My Dream PC from 1997. The Dual Pentium Pro. Will It Run Facebook!

I try to internet on the Dream PC I built 15 years ago, 10 years after it was relevant, when I could afford it.

[nordicomsystems]

This channel is the shit, you're a tech nerd that plays guitar just like me lol. I've been a PC gamer since the 486 was a thing and I love when people build retro systems, brings back so many good memories of hours in the WinMX chat rooms, getting your whole room together to go raid another room and spam them until you all got banned lmao. Waiting for weeks until that one person you were getting "The Meaning of Life" from came online. Good times man.

[TheJonathanc]

I wanted a dual pentium pro system so much back in the day

[kathys]

Ahh, memories. I started with a Commodore 64. Thanks for the video!

[HighwayHunkie]

Awesome Video! I love this. Also me i like to fiddle with old boards and processors, and the Pentium Pro "tile" is actually one of my fav projects i work on. Got me a slotket to run it on a Slot 1 LX-Board, paired with a MIRO HighScore 3Dfx card. keep it up with such kinda entertaining videos. Thank you

[rebeccaschade]

That Matrox Millennium graphics card looks like a 4MB version with an additional 4MB upgrade on it. Still 8MB wasn't even a lot in the year 2000, let alone 2020. In 1996 though? It was kickass. And even though a lot of people think there was no 3D acceleration on it, it did in fact have some level of rudimentary 3D, although no textures, no Direct3D support, only some basic OpenGL etc. Mostly 3D acceleration back then was for rendering the basic 3D models in AutoCAD.

[jwbaker]

Completely random trivia: the reason your NT 4 system thinks you only have 1 processor is because when NT is installed it chooses between the uniprocessor and multiprocessor kernel, based on the number of CPUs present. The uniprocessor kernel was slightly faster on those systems. Consequently if you transplant the hard drive into a multiprocessor system, it still only uses 1 processor. It has to be reinstalled to get SMP.

[Robotnik]

I had a dual pentium pro system which I built myself around 1997 or 1998. Mine was 2x PPro 200/256s that I overclocked to 233Mhz. It had a Supermicro P6DNE AT motherboard, 128MB of RAM I think. Also a Voodoo2 SLI rig and Matrox Millennium II for 2D. Great system. But the damn thing caught on fire after several months of use - I remember smelling buring, only to find that the motherboard was melted and scorched at the AT power connector on the motherboard. Anyway amaziningly the system still worked after I put in a new AT power supply, but the board started burning again at the same point after a while, even when I stripped the system right down to 1x PPro underclocked to 180MHz and hardly any cards. It was appparently a design flaw that caused the motherboard to draw too much juice at the connector. I gave up and bought a Celeron 300A that I overclocked to 450MHz, which was faster than the PPros in games anyway. The PPro system stayed in my basement for several years until I threw it out probably, can't remember.

[robertwright]

Epic time when I got my dual 200 W6LI up and running with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Runs fine but cpus are maxed at 100% most of the time. Love my old tech.

[tjmbv]

This is pretty epic, I might be a zoomer but I love old tech like this.

[etiennelebuis]

Thanks for the video, had a great time

[draganraxrax]

You actually had Pentium Pro based system back then!! Well, shout-out to your mother 👏👏👍

[OzzFan]

Very nice. I have the exact same motherboard with dual Pentium II Overdrives running at 300MHz, maxed at 512MB of RAM, and running Windows NT Server 4.0. I use at as my legacy Windows Domain (PDC) for my Windows 3.x and DOS clients. I'd like to put SCSI in it but drives are ridiculously expensive right now.

I wouldn't mind having another board specifically with Pentium Pro 200MHz CPUs, and I hear there was an ultra-rare 2MB cache version, just to have it in my collection.

BTW - The reason why IE can't load many web pages isn't because of scripting - it's because older versions of Windows don't support modern encryption standards. Most sites have moved on to TLS 1.2 while Windows 9x/2k OSes barely supported TLS 1.0 / TLS 1.1.

[twitchalmighty]

The Cat's Anus, That made me laugh my ass off.

[Nemethon]

I still remember my Dual Pentium Pro. Had Windows NT installed on it. :)

[jessehill]

That ASUS board you mentioned is an incredible board I run one currently with a Pentium 133mhz and previously a Pentium-S 120mhz. I switched because I like the 133mhz and my MMX chips feel… slower on certain examples. If it doesn’t use MMX you are sometimes better off.

[moviebod]

Very interesting. I particularly liked the touch screen surprise. I am playing with old PCs at the moment but it is not really consistent enough to give me enough footage for a video. Gotta love that HD whine at the end, but it was also nice when the video ended! Over and out. NERD 1

[raineyjayy]

Following in your footsteps. We share a lot of dream build features. Pentium Pro 200, Orchid Righteous 3dfx Voodoo 1 - let's go.

[mackster]

I had the case back in 1996!
Pentium Pro 200
ATI Graphics
2, 1 GB Storage
Upgraded to Diamond 3dfx, 128 MB Ram and 6 GB in 1997
Remember the Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro?
Such a great machine

[JoeCensored]

Back then I had a Pentium Pro 150, OC to 180. Had 64 MB of RAM, which was so much I disabled virtual memory in Windows. No more paging things out to the HDD meant so buttery smooth.

[rebeccaschade]

Any Pentium Pro was basically server/workstation grade. The 1MB version was mainly targeted towards 4-way server configurations, something that even the Pentium II wasn't designed for. A server with 4 Pentium Pro 200's with 1MB cache back in '97 would probably have started at a price in excess of $10.000. That's one awesome system. :) My Pentium Pro 200 is only a measly single 256KB CPU setup.