Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
32 odd minutes of rambling and tinkering with some junk computers: an HP r5770 and a Dell Dimension 4400. If my long computer videos are what you like, this is the video you're looking for.
I can't believe the bearings in that Maxtor/Quantum Fireball hard drive are still good. They're easily the quietest I've ever heard. (It's actually a major miracle that the drive itself is even still good!) With later BIOS releases, the Dimension 4400 will support up to 2GB of installed RAM. This is also really rather surprising.
Over in HP land, it's reported that up an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 CPU works in the r5770, and maybe even as far as the E7500 or E7600.
Because I'm sure I'll be taken to task over both of these in the video comments area:
Beyond its high power consumption and heat output, the Pentium 4 is severely disadvantaged with modern software in two ways: lack of optimization for the Netburst instruction set and the assumption that everyone has a multi-core processor. Both of these make the Pentium 4 situation much worse than it used to be.
As for Windows Vista: Yes, I know some of you like it. There are even a few who think it's the greatest version of Windows ever. I've even personally seen it run very well on some systems. Most of those were AMD based, and oftentimes built a budget processor like the Sempron, a single core Athlon 64 or the rather obsolete Athlon XP. This doesn't change the fact that for the overwhelming majority of its users, Vista provided a disappointing user experience even on otherwise very capable hardware. Most of you have been here long enough to know this.
I'd love to (but know that I probably never will) see a schematic for the wiring between that "PCI" serial board and the rest of the system. The low pin count (LPC) bus is actually a subset of the ISA expansion bus.
Hopefully that just about covers it.
32 odd minutes of rambling and tinkering with some junk computers: an HP r5770 and a Dell Dimension 4400. If my long computer videos are what you like, this is the video you're looking for.
I can't believe the bearings in that Maxtor/Quantum Fireball hard drive are still good. They're easily the quietest I've ever heard. (It's actually a major miracle that the drive itself is even still good!) With later BIOS releases, the Dimension 4400 will support up to 2GB of installed RAM. This is also really rather surprising.
Over in HP land, it's reported that up an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 CPU works in the r5770, and maybe even as far as the E7500 or E7600.
Because I'm sure I'll be taken to task over both of these in the video comments area:
Beyond its high power consumption and heat output, the Pentium 4 is severely disadvantaged with modern software in two ways: lack of optimization for the Netburst instruction set and the assumption that everyone has a multi-core processor. Both of these make the Pentium 4 situation much worse than it used to be.
As for Windows Vista: Yes, I know some of you like it. There are even a few who think it's the greatest version of Windows ever. I've even personally seen it run very well on some systems. Most of those were AMD based, and oftentimes built a budget processor like the Sempron, a single core Athlon 64 or the rather obsolete Athlon XP. This doesn't change the fact that for the overwhelming majority of its users, Vista provided a disappointing user experience even on otherwise very capable hardware. Most of you have been here long enough to know this.
I'd love to (but know that I probably never will) see a schematic for the wiring between that "PCI" serial board and the rest of the system. The low pin count (LPC) bus is actually a subset of the ISA expansion bus.
Hopefully that just about covers it.
