Reply 20740 of 27559, by TrashPanda
appiah4 wrote on 2022-01-25, 07:07:Quoting myself for an update, I actually built a sleeper AM2+ Athlon II X4 PC. To solve the PSU problem I made my own NetVista […]
appiah4 wrote on 2021-12-11, 17:55:I found a nonworking beige IBM Netvista Pentium 4 in my collection I completely forgot about. […]
I found a nonworking beige IBM Netvista Pentium 4 in my collection I completely forgot about.
Considering removing the insides and using the case for some sort of generic matx build.
Not sure what to build though..
Options:
-MVP4 Socket7 + Banshee
-PLE133T Socket370 + Banshee
-KM266 Socket A + Voodoo 3 (already built in a shitty case)
-P4M890 LGA775 + x800XTPE (already built in a shitty case but the NetVista PSU cant run this and I dont wanna buy a new SFX PSU)Opinions?
Quoting myself for an update, I actually built a sleeper AM2+ Athlon II X4 PC. To solve the PSU problem I made my own NetVista to ATX PSU adapter, find it attached. Not yet tested, but should work
I'll post photos of the final build when done. This will be my 2005-2010 Windows Vista gaming PC. I never used or even once installed Vista, so I am looking forward to the horrible experience. The last time I had this experimet with Windows Me on my Tualatin system I actually liked it enough to keep it, we will see..
I have one question though, at the time a lot of people were sticking to Vista x86 because x64 was not very mature. I remember taking the jump into x64 with Windows 7 and never regretted it. What about Vista? Is it worth going x64 with an Athlon II and 4GB RAM?
Vista Ultimate with all service packs and updates along with a few community fixes is as good as windows 7 which shouldn't surprise anyone as Windows 7 is just Vista with more driver support and a new UI. I use Vista Ultimate on my Core 2 Quadzilla machine and it runs flawlessly, had little to no issues with it, but that might be due to all the drivers being available and mostly bug free.
Vista at release only got a bad rap because it had to deal with manufacturers switching over to a new way of handling drivers and many didn't bother to make Vista drivers and thus Vista had little legacy support for hardware, now days this isn't an issue and a debloated Vista is quite a good experience.
As for Vista 64, it should be no different from Win7 in that regards, with the right drivers itll be more than fine with 4gb, people tended to stick with 32bit due to lack of 64 bit drivers and not needing 8gb of ram this isn't an issue anymore so feel free to jump on in.
You should still have a 32bit OS like winXP installed as dual boot however, not all games liked Vista due to the changes to drivers and DirectX so you might find a game or three that will run better on XP32.