The BTX Form factor Dell XPS 400 Revival Video!

The shortest lived form factor ever, and for good reason! The Dell XPS 400 used the infamous BTX form factor that was intended to have direct airflow to cool the CPU from the from the front of the PC. This form factor was only used by OEM's at the time ( as far as I know anyway ) so sit back and relivex as I revive this classic Pentium D system, and give a bit more giddy up in it's hitch up!

[evertcoetzee]

HighTreason610 and WaybackTECH uploaded within 1 week of each other! 2025 is going to be lit!

[generationbehindhifi]

He's back!!! Welcome back and Happy New Year!

[metalmusic]

good to see you're still active, happy new year my friend :)

[stonent]

I think that 4500 card may be a bit newer. We had several that came with Precision 490 computers that we had at work around 2007-2008. And those were Socket 771 Xeons (basically could take the earlier versions of the Core 2 Duo and Quad based Xeons (5100 and 5300 series))

[stonent]

I have an HP workstation style computer with a Core 2 Duo that has a BTX layout. It's got crusty-caps so it's in storage for now.

[blakecasimir]

13:20 for windows that are wonky like this, you can try two things:
1) click inside the window and press ALT + SPACE to see if it brings up the Minimise / Maxiumse / Resize menu.
2) click inside the window then try pressing TAB one or more times, then ENTER to press whatever buttons are present in the window, even if not visible.
Happy new year sir and good to see another video from you!

[EndUser]

Still using my XPS 410 since 2006. Maxed out now with a q6700 cpu and 8gb ram. Originally got it from Dell for $500 shipped.

[cambridgeport]

I worked on a XPS once...think it was this vintage, though the one I saw was more of a standard tower form factor. Was black, with read and white around the rim. Quite gorgeous, if I might say so myself.

[KainiaKaria]

I used to have a Dell Dimension 9100, Dell XPS 420, and Dell Dimension E520. Fairly good machines. The Dimension 9100 had a Intel Pentium D 830. Those BTX Dells are pretty good machines. The E520 I had stuck a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 on it. Used a NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX in both the Dimension 9100 as well as the Dimension E520. The Dimension 9100 could not even take a Core 2 Duo unlike what I have now which is a ASUS P5L-VM 1394 in a RAIDMAX Scorpio ATX-868WBP. Originally that Raidmax was a LGA775 Pentium 4 based system that had seen better days or else I might have left it alone. The system that I built in the case also has a AMD Radeon R7 250X and Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Titanium PCI-E Sound Card. That motherboard I originally got on ebay with a Pentium D 945 but upgraded it to a Core 2 Duo E6600.

[HighTreason]

Oh yes, BTX. Stone tried it for a really short time, then like everyone else they went back to ATX. That X300 card seems like it's probably a close relative of the FireGL V3100 my Presler started out on. Oh boy what a terrible card that was, to where it even had trouble running Flight Simulator 2002 Pro - a title that was usually CPU bound more than anything and ran fine on old Geforce 4 MXs. Oddly, that FireGL was upgraded to a GeForce 7300 GS, a card which had "TurboCache", which used system RAM.
The capacitor "repair" was funny. I've pushed them back down before purely for the amusement value, but glue is a whole different level, especially if you forget and power it back on some day. I'd expect the electrolyte to have dried up though, so it might not be as exciting a surprise after all. For a few years I couldn't get good ones and went with simply prying them off whenever possible.

[AaronHendu]

I had one of these, got it off the curb, or the dump, can't remember...thought the case looked cool for an OEM of the era. I converted it into an ATX build and sold it. But I did like the case! BTX also makes sort of some sense if it wasn't so poorly adopted.