it has bulging capacitors, which usually means bad stability issues.

What is the model of that mobo? I had one that looks a lot like this one back in the day, but I never found out the full model name.

Btw, an iPhone 5 can take good pictures if you get your lights right, and learn to use the flash well enough. It took me a while to learn how to take semi-decent photos of my hardware with my Lumia, and I still struggle to do it with weak lights.

Imperious wrote:

There is no such thing as a Pentium 3 133mhz?

There are Pentium 3s that use 133 mhz FSB.

Pentium III 733MHz, possibly?

And why do you use a (presumably) 1 MB Trio video card when you have a perfectly usable AGP slot right next to it?

Also, why no ISA sound card?

You could have a good machine with a wide compatibility range for Windows AND DOS titles right here, but at the moment it's neither.

EDIT: Also, yeah, bulging capacitors.

I'm not sure I can see an AGP slot, the pictures are just too bad.
The VGA card is not in the same slot in pictures 2/3.
The mainboard has an ISA slot so if it really is a P3 it doesn't have an Intel chipset. Not necessarily bad. I still guess that it's a P3, a Pentium 133 would probably have more ISA slots, less than 5 PCI slots and wouldn't support 512MB RAM (except with a more modern SS7 mainboard).
Windows 2000 makes sense for a P3 for productivity, not necessarily for games.

idspispopd wrote:

Windows 2000 makes sense for a P3 for productivity, not necessarily for games.

I thought the same till I tried this year with my Duel P3 600. Most games actually worked fine and Windows doesn't lock up nearly as much. You don't realise how often a "stable" 9x pc really does crash until it stops happening.

chinny22 wrote:

I thought the same till I tried this year with my Duel P3 600. Most games actually worked fine and Windows doesn't lock up nearly as much. You don't realise how often a "stable" 9x pc really does crash until it stops happening.

Yeah, your post regarding this made me realize I want a dual-boot system and use 98SE only for the games that simply don't work at all under 2000/XP.

Beware that not every piece of hardware have good drivers for 2000/XP. My Savage4 was slow in XP but performed fine enough in Windows 98 back in the day.

idspispopd wrote:

[...]The mainboard has an ISA slot so if it really is a P3 it doesn't have an Intel chipset.

There were many P3 capable boards with Intel chipsets and ISA slot(s).