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Got my hands on a vintage Quad core workstation... Well its 2 single core xeon CPUs with hyperthreading but what ever. 2.4 GHz... I'm going to do some benchmarks on it and some gaming. We'll see how it runs Half-Life 2 in a few days. It has 2 GBs of ram and a quatro FX-1000. Lets see how this 14 year old PC holds up.

 

I'm putting a video together comparing this to a PC with a Pentium D 930 at 3GHz from '06 to see how it holds up. Should be interesting.

 

What are your guy's thoughts? Can it run one of the most demanding games of its time? 

 

 

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Will it run Crisis though?

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Turns out this system has linux on it. I'll have to get drives form a different system that runs windows XP.

 

 

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AMD FX 4300 is slower still!

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58 minutes ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

Turns out this system has linux on it. I'll have to get drives form a different system that runs windows XP.

Why not keep Linux on it?

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14 minutes ago, sgtheadhole said:

AMD FX 4300 is slower still!

No it isn't.

 

I'm all for the poke at AMD every once it a while, but that is just ignorant.

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Thoughts?  I think the K1 will crush it :D

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1 hour ago, MagnesiumPC said:

Why not keep Linux on it?

Because I don't know the passwords....

 

 

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5 minutes ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

Because I don't know the passwords....

can you reboot into recovery mode?

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7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

can you reboot into recovery mode?

yes. I'll probably6 just bring home the other system. There's another computer almost identical to his one that I can have with windows xp.

 

 

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26 minutes ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

Because I don't know the passwords....

Flash it with a different distro.

 

 

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8 hours ago, MagnesiumPC said:

Flash it with a different distro.

 

 

I might. I'm still going to get the other drives because these ones sound REALLY bad.

 

Maybe I'll bench the computer on linux and windows. I'm trying to find a PCI GT 520 or GT 610 to give the graphics the best change it's going to have.

 

 

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Calling it vintage makes my dual socket PIII system sound pre-historic :P Also with that 930 you might be quite surprised on how well it has aged, 10 years has shown it's age on it but other than that decent performer, depending on what your doing :)

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17 hours ago, 3DGamerOnSteam said:

Got my hands on a vintage Quad core workstation... Well its 2 single core xeon CPUs with hyperthreading but what ever. 2.4 GHz... I'm going to do some benchmarks on it and some gaming. We'll see how it runs Half-Life 2 in a few days. It has 2 GBs of ram and a quatro FX-1000. Lets see how this 14 year old PC holds up.

 

I'm putting a video together comparing this to a PC with a Pentium D 930 at 3GHz from '06 to see how it holds up. Should be interesting.

 

What are your guy's thoughts? Can it run one of the most demanding games of its time? 

I think you'll be surprised at the performance. In older games that is.

(Edit: in a good way ;))

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2002 is not "vintage" but "obsolete".

 

Anything pre-1995 I consider a vintage computer.

 

Anyways, that's still kind of cool. I wasn't aware that there was a quad core Xeon that far back.

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That's 2 physical Xeons, the other 2 threads are from hyperthreading (only a 20% performance boost due to being netburst). And I can say right now that I prefer my dual Pentium III rig to one based around Netburst P4/Xeon.

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I was tricked into this thread!

I was gonna say, I remember blowing all my money on the first quad core cpu thinking I was the greatest man alive and that sure wasn't in 2002.

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36 minutes ago, GR1MES said:

2002 is not "vintage" but "obsolete".

 

Anything pre-1995 I consider a vintage computer.

 

Anyways, that's still kind of cool. I wasn't aware that there was a quad core Xeon that far back.

 

There wasn't.

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7 hours ago, iHardware Shelden said:

Calling it vintage makes my dual socket PIII system sound pre-historic :P Also with that 930 you might be quite surprised on how well it has aged, 10 years has shown it's age on it but other than that decent performer, depending on what your doing :)

It may have been a bit of click bait... but it is a 4 thread computer. I'm getting another one tomorrow.... I'm going to buy a 4 cpu board, so then is will be a 4 core 8 thread computer from 2002

 

 

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Sadly, both PCs are not the same. This system has F27 CPUs and the other one has F29 CPUs. I now have 2 GBs of ECC memory and windows XP. Lets play HL2.

 

 

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2001? With the best pci graphics card you can get will probably be your 610 idea. Maybe you'll get something like borderlands (original) to run at all 

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Damn, I forgot how slow IDE hard drives are..... SSDs have spoiled me.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, cleb said:

2001? With the best pci graphics card you can get will probably be your 610 idea. Maybe you'll get something like borderlands (original) to run at all 

I'm not even running a PCI GPU right now... AGP 8x all the way.

 

 

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