I’ve been on a Dell Dimension kick the last year or so. These machines are basic but easy to work on and fairly resilient. So far, I have an 8200, 4550, 4300 and B110. I still have my eyes out for an 8100 with a proper Socket 423 Williamette P4 in it.
Hey, on the bright side at least it wasn't left in someone's basement stairwell, forced to endure the elements (mostly rain) until I found it! (The one you got wasn't nearly as bad to clean out as the one I'm referencing imo [also, Dell 4600].) Good news is it still works, even though a RAM slot and the CMOS battery circuit doesn't work, with part of the PSU internally corroded to heck. However, the PSU also still works, albeit very concerningly...also, integrated graphics BARELY works. 😅
Good job ! I don't know why but watching this type of videos is so relaxing to me. I also have on my desk my first computer - Dell GX115 also restored to look like new. Thanks for the content !
Making this stuff is fun too! I haven't had time to make stuff recently, but I have some projects I want to do soon. Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed it!
These computers are awesome to soup up, I have modded six of these that I installed newer DELL optiplex motherboards into and SSds. I've had these things running Windows 10 and the latest Linux versions. The exterior looks like it's from 2002 but the interior of the board and Ram and what not 2012 or so
I have a similar one sitting around, a Pentium 4 Dimension 300, I scored for free from a coworker a few months back. You've motivated me to get it out of storage and get some of my own restoration therapy on!!
I still have my Dimension 2400 & use it occasionally. I replaced Win XP with Lubuntu, a Linux distro. It's been a while, so I've forgotten how I did it. This little Dell is a workhorse, going strong! Enjoyed your video. Learned a few new things.
Woman of SPirit, you can always remove the MB to install a DDr3 or DD4 motherboard/processor into it (microATX is max size), and power source and peripehls. And thats what I plan to do with my recently bought-on-craiglist Dell 2400. I know the 2004-era, DDr-1 powered Intel Celeron 2.2 Processor is enough to run but not well in todays web, even with lightweight linux distros. Question for Kevin - the power source is probably 200W (thats what mine has) or 250W. Is that enough to run a graphics card? Would you run this on the web without virus protection?
These computers are pretty awesome if you ask me. Growing up my mom had one of these and i remeber she had to order it from dell directly and even had her own phone line put in for internet access (we had a main line that my grandfather used and my mom decided to get her own as my grandpa kept thinking she was messing up his computer (he turned out to have a very aggressive brain cancer which was causing the memory issues and sadly passed away a year or so later) my first pc was a notebook hp pavilion dv2000 that i got for Christmas in 2006 (had just turned 8) i keep telling myself one of these days I’m going to get another one of those as i made the dumb mistake of giving it away when it quit in 2010 (now that i know what I’m doing with computers i really wish i had kept it) as well as get another one like my mom had , crt and all.
These are great PCs. I miss the days where you would buy a budget PC, and it would be a good product, just with lower specs. These have sort of a bad reputation due to only coming with 128mb or 256mb RAM standard depending on when in the model run you bought it, which is just not enough to do much with on XP. so they got the reputation of being slow and unstable. In reality, these systems can be maxed out to 2gb RAM, and a 3.06 GHz Hyper Treading Pentium 4. They are very reliable systems that are still pretty usable even 20 years later. Certainly not like budget PCs today, where everything is soldered to the board, and a lot of them use laptop chargers. They are just designed to last 3 years or so and be thrown away because they are either broken by then, or so slow they are unusable. Budget means cheap now in the price and the quality, used to that was not the case. I have quite a few of this style dimension. I have 2 2400s, a b110, 2 4600s and a 3000. I have quite fond memories of the Dimension 3000 because my grandparents had one when I was younger. I would watch TH-cam videos and play flash games when I was visiting them. I ended up with that system in 2014 when they got a new computer, and I still have it.
I've restored plenty of these..... good systems.... max out the memory and put in a good large hard drive and you're good to go.... when I restore these, I completely break them down and take the chassis and wash it out in the bathtub. let it dry out and inspect the MB and other hardware.... I've pretty much gotten away from the old P4 machines.... they don't really like windows 10..... though they will run it.... slow though.....Nice restoration.....
