Intel Pentium 3 + Geforce2 = Fun !

[@totalrandomtechnolog]

Those were top specs and everyone's dream computer when I was in high school. Also those case covers were a hassle to put back together.

[@abooogeek]

Yeah, they were kind of "in-between" the AT and the true ATX format, betraying them as the early ATX form factors. I honestly despise these cases, as it forces you to take the panels as a whole.

[@totalrandomtechnolog]

@Dmetsys To me personally "era correct" is s bit overstated, but that's just me. One to three years is not a big deal even if you're talking about hardware from back then. Actually my dream computer back then was something like a Pentium III 600 to 1000Mhz with any kind of Geforce 2. It was leagues above my AMD k6-2 450Mhz with a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee PCI.

[@SMlFFY85]

@Dmetsys We didn't care about being "era correct" back in the day.

[@0x53v4k]

@@totalrandomtechnolog True. There are several parts of this system that stuck out to me as a budget game build, upgraded two or three times with the best components they could afford, ending with that Ti.

[@ericwood3709]

I was gaming on a Power Mac G3 with a Radeon 7000 in it around that time, and that thing kicked ass. Played a LOT of Unreal Tournament on there :)

[@Inject0r]

Do keep in mind that there were a lot of different GeForce 2 MX versions available out there. They differ from versions with DDR or the slower SDR memory, a 64bit or a 128bit memory bus, an MX(100), MX200, MX400, of which the MX400 would be the fastest due to the higher clocks. Also the memory size could vary between 32 and 64MB. So the card everyone on a “budget” wanted was the GeForce 2 MX400 with 64MB DDR memory and a 128bit memory bus.

[@RuruFIN]

Yeah, MX400 was the best. The basic MX was also fine when it was a 128-bit one.

[@osrr6422]

I may be wrong but, I think the OG MX is actually better than the 200. Assuming the manufacturer set it up correctly.

[@televiciousgoober]

I had the MX400, it sucked. No hardware T&L. Need at least a geforce3 to be as good as an xbox.

[@gorky_vk]

@@televiciousgoober or as cheap alternative today you can use something like gf4 mx440. it's essentiality gf2 with hardware t&l

[@televiciousgoober]

@@gorky_vk had that too, it actually only has T no L. So most shaders do nothing.

[@cuttingedgeretro9164]

My first own computer was Pentium III 1Ghz and GeForce 2 GTS 64MB, since then I am retro pc hardware enthusiast and collector. Thank you for excellent upload

[@owenmorgan857]

So many memories from the PIII 500 that I used to have two of them back in the day with Gigabyte Motherboards and so many good memories playing various racing games with mates

[@ErikZarth]

I have that same motherboard. It has a Pentium 3 550mhz cpu , 384mb of ram, 2 x 40gb hard drives, a Geforce TI4200 128mb card, a 3DFX Voodoo 2 12mb card and a Sound Blaster Live in it. Running Windows 98SE, it's my favorite retro PC. Love the first MotoRacer.

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

this is one of the best computers ive seen on your channel, more videos with it please

[@jeffm2787]

I always liked the Pentium II's with the full passive heatsinks. They made great Linux servers with very little noise. PIII's, yep I liked those as well, just not as much. I also had some PIII Xeon's back in the day with the big weird Slot 2 cart.

[@A-BYTE94]

I remember my first computer had dual socket 370 motherboard, 2x Pentium III 1.3GHz, 512MB of RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 and Windows XP and I got it in 2006

[@armeniancrusader301]

@@A-BYTE94 Yeah that’s great as you could dual boot 98 SE and XP flawlessly on it as the Pentium III was made in the Windows 98 era, also that was a very high end PC in its time as that PC probably used to cost at least 2500$ when it was new considering it has two high end Pentium IIIs and a dual socket mainboard.

[@catriona_drummond]

Maintenance mode - that one was brilliant! Goes onto my list!

[@BilisNegra]

7:41 One gig on a consumer board of that vintage, sounds pretty hefty! Of course, very few people must have maxed it out from the get-go for a home computer, it would have costed a fortune, but many years later with those modules being cheap it's nice to have the possibility of doing so.

[@ching-chenhuang8119]

Well, back in 2000 and 2001, my go-to video card was Voodoo5 5500 AGP, combining with Athlon 650 Mhz, it was super awesome!!

