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Pentium IV 3.8GH build... With PCIe SSD :)

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First post, by NiPPonD3nZ0

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Hello again Vogonists!

While cleaning and rebuilding my Targa Athlon XP, I started cleaning another chassis, this time around, one of two I've
found near a dumpster and I think to myself "you are both coming with me home"... And they did! One of them was a black
chassis with a paper inside it saying "Not WOrking", the other one (the one I will show you) just had memory loose inside of it and a smell of burnt silicon coming out of it's power supply...

This is it

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I've build a few of these when they were new, back in 2002 and at the time I like them... they were no Thermaltake, but they were nice ... Inside of them I built, mostly, Athlon XP and DUron's, and even a couple of Sempron's went inside of these chassis around that time.

This one had a P4 inside of it, didn't try to boot the machine when assembled because of the burnt smell coming from the PSU, so, out it went...

The mobo is an Intel Desktop Board D965PERL and I don't know anything about it but it looks good... maybe my next P4 build will be around it 😀

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The graphics inside of it... Weirdly enough, the card has no DSUB conector on it... Just a DVI... Its a Gigabyte branded GeForce 6200

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Removed the CPU heatsink just to check witch CPU it had, and it was a common P4 3GHz...

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The motherboard was missing a couple of DIMM retencion clips on the 1º and the 4º DIMM slot, later I've found them inside the chassis front bezel, so they went in again and it looks like nothing was broken after all!!! 😀

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It 5,25" drives where removed and the motherboard tray came out
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The chassis had a sticker glued inside of it, and it was not related to this motherboard. Obviously this system got upgraded or repaired with same quality hardware at some point of is life!

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On the backside there is also a sticker, once again, not related to this motherboard!

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Everything was disassembled out of the chassis and cleaned, just like the Targa build!

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Just before packing away the motherboard and old hardware, could not resist trying it out...

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And yes, it works 😀

Inside this chassis will not live this computer... I want something "better" inside of it, something that signified the PEAK of the GHz war!!!

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ASUS P5GD1 Pro, with a Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 on top of a Pentium 4 571 Processor... Yes, a 3,8GHz Prescott CPU!!!! Was never a big fan of these back in the day, I remember that they were HOT!!! So today I'm working on this machine to exorcise my demons about this generation of hardware! 😀

Keeping the Arctic theme, installed two of these on the back of the chassis

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And all went inside the chassis 😀

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Some zip ties were required... Have I told you I'ma bit paranoid with cables floating around in the chassis??? Well, I am!

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Well, It's power supply time again... I have a EuroTech with a dead fan at hand

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The caps on it dont look bad so will use this one for now

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The fan was replaced with this one
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And then it went inside the chassis... This will be a bitch to manage...
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What will I install in this? well, a PCI-Express SSD of course!

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With a MSI GeForce 6600GT (I have a GeForce 9600GS and a 7300GT, but I think that out of these cards the 6600GT is the best, so I stuck it in there...

Maybe I will benchmark them all and clear my own doubts, but first, will do the Targa benchmarks first!)

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And a PCI-Express WiFi card, that came of a Apple laptop
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Why, well.. I've bought the SSD and WiFi card for my Mac Pro but he doesn't like the SSD controller card I bought, and the WiFi card was replaced by a newer card I've removed of a broken iMac, so had this laying around... Better be using it no? 😀

The SSD is in
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The WiFi is in
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And finally, the 6600GT is in!!!
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To finalise the build, I've got another Mac Pro leftover, a WD 250GB SATA Drive

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Will also try to get this to work with a Pinnacle PC TV Pro and make this usefull on my bedroom, so I can justify having it around to my better (and annoying part), a.K.a The Wife

One of the perks of my work is that a keep around LOTS of Windows COA's of dead computers, mostly Windows XP ones for my old build's, and got a few of the Media Center Editions that I never used, so this one will get one of those 😀

Will post more pics over the weekend showing the finalised and working build 😀

Best regards from Portugal 😀

Reply 1 of 8, by Standard Def Steve

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I didn't think those old boards could boot off of PCIe SSDs. Very cool build!

94 MHz NEC VR4300 | SGI Reality CoPro | 8MB RDRAM | Each game gets its own SSD - nooice!

Reply 3 of 8, by SW-SSG

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Standard Def Steve wrote:

I didn't think those old boards could boot off of PCIe SSDs. Very cool build!

That looks like a PCIe x1-mSATA slot card, possibly this exact one:

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You can see the SATA bridge chip near the x1 card edge connector; it's likely one that has its own BIOS that allows for booting off it in the first place. The chip supports two SATA ports but this card provides the second port as a regular SATA connector; you can find similar cards that have two mSATA slots instead.

So, thread title is somewhat misleading. It's not a "bona fide" PCI Express SSD, which that motherboard is most likely too old to support. It's just a SATA card with a mSATA slot on it.

Cool build though 😊

Reply 4 of 8, by NiPPonD3nZ0

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I bought it off ebay but yeah, its a controller like that... I wanted to use it because the Mac Pro is Sata2, and a msata ssd over a sata3 pciexpress card is faster .... At least thats the theory... 😀

Reply 5 of 8, by Cyberdyne

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Hey friends, lets make some things clear, just discuss stuff that has native ISA connection in the motherboard 😉 Lets have it in vogons way!

I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.

Reply 7 of 8, by agent_x007

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Just so you know : 9600 GS will annihilate 6600 GT/7300 GT, even if used with Pentium 4 3,8GHz.
As a bonus, you get full video hardware acceleration support on it (since it's DX10) 😀

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Reply 8 of 8, by NiPPonD3nZ0

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Isn't the 9600GS more suited to a Vista gaming PC??? I'm thinking of building one of each, 95, 98/ME, XP, Vista, on Intel and AMD! Am i being crazy ??? 😀 I have the hardware... 😜

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