Hello, I have an old dell Dimension 2400 like this and My A&C lights are solid orange on the back of my tower??? B&D are solid green. Everything turns on and it sounds healthy but the monitor is not displaying??? Can you please help, thanks
I have 2 of the Dell Dimension 4400 XP machines...hard drive recently crapped out on one...now using 2nd machine. I want to switch them both to SSD drives...where can I find the SSD drives?
Looking at this great video.....today I found a Dell 2400 win xp, it looks like they have not used for a long time....I will do the cleaning and the testing to see if it works. Thanks for the video.
try getting a new old stock 5 1/4 drive. on the SSD, they make 3.5 to 2.5 drive caddys on ebay for two or three dollars. As a person who has a 2.5 inch drive twist tied to the side of his pc as he writes this, I'd think about getting one. Just makes the whole thing kinda tidy looking.
I'm currently refurbing and upgrading a free curbsided XP era machine, in the form of a very nice looking metallic blue and silver Advent T9100, with a Pentium 4 3.2E, an AsRock P4i65G motherboard, a single 512MB DDR stick, 160GB Seagate SATA HDD, a beige PATA Lite-On DVD writer, a silver card reader, and a silver 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive, from around 2004. Also came with a silver Hanns.G HW173A LCD monitor, Trust keyboard, VGA cable, & power cables. After cleaning it all up, here's what I'm adding to / replacing with it: 256MB XFX 6600GT AGP graphics card (sticker on the front promised an FX 5500, only came with onboard Intel "Extreme" graphics 2, so, either way, had to do something about that) Creative Audigy SB0090 PCI audio card (a great little sound card, that not only nicely complements the refurb, it also comes with an internal Firewire port header to plug in the front panel Firewire) Seasonic SS-500ET F3 PSU (to replace the surprisingly new looking, but still almost certainly dodgy, cheapo whatever PSU that someone stuck in there) Masscool all copper heatsink with ball bearing fan (extremely loud stock cooler idling past 50°C, fixing that ASAP) 2GB (2x1GB) Kingston Hyper-X DDR 400 DIMMs (already had going spare from previous builds) 160 & 320GB Hitachi SATA drives (they're ones I got over 10 years ago that's stood the test of time, still checking out just fine with disk check utility tools as of 2020) Additional Lite-On beige PATA DVD writer (for region 1 & 2 PowerDVD 5 & Nero 6 goodness, that I already had) Serial and MIDI/game port combination backplate bracket (plugs into both the Audigy's MIDI/game port header & the motherboard's serial port header) Airflow grill backplate bracket (for the GPU to better exhaust hot air) An Akasa 120mm fan with additional grill & filter (ghetto jammed into the case near the front, which otherwise has absolutely no means whatsoever of having any additional fans beyond the PSU's exhaust one) Replacement floppy, PATA, & SATA ribbon cables (40 to 80 way conductor Belkin rounded IDE cable, broken ribbon to not broken Belkin rounded floppy cable, & single SATA to dual right angle Gigabyte SATA cables) CD audio cables CR2032 battery BIOS speaker When all the parts arrive, I'm planning on turning it into a dual boot Windows XP & 7 system, with the further possibility of triple booting it with Windows 98se, or even quad booting it with a complementary Linux distro down the line. Further changes include adding in a metal bracket to permantly fix the ghetto added fan in place, and replacing said fan, along with the CPU cooler fan, with Noctuas. May also change up to solid state storage, at least for the boot drive, sometime after that. Hope you enjoyed reading the above. Enjoy your P4 Dell refurb! :-)
@@WiBitnet Hello again Kevin! Got all of the above. Replaced the somewhat flaky old Akasa fan with a Noctua NF-P12 for significantly improved airflow within the restricted T9100's case. Also replaced the Masscool all copper CPU cooler's stock 70x70x15mm fan with a 70x70x25mm StarTech/Evercool double ball bearing fan (Noctua doesn't do 70mm). System still sounds like an industrial unit of some kind, but at least it's much quieter than the jet engine it was, with the Prescott toaster CPU's temperatures held well in check better than before. Also got a nice matching silver & black HP Compaq LA1956x LED backlit monitor, along with a new/old stock solidly built HP KB0316 UK ISO PS/2 keyboard and HP M-SBF96 PS/2 optical mouse set. Finally, finished off with a pair of Logitech Z120 USB powered speakers and a Microsoft XBox 360 USB PC wired controller. It didn't like 98se at all in it's current configuration, kept saying it was "out of memory" with 2GB of RAM & a 160GB SATA boot drive with a 32GB FAT32 OS partition during the first part of installation! For now, I'm just installing XP Pro SP3 32-bit, with SP4 to be able to activate it. Looking at installing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 later on (as my Q9650 build only likes FS2003 onwards, but not FS2002).
