Chat an I cooked?

[cursive shadow]

The motherboard it purple which it cool

[karmic torrent]

you would probaly have to find model numbers for the parts that thing is "ancient"

[cursive shadow]

Thanks I like e waste

https://tenor.com/view/rick-and-morty-garbage-goober-mmm-trash-yeah-i-love-trash-yum-yum-trash-gif-23842927

[karmic torrent]

lol if that works for you more power to you

[cursive shadow]

I have a modern main pc anyway lol just like messing with older ones and seeing what I can do with them

And parts are cheaper

[karmic torrent]

makes sense thats a cool hobby to have

[narrow wing]

I was able to determine the motherboard of another PC he sent here

I'll do some digging later when I'm on my work break

Okay, it's a ECS ELITEGROUP P4VXAD with likely 512MB of RAM, and a Pentinum 4.

Looks like a AGP SILURO MX200 32MB GRAPHICS CARD, and ISA 56k modem and ISA Ethernet network card.

@cursive shadow

Where do you keep finding these Pentinum systems I want one hehe

[shadow jasper]

https://theretroweb.com/ will be a great resource if you keep picking stuff like this up. Purple motherboards are usually ECS brand

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-p4ita pretty sure this is actually the motherboard. Those are RDRAM modules which were a thing with Socket 423 P4 systems

Socket 423 boards are pretty rare so nice pickup

[cursive shadow]

Eather from family or marketplace but there’s different ways to get them

[cursive shadow]

What that mean I’m going to tear it down and rebuild it and make it a windows xp power house

Idk what to get for it though rn

This is was a custom build PC by my dad and has windows ME on it so ima change it to xp when I can

[shadow jasper]

Might not be a bad idea to keep it 98/ME based those 423 processors were slower than equivalent Pentium 3s. For late 98/ME stuff though that should be plenty but mid-late XP games will struggle

Idk what your budget is for video cards but AGP 7200/7500/9000 Radeons of that era are pretty cheap. Just make sure you're getting the ones with the good RAM chips. If budget is no limit then nVidia is probably the way to go, though you could go the "weird" route in keeping with it being a 423 system (VooDooo 4x/5x, XGI Volari, Matrox Parhelia, SiS Xabre, etc.). Dual booting is also an option if you also want XP on there, which can be nice for web browsing and downloading purposes

[cursive shadow]

It’s going to like xp

I’m changeing most of the stuff in it anyway

ME is GOD SLOW

Well I might have a 95 or 98 boot floppy around somewhere

[shadow jasper]

Idk if you're planning a processor upgrade but let me know if so. I could use both that + some RDRam for a spare 423 board I found