[@mikespikeey4625]

I HAD A P3 THAT HAD BAD CAPS it was on most boards, capacitor plague was a problem related to a higher-than-expected failure rate of non-solid aluminium electrolytic capacitors, between 1999 and 2007

[@burntoutelectronics]

I've recapped numerous Pentium iii and 4 motherboards as well as some Macintosh motherboards because of it

[@hugosimoes5119]

The bad caps plague started to act at start of 2000s. I have some slot1 that still have their caps ihtact but at least one or two have some bad caps and I would say they probably suffered of unproper bad cooling inside of the PC case as there is only one fan blowing ar out of the case and one fan installed on the cpu heatsink blowing hot air to the caps. Other reason was the bad PSUs. PSus with bad caps feed abnoxious power to the board and the caps were the first to die.

[@Stefan_Payne]

Yep, absolutely. It was the Caps that were bad at the time. Slot Boards went around that with an array of Caps. You often See Slot Boards with 10-20 Caps near the slot... But yeah, the reason for the caps are 2fold: a) misuse and abuse as the VRM area gets very hot and they use 1000-2000h Caps there. b) high water contents of Ultra Low ESR Capacitors (Nippon Chemicon KZG, Panasonic FJ an similar)...

[@Shmbler]

XP is not so very odd for a P3. I got a new IBM Thinkpad in Feb 2001 with a P3-700 in it. It came with 2K installed and got an upgrade to XP end of the year.

[@MrKillswitch88]

Got a GF2 Ultra that I saved off a shop a couple of years back, anyway the Pentium 3 is one of my long time favorites and hell in the mid 2000s I daily used them because I was too poor to afford anything newer.

[@jonchapman6821]

I’ve got a GF2 Ultra I saved a couple of years ago from being scrapped, a superb card that I’m proud to have in my collection 👍🏻

[@sergeantbilko7070]

I always enjoyed installing those old operating systems and all the drivers and when I tell the grandkids how it used to be it's like the new version of "I used to walk 10 miles to school in the snow....uphill."

[@BilisNegra]

GRANDkids? Well, you weren't exactly a young dude anymore when you were using WIN98 then.

[@sergeantbilko7070]

@@BilisNegra Sad but true!

[@Leahi84]

Hope you feel better soon, and I'm glad it's just a cold, and not the plague.

[@krz8888888]

The geforce 4 mx is the best choise for a cheap gpu of this era I think (if you don't care about Directx 8). It is actually a very fast geforce 2 and cheap as chips

[@eddiehimself]

Well, the GF4 MX460 is actually quite rare these days because of the fact that it was simply too expensive for a card that didn't have full DX8 support. But I managed to get one for free ^^

[@krz8888888]

@@eddiehimself yeah never seen one of those, probably was an oddly priced product from the get go

[@yuvalfuchs4745]

Excellent review! Walk down memory lane ☺️

[@Straycatstrat10]

I've been wanting to upgrade my Windows 98 machine. Currently it's running a PIII @ 600 MHz with 256 MB RAM and an ATi Radeon 7200 series with 32 MB of vRAM. The video card is what I was wanting to get, and was looking at a GeForce 2 series card. But, out of curiosity of how my machine compared to yours, I ran 3D Mark 99 with the same settings. I've got 3541 3DMarks and 9059 CPU.

[@dingo470]

I remember being so stoked because my voodoo GPU meant I could run unreal. We always upgraded our own stuff when it got dated. My PC started off as a pentium 486 and just slowly evolved as the years went on.

[@looks-suspicious]

A Pentium 486? Sure about that? 😅

[@Terminatar98]

@@looks-suspicious Perhaps he meant a Pentium Overdrive? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_OverDrive

[@sburton015]

I remember that my very first gaming PC that I built in early 2001 had these similar CPU and GPU. It had a 1 ghz Intel Pentium III cpu with 256 mb pc133 ram with a 20 gb hard drive, floppy drive, CDRW and DVD drives, creative sound blaster sound card, and a 32 mb nvidia geforce 2 graphics card, and for the operating system, I originally had Windows ME on it, but then later upgraded it to Windows XP in 2002. One game I liked playing on it was the original game of Deus Ex.

[@bluetoothtv]

Reviving an old pc is fun and satisfying I also have a Pentium 3 450 slot 1 which I acquired from my neighbors trash unfortunately the ide hdd is already undetectable and nowadays it is very hard to find an ide hdd, good thing Ive acquired an 8G cf card and cf to ide adapter and I installed windows xp 😅

[@hanslanda7319]

Slot 1 PIIIs always have CPU speed, cache and FSB clearly visible written along the top of the cartridge.

