Building a 2000s Socket 478 Pentium 4 PC

In this video, we build a 2000s style Socket 478 computer with a Pentium 4, Windows 98, and Windows XP.
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[@charleslunsford5833]

I Love This 2000s Socket 478 Pentium 4 PC!

[@j.w.techchannel]

Great video, I enjoyed it. A good build I think, despite the issues you ran into initially

[@TheDman216]

love the agp 478 days

[@shisa2834]

My old 2004 P4 build is sitting under my desk. Time to boot her up soon 🙃

[@GarrettYarbrough]

Wanted to drop in to say hello Billy. I haven't forgotten you. 😂 im still running the old dell 8200 pentium 4 desktop. 😊

[@ToniHiltunen1980]

Thanks for the video. I have S478 system for my XP era retrogames, P4 3ghz, GFX 5900, Soundblaster Audigy, 2gb memory and Abit AI7 motherboard.

[@JayTheComputerGuy]

That case is so great!

[@NightSprinter]

I believe that was a Radeon 9800Pro you are using. 128MB model. I used to have that same card back in college. For DOS compatibility on the Audigy (got one in my Shuttle XPC SB62G2), it isn't just the chipset that matters, but Creative's SB16 emulation won't work with quite a few games. Mainly due to requiring EMM386 to be installed (and games like Ultima 7 and Turrican 2 do NOT like memory managers).

[@CantankerousDave]

I have a similar system in a big ol’ Antec case next to me, a 2.8GHz P4 in an Intel D865Perl motherboard. I’ve had it for years, but ran into a situation last winter when one of the caps started bulging and oozing. I managed to remove it, clean the gunk off, and replace it, but hoooo boy, I’m not great at soldering. It’s running happily again. Meaning hot and noisy. The Matrox Parhelia I have in there isn’t helping.

[@iliasgmf]

I've played alot with socket 478 systems thought the years and motherboards not working normally or suddenly won't work anymore is a common issue. Those systems are really unreliable for sure.

[@JackStavris]

This seems like a nice build, a 3.2 GHz or 3.4 GHz Northwood P4 would do pretty well in here, although the 2.4 GHz Northwoods were known to overclock fairly well so it might be worth a shot if you can find a decent Socket 478 cooler for it., think you could easily get at least a 1GHz overclock on those without much of an issue. You could never do that on a Prescott. Also the Radeon card is a good choice, at least compared to Nvidia's FX 5000 series offerings which were all garbage. I assume it's at least a 9600 or a 9700 card? I had a 9600 XT back in the day and it always ran pretty well with most games from it's era. Despite growing up with this era of hardware, I had many Socket 478 systems in my childhood, our family computer was a pretty nice one with a Gigabyte 865PE chipset motherboard, I've never found myself nostalgic for them. Back in the day they weren't the best things around, even the fast P4s felt just a little bit off compared to my P3 or Athlon systems back in the day, and anything Core 2 and later just smoked them, so the P4s were never something I really wanted but were just stuck with because they were cheap used junk for a while. That being said though, now that they've hit the 20-year mark for the Northwoods (which were the best ones out of the 4 generations), it might be time to add a higher end P4 system to my collection before prices go insane on decent quality motherboards like they have for the P3 era and earlier. I have a Socket 423 Dell system in my collection which is pretty cool mostly because that socket was short lived and fairly obscure, but a nice 865/875 chipset system with a fast Northwood P4 would be nice to have again.

[@TheNostalgiaMall]

@@JackStavris Thanks. This one is actually a 9800 Pro, one of the best.

[@JackStavris]

@@TheNostalgiaMall Oh nice, that explains the additional molex it needed then, usually additional power on AGP cards was only reserved for the higher end ones towards the end of the AGP days.

[@MusicHavenSG]

Keep the 3.4 for another XP LGA775 retro build.

[@andresbravo2003]

A better note as you should make it the best Win98/XP retro computing yet!

[@marksmith9566]

Molex may be SATA power [or drive power]

[@marksmith9566]

Cardboard shield for the desperate ;-)

[@CartersTechChannel]

Intel 915 chipset LGA775 Pentium 4 boards I tend to find more reliable than 845 or 865 boards. I have a P5GD1-VM with a 3.0GHZ P4 HT, 4GB DDR1, 160 and 250GB hard drive, 7300 GT and a SB Live 24 Bit. 478 P4 boards are a hit or miss.

[@VintageLizard486]

27:37 Is that a Wii Sensor Bar?

[@MotownBatman]

Win2k Sp4 was the Best Early 2k Gaming OS that Most People had NO. Idea about lol Beat XP until SP2 finally Arrived

[@cappaculla]

Your literally the first person to say that, and thats for a good reason :D

[@MotownBatman]

@@cappaculla I'm Assuming You Like Most , were stuck on Windows 98. Win2k SP4 was a Killer System for Games Liek Quake III Arena, Tiger Woods 2k4, HALO. P2/3 System with a 64meg AGP Card GAME ON!

[@cappaculla]

@@MotownBatman I wasn't stuck on one as I had all, I was also a dev at Microsoft in Dublin from '91 to 04 and worked on device drivers and some localisation, so I have a unique perspective, Win2k was good at running Win32 apps games included, as thats what it was supposed to do. Win9x' job , which took 5+ years was to move the world away from 16bit Win/Dos at the same time moving to newer UI , WDM, and the integration of all the other tech that was appearing (internet) At the same time maintaining backwards compatibility for everything from pretty much XT days..... That's a tough call...

[@MotownBatman]

@@cappaculla My first IT Job in 2k3 gave me access to piles of P2 & P3 Machines we were Upgrading everything to P4ht Systems. I could build piles of Low End systems on Win2k, Linux was Fun, but Not Nearly as Gamer Friendly as it is now.

[@MotownBatman]

@TheTechNerdGuy I've been a n00b since '96. Still Don't know how to Run Linux, I can just now easily say I Use Linux. Took me damn near 2 Decades to Understand how Important a Separate /home Partition is when you like to Distrohop LOL

[@OctavioGaitan]

Why not a Socket 775 Pentium 4?

[@JackStavris]

Because they're terrible. LGA775 used Prescott and Cedar Mill architecture for the P4s, they ran way hotter and had an even longer pipeline, so even though the faster clocks compensated for the extended pipeline, they weren't fast enough to justify the much higher power draw and heat output. Cedar Mill was a bit better, but Prescott was the worst. This also includes all the Pentium D CPUs on the same platform, which were even worse with thermals. If you're doing LGA 775, you may as well just use a Core 2 Duo, a 945 or 965 chipset board can handle most of them and they run rings around any Netburst CPU, most even support Quads too. If you want a P4, a Socket 478 Northwood is overall the better choice if you can find a decent motherboard for it, which is getting harder considering these came out right in the middle of the capacitor plague.

[@jomad85]

Super Video, but i prefer HDD instead of SD oder SSD. When i got my Dell Latitude and the Mac Book Pro i threw out the SSD and put in a fast HDD. I don't trust the SSD.

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[@ThatOneWindowsFan]

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[@urmomlol897]

want a cookie 😐

[@wowitsshit9734]

i have a nice socket 478 system, it's asus p4p800, it was really weird i got it few years ago for free from a guy that cleared out his e-waste, the north bridge ran hot AF and i couldn't overclock, i even put a big northbridge heatsink on it, however i flashed the bios with p4p800 SE bios and then it works good now, the north bridge overheating problem went away and i oc'd 3ghz to 3.6ghz no problem!