Reminds me a lot like how my first 1GHz Coppermine ended up, except that at some point I even never bothered to put back the side panel, for easier access 🤣!

I did find its 40GB IDE drive to be inadequate for data backup (I used it for this purpose for some time) and to have to add and remove harddrives turned out to be kinda a devious task.

Nice to see someone's workhorse, it even comes with a similar I'm-neglected-but-simply-will-not-die retro-look 🤣 (no offense 😜)

Are socket 478 P4s downwards unlocked? If so, this would make the basis of an excellent Win98/DOS power machine.

Unlike AMD's Athlon64 or maybe some rare P4 engineering samples, the standard P4 has a fixed multiplier.

You can downclock via FSB, if the BIOS has some settings, so a P4 3.0GHz (800FSB) can run between 1.5GHz to 3GHz.

Got 2 P4 era Compaq SFF's and a laptop that keep getting dragged back out of storage for some mundane tasks and while I don't love them I've grown attached to them!
Besides give it long enough and It will become retro!

I guess we all have our skeletons in the closets! It's not that I hate this PC, it's just that there is that pile of (0-4)86 machines next to it.

There is no underclocking for this motherboard, it is locked. The board even lacks its fourth power phase, its so cheaply put together.