Good luck. My mom actually used to have this very same computer with the crt , i would love to get another one myself as well as another one of my first computer which was an hp pavilion dv2000 notebook (i could be wrong as i got rid of it in 2010 after the motherboard fried on me)
Broo help, how did you do so that the machine detects the SSD, did you install something before so that when installing Windows it would see the SSD, I would appreciate it very much, I am trying to do the same thing that you did on the same type of machine, the Dell Dimension 2400, Thank you in advance for reading me
I've got one of these lying around somewhere. We stopped using it because it was running so slow. Would replacing the old hard drive with a little solid state like you did bring it back to life?
I thought one of our fans was making noise...and it turns out it was a fan making noise...but not the one I thought. It was the fan on the graphics card I had in there...lol. Don't need that!
Def a solid state solution will give you some performance improvement. You can try the solution I did, which is an SATA PCI card, or you can also try something like an IDE to Compact Flash adapter, however I am pretty sure what I did will get you the biggest bang for your buck.
Turned mine on after years. I have a 3000. Will I be able to upgrade it to windows 10 or 11...I'm asking because I have the internet working however I can't get any web browsers to work to get updates started. I'm stuck what should I do?
I used a molex to SATA power adapter, since this machine was build before SATA and the power supply doesn't have any power connectors for it. They are pretty cheap on eBay or Amazon.
no the best cpu you can get for the socket is the pentium 4 xe 3.4ghz and that isnt enough to run minecraft, additionaly the limit of only pci gpus is fairly restrictive if you want to play gta san andreas its fine but minecraft at its current update simply is too intensive
Probably not a modern version, but in 2010 or so I used to play Minecraft on a Pentium 4 with integrated graphics and 1GB RAM. Didn't run perfectly, but it was playable and a ton of fun!
Perhaps MC Alpha Yes, With 2gb of ram and a Pentium 4 (64 Bit) Then Maybe, Just maybe But 1.16.5? No I can barely run it on an I3-9100 CPU With 8GB Of ram
LOL! Ya, seriously. Those old machines can still do stuff. I just did another restore of a 2002 era PC and it runs games like UT2003 very well. I was impressed.
I got one of these a few months ago. It’s fun except the Celeron R is a bit slow and it is missing the floppy for some reason. Was thinking about soldering on an agp slot on because the bios has settings for one. Any thoughts?
Mine is a Pentium III, which runs pretty fine. The only thing that holds me back is no AGP slot. The board looks printed to have an AGP slot in it. Probably all these models had the same board printed to same money.
I mean, it's pretty awesome that you still can! I did a Mac OSX Tiger install recently and was able to install updates. I wish Microsoft would prop up the Windows 98 Update web page. That would be awesome AF!
@@WiBitnet Linux could be a option. Windows is Kinda full of bloat Just saying! Up to you! Chris Titus tech is a great Linux channel if u wanna know more about Linux. I use Debian it's super stable you could always use windows, but Linux has more security options :) Well keep up the good work! Also i have a old Dell Dimension 47OOC. But what windows version would you recommend for me to put on it in the dell computer? Thanks.
