Heres my win98 dell dimension xps t450. I finally got around to putting the powerleap adapter with a 1.4 celeron.
This thing runs really good with 98 and a tualatin and the ti4200 is real power house.

I had a T450 and T500 years ago and did the exact same thing to them. 1.4 GHz / 768 MB is the top max these boards can handle. They were running XP though.

eta: I also benchmarked them with a GeForce4 MX440 64MB AGP :

3DMark 2000: 4463
3DMark 2001SE: 2845
PCMark 2002: 3006 CPU 1154 MEM

My dell isn't in a Dell case because i need it for everyday use ATM.

But it is an Insperion 518 (Original parts that where replaced)
Xeon E5450 Modded for 775 (Q6600)
Dell G33 ATX Motherboard
EVGA GTX 480 the reason it cant use the stock case at all (8500GT)
Thermaltake 650W (350W Dell)
8gb DDR2 800 (3gb DDR2 667)
1tb Hard Drive (160gb)
Windows 10 Pro (Windows Vista Home Premium)
Antec Eleven Hundred (Dell Insperion Case)

It's kinda current (Haswell, two generations old), but here's mine. I'mma just go straight-up on anyone wondering about the wallpaper, it drew inspiration from Eric Carle's stuff (yes, that guy), and then I went and tried to see how far in the other direction I could go with that style.

my Pro W95wUSB rebuild

Dell Dimension XPS Pro_180n clean up I did awhile back. Enjoy!

A guy at my work brought me this 2002 built Model.
Its got laptop cd and floppy drives and some kind of low profile ATI rage 128 ultra AGP card.

Super_Relay wrote:

A guy at my work brought me this 2002 built Model.
Its got laptop cd and floppy drives and some kind of low profile ATI rage 128 ultra AGP card.

That has to be an Optiplex GX240 sff or maybe a GX260? GX240 used SD-ram and GX260 DDR-ram. We had over 100 of theese at work along with about 20 GX270 towers that all died of badcaps.
Had also P2 GX1 and P3 GX150 that were shipped with the GX240, GX260 and many Compaq models for reuse as Linux thin clients for schools in Africa and South America. Remember we got pictures from a school were they used them. Maybe they are still in use?

The last picture says GX240.

UPDATE: Since I last posted on this thread, I have taken Windows off this machine and replaced it with Arch. Hardware hasn't changed at all though.
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Optiplex GX1 http://imgur.com/a/2TRNe

^That turned out very clean, nice work. I got a love for gx1's

Thank you!

another XPS T series rig http://imgur.com/a/5VID5

Super_Relay wrote:

A guy at my work brought me this 2002 built Model.
Its got laptop cd and floppy drives and some kind of low profile ATI rage 128 ultra AGP card.

awww... I really want to get hold of one of those kind of Dells at some point, love that case for some reason. Maybe try and put a little HTPC in it or something..

1And I just noticed that post's from last year... whoops.

I have a couple of other Dells but this is the one that I actually refer to as 'the Dell' and actually works. Hell, even though it's not even close to the power of one of my other older computers it's the only one that got its own desk.

It's a mostly stock Dimension 8300. 3.2Ghz P4HT, 4GB of DDR RAM, an Ati Radeon 9800 Pro (AGP), and a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
The upgrades I've done to it include, obviously the RAM, as well as the extra DVD drive, actually giving it a floppy drive (it didn't have one when I got it anyway), and the hard drive was switched out to an 80GB Sata drive.

It currently runs Linux Mint XFCE but I do plan eventually to pop XP on it.

I have several Dells in my collection (6 laptops ranging from 2001-2013, and 2.5 desktops (the .5 is a GX260 mobo)), So I'll post information on some of the systems I often look at.

Here are the three Inspiron 8x00 laptops:

The left one (i8000) has a 700 MHz P3, 20GB HDD, and Windows Millennium - the center one (i8100) has a 1 GHz P3, 40GB HDD, and Windows 2000 SP4 - and the right one (i8200) has a 2.2 GHz P4, 40GB HDD, and Windows XP SP1, They all have 512MB of RAM, floppy drives, and DVD drives, but only the i8100 and i8200 have working batteries (obviously).