[@hanslanda7319]

@ch282 in my experience non like having the FSB messed with such an increase. I'd just get a p3 with 133 FSB.

[@Terminatar98]

13:53 I believe that these old Pentium 3 systems mostly use the 5 volt rail, so that would probably be better to monitor than the 12 volt rail in future.

[@DavidWonn]

I don’t see anything odd about XP on a Pentium III, unless you meant specifically at 333 MHz. If anything, the 320 MB of RAM is rather skimpy for XP though, as it swaps too often with less than 512 MB.

[@lordterra1377]

Long as you keep it pre-SP3 all that extra junk really slows down a computer. I remember XP felt so sluggish after updating from Sp2.

[@talvisota327]

on my pentium 3 tualatin with 1.5 gb of ram, xp runs great even with sp3 installed

[@nickwallette6201]

My first laptop was a Sony VAIO R505 - Pentium III - 850MHz w/ 384MB. It shipped with XP and ran great.

[@lordterra1377]

@@talvisota327 Weren't those what the later Pent4 architecture was based off of? If my memory is correct the first Pent4 cpus were actually slower than Pent3 systems despite the difference in clock speed.

[@talvisota327]

@@lordterra1377 pentium m and later core 2 duo were based on the pentium 3. pentium 4 had its own architecture

[@yosemite-e2v]

I bought an AGP GeForce 2 Ti (I think it was a Chaintech) in the fall of 2001 for my Abit KT7A and it was a dramatic step up from the Pine PCI TNT2 (a holdover from my first computer which only had PCI and ISA slots) I had been using.

[@sailesh11101]

My first computer back in 2000…didn’t have any graphics card but was still able to play midtown madness

[@CantankerousDave]

Aw, I used a P3B-F with a Celeron 300 and Geforce 256 at that time. Lots of memories. Those Promise cards were included with Western Digital hard drives for a while when they got to be too large for most BIOSs to recognize. Larger than 13GB, I think? I used them to run two drives in RAID0 for video capture.

[@benrogersdevon]

I remember there being a 32GB limit on some BIOS in the mid to late 90’s but updating to the latest BIOS should sort it. Celeron 300’s were great for their cost and overclocking ability!! Some older mobo’s BIOS’ were had HDD capacity limits before along with the 32GB limit such as 2.1, 4.2, 8.4 and a bit more recently, a ~128? GB limit. The work around in earlier BIOS’ were to enter the HDD parameters manually using ‘user mode’ I think it was and then enter the parameters manually or update BIOS.

[@jari2018]

Unreal Tournment runs best at 160 mb sd-ram and above - with lower amount of ram you can edit the ingame cache (file) for smother gameplay but I guess it depends on game resolution and videocard , I used 32 mb videoram (tnt2 and mx )

[@Asure007]

I use side cutters to get rid of those little thumb scabs, stops you from picking 'em. :) Very nice board with that ISA slot for a awe32 or something similar for DOS.

[@RuruFIN]

I was most surprised how well the Rage Pro performed.

[@infinity2z3r07]

Been playing around with a 8mb PCI Rage Pro. I finished Max Payne on it lol. A few rough areas and missing textures but amazing how smooth overall

[@MrAlan1828]

@0:28 did you use a chopstick as pointer?

[@NightMotorcyclist]

This is reminiscent of my Pentium III HP Pavilion which has a similar configuration of the PSU being side mounted and vertical. This was a 1999-2000 era desktop PC. When that Pavilion came out the GeForce 256 was the hot GPU of the time and Creative Labs had their own version of the card that was advertised everywhere.

[@looks-suspicious]

Ah yes. The Creative Annihilator. Had that one as well.

[@SBTKostya2008]

13:32 This beep indicates that problem with CPU (overheating or malfunctioning).

[@_..---]

don't know why but working on that pc looks so comfy, everything from the motherboard to the os glitches

[@Vlad-1986]

I am using Windows95 and DOS 6.2 lately on a VM a lot for uni and also feels really comfy. There is something about those old OS that won't translate to modern ones, and I don't know what it is.

[@DavidWonn]

@@Vlad-1986 Perhaps it’s the simplicity of the file system, less bloat, efficient UI, and full control of processes in use, among other things.

[@eddiehimself]

The sound card is actually a Creative PCI 128, not a Live! card.