Def. I used the SSD in this video, however, using a compact flash to IDE also is pretty good. I use that in other older machines and I have had no issues. Using SD cards as a hard disk has been a problem for some computers, so I have learned to stay away from those.
I’ve been on a Dell Dimension kick the last year or so. These machines are basic but easy to work on and fairly resilient. So far, I have an 8200, 4550, 4300 and B110. I still have my eyes out for an 8100 with a proper Socket 423 Williamette P4 in it.
Also my first "gaming" pc...nostalgic man
It's a nice machine! No doubt. I still enjoy it on LAN party nights.
Wow surprised you still actually use it man, awesome!
@@J2J_Trini Ya I try to have a LAN party once a year in the winter. I'll hook up all the machines I have and have fun!
i like these old dells. providing they don have blown caps they usually will work even after 20 yrs
as well as the keyboard and mouse? Because I already have a Dell P2213f monitor
I see that this dell has revision a03 on the bios. The latest version of the bios is a05. Your gonna have to get that updated my guy
It's on the list of things to do.
Ok, just making sure
Mine as a02
Upgrading to A05 will allow you to upgrade to a cpu with hyperthreading.
Will it take any Pentium 4?
Hey, on the bright side at least it wasn't left in someone's basement stairwell, forced to endure the elements (mostly rain) until I found it! (The one you got wasn't nearly as bad to clean out as the one I'm referencing imo [also, Dell 4600].)
Good news is it still works, even though a RAM slot and the CMOS battery circuit doesn't work, with part of the PSU internally corroded to heck. However, the PSU also still works, albeit very concerningly...also, integrated graphics BARELY works. 😅
My first computer when I was 13 years old was a Dell Dimension 4600 , was new around the time too🥲
Good job ! I don't know why but watching this type of videos is so relaxing to me. I also have on my desk my first computer - Dell GX115 also restored to look like new. Thanks for the content !
Making this stuff is fun too! I haven't had time to make stuff recently, but I have some projects I want to do soon. Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed it!
I might find one of these but I had one but it’s completely disassembled
These computers are awesome to soup up, I have modded six of these that I installed newer DELL optiplex motherboards into and SSds. I've had these things running Windows 10 and the latest Linux versions. The exterior looks like it's from 2002 but the interior of the board and Ram and what not 2012 or so
This thing is a dustbox 😂 I cleaned out mine the other day and I was really surprised at the carpeted amount of dust there was.
I have a similar one sitting around, a Pentium 4 Dimension 300, I scored for free from a coworker a few months back. You've motivated me to get it out of storage and get some of my own restoration therapy on!!
That's awesome!!!! This is a super fun PC. Let me know how your restoration goes and if you have any questions!
Great job and nice computer system. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
I still have my Dimension 2400 & use it occasionally. I replaced Win XP with Lubuntu, a Linux distro. It's been a while, so I've forgotten how I did it. This little Dell is a workhorse, going strong! Enjoyed your video. Learned a few new things.
Woman of SPirit, you can always remove the MB to install a DDr3 or DD4 motherboard/processor into it (microATX is max size), and power source and peripehls. And thats what I plan to do with my recently bought-on-craiglist Dell 2400. I know the 2004-era, DDr-1 powered Intel Celeron 2.2 Processor is enough to run but not well in todays web, even with lightweight linux distros.
Question for Kevin - the power source is probably 200W (thats what mine has) or 250W. Is that enough to run a graphics card? Would you run this on the web without virus protection?
Hay thanks for the video I got mine for free and it has 2 dvd slots
These computers are pretty awesome if you ask me. Growing up my mom had one of these and i remeber she had to order it from dell directly and even had her own phone line put in for internet access (we had a main line that my grandfather used and my mom decided to get her own as my grandpa kept thinking she was messing up his computer (he turned out to have a very aggressive brain cancer which was causing the memory issues and sadly passed away a year or so later) my first pc was a notebook hp pavilion dv2000 that i got for Christmas in 2006 (had just turned 8) i keep telling myself one of these days I’m going to get another one of those as i made the dumb mistake of giving it away when it quit in 2010 (now that i know what I’m doing with computers i really wish i had kept it) as well as get another one like my mom had , crt and all.
