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u doing any better?

The Inspiron 8200 was my first laptop, which I specified with the GeForce 4 MX Go. I was able to play Doom3 on this thing. I really loved this laptop.

i have the same thing but how long does it take to charge? the charge light is on but how long can i turn it on

This is the first computer I had as my daily driver for work in 1994.

Who play ut2004 at 2024 like me? 😅😅😅

I had a loaded model wth 64mb gpu played unreal tournament on it had a couple batteries was my first personal pc my folks got me for high school and the family business wish I'd kept it

Its the cpu bottleneck. Its actually intense game bc only uses one core. You cutting down gpu settings wont do much if cpu bottlenecked. But nice experiment. ,,, i played this on am Amd athlon 1ghz cpu single core and nvidia fx5200 by bfg, 128mb ddr, it ran this game great. I think 800x600 all day

i had that pc in 2015 but sadly screen gone black we tried new screen but its black to this day its sitting somewhere on my attic

My first editing pc lmfao

How much

Googling for nostalgias sake and found this gem. My first PC as a kid was a compaq with an integrated video card and then after coding on and upgrading that rude dude I was gifted a Gen 3 XPS and a copy of World of Warcrack for Christmas. Those were the best of times... Remember spending many a night working on reverse engineering Ragnarok Online servers and creating my own server emulator for my friends and I to play on.

I still remember playing the ut2004 demo from a software cd. I also had the pentium 3 1000mhz back then with a GeForce FX 5200.

Thank you for the trip down memory lane! I used to work QA in the factory where they built those...20 years ago I never thought they'd have a rust problem. And, if you curious, 13705 was a one of the best system builders on my shift!

JEEEEEDEN Tag wie ein besessener gespielt ❤❤❤

I may have an 8400 board you can have. What state are you in? I refuse to disassemble it 😂

I had this computer. It was a beast for the time and right before dual(duo?)core was on the rise. By the way you had me on the edge of my seat when you said this pc isn’t going to explode right?

This was my first computer I had on my desk when I got to my first duty station.

Had one of these when they were new. Had to be returned because it would Blue screen on boot (likely a symptom of the issue with capacitors at the time) and the male end of the power supply was HORRIBLE when it came to tearing and requiring being held a special way before finally giving up. Seemed to go through those once a year for 5 years. Wasn't as lucky with the battery as you were - at its best, it could easily play a feature-length movie, but after those 5 years, it had just enough capacity for a few minutes of light tasks. And, like with the power supply, being proprietary hardware meant it was not gonna be easy to replace.

Memories unlocked...

Geforce2mx does not generally need a fan. But it also won't hurt. The ones i have had, had slightly more generous heatsinks though, i always got ELSA cards, so i suppose it's par for the course to plop a fan on there and can give you some overclocking capability. Though the card wasn't designed to take a fan, since there's no 2-pin fan connector on there. Back in the day i had a Mitsubishi DiamondPro CRT monitor which would switch resolutions instantly in a split second. Games which switched resolution on menu were something that wasn't too common but existed, i think one of Deus Ex games does that because menu resolution is fixed, while the game itself will run in any resolution. When VGA LCDs came in, that suddenly became an issue, because the monitor has to calibrate itself to the exact pixel clock and skew of the new mode by extracting this implied clock from the pixel edges. You'd think getting a nicer card with a more stable pixel clock would help, but the minimum time that the monitor clock-hunts is hardcoded in the monitor firmware. It does "work" in reverse though, if you have a shitty video card or if the image is pure single colour at first, the image will come on but the monitor will still be visibly clock hunting, with the image being blurry a little distorted and shifting by half a pixel or a pixel for a few seconds until it finds the signal.

Just seeing the 6 pci slots stirs mental juices. Even back then, it was uncalled for, spacing accounted. You had video (agp) sound & ethernet if not integrated. Good stuff 😊 Source a tnt2 or geforce 256 & youre set. That mx is half the bandwidth at 64.

Does anyone know how many memory channels one of these servers has? I’m curious what Intel was doing in the early 2000s when allowed to “spare no expense”

Best wishes for your upcoming career/life random internet person fixing servers. Sorry to hear that.

My high school had a couple of these in cold storage when I left there in 2012. I begged them to let me buy one from them, but they declined. So jealous you managed to pick these rare awesome machines up!

Very nostalgic, thank you. I built a 3-way cluster using the dual CPU model (PE4400) in the early 2000's and remember how well built these units were. I almost forgot the struggle i had heaving them into a rack after converting them from their tower config. Interestingly they got replaced by the same 2850 too.