[@dykodesigns]

The PCI 128, a not so great version of the soundblaster family. I’ve got that card in my Pentium 2 system and it sadly lacks is good DOS compatibility. It’s fine for Windows games, but it’s use for DOS games very limited as it lacks the OPL chip. Also the limited DOS support only seems to work in the context of Windows 95/98 with some driver magic and only with software that use digital sound in my experience. I never got it to work in real mode DOS. If I had the chance, I would want to replace it with an SB 16 or a decent clone.

[@marcelomellado5024]

Hello I have a Question, I have a Motherboard ECS P6ISA ATX, Ir runs Windows 98SE but i don't have a Vídeo Card for Play Games. What Vídeo Card is the indicated for My Motherboard? Thanks

[@DootNootem]

The same cards that were shown in the video also work with your motherboard based on the information I have Googled! If you're going for Nvidia, you should probably get a GeForce2 MX400 if you want a budget card, or a GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ti if you want it to be a bit more special.

[@thudtheace]

An old Katmai based PIII, cool! that 512K of cache ran at 1/2 the processor speed. I also found that the cheap/bad cap issues were 2 fold: 1 cheap caps from budget board manufacturers. The other was that early 2000 counterfit/knockoff capacitors that ended up on a bunch of boards. I have 2 P4 boards, and a P3 board that need to be re-capped because of this.. Cheers!

[@purpasmart_4831]

Nice build, my current windows 98 is a Pentium 4 northwood 3.2ghz, 512mb DDR, ati radeon x850 pro, sound blaster audigy 2zs, I used a modern antec case that looked like its stuck from the mid 2000s and I painted it beige.

[@lordterra1377]

That thing must really scream. My best 98 machine is early Pent 4 at 1.8 ghz. It handles every game flawlessly.

[@purpasmart_4831]

@@lordterra1377 Yeah it run UT99 with no frame drops, and runs Serious Sam the second Encounter with like 70-90 fps maxed out and the res at 1280x1024.

[@lordterra1377]

@@purpasmart_4831 What motherboard do you have?

[@purpasmart_4831]

@@lordterra1377 Asus P4P800-VM

[@Crylhound]

13:40 The beeps just mean that you should call an ambulance

[@ResonantBytes]

Seems like a twin system of my rig with the P3-500 and the GF2Ti, nice! :) Unfortunately my P3B-F seems to have a faulty multi IO chip or at least some broken traces, because IDE is flaky and Floppy is simply dead. No time to troubleshoot (and potentially replace the onboard part) in sight though. When I do get to it, I was thinking of trying to make a video of it. Anyone would watch that? ;)

[@zhongyangli]

geforce 2 mx when introduced was quite advanced with true hardware t&l support, 2 pixel pipelines with 2 textures units each and consumes only 4 watts. By the way it was priced at around 120 $. It packed more power and was in the same time way cheaper than most of the competiting products

[@cgriggsiv]

Yes you are right but I had the g-force 2 mx/mx400 with 128 gigs of RAM in 8x AGP I'm not remembering exactly how many watts but it did have an additional four pin power supply on the card that was required

[@zhongyangli]

@@cgriggsiv geforce mx with 128MB of vram is a rare version. I happened to have one too. Mine does not come with an extra molex connector. I assume the 4-pin connector on your card was added to make it look more powerful... geforce mx itself does not need that much of power at all and was very popular in low power consumption comouters: laptops, imac g4, powermac g4 cube...

[@TheVanillatech]

Back when Nvidia had competition, before they bought out everyone, they used to offer great generational leaps at decent prices. ATI was breathing down their neck long after 3Dfx folded, and kept Nvidia honest, but as soon as Nvidia won hearts and minds with their dodgy PhysX nonsense and paying off tech channels, they turned into their true form : VAMPIRES!

[@NathanChisholm041]

Cheers mate great video as usual. You got a new sub...

[@mxmaverinho8115]

Try to avoid the geforce 2 MX 200 though, it has a 64bit memory bus thus pretty slow. Geforce 2 MX or the MX400 is great value.

[@asanjuas]

Correction the sound blaster is not a live! it's sound blaster pci 128 or sound blaster 16 pci , not live

[@RetroSpector78]

I know i thought I corrected it everywhere :) guess I missed a spot. Thx for correcting it.

