E-Waste Pentium II Tower with Mpact! #shorts

#shorts
A REALLY cool Gateway system with an STB Nitro AGP card and Mpact! DVD card. What a find! #ewaste #pentium

[johnventura]

THAT “ combo CARD “ was to “allow you to play DVD movies on your computer “and was dismissed when windvd and windows xp came out in 2001

[urzamaster]

Early DVD decoder! These were for high end video formats in the mid 90s

[Sartre_Existentialist]

OMG! I bought a G6 333 from Gateway in the 90s. Paid a whopping 4 grand for it. I remember there was an optional 4gb hard drive and I remember saying to myself, "That's so much space. I'll never use it." 😂😂 Man, that's absolutely nothing now.

Mine also had a TV tuner card. I remember how amazing I thought it was to watch TV on my computer.

If you had to format the drive, you had to install the drivers in a specific sequence or it wouldnt work 😅

[Iryngael]

I had a Cinemaster 3.0 with an ATI Rage Pro in my Dell XPS R350, for DVD decoding. They were connected with a similar flat cable (Feature connector). Pentium 2 (and even P3) were not powerful enough to decompress MPEG2 smoothly

[PCUSER]

Nice find. I have that same video card! 😊

[Macsneese]

That’s My First Time Seeing You Find A Very Interesting Thing…
For Me… It Looks Like It’s A High End Video Card In Old Days 😮

Or Maybe Something Else 🤔

[RetroTinkerer]

That card look to me like an STB with an nVidia Riva 128, not a bad retro card Mike! (Someone must have put that small heatsink)

[Galaxy.Windows]

wow. thats old. i wonder how it survived all these years

[jamesearlcash]

Hey there uncle Mike so i have an old Gateway (AK) LUX E 4300 pc laying around with a pentium 4 cpu clocked at 2.80GHz and i also have a core2duo e6550 cpu laying around so it is possible that i can use that in the pentium 4 Motherboard?

Btw the Motherboard is an Intel D945GTP, D945PLM

[johnventura]

you could not play dvds on a computer in that time so nvidia made a adaptor with a graphics card allowing you to do that .