Intel Pentium 3 + Geforce2 = Fun !

In this video we're going to be exploring a really nice Retro PC platform comprised of an Asus P3B-F motherboard, an Intel Pentium 3 CPU and a Geforce2 AGP card.

I got this one really cheap with a bunch of other PCs, but realistically in today's prices you're probably looking at about 50 USD for a retro platform like this

0:00 - Intro
01:19 - Opening her up and first boot
03:43 - Exterior
04:17 - Interior and expansion cards
06:04 - The motherboard
09:30 - The award bios
10:18 - Expansion cards
11:50 - Installing windows 98
12:46 - Glitches
15:11 - Installing drivers
18:06 - Benchmarking with the TI
19:39 - Benchmarking with a lower-end ATI card
21:08 - Playing games with the ATI card
23:45 - Playing games with the Geforce Card
24:41 - Comparing some cards
25:20 - Conclusion

#Intel #Nvidia #Retro

[totalrandomtechnolog]

Those were top specs and everyone's dream computer when I was in high school. Also those case covers were a hassle to put back together.

[cuttingedgeretro]

My first own computer was Pentium III 1Ghz and GeForce 2 GTS 64MB, since then I am retro pc hardware enthusiast and collector. Thank you for excellent upload

[Injectr]

Do keep in mind that there were a lot of different GeForce 2 MX versions available out there. They differ from versions with DDR or the slower SDR memory, a 64bit or a 128bit memory bus, an MX(100), MX200, MX400, of which the MX400 would be the fastest due to the higher clocks. Also the memory size could vary between 32 and 64MB.

So the card everyone on a “budget” wanted was the GeForce 2 MX400 with 64MB DDR memory and a 128bit memory bus.

[ErikZarth]

I have that same motherboard. It has a Pentium 3 550mhz cpu, 384mb of ram, 2 x 40gb hard drives, a Geforce TI4200 128mb card, a 3DFX Voodoo 2 12mb card and a Sound Blaster Live in it.
Running Windows 98SE, it's my favorite retro PC.
Love the first MotoRacer.

[owenmorgan]

So many memories from the PIII 500 that I used to have two of them back in the day with Gigabyte Motherboards and so many good memories playing various racing games with mates

[BilisNegra]

7:41 One gig on a consumer board of that vintage, sounds pretty hefty! Of course, very few people must have maxed it out from the get-go for a home computer, it would have costed a fortune, but many years later with those modules being cheap it's nice to have the possibility of doing so.

[jeffm]

I always liked the Pentium II's with the full passive heatsinks. They made great Linux servers with very little noise. PIII's, yep I liked those as well, just not as much. I also had some PIII Xeon's back in the day with the big weird Slot 2 cart.

[PROSTOTabal]

this is one of the best computers ive seen on your channel, more videos with it please

[catriona_drummond]

Maintenance mode - that one was brilliant! Goes onto my list!

[ching-chenhuang]

Well, back in 2000 and 2001, my go-to video card was Voodoo5 5500 AGP, combining with Athlon 650 Mhz, it was super awesome!!

[wtftux]

I remember I had ATI Rage Pro card and it was not so crappy for these days. I mean it was good for Pentium II or Celeron 233MHz, 300 or 366 and you could play Quake 2 kind of games with ease. Pentium III is a later generation CPU and should not be paired with ATI Rage Pro. GeForce 2 was definitely its generation and it's a good choice. I also remember nVidia Riva TNT2 was pretty good as well, games like UT or Quake 3 was definitely playable on this. Probably not as good as GeForce though. GeForce was then Voodoo Banshee of its times - horribly expensive, but you could play everything on this... Ahh, nostalgia :) Thanks for this movie. You brought me back a lot of nice memories :)

[Leahi]

Hope you feel better soon, and I'm glad it's just a cold, and not the plague.

[Crylhound]

13:40 The beeps just mean that you should call an ambulance

[retrocomputerskarachi]

Some good memories. Greetings from Karachi, Pakistan.

[MrKillswitch]

Got a GF2 Ultra that I saved off a shop a couple of years back, anyway the Pentium 3 is one of my long time favorites and hell in the mid 2000s I daily used them because I was too poor to afford anything newer.

[sergeantbilko]

I always enjoyed installing those old operating systems and all the drivers and when I tell the grandkids how it used to be it's like the new version of "I used to walk 10 miles to school in the snow....uphill."

[krz]

The geforce 4 mx is the best choise for a cheap gpu of this era I think (if you don't care about Directx 8). It is actually a very fast geforce 2 and cheap as chips

[Shmbler]

XP is not so very odd for a P3. I got a new IBM Thinkpad in Feb 2001 with a P3-700 in it. It came with 2K installed and got an upgrade to XP end of the year.

[sburton]

I remember that my very first gaming PC that I built in early 2001 had these similar CPU and GPU. It had a 1 ghz Intel Pentium III cpu with 256 mb pc133 ram with a 20 gb hard drive, floppy drive, CDRW and DVD drives, creative sound blaster sound card, and a 32 mb nvidia geforce 2 graphics card, and for the operating system, I originally had Windows ME on it, but then later upgraded it to Windows XP in 2002. One game I liked playing on it was the original game of Deus Ex.

[Asure]

I use side cutters to get rid of those little thumb scabs, stops you from picking 'em. :) Very nice board with that ISA slot for a awe32 or something similar for DOS.