I had a 2.0Ghz Northy back in the day. Did a days work for a factory that had a fire, which had damaged some computers and the info on the HD's needed to be saved (schematics etc). Managed to save a couple and the guy gave me a Dell Optiplex workstation machine in a lovely black tower as payment. It was pretty much high end gear - 2Ghz Northwood, 512MB RAM and a TNT 2 Ultra (not too bad but replaced it with a Geforce 3 the following week). It had onboard SCSI ports and a pair of 16GB Quantum SCSI HD's too. That PC never crashed, was easy to work on (Dell had nice boards and roomy cases), and served as a Quake III OSP machine for best part of 4 years. Also had good times with Morrowind on that PC. By the time Doom 3 and Quake 4 were released though, I started to plan it's retirement.
@@VPRHPC Yeah people slate the P4s because Netburst did suck compared to the P3 (clock for clock). But they were okay. It was a solid machine, handled everything. Never felt like I needed to upgrade to a faster P4. I waited it out until Athlon 64's were extermely cheap and being phased out before I upgraded.
@TheVanillatech I think people had it a little wrong with Netburst, I can't tell what chipset you had on the Optiplex but 400 FSB compared to 133 FSB, meaning all the data between all types of devices not just clock for clock memory access comparison with P3s, 400 FSB was equal to DDR 400 (3.2gb/s), P3s had 133 FSB with 1.06gb/s,so The Internet if Dial Up/LAN/RAM Memory Access Bandwidth /USB/HDD everything was better on Netburst, I tested this one really retarded, limited to 133 MHz RAM (being SDRAM) I am sure it will get better, same as the Chronological order of chipset with faster RAM to feed the fast FSB.
This cpu can be great with motherboard with universal AGP slot that support AGP 2x cards, especially for using 3DFX Voodoo 3 videocards to provide them a lot of cpu power. By the way I discovered that HZTool program can be helpful with OpenGL monitor refresh rate with older NVIDIA cards under Windows 98SE.
Thanks for pointing the HZTool,I have a Dell ''TRINITRON'' CRT P791 that can do 140hz ,also does W98 have any limit on clock speed ,there was some info that 2.1Ghz is the max Safe clock speed. Wiki ''Limitations. The original release of Windows 98 may fail to boot on computers with a processor faster than 2.1 GHz. Windows 98 is only designed to handle up to 512 MB of RAM without changes.''
@@VPRHPC I didn't had any problems with this cpu with 98SE. I even haven't used there any patches for that there. As for refresh rate I had a problem that NVIDIA driver pushed 240 Hz refresh rate at OpenGL games, HZTool worked good with 30.82 driver.
I had a 2.0Ghz Northy back in the day. Did a days work for a factory that had a fire, which had damaged some computers and the info on the HD's needed to be saved (schematics etc). Managed to save a couple and the guy gave me a Dell Optiplex workstation machine in a lovely black tower as payment. It was pretty much high end gear - 2Ghz Northwood, 512MB RAM and a TNT 2 Ultra (not too bad but replaced it with a Geforce 3 the following week). It had onboard SCSI ports and a pair of 16GB Quantum SCSI HD's too.
That PC never crashed, was easy to work on (Dell had nice boards and roomy cases), and served as a Quake III OSP machine for best part of 4 years. Also had good times with Morrowind on that PC. By the time Doom 3 and Quake 4 were released though, I started to plan it's retirement.
It's a very good CPU, and with the spec you mentioned it was definitely a great experience for back in the day.
@@VPRHPC Yeah people slate the P4s because Netburst did suck compared to the P3 (clock for clock). But they were okay. It was a solid machine, handled everything. Never felt like I needed to upgrade to a faster P4. I waited it out until Athlon 64's were extermely cheap and being phased out before I upgraded.
@TheVanillatech I think people had it a little wrong with Netburst, I can't tell what chipset you had on the Optiplex but 400 FSB compared to 133 FSB, meaning all the data between all types of devices not just clock for clock memory access comparison with P3s, 400 FSB was equal to DDR 400 (3.2gb/s), P3s had 133 FSB with 1.06gb/s,so The Internet if Dial Up/LAN/RAM Memory Access Bandwidth /USB/HDD everything was better on Netburst, I tested this one really retarded, limited to 133 MHz RAM (being SDRAM) I am sure it will get better, same as the Chronological order of chipset with faster RAM to feed the fast FSB.
This cpu can be great with motherboard with universal AGP slot that support AGP 2x cards, especially for using 3DFX Voodoo 3 videocards to provide them a lot of cpu power. By the way I discovered that HZTool program can be helpful with OpenGL monitor refresh rate with older NVIDIA cards under Windows 98SE.
Thanks for pointing the HZTool,I have a Dell ''TRINITRON'' CRT P791 that can do 140hz ,also does W98 have any limit on clock speed ,there was some info that 2.1Ghz is the max Safe clock speed.
Wiki
''Limitations. The original release of Windows 98 may fail to boot on computers with a processor faster than 2.1 GHz. Windows 98 is only designed to handle up to 512 MB of RAM without changes.''
@@VPRHPC I didn't had any problems with this cpu with 98SE. I even haven't used there any patches for that there. As for refresh rate I had a problem that NVIDIA driver pushed 240 Hz refresh rate at OpenGL games, HZTool worked good with 30.82 driver.