First post, by D3FEKT
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Current/Final specs:
Intel Pentium 4 3.0Ghz SL7PM Prescott - OC'd to 3.76Ghz
AVC Coppercore cooler
ECS 865PE-A rev 2.0 Socket 478 mainboard
4gigs of Geil CL1.5 DDR400 ram - upgraded heatspreaders + Thermal pads
XFX Nvidia Geforce 6800XT 256mb AGP8x graphics card
Creative Soundblaster live PCI card
80GB WD Caviar 7200rpm SATA drive
Liteon DVDrw IDE drive
Black Aopen ATX case
500Watt Thermaltake PSU
Windows XP Pro SP3
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(Hey guys, first post here.. Haven't used a forum in a long time so bare with me while a ramble on. […]
(Hey guys, first post here.. Haven't used a forum in a long time so bare with me while a ramble on.
Literally throwing some parts I have in the shed together + will buy some parts cheap when I find them and hopefully build a system I can run early to mid XP era games on without any stress.
I haven't really played with old stuff in a while, I have a dual Pentium 3 1ghz - Asus CUV4XD which I've watercooled however the mainboard has given up it seems so that's on the backburner and this will keep me occupied for now.
So far the system specs are as following:
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz Northwood SL6PC with stock cooler
ECS 865PE-A rev 2.0 Socket 478 manboard
2x 512mb Legend DDR400
2x 256mb Hynix DDR400
ATI Radeon 9550 256mb AGP card
Creative Soundblaster live PCI card
80GB WD Caviar 7200rpm SATA drive
Liteon DVDrw IDE drive
Black Aopen ATX case
500Watt Thermaltake PSUI haven't installed Windows yet nor have I even turned it on to see if it works, I'll muck around with it later on.
Plan is find a Prescott CPU and decent cooler, max out ram which is 4gigs worth, later model Nvidia AGP card, a PCI SATA card and an SSD for system, bigger hard drive for games and maybe a prettier case for aesthetic reasons alone..)
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Not going to do much more with this, Works exactly how I wanted it to however it is a bit overkill for what I need so i've started a new build which can be found here - Pentium 3 build - Old and New school blend