[@86smoke]

You are right - it is most probably SBPCI 128 utilizing ES1371 chip

[@airfixer9461]

Great review..I loved it :-)

[@wtf0tux]

I remember I had ATI Rage Pro card and it was not so crappy for these days. I mean it was good for Pentium II or Celeron 233MHz, 300 or 366 and you could play Quake 2 kind of games with ease. Pentium III is a later generation CPU and should not be paired with ATI Rage Pro. GeForce 2 was definitely its generation and it's a good choice. I also remember nVidia Riva TNT2 was pretty good as well, games like UT or Quake 3 was definitely playable on this. Probably not as good as GeForce though. GeForce was then Voodoo Banshee of its times - horribly expensive, but you could play everything on this... Ahh, nostalgia :) Thanks for this movie. You brought me back a lot of nice memories :)

[@Haiden4334]

Do you have the same issue of installing nvidia drivers under win 98se and it changes the name on the properties window to windows me?

[@retrocomputerskarachi6158]

Some good memories. Greetings from Karachi, Pakistan.

[@manicandroid1]

I have several cap plagued p4 mostly dell from when I use to repair pcs places would give them to me to wipe data. Should I scrap them or is there a market for them. kind of need the space.

[@kennethober9070]

My best advise is unless you plan to dos game, just throw in the best 3D card you can get your hands on. I have a PII 333 with a crappy FX5200 AGP and even it chews this system alive with 3D games. I’m almost done with my PIII 450 gaming rig, just waiting for my Motherboard to arrive 👍

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

My first pc was pentium IIII 1Ghz with Geforce 2 GTS 64mb and eizo crt monitor. I played a lot of games. Amazing pc it was

[@labradorgeek]

i have a similar setup but im running a Pentium II 450, a MX200, SB 128 PCI, and 3x128mb ram, and its a great time. Quake ii in OpenGL mode runs over 60 fps in 640x480, but Moto Racer will only run in software mode, oddly. i dunno if its a driver issue.

[@thesmokingcap]

Good ol 440BX chipset is a great platform to build off

[@robwebnoid5763]

I still have a few GeForce 2's around as well as a few Pentium 3's & motherboards. Now all I need to do is to build a rig for them, heh.

[@jackdipicche_]

Funny seeing a ct4810 Soundblaster, I have one that seems to be dead, except I haven't found anything wrong with it

[@jari2018]

In windows 95 (98) directx in unreal tournament had a fault - When changing resolution you got worse performance changing back to like 640x480 if you tried 512x384 ( on nvidia 2 cards ) . This error might persisted so you might have to uninstall and reinstall the game

[@sstttyyllee]

Your power box wattage is maxxing out. Your GPU not getting enough flow. This causes those display patterns. New power box will sort it out

[@nickwallette6201]

I love the phrase “power box.” I think that’s what I’ll call it from now on. 😅

[@xBelastianx]

I had a PIII with 450 MHz on a Gigabyte BX2000 board. With the DIP switches set correctly I could run it at 550 MHz with a 120 MHz FSB. I think it only worked cause I had a good quality Riva TNT2 M64 and 133 MHz SD RAM installed. I miss that machine, lugged it to many LAN parties. I remember playing Battlefield 1942, Quake 3, Diablo 2 and Star Trek Voyager Elite Force on it. I still have the hard drives from the machine somewhere, a 30 GB and a 80 GB Seagate. At some point it upgraded it to a Geforce 4200 I think which helped a lot in terms of game performance.

[@treahblade]

I also have a sblive card that is dell branded and I have never been able to get that card to work in 98. From my research the lives only have ever had xp drivers

[@mOddEdLiKeHeLL]

Whats the model number?

[@CptJistuce]

The Lives absolutely had 98 drivers. I mean, the original came out IN 98.

[@mOddEdLiKeHeLL]

@@CptJistuce They did. But a lot of them have different drivers. They will have win98 drivers, but DOS drivers are a different story.

[@nickwallette6201]

There is a particular version of the SB Live that was OEM’d to Dell and the ONLY drivers that work are the ones supplied by Dell. I have several versions of the Live and that Dell variant was the absolute worst. I’m sure it’s OK in Linux or maybe XP, with built in drivers that are far more inclusive of all the whole range of potential PCI IDs. IIRC, some of the Live variants also use cut-down codecs rather than the EMU 10K. But I may be thinking of the Audigy. 🤔 At any rate, as much as I loved the original Live that I bought in 98 (and used for years in Win 95, 98, and ME - where it lives today), the Live product line was a mess.

