First post, by ddoyle525
Back in the mid 1990’s my first real IT job was as a desktop support technician for Knowledge Adventure in California. We had a Novell network of about 200 Windows PC’s and several Macs. It was a dream come true! I remember many of the PC’s were Gateway 2000 486 DX33’s/DX2 66’s. Looking at the PC landscape today I noticed how boring today’s PC’s are: black or white glass cases with fancy lights, but no drive bays – none! So I decided to restore a Gateway PC I bought eBay and have some fun with it. Most of the parts are original except for the CPU which I upgraded from a P4 1.4GHz to a P4 1.7GHz, I upgraded the memory, and I replaced all the fans. The motherboard is the original Intel D850GB workstation board of excellent build quality. Overall the system is very clean and runs extra-quiet because of the new quiet fans. The OS is Windows Me that shipped from the factory (see below). I also tested Windows 98 which ran flawlessly.
I was also able to purchase a Gateway FPD1520 LCD monitor, Gateway-branded keyboard, mouse and mouse pad and I was able to purchase the original system restore CD's.
I'd like to sell the whole system but I don't know how other than E-bay so suggestions are welcome.
Specs:
• Computer: Gateway ATXSTF Performance 1400 – MFG Date: 08/08/2001
• Motherboard: Intel D850GB, Intel i850E chipset, ICH2 southbridge (original)
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz SL57V Socket 423 Willamette (upgraded from 1.4GHz original CPU)
• Memory: 1GB 400MHz Dual-Channel RDRAM (2x512MB RAMBUS RIMMs)
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP
• Audio Card: Creative AudioPCI 9550 (ES1373)
• Network Card: RealTek RTL8139C PCI LAN (A.K.A. RTL810X)
• IDE Storage: 32GB CF Card in HX-118 dual-port CF Compact Flash to 40-pin IDE in 3.5" floppy bay carrier
• Optical Drive: Teac DW-552G ATAPI DVD/CD-ROM Combo Drive
• Floppy Drive: Standard 1.44MB 3.5in floppy drive
• Speakers: Cyber Acoustics CA-1000 5.25 Drive Bay speakers
• Fans: Antec UFO 120mm LED case fan; Be quiet! 80mm PSU fan; Noiseblocker 60mm CPU fan
• OS: Windows Me installed from factory restoration media
• Monitor: Gateway FPD1520 15in LCD flat screen
• Accessories: Gateway-branded keyboard, mouse, mousepad and factory-restore media.
Benchmarks:
3DMark 2000 = 5076 3D marks
Wintune 98
CPU Integer 3103.95 MIPS
FPU 949.1528 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 71.03001 MPixels/s
Direct3D 141.3622 MPixels/s
OpenGL 19.19324 MPixels/s
Memory 3472.222 MB/s
Cached Disk 273.1319 MB/s
Uncached Disk 0.9503059 MB/s
DOS Benchmarks
3DBench 1.0c = 437.9
Chris's 3D Benchmark = 864.2
Chris's 3D Benchmark 640x480 = 149.2
PC Player Benchmark (VGA 320x200 8bpp) = 280.0
PC Player Benchmark 640x480x8bpp = 45.8
Doom max. details = 1234 gametcis in 665 realtics 112.32 FPS
Quake Timedemo = 213.0 FPS
Landmark System Speed Test 2.00 = 18490.50 CPU 5175.86 FPU 28912.94 chr/ms
Landmark System Speed Test 6.00 = 15600 CPU 23000 FPU 28912.94 chr/ms
TOPBENCH 3.8 = 339
Speedsys 4.78 CPU = 923.69
System Information 8.0 CPU = 629.1
"Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." - John 14:6