First post, by Pippy P. Poopypants
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More details here:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~mkou/comp.html
OK, so the P4 is not quite retro yet, but it's the oldest thing I still have at home (unfortunately I either sold most of my older hardware or recycled it several years ago).
Mobo: VIA P4XB-S (the page above is a bit out-of-date; I have since replaced my old i845 motherboard with this, and also put the thing into a slightly larger, mid-tower case)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz Socket 478 Willamette
RAM: 256MB PC2100 DDR
Graphics: 32MB TNT2 Ultra (Diamond Viper V770 Ultra) - works flawlessly in AGP 1.5V mode! (after setting the required jumpers)
HDD: 200 GB Western Digital WD1200BB
Optical Drives: 16x DVD-ROM 24x10x40x CD-RW
Monitor: 19" LCD
OS: Windows 98 SE/Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Yes, it runs Windows 3.11 in highcolor mode without a hitch; boot-up time to it is awfully fast too.
I also originally wanted to put 95 on this thing, but my old mobo didn't have the proper chipset drivers for it.
Interesting note: My mobo uses the VIA P4X266A chipset, which Intel got their panties in a bunch about when it came out. Supposedly VIA didn't have the proper license to produce a P4 chipset (therefore making the P4X266A an "illegal" or "semi-legal" chipset), but most benchmarks show it to have better performance than Intel's competing 845D chipset; guess Intel just didn't want their thunder stolen from them