Best pentium 4 build

[TheWin98guy]

Warning this is pointless. Still pretty cool tho.

Something you would want in 2000-2005

(Shia Labeouf) "just do IT!!!!!!!!"

[Guest]

It was called an Athlon. And it was glorious.

[QueenDemetria]

Warning this is pointless. Still pretty cool tho.

Something you would want in 2000-2005

(Shia Labeouf) "just do IT!!!!!!!!"

I really don't know what the point of this thread is, but I'll roll with it. I have a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz(socket 478) that I'm thinking about doing something with. The problem is that the only motherboard I have for it is a HP/LiteON board, and they omitted the AGP slot and the SATA ports. I don't care about the SATA since I have IDE HDD's and a PCI RAID card(w/SATA) that I can use in its place, but I would like to have graphics that are at least halfway decent. I've found some PCI HD 5450's, but they aren't cheap, but I did find a ECS board + CPU + DDR RAM combo on eBay that is tempting, and I could use my nVidia GeForce 7300 gt with it.

 

-just speaking my mind-

[iHardware Shelden]

Must have this 

 

[vanished]

close enough

[Knaj]

Must have this 

 

 

Extreme edition. Must be on par with the 5960x then.

[TheWin98guy]

I really don't know what the point of this thread is, but I'll roll with it. I have a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz(socket 478) that I'm thinking about doing something with. The problem is that the only motherboard I have for it is a HP/LiteON board, and they omitted the AGP slot and the SATA ports. I don't care about the SATA since I have IDE HDD's and a PCI RAID card(w/SATA) that I can use in its place, but I would like to have graphics that are at least halfway decent. I've found some PCI HD 5450's, but they aren't cheap, but I did find a ECS board + CPU + DDR RAM combo on eBay that is tempting, and I could use my nVidia GeForce 7300 gt with it.

 

-just speaking my mind-

Use an HD4350 it will work with a 210W psu

[SecretAuthor]

Pentium 4....

 

I was a die hard AMD fan in the late 90's and early 2000's. Chose the AMD k6-2 over the Pentium 3. Athlon XP over Pentium 4. Athlon x2 over... whatever the hell Intel had out (Pentium D??), wasn't interested in them at the time.

 

I left AMD after phenom II. I just couldn't bring myself to spend money on a bulldozer as opposed to an i5 2500k.

[TheWin98guy]

Pentium 4....

 

I was a die hard AMD fan in the late 90's and early 2000's. Chose the AMD k6-2 over the Pentium 3. Athlon XP over Pentium 4. Athlon x2 over... whatever the hell Intel had out (Pentium D??), wasn't interested in them at the time.

 

I left AMD after phenom II. I just couldn't bring myself to spend money on a bulldozer as opposed to an i5 2500k.

TOTally agree bro

[cleb]

I have come across a couple trashed pentium 4 machines and I wish that I had some money lying around to pimp them out. The boards and power supplies are all dead but I'm assuming the cpu's and ram are probably fine, and that cases are just sitting in my closet. I'd do something dumb and put them in a 775 board and pair them with a gt 730 or something so my brothers can play some older titles. 

[Miguel Batista]

Ok. I would use the pentium 4, paired with the excellent Geforce 2 or ATI radeon 256 128MB cards.

This would be a power build able to playtitles like quake 3 arena and age of empires 2 at the impressive 1024x768 or even 1200x720!

Truly a beast among computers capable to bring you super performance for a reasonable price. I would give it 2 GB of DDR RAM at 266 MHz and a large 160 gigabite hard drive.

Now I am off to find the parts so I can lan AOE 2 witg friends

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I still have my Pentium 4 HT and it runs at 60 degrees upon boot. 

[harrynowl]

Well in 2000-2005 I'd want an Athlon 64 on socket 939 and then to upgrade it to the 90nm Athlon 64 X2 series when that came out.

 

But if I could only use P4 it'd look something like

 

- ASUS P5WH Deluxe (Intel 975X)

- 4GB DDR2 800MHz

- Pentium D 955 Overclocked

- Crossfire ATI 1950 XTX

[Miguel Batista]

I've got a geforce 256 for even more oldness.

Nice. My Pentium 3 600MHz build had a Matrox g200 with 32MB of ram and a 60 GB hd . And the computer before that was an athlon whateverthefuckmodelitwas at 150 Mhz which was latter OCed to 256 or something like that. It had a shitty motherboard integrated gfx with