Wishing you the best with your efforts to relocate and settle down. I had to move recently, too. Leaving behind nearly my entire collection of vintage PCs and Hi-Fi gear. Was an incredibly tough decision, but I do intend to go back and retrieve them once I have the means to. This was an interesting video, though~ Haven't seen a PowerEdge 6400 in a long time!

Glad to see you back! Sorry about the living situation, I can only imagine having to make decisions about what stays and what goes in my hoard. Looking at the 6400's They look like they were actually running for a long time in an extremely moist environment, not just sitting. The mold/mildew spotting patterns are exactly the same as the inside of an AC handler. Also glad you got them clean, it was starting to trip my OCD button! The best rust removal system you can get is evaporust. You can get a quart for about $10, and it's reusable for a very long time. Because it's a chelator, and not an acid, It won't affect plating and it only removes rust, leaving paint and other undamaged surface coatings intact. A close second, but much cheaper is citric acid, which is sold as a dishwasher spot remover under the name Lemishine, or in bulk for making wine and other uses. Flash rust usually isn't an issue with evaporust. I'd love to have a quad CPU server. I think I'd prefer a Compaq Pentium Pro setup from the Mid 90's, like the ones I had at my first job, but I'm sure my wife would divorce me if I brought in a 300 pound junk computer to go with the 3 dozen other machines. The only Dell Server I have currently is a Poweredge 300SC, although It barely counts, since it's basically a workstation class case with a Dual CPU board inside it. It's got a 700 MHz PIII currently, but since it's It's dual capable I'd like to upgrade it, but since 1Ghz PIIIs are bringing stupid money, I've grabbed a couple of 866 Mhz CPUs to stuff in it. My thoughts are a lot like yours, stick a PCI video card in it, a Soundblaster and try to run games on XP.

lol I owned a geforce 5500 back in the day and that was pretty shite, a 5200 wasnt great back then :)

Just finished watching. I’m sorry to hear about your current living situation. Hope that turns out ok for you!! Video was great :)

New SFC video? Heck yes! Going to watch the whole thing through now :)

glad to see you back

Hey! What is the worst condition computer or server you've found that still ended up working? What more do you think should be done to these servers?

Had a Heath-Zenith version back in the early 90's. Had to add a power plug and ordered the O/S from Heath then wrote a short assembly program to copy the O/S onto the HD. Had much fun using it an never put Windows on it, but put Turbo-C on it and it barely worked but was fun to work around stuff that didn't work.

According to my experience back in the day 512MB memory is the recommended and also a faster hard drive RAID if is possible. Also software renderer needs a hugeee processor even my R9 5900X struggles

I was really upset when i found out that Epic Games and Steam had delisted the Unreal games, so i was really happy when i found out today that 4 Unreal games are available for free on GOG, and that people have made new servers (at least for UT2004)..! Had a blast when i played it earlier today, on a server with constant speed and jump boost

loved the video :) I used to unbox a lot of the optiplex systems back in the day but never really saw many dimensions.

This channel needs to make a comeback

Ahh, ye olde Dell Dementia---what a find! NOS comps don't come along every day, that's for sure. I find it odd that it came with onboard video but not audio. At any rate, thanks for sharing that incredible time capsule with us

u still here

Hello Snow, i have a question, please... Where i connect the power button on de motherboard ? Can you help me ?

Holy sh**! That's same as my old and first computer! Nostalgia kickin' in yo!

my school had these, they were hated and trashed often the basement had like 50 of these sitting for parts

i had 1.8ghz pentium 4 with 128mb ram and 80gb hdd with geforce 4 mx 64mb (it was quit expensive just like what newer core i9 with rtx is today), and the game was running good though map loading time was quit long and my system was slow for the other tasks even Alt+Tab slowed it down

I not too sure but I think those pentium 4 boards use socket 775, double check if so there are plenty core quad processors you can upgrade to..

Apparently the bulging capacitor is quite common in those motherboards, mine was bulging too, the same exact one. I pulled it out and now the second memory channel doesn't work, pc wont boot at all if I have any ram on that channel, I'll have to find a replacement I guess. I had not watched the entire video before commenting, your ram issue is also that pesky bulging capacitor.

Anyone knows <*DeVoLuTiOn*> ?

its probably a cpu bottleneck

Can I put a via c3 in it

I found one. What is the deal with that psu connector? Are the psu units still available for it?

You don't change the fog distance option, it helps to improve the performance.