And this is the desktop I use the most for 9x gaming, the Dell Dimension 4300S:

The current specs are:
- Intel Pentium 4 CPU @ 1.6 GHz
- 512MB PC-133 SDRAM (2x256MB sticks in dual-channel mode)
- nVidia Geforce FX5200 AGP w/ 128MB of VRAM (Dell P118), and SB Live! CT4670 PCI Audio
- 40GB IDE HDD, 48x CD-ROM Drive, and a 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
- Dual-boots Windows 98SE with SP2 + Windows 2000 Pro with SP4

Originally had an ATI Rage 128 Ultra 32MB Video card, 3C905B-TXNM PCI NIC, and SoundMAX integrated audio, all of which were replaced for the following reasons:
1. The video card was replaced because it was a spare card I had laying around unused so I thought why not put it in this computer to get better graphics performance compared to its original Rage 128 card.
2. The network card has been removed because this system has no use for networking and not to mention it was causing problems with shutting down Windows.
3. The SoundMAX audio has no DirectSound acceleration, so it was lackluster for gaming.

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I have several Dells in my collection (6 laptops ranging from 2001-2013, and 2.5 desktops (the .5 is a GX260 mobo)), So I'll pos […]
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I have several Dells in my collection (6 laptops ranging from 2001-2013, and 2.5 desktops (the .5 is a GX260 mobo)), So I'll post information on some of the systems I often look at.

Here are the three Inspiron 8x00 laptops:

IMG_0902.JPG

The left one (i8000) has a 700 MHz P3, 20GB HDD, and Windows Millennium - the center one (i8100) has a 1 GHz P3, 40GB HDD, and Windows 2000 SP4 - and the right one (i8200) has a 2.2 GHz P4, 40GB HDD, and Windows XP SP1, They all have 512MB of RAM, floppy drives, and DVD drives, but only the i8100 and i8200 have working batteries (obviously).

And this is the desktop I use the most for 9x gaming, the Dell Dimension 4300S:

dell4300s.JPG

The current specs are:
- Intel Pentium 4 CPU @ 1.6 GHz
- 512MB PC-133 SDRAM (2x256MB sticks in dual-channel mode)
- nVidia Geforce FX5200 AGP w/ 128MB of VRAM (Dell P118), and SB Live! CT4670 PCI Audio
- 40GB IDE HDD, 48x CD-ROM Drive, and a 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
- Dual-boots Windows 98SE with SP2 + Windows 2000 Pro with SP4

Originally had an ATI Rage 128 Ultra 32MB Video card, 3C905B-TXNM PCI NIC, and SoundMAX integrated audio, all of which were replaced for the following reasons:
1. The video card was replaced because it was a spare card I had laying around unused so I thought why not put it in this computer to get better graphics performance compared to its original Rage 128 card.
2. The network card has been removed because this system has no use for networking and not to mention it was causing problems with shutting down Windows.
3. The SoundMAX audio has no DirectSound acceleration, so it was lackluster for gaming.

I'm not too familiar with laptops quite that old, so out of curiosity are they particularly loud or hot?

Great lookin' desktop you've got though. 😁

Amethyst wrote:

I'm not too familiar with laptops quite that old, so out of curiosity are they particularly loud or hot?

Great lookin' desktop you've got though. 😁

To answer your question: Those Inspiron 8x00 laptops do have the tendency to rev up the cooling fans when left on for more than 15 minutes, not too loud but a lot louder than my Latitude D600, the bottom of the i8200 got a little hot at one point when I tried to game on it back then, I usually put a laptop cooling pad underneath each laptop when I use it on the desk.

For the desktop setup I've tried to make it as original as possible by using Dell accessories from the same era (so it has a Dell PS/2 keyboard, Dell-brand PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse, Dell Monitor, and harmon/kardon speakers in the same color scheme as the Dell case design).