[@yakovkhalip9714]

Asus P3Bf - used to have a PIII/500/Riva_TNT-16mb based on it, when PIII was "actual". Though have such machine now, too - play REd Baron II and JEdi knight on it)

[@OfficialiGamer]

man I hated those style cases, was next to impossible to get the panel on correctly the first time

[@burntoutelectronics]

I've got a Pentium iii in a small Compaq but unfortunately it's only got PCI slots so I've had no luck finding a decent graphics card for it

[@stevef6392]

I don't think the GeForce 2 and WinXP are too modern for the Pentium III. Both were released in 2001, and iirc most people were still buying PIIIs in 2001!

[@JVHShack]

I wonder why the price is much higher than 5 Euros when I look for the cheaper alternative GeForce cards. I live in the USA and many of them are going for about $25.

[@paulvargas8375]

Oh I remember working on those old age machines

[@MrRobbyvent]

have you enabled dma on the ide drivers?

[@p_mouse8676]

Those PIII were great overclockers! The slightly later Celeron were absolute overcloking beasts. I had a 667Mhz that easily run on 1100MHz. I had almost exactly the same computer back than, same case, slightly different motherboard, also with a GeForce (different brand). WinXP on those machines was fine, just with a bit more RAM.

[@drzeissler]

Is a GF3-200 passive an alternative?

[@192168117]

Nice. Got almost the same build. Perfect card for this system would be a nvidia tnt2 but i replaced it with a Geforce 3 Ti 200 since im playing in higher resolution as 1024x768 and some dx8 games

[@djpirtu2]

Asus P3B-F! The best Slot1-motherboard ever made. I have two ot those, one with 2 ISA slots and one with 1 ISA slot. Pentium3 Tualatin 1,4GHz, overclock it to 140MHz FSB and then it's one fast all-arounder.

[@MrAlan1828]

@0:29 right on top of the cpu it says the CPU speed and bus speed, OMG

[@thewhyzer]

In 1999 I got myself a Celeron 466 with a TNT2 Ultra card, within a few years upgraded to a Pentium III 800MHz but kept the same card, and that's the system I gamed on until ... 2007. Oof.

[@wojciechszymanowski]

2:58 what’s odd about it?

[@eggrevolver]

Pretty much the same config I had in the year 2000, except my parents couldn't afford the Ti, so I had an original GeForce 2MX 32MB. Was pretty decent, though.

[@BenoitAdam2]

I had this, the problem is to get an AGP4X motherboard. Otherwise DRAM Mhz will be divided by 2. All "e-poly" (enemy, models, etc...) will hugely drop your FPS

[@jonchapman6821]

I’m surprised the GF2ti performed so much better than the MX cards, I thought a 500MHz CPU would bottleneck them all (so they’d all be roughly the same speed)

[@gmergmer2606]

а можно вокунуть старую звуковую карту ИСА на новый более менее комп с ИСА входом разумеется , коокй это будет комп , сколько там будет оперативы какой там будет виндовс ... параметры по максимуму кароче но с ИСА ? Pentium 3 подходит? А четвертый может подойти?

[@ericwood3709]

I don't know why you didn't mention higher-end ATI cards such as the Rage 128 and the Radeon series. You could throw a Radeon in there and get performance comparable to the MX, based on my own experience with a Pentium 4 Dell that I have with an OEM Radeon card in it. I tried an MX 400 in there and performance is basically the same.

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

1995 / 1996 case .. motherboard and other stuff look more upgraded case doesn't though

[@lordwiadro83]

Of course there is/was a 333 MHz Pentium II. The last Pentium to use the 66 MHz FSB. I happen to have one.

[@bgrcomputersltd]

What font is in the thumbnail of this video?

[@tylerstarkey9141]

Really enjoyed your video! I have a few retro PC's myself that were gifted. Getting my feet wet with the hardware and installation procedures. One question though, where is a reputable place to source drivers? Awesome video, thanks for showing.

[@Jonen560ti]

Phils computer lab has some on his website

[@tylerstarkey9141]

@@Jonen560ti okay cool I'll check em out. Is snappy driver reputable? A lot of mixed information in regards to their site..

[@Jonen560ti]

@@tylerstarkey9141 never heard of snappy driver

[@MT-yo3mg]

""a cold"". :P Haha kidding, hpoe you are well. Awesome video, as always! Thanks :)

[@NightSprinter]

My 32MB MX was how I managed on a Celeron-A 466 to play UT99 online decently.

