It's nice if it does what you want it to do, I guess?

Why not just go with Win7?

Jorpho wrote:

It's nice if it does what you want it to do, I guess?

Why not just go with Win7?

Thought of that too but it starts to be quite boring. Might go for it though,just for fun and to see if this old system can keep up with new stuff.

If it can't I'll go Vista SP2.

PcBytes wrote:

Thought of that too but it starts to be quite boring.

"Boring" in that it might actually behave and do what you want with a minimum of fuss?

I really should stop trying to understand these things.

Jorpho wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

Thought of that too but it starts to be quite boring.

"Boring" in that it might actually behave and do what you want with a minimum of fuss?

I really should stop trying to understand these things.

No,it' s just that I've installed 7 over a thousand of times.

Jorpho wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

Thought of that too but it starts to be quite boring.

"Boring" in that it might actually behave and do what you want with a minimum of fuss?

I really should stop trying to understand these things.

That is the kind of behaiour that I expect from my main computer. I don't mind my retro-PCs acting up a little... I'd say this makes them more interesting =)

This is a very nice P4 system... any reason you decided to go with Prescott rather than Northwood?

Anyway, given how stagnant Windows system requirements have been since Windows Vista, I'd expect this PC to be able to run even a 32-bit version of Windows 10 without trouble. Or you can put Vista RTM and have even more "trouble" xD

alexanrs wrote:

That is the kind of behaiour that I expect from my main computer. I don't mind my retro-PCs acting up a little... I'd say this m […]
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Jorpho wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

Thought of that too but it starts to be quite boring.

"Boring" in that it might actually behave and do what you want with a minimum of fuss?

I really should stop trying to understand these things.

That is the kind of behaiour that I expect from my main computer. I don't mind my retro-PCs acting up a little... I'd say this makes them more interesting =)

This is a very nice P4 system... any reason you decided to go with Prescott rather than Northwood?

Anyway, given how stagnant Windows system requirements have been since Windows Vista, I'd expect this PC to be able to run even a 32-bit version of Windows 10 without trouble. Or you can put Vista RTM and have even more "trouble" xD

Well,being the only Prescott that doesn't instantly jump to 80*C (like my old Celeron D 2.66GHZ) and the fact that it has HT was what made me go for it.

I do have a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Northwood as well. Funny thing though - this PC,despite having a Prescott inside,it's damn silent. I can't even hear it,save for the 80GB HDD. Wonder if 7 has support for the old PDC20378 controller,though I have some doubts.

Oh,and I forgot mentioning that this system also has a HP card reader attached on USB. Pretty pimped for its era,huh? 🤣

alexanrs wrote:

I'd expect this PC to be able to run even a 32-bit version of Windows 10 without trouble.

sure. 64-bit too. Microsoft did minor changes since XP to really require something modern.

Tertz wrote:

alexanrs wrote:

I'd expect this PC to be able to run even a 32-bit version of Windows 10 without trouble.

sure. Microsoft did minor changes since XP to really require something modern.

Oh yeah,same requirements since Vista. Microsoft really knows its stuff when it comes about specs. 😀

PcBytes wrote:

Oh,and I forgot mentioning that this system also has a HP card reader attached on USB. Pretty pimped for its era,huh? 🤣

Is this a black card reader with no branding at all, and came with a black 3.5" to 5.25" bay adapter? I have one of those in my main system! kkkkkkkk

PcBytes wrote:

Microsoft really knows its stuff when it comes about specs.

When same OS is sold under different names to keep similar requirements is not hard.

Technically, the official requirements for Vista (32-bit, RTM) was 512MB of RAM. Back when Windows 7 (1GB minimum) was released, some people tested it on low-end craptastic Vista hardware and found out that Windows 7 ran a bit better there, though.

alexanrs wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

Oh,and I forgot mentioning that this system also has a HP card reader attached on USB. Pretty pimped for its era,huh? 🤣

Is this a black card reader with no branding at all, and came with a black 3.5" to 5.25" bay adapter? I have one of those in my main system! kkkkkkkk

Yes,it's black,but it's one of those small ones (it has no branding on the outside but it's branded HP on the inside) that fits in a floppy bay.

alexanrs wrote:

Technically, the official requirements for Vista (32-bit, RTM) was 512MB of RAM. Back when Windows 7 (1GB minimum) was released, some people tested it on low-end craptastic Vista hardware and found out that Windows 7 ran a bit better there, though.

Considering that Windows 7 was done on Vista engine (fixed up probably) I guess it was normal to work with 512MB minimum.

Good to see another P4 built 😀

What cooler are you using?

PcBytes wrote:

Yes,it's black,but it's one of those small ones (it has no branding on the outside but it's branded HP on the inside) that fits in a floppy bay.

Yup, looks like mine (3 1/2" sized, no branding on the outside). The interesting bit is that mine is pretty new. I was browsing the website of a local computer store early this year for some cheap card reader (I always put one of these on my main PCs) and, for some reason, this popped up for half the price of those chinese card readers, came with a 5 1/4" to 3 1/2" adapter (so I can put it on a regular CD-sized bay, as my case does not have a 3 1/2" one) and a NEC-based USB card to top it off. Doesn't feel nearly as cheap as the "mymax" card reader on my brother's PC.

PcBytes wrote:

Considering that Windows 7 was done on Vista engine (fixed up probably) I guess it was normal to work with 512MB minimum.

AFAIK VIsta was a major code refactor (a good chunk of the OS was rewritten to, among other things, get rid of ancient poorly-documented code dating from the Windows NT early days), and everything afterwards have been refinements. But this shows that MS deflated Vista's requirements. Whoever had a 512MB PC back in the day knew Vista was borderline unuseable with that amount of RAM, but XP was great.

philscomputerlab wrote:

Good to see another P4 built 😀

What cooler are you using?

Stock. That's all I have at the moment,and it holds pretty well 😀

PcBytes wrote:

... ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe ... ... JNC 8673-4JA case ....

You should read this.

TELVM wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

... ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe ... ... JNC 8673-4JA case ....

You should read this.

...uhh,I don't hotplug devices. Or if I hotplug my pendrive,it's on the rear USB ports on the motherboard.

So, that's the reason why front USB ports tend to burn so much...

filipetolhuizen wrote:

So, that's the reason why front USB ports tend to burn so much...

I assume you had USB ports burn stuff?