Compaq Deskpro EN SB

[@dj_paultuk7052]

Wow that brings back memories. I did a rollout of these DeskPro EN's in Pentium III 550Mhz format for the NHS back in 1999. The trust i was working for rolled out 2,500 of them. All running NT4 Workstation.

[@hamradioHam]

i picked the same machine last month with a lot of pcs and parts works surprisingly well

[@aaldrich1982]

Just to let you know I didn't forget the dogs

[@AncientElectronics]

They are still here though because I actually film on a table now as well them generally staying out of the computer room they don't really appear in videos anymore. Unfortunately, the one is getting pretty old, not sure how much longer he will be with us.

[@aaldrich1982]

@@AncientElectronics every time I see the intro it reminds me of them. And to not forget them. Sorry to hear that one is getting old but he's a memorable part of retro KZbin for many

[@Viczarratt]

​@@AncientElectronicsOh, bless the little guy... would be nice to see a cameo from him, at least one more time in a future upload. I wanted to say that I also remember the cat in one of your very early videos about your desert island dos rig?

[@AncientElectronics]

@@Viczarratt the cat passed away a few years ago. May of been around the time if that video.

[@vwestlife]

The unique thing about this case is that you can take out and rotate the drive bays 90 degrees to turn it from a desktop into a tower case.

[@AncientElectronics]

I had no idea, thats pretty cool. If I knew it could that I would have included that in the video.

[@lukasz_st]

I have a similar DeskPRO that originally came with Celeron 300A, 32 MB RAM and G100. I've upgraded it to Celeron 400, 128 MB RAM, Voodoo Banshee and some ISA soundcard. To my suprise motherboard (based on 440EX) works even with CuMine based Celerons. I've tried Celeron 700 with slotket that have jumpers to switch between "Celeron" (Mendocino) and "Coppermine" and it worked prefectly.

[@habibal-faraj8586]

intel 440EX is the budget version of 440LX chipset. Like the 440LX , the 440EX tops at 66Mhz FSB. It supports celerons and 66Mhz FSB pentium IIs. However this chipset's main target is celeron cpus and is designed for building budget PCs. Similar to the 440EX, Intel also has a budget version of 440BX. It's known as the 440ZX, and both of these chipsets support 100Mhz FSB.

[@wdd6864]

I have a Compaq Deskpro EN and making it a 98 Machine. 866Mhz, SB Live, 2 x 128GB SSD, and ATI 9600SE

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

This compaq system is perfect candidate for upgrades like: pentium II 333, voodoo2 combined with matrix and awe64 isa or sb live! Ideal 90s gaming rig

[@chrisrudi7162]

I have the one with a 450 MHz Pentium 3 and have a Matrox G400 with 32 MB installed in it, originally there was an ATI Rage 2 card with 8 MB in it. Then I have a Deskpro Tower with a Pentium 3 550 MHz and GeForce 256 DDR and finally the Deskpro Mini (SFF) with a 1 GHz Pentium 3 as a socket 370. I think you already had a video of that one. I ran the SFF with PCI today via a PCIe adapter with a GeForce GT 440 LP, I wouldn't have thought I could get a 65 watt card to work in that device. 7000 pts in 3Dmark01 with 1280 x 1024 w 32bit.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

The dual core era Celerons were good. I had an e1200 that I had overclocked to 3.4ghz 24/7, more than twice it's stock speed. Only cpu that I ever owned to do that.

[@jubsy]

That's a Y2K special right there.

[@Pickle136]

the matrox card does no alpha blending and uses that alpha stipple for "blending"

[@RetroAmateur1989]

I got one, but it's the vertical orientation one.

[@jjohnson71958]

the tabs slide into the cpu case that i do know because i had a motherboard like that once

[@acidhermit]

That's one of the most hideous heatsinks I've ever seen 😆 lol. And about what you mentioned of why these oem PC's hardware reviews do better than other builds videos, I think it may have something to do with some of the other more established channels that do reviews of old PC's have always reviewed more stock/oem machines rather than do builds from scratch. Idk if that's the reason why but it certainly helped.

[@AncientElectronics]

I'm sure that's part of it. I enjoy making these videos, don't get me wrong, but I am starting to find a lot of these "samey" OEM builds to be a bit....boring. I struggle with trying to make things interesting, usually by adding a more exotic or less talked-about video/sound card.

[@charlesdorval394]

Mate, bend the part on the case if the flake won't let go ;)

[@jcc3279]

I have one of these machines i ripped out that crappy sound card and added a Sound Blaster Live and Put in my trusty GeForce FX 5700 AGP card. I did replace the CPU though as i didn't trust that damn heatsink. Buddy of mine has a 3d printer and he made me some new CPU brackets. I'm running a faster CPU It's a Pentium II i forget the clock speed. I have another one that's a lot better as it's a Pentium 3 1ghz. The Pentium 3 one i have has a 512mb of ram. while my Pentium 2 has 256mb of ram. I put a GeForce 6200 agp in the Pentium 3 model. along with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2. The Pentium 2 both are running Windows 2000 at the moment.