[@zombee38]

I have a PC with this motherboard I am glad that it would take a P3... currently has a P2 300Mhz

[@JenniferinIllinois]

I had a couple of the Promise IDE controllers, back when I had 6 or 8 hard drives in my gaming system. Ah, all those rotating platters. Hehehe...

[@061Hitachi]

I have a spare IBM PL320 it has that same processor altough it doesn't boot it is just stuck at IBM logo. Also I have Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic Xs, it's a micro pc 32x30x8cm which I use as my retro station so for now I will not hassle with that IBM.

[@tony714keene]

why not are you using windows 98 second edition?

[@ritsukasa]

motoracer can have a frame drop when you are starting at that curve, I remember that, its terrible for demostration. I remember it run very well in our old amd k6-2 233 mhz. That game, and duke nukem 3d, very good games.

[@krz8888888]

P3b-f, omg how I would like to get one, or an Abit BE6, peak 440bx

[@only257]

Great video 🎥

[@stephanimgluck9909]

What Dell model is this? 😊Thx

[@T_Burd_75]

I still have the first video card I've ever bought, a GeForce 2 MX 200 32 MB PCI card. The Walmart HP computer that I paid $800 for couldn't even run Plus! for XP. This card made that possible, plus I was able to play Hunting Unlimited 3 on it. 😉

[@Cayres9]

Im confused as my Pentium 3 PC from 1999 had 1000mhz ? maybe overclocked but it was amazing for the time as before it i had some 66mhz PC lol

[@A-BYTE94]

I remember my first computer had dual socket 370 motherboard, 2x Pentium III 1.3GHz, 512MB of RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 and Windows XP and I got it in 2006

[@Italian_Isaac_Clarke]

I got my W98, Pentium 2 400Mhz 128mb RAM for free from a dude who just had it in its pile of stuff. It was free to get, but it is costing my soul to work on it. Now I'll have to burn a Linux thingie on a CD so that: >double/triple booting may be possible >booting from a USB may be possible >moving files to the computer may be easier (I tried 4 methods to move the USB driver to the PC, and when I managed to IT WAS INCOMPATIBLE) My goblin brain tells me that I NEED to try and run games like TF2 on it, but I know very well that it is IMPOSSIBLE. On the other hand, before setting the PC on the side again for awhile I managed to transfer the Quake directory on the PC. WINquake lacks drivers, but the original version... it ran on Software Mode perfectly, nothing was missing, the performance was smooth and the music was there. At least I managed that... the original plan for the W98 PC was to run oldass games on real hardware to then maybe post the proper results online for archival purposes, and the origin of that plan was my intrigue with all Quake ports...

[@Wasper216]

ATX does not mean that it has to have removable side covers…. Lots of ATX cases came with one full cover only.

[@MrHBSoftware]

some did but not lots....the standard for atx cases was side covers

[@dennisp.2147]

It's likely that the original design for this case was AT, but they replaced the back panel with one that has ATX punchouts. It is certainly transitional looking.

[@nickwallette6201]

@@dennisp.2147 That ATX back plate is a giveaway. A few first gen ATX cases had that large plate with screw holes. Then they moved to the normal press-fit style.

[@dennisp.2147]

@@nickwallette6201 Yes and no. Many of the early ATX cases did, but the press fit style has also been there since the beginning as well. The first one I saw being in a system I built in January of 1996 or so. Different case vendors chose different options. The simplest (and cheapest) being the one that eventually won out.

[@nickwallette6201]

@@dennisp.2147 Uh.. yeah. That's what I said. :-) " *A FEW* of those early ATX cases had that..." I was implying that, because of the odd ATX back plate, this indeed looks to be a first-gen ATX model. Which means it was from an era before side panels caught on, which was a change that coincided with the AT-to-ATX transition period. My first ATX case had the large ATX back plate, which IIRC, was an Enlight case. I think it was also a full cover panel, not just side panels.

[@humphrex]

i had a p2 450 on a p2b-f and a gf2. i remember it as the best system i owned

[@stonent]

I think around that time I had a 700MHz Pentium III and a GF2 MX400. I think I paid around 150 or 199 for the video card.

[@apolo0445]

I remember my old Pentium 2 (400mhz), with 128MB of RAM, and a 16MB of video, ran perfectly smooth Quake 3 Arena, it was like 35fps, but your machine runs too low even with the graphic card. That card was lower than 16MB video? I dont remember the exact model of my old card. Good video bro!