The other Dell systems I have that aren't pictured yet are:
- Dell Latitude C640 (2GHz P4, 512MB RAM, 30GB HDD, WinXP SP2)
- Dell Latitude D600 (2GHz Pentium M-755, 2GB RAM, 60GB HDD, WinXP SP3)
- Dell Inspiron 13z-5323 (1.8GHz 3rd-gen i3, 6GB RAM, 120GB SSD, Win10 64-bit)
- Dell Optiplex GX520 (3.2GHz P4-640, 4GB RAM, 80GB HDD, Win7 32-bit)

I also built a 6th-gen i3 rig with a Dell Inspiron 660 case if that counts, I have a Dell Optiplex GX260 motherboard for test-bench purposes, and my younger brother has a Dell Inspiron Duo 2-in-1 laptop which replaced his broken Surface RT.

Dell Optiplex GX260
- 2.53Ghz Pentium 4
- 2Gb RAM Qiomonda PC3200 (only running DDR266)
- 80Gb Harddisk
- DVD-Rom (replaced CD-Rom)
- i865 Chipset and Graphics onboard
- Leadtek GeForce 6200 128Mb 128Bit - http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/leadtek-geforc … 128-bit-review/

This one was found without RAM and Harddisk in garbage..
Works well.

The Videocard unlocks to 8 Pipelines and reaches GeForce 6600GT Clockspeeds.
I also have a HD3850 AGP 512Mb DDR3 collecting dust..
i can't power it with the underpowered dell supply 😒
Need a bigger Replacment.
Any Suggestions ?

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Amethyst wrote:

I'm not too familiar with laptops quite that old, so out of curiosity are they particularly loud or hot?

Great lookin' desktop you've got though. 😁

To answer your question: Those Inspiron 8x00 laptops do have the tendency to rev up the cooling fans when left on for more than 15 minutes, not too loud but a lot louder than my Latitude D600, the bottom of the i8200 got a little hot at one point when I tried to game on it back then, I usually put a laptop cooling pad underneath each laptop when I use it on the desk.

For the desktop setup I've tried to make it as original as possible by using Dell accessories from the same era (so it has a Dell PS/2 keyboard, Dell-brand PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse, Dell Monitor, and harmon/kardon speakers in the same color scheme as the Dell case design).

The other Dell systems I have that aren't pictured yet are:
- Dell Latitude C640 (2GHz P4, 512MB RAM, 30GB HDD, WinXP SP2)
- Dell Latitude D600 (2GHz Pentium M-755, 2GB RAM, 60GB HDD, WinXP SP3)
- Dell Inspiron 13z-5323 (1.8GHz 3rd-gen i3, 6GB RAM, 120GB SSD, Win10 64-bit)
- Dell Optiplex GX520 (3.2GHz P4-640, 4GB RAM, 80GB HDD, Win7 32-bit)

I also built a 6th-gen i3 rig with a Dell Inspiron 660 case if that counts, I have a Dell Optiplex GX260 motherboard for test-bench purposes, and my younger brother has a Dell Inspiron Duo 2-in-1 laptop which replaced his broken Surface RT.

Thank you, that definitely does answer my question. 😀

I haven't had a Dell laptop myself.
Only other Dells I have about are.. a Dimension 3100C but that's been stripped for parts mostly after the PSU made an unsettling 'pop' sound, and an Optiplex 755. That one's had the RAM and HDD pulled though for a different computer because it developed some severe video glitching that made it unusable D:
Since it does also count as a Dell I do that the remains of an Alienware X51, but after a little power board kicked the bucket I ended up replacing almost everything, it's got more HP parts than Dell now.

I like the idea of the original type of setup with all the Dell stuff, but not done that myself. I went with just the stuff I had about that I liked and maybe vaguely matched. So.. an NEC 16:10 monitor, Logitech speakers, an old MS basic PS/2 keyboard and a fairly new, tiny HP USB mouse.

I'd very much say using the Dell case for something else counts, if I got one of the old super slim Gx's that's probably what I'd want to do xD