you've just built the machine I wanted in 2004, very cool , the 6800 series are really nice (generally between the GF3 and GF8800 I would prefer ATI , but the 6800 is brilliant).

just get Doom3 to run on it (apparently its possible to run Doom3 on Win98 and ME), and youre good to go 😜

Sweet. Gotta have the devil inside sticker for sure. I'm not into a lot of gimmicky stuff on my builds but I definitely like tastefully done LEDs and windows. Nice build!

Thanks! (again) for your compliment! Yeah, the seller of that case didn't indicate that it lit up so it was quite the surprise for me! I usually like discrete setups with clean lines and tidy internals, but this was a pleasant change of pace and that case really dictated the theme, changing the direction I was going for originally.

I have that same case that came with blue LED tubes on the front, really like the red LEDs and the ones you put in it.

Too bad about the 6800GT great card but seems most don't have a very long life went through three of them before I got one that lasted more than a month. At least you had that ultra to fall back on kick myself for not buying at least one ultra when this wall-mart was closing only about $50 with the markdowns that was in 2008 but then you could get used ones on ebay for around $20

Man, I remember being jealous at very similar-looking systems advertised in PC Gamer magazine back around 2004 or so... Nice build, and nice touch on the "Devil Inside" sticker. 😈

Nice to see some p4/AGP stuff here again 😎 (those 3Ghz of power were totally awesome at that time, not only because of its popularity back then and now I suppose 🤣 )
Sorry to hear that it gaves you some troubles to work as intented, it's always sad when hardware die whithout much reasons 😵

Meanwhile I ordered a case to put my p4 3ghz into and I found that an Enermax Skalene would perfectly do the job.
Here some pics of my p4/AGP combo (replaced the fan of the graphic card by something uglier but working in silence and the cooler of the NB that was too damn hot by touch by a bigger one) 😎

I mounted the HDD that way because it looks cleaner 😁

Now I only need some free time to test it further with games. 😀
As It is it can serve as a NAS, a media center and a web browsing machine (some sort of emergency computer if my main pc is in trouble 😎 ).

Aww man you keep taking my glory! I've got a P4 3Ghz, Asus P4P-800, Corsair Flashy LED RAM and GF6800 Ultra waiting to be built as the "end of the road" 98 PC! was even planning on case lighting as P4s are hot (so its gotta be red) and this is the era people really got into case mods in a big way.

Still great job! I do enjoy reading your builds, guess the better man won 😉

chinny22 wrote:

Aww man you keep taking my glory! I've got a P4 3Ghz, Asus P4P-800, Corsair Flashy LED RAM and GF6800 Ultra waiting to be built as the "end of the road" 98 PC! was even planning on case lighting as P4s are hot (so its gotta be red) and this is the era people really got into case mods in a big way.

Still great job! I do enjoy reading your builds, guess the better man won 😉

Hahah. Thanks! Never a competition here - I would love to see your build and benchmarks for comparison too! I really wanted my Corsair XMS LED RAM to work, but I only have 2 x 1024MB sticks and I couldn't get the board to fire up with them installed. That would look super crazy with those LEDs + side panel fan LEDs + chipset fan LEDS. Seizure-inducing to say the least! \

I actually picked up a 3.4Ghz Northwood for $15 that I'm going to throw in to max out the board. I don't think I'll gain much in the benchies, and a confirmed higher TDP/Wattage according to the Intel spec for the processors, but I'm still gonna do it. 😀

Right around this time in 2004 I had a Super Flower case that was pretty similar and I remember going WAY overboard with lighting in that build. I had an LED rope underneath to create a cool underglow effect, and two angel 'halo' cold cathode fans in front as well as two UV lights inside + LED Zalman CNPS cooler. It was NUTS - I couldn't even sleep in my room it was so bright! I'll see if I can dig up a picture. 😎

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chinny22 wrote:

Aww man you keep taking my glory! I've got a P4 3Ghz, Asus P4P-800, Corsair Flashy LED RAM and GF6800 Ultra waiting to be built as the "end of the road" 98 PC! was even planning on case lighting as P4s are hot (so its gotta be red) and this is the era people really got into case mods in a big way.

Still great job! I do enjoy reading your builds, guess the better man won 😉

Hahah. Thanks! Never a competition here - I would love to see your build and benchmarks for comparison too! I really wanted my Corsair XMS LED RAM to work, but I only have 2 x 1024MB sticks and I couldn't get the board to fire up with them installed. That would look super crazy with those LEDs + side panel fan LEDs + chipset fan LEDS. Seizure-inducing to say the least! \

I actually picked up a 3.4Ghz Northwood for $15 that I'm going to throw in to max out the board. I don't think I'll gain much in the benchies, and a confirmed higher TDP/Wattage according to the Intel spec for the processors, but I'm still gonna do it. 😀

Right around this time in 2004 I had a Super Flower case that was pretty similar and I remember going WAY overboard with lighting in that build. I had an LED rope underneath to create a cool underglow effect, and two angel 'halo' cold cathode fans in front as well as two UV lights inside + LED Zalman CNPS cooler. It was NUTS - I couldn't even sleep in my room it was so bright! I'll see if I can dig up a picture. 😎

Wow,your build looks so cool.

Never ever I got my P4 builds to ever look like that,and I used some pretty good boards,such as MSI 865PE Neo-2-L (same as yours but without the Promise and the VT6307 chips),the legendary ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe (used a 2.8GHz P4 due to the HT 3.0GHz one putting a such level of heat that it would make a grown man cry...) and a P4P800-VM (which I modded to run an Iwill P4SE-Gold (with manually added iGPU driver w/ CBROM) BIOS).

The best I got once was a Pentium 4 3GHz rig on the P4P800-E.

Thanks! I swapped the 3.0Ghz Northwood processor today with this little guy to max out the board - made a bigger difference than I thought with the 3DMark scores. Something is up with 3DMark 99 though - I was expecting like 18000+. And I'm not sure how accurate that 3DMark 2001 SE score is either - seems like TOO big of a jump.

3DMark 99
3.0Ghz = 17786 3DMarks, 40920 CPU 3DMarks
3.4Ghz = ?? Not working correctly - showing really low numbers - 7486 3DMarks, 45883 CPU 3DMarks

3DMark 2000
3.0Ghz = 16492 3D Marks
3.4Ghz = 19595 3D Marks

3DMark 2001 SE
3.0Ghz = 14606 3DMarks
3.4Ghz = 19495 3DMarks

Seeing 3DMark 2001 SE run 180+ fps in that 'nature' scene is STUNNING.

I wish I had a build like this 😀
3DMark 2001SE is VERY CPU demanding, don't be surprised.
Now try to run modern-ish games on it, like NFS:MW (2005), NFS:Carbon, The Sims 2, GTA: SA, Doom 3, Far Cry 1, someone help me name other games...
Most of them would require KernelEx, except The Sims 2 😜

Got DOOM 3 and Prey working so far with KernelEx.