These are great PCs. I miss the days where you would buy a budget PC, and it would be a good product, just with lower specs. These have sort of a bad reputation due to only coming with 128mb or 256mb RAM standard depending on when in the model run you bought it, which is just not enough to do much with on XP. so they got the reputation of being slow and unstable.
In reality, these systems can be maxed out to 2gb RAM, and a 3.06 GHz Hyper Treading Pentium 4. They are very reliable systems that are still pretty usable even 20 years later.
Certainly not like budget PCs today, where everything is soldered to the board, and a lot of them use laptop chargers. They are just designed to last 3 years or so and be thrown away because they are either broken by then, or so slow they are unusable. Budget means cheap now in the price and the quality, used to that was not the case.
I have quite a few of this style dimension. I have 2 2400s, a b110, 2 4600s and a 3000. I have quite fond memories of the Dimension 3000 because my grandparents had one when I was younger. I would watch TH-cam videos and play flash games when I was visiting them. I ended up with that system in 2014 when they got a new computer, and I still have it.
I've restored plenty of these..... good systems.... max out the memory and put in a good large hard drive and you're good to go.... when I restore these, I completely break them down and take the chassis and wash it out in the bathtub. let it dry out and inspect the MB and other hardware.... I've pretty much gotten away from the old P4 machines.... they don't really like windows 10..... though they will run it.... slow though.....Nice restoration.....
Hello, I have an old dell Dimension 2400 like this and My A&C lights are solid orange on the back of my tower??? B&D are solid green. Everything turns on and it sounds healthy but the monitor is not displaying??? Can you please help, thanks
Dell should make a modernized version "Dell dimension 2400 2.0"
I have 2 of the Dell Dimension 4400 XP machines...hard drive recently crapped out on one...now using 2nd machine. I want to switch them both to SSD drives...where can I find the SSD drives?
Fun video! I just picked up a Celeron version of this machine today at a thrift store for $15. You got a better deal :-)
With thrifting you win some and lose...... most of the time lol.
Looking at this great video.....today I found a Dell 2400 win xp, it looks like they have not used for a long time....I will do the cleaning and the testing to see if it works. Thanks for the video.
I have that
try getting a new old stock 5 1/4 drive. on the SSD, they make 3.5 to 2.5 drive caddys on ebay for two or three dollars. As a person who has a 2.5 inch drive twist tied to the side of his pc as he writes this, I'd think about getting one. Just makes the whole thing kinda tidy looking.
I'm currently refurbing and upgrading a free curbsided XP era machine, in the form of a very nice looking metallic blue and silver Advent T9100, with a Pentium 4 3.2E, an AsRock P4i65G motherboard, a single 512MB DDR stick, 160GB Seagate SATA HDD, a beige PATA Lite-On DVD writer, a silver card reader, and a silver 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive, from around 2004. Also came with a silver Hanns.G HW173A LCD monitor, Trust keyboard, VGA cable, & power cables.
After cleaning it all up, here's what I'm adding to / replacing with it:
256MB XFX 6600GT AGP graphics card (sticker on the front promised an FX 5500, only came with onboard Intel "Extreme" graphics 2, so, either way, had to do something about that)
Creative Audigy SB0090 PCI audio card (a great little sound card, that not only nicely complements the refurb, it also comes with an internal Firewire port header to plug in the front panel Firewire)
Seasonic SS-500ET F3 PSU (to replace the surprisingly new looking, but still almost certainly dodgy, cheapo whatever PSU that someone stuck in there)
Masscool all copper heatsink with ball bearing fan (extremely loud stock cooler idling past 50°C, fixing that ASAP)
2GB (2x1GB) Kingston Hyper-X DDR 400 DIMMs (already had going spare from previous builds)
160 & 320GB Hitachi SATA drives (they're ones I got over 10 years ago that's stood the test of time, still checking out just fine with disk check utility tools as of 2020)
Additional Lite-On beige PATA DVD writer (for region 1 & 2 PowerDVD 5 & Nero 6 goodness, that I already had)
Serial and MIDI/game port combination backplate bracket (plugs into both the Audigy's MIDI/game port header & the motherboard's serial port header)
Airflow grill backplate bracket (for the GPU to better exhaust hot air)
An Akasa 120mm fan with additional grill & filter (ghetto jammed into the case near the front, which otherwise has absolutely no means whatsoever of having any additional fans beyond the PSU's exhaust one)
Replacement floppy, PATA, & SATA ribbon cables (40 to 80 way conductor Belkin rounded IDE cable, broken ribbon to not broken Belkin rounded floppy cable, & single SATA to dual right angle Gigabyte SATA cables)
CD audio cables
CR2032 battery
BIOS speaker
When all the parts arrive, I'm planning on turning it into a dual boot Windows XP & 7 system, with the further possibility of triple booting it with Windows 98se, or even quad booting it with a complementary Linux distro down the line.
