Figured I should make a own thread so as not to hijack Topcat's thread.
Just as the title says, this machine is basically a "Netburst Mercedes". From the case, all the way to the innards, IMO.
First, let's take a look at the specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8IG1000 Pro w/ FGx BIOS (special BIOS revision made by AGFA for their dlab.1 MPU machine.)
CPU: Pentium 4 HT 3.00GHz Prescott - will probably replace it with a Northwood HT as this Prescott is literally HELL incarnate. Wish I'd be joking, but it's absolutely true.
PSU: revamped Deer/L&C LC-B400ATX (strong heatsinks, 35 size main trafo, complete main filtering, recapped with good caps, and sleeved wires out of a totally busted Thermaltake.)
RAM: 4x512MB, nothing special
ODD: some random Lite-On that is literally not even reading discs
GPU: Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB DDR2 AGP8x
HDDs: 80GB Hitachi Deskstar as OS drive, 74GB WD Raptor as storage.
Soundcard: Sound Blaster Audigy SE SB0570 PCI
Other: Pinnacle PCI TV Tuner that I have no idea of its model number.
To do:
- replace the absolute Prescott furnace with a 2.8GHz Northwood HT. Cooler operation and doesn't murder the PSU as much as the Prescott currently does (not really, it's just running hot and loud - Deer's thermal controller works surprisingly well so no wonder the fan is loud.)
- replace the ODD with either an LG or Samsung
Finally, I'll leave some pics.
Just as the title says, this machine is basically a "Netburst Mercedes". From the case, all the way to the innards, IMO.
First, let's take a look at the specs:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8IG1000 Pro w/ FGx BIOS (special BIOS revision made by AGFA for their dlab.1 MPU machine.)
CPU: Pentium 4 HT 3.00GHz Prescott - will probably replace it with a Northwood HT as this Prescott is literally HELL incarnate. Wish I'd be joking, but it's absolutely true.
PSU: revamped Deer/L&C LC-B400ATX (strong heatsinks, 35 size main trafo, complete main filtering, recapped with good caps, and sleeved wires out of a totally busted Thermaltake.)
RAM: 4x512MB, nothing special
ODD: some random Lite-On that is literally not even reading discs
GPU: Sapphire Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB DDR2 AGP8x
HDDs: 80GB Hitachi Deskstar as OS drive, 74GB WD Raptor as storage.
Soundcard: Sound Blaster Audigy SE SB0570 PCI
Other: Pinnacle PCI TV Tuner that I have no idea of its model number.
To do:
- replace the absolute Prescott furnace with a 2.8GHz Northwood HT. Cooler operation and doesn't murder the PSU as much as the Prescott currently does (not really, it's just running hot and loud - Deer's thermal controller works surprisingly well so no wonder the fan is loud.)
- replace the ODD with either an LG or Samsung
Finally, I'll leave some pics.
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