Further changes include adding in a metal bracket to permantly fix the ghetto added fan in place, and replacing said fan, along with the CPU cooler fan, with Noctuas. May also change up to solid state storage, at least for the boot drive, sometime after that.
Hope you enjoyed reading the above. Enjoy your P4 Dell refurb! :-)
Awesome! I am behind on respond to comments, so if your project is completed by now I'd love to know how it went!
@@WiBitnet Hello again Kevin!
Got all of the above. Replaced the somewhat flaky old Akasa fan with a Noctua NF-P12 for significantly improved airflow within the restricted T9100's case. Also replaced the Masscool all copper CPU cooler's stock 70x70x15mm fan with a 70x70x25mm StarTech/Evercool double ball bearing fan (Noctua doesn't do 70mm). System still sounds like an industrial unit of some kind, but at least it's much quieter than the jet engine it was, with the Prescott toaster CPU's temperatures held well in check better than before.
Also got a nice matching silver & black HP Compaq LA1956x LED backlit monitor, along with a new/old stock solidly built HP KB0316 UK ISO PS/2 keyboard and HP M-SBF96 PS/2 optical mouse set. Finally, finished off with a pair of Logitech Z120 USB powered speakers and a Microsoft XBox 360 USB PC wired controller.
It didn't like 98se at all in it's current configuration, kept saying it was "out of memory" with 2GB of RAM & a 160GB SATA boot drive with a 32GB FAT32 OS partition during the first part of installation!
For now, I'm just installing XP Pro SP3 32-bit, with SP4 to be able to activate it. Looking at installing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 later on (as my Q9650 build only likes FS2003 onwards, but not FS2002).
im going to buy one with a dell crt wish me luck
Good luck. My mom actually used to have this very same computer with the crt , i would love to get another one myself as well as another one of my first computer which was an hp pavilion dv2000 notebook (i could be wrong as i got rid of it in 2010 after the motherboard fried on me)
Broo help, how did you do so that the machine detects the SSD, did you install something before so that when installing Windows it would see the SSD, I would appreciate it very much, I am trying to do the same thing that you did on the same type of machine, the Dell Dimension 2400, Thank you in advance for reading me
I've got one of these lying around somewhere. We stopped using it because it was running so slow. Would replacing the old hard drive with a little solid state like you did bring it back to life?
I thought one of our fans was making noise...and it turns out it was a fan making noise...but not the one I thought. It was the fan on the graphics card I had in there...lol. Don't need that!
Def a solid state solution will give you some performance improvement. You can try the solution I did, which is an SATA PCI card, or you can also try something like an IDE to Compact Flash adapter, however I am pretty sure what I did will get you the biggest bang for your buck.
I used one of this with TH-cam, it was nice back then I want to upgrade it to be usable, we also stop using it due to slooow performance.
Ya, the web matured fast. One Brave / Chrome tab can take up as much RAM as this entire system can support. Thanks for the comment.
Turned mine on after years. I have a 3000. Will I be able to upgrade it to windows 10 or 11...I'm asking because I have the internet working however I can't get any web browsers to work to get updates started. I'm stuck what should I do?
I doubt Windows 10 will run on it.
@@WiBitnet darn ok brother thank you.
Hey! I really hope you are able to see this. What power adapter did you use for the SATA cable? Any chance you can find me a link or part information.
I used a molex to SATA power adapter, since this machine was build before SATA and the power supply doesn't have any power connectors for it. They are pretty cheap on eBay or Amazon.
@@WiBitnet Thank you for the reply, appreciate it. Finally fixed my dimension2400. All it needed was a new power supply (:
@@jabu9 That's awesome! Hope you get some live out of it! Are you using it for gaming, or just goofing around?
@@WiBitnet Thanks! Just goofing, was my family's first PC and wanted to fix it as a suprise.
You can also put Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on it.
I just recently did a custom Windows 98 ultimate PC build. I didn't record it sadly. But ya, Love me some Windows 2000!
@@WiBitnet Ah, Is your Dell Dimension 2400 currently running Windows XP?
But can I take it home?
Is there any way i can update it to play mincrat XD
LOL!!!! Not sure. Would be cool!
no the best cpu you can get for the socket is the pentium 4 xe 3.4ghz and that isnt enough to run minecraft, additionaly the limit of only pci gpus is fairly restrictive if you want to play gta san andreas its fine but minecraft at its current update simply is too intensive
Probably not a modern version, but in 2010 or so I used to play Minecraft on a Pentium 4 with integrated graphics and 1GB RAM. Didn't run perfectly, but it was playable and a ton of fun!
I still have my 2400 , infact just replaced the power supply.
Perhaps MC Alpha Yes, With 2gb of ram and a Pentium 4 (64 Bit) Then Maybe, Just maybe
But 1.16.5? No
I can barely run it on an I3-9100 CPU With 8GB Of ram
im kinda supprised it ran youtube that well lol
LOL! Ya, seriously. Those old machines can still do stuff. I just did another restore of a 2002 era PC and it runs games like UT2003 very well. I was impressed.
I got one of these a few months ago. It’s fun except the Celeron R is a bit slow and it is missing the floppy for some reason. Was thinking about soldering on an agp slot on because the bios has settings for one. Any thoughts?
Mine is a Pentium III, which runs pretty fine. The only thing that holds me back is no AGP slot. The board looks printed to have an AGP slot in it. Probably all these models had the same board printed to same money.
You would need to install all of the supporting smd components and to mod the Dell bios to reconize the agp port. PCI VGA only.
is it possible to boot from usb on this computer? trying to install windows 8 on an ssd but i doubt it can work lol
I don't think so.
@@WiBitnet yea lol i tried. not even windows 7 worked. guess ill use it as a nostalgia pc
How do you factory reset a computer just like this? I have one and want to give it away, but I want to delete everything on it.
You can locate a copy of Windows XP online and reinstall the OS, or you can format the hard drive and donate it with no OS installed.
Still downloading updates?!
I mean, it's pretty awesome that you still can! I did a Mac OSX Tiger install recently and was able to install updates. I wish Microsoft would prop up the Windows 98 Update web page. That would be awesome AF!
@@WiBitnet Linux could be a option. Windows is Kinda full of bloat Just saying! Up to you! Chris Titus tech is a great Linux channel if u wanna know more about Linux. I use Debian it's super stable you could always use windows, but Linux has more security options :) Well keep up the good work! Also i have a old Dell Dimension 47OOC. But what windows version would you recommend for me to put on it in the dell computer? Thanks.
I hate the hdd it gets slow so get the ssd because it gets faster than hdd
Def. I used the SSD in this video, however, using a compact flash to IDE also is pretty good. I use that in other older machines and I have had no issues. Using SD cards as a hard disk has been a problem for some computers, so I have learned to stay away from those.
LOL the MOST basic dell in the universe. Played SO much tomb raider 2 on it.
Right? That's what makes it awesome! I would like to get a Dell CRT that would have come with it.
@@WiBitnet well I don't have a dell CRT, but if you want a good one, I've a komodo brand CRT made in 98?
I'm going to guess that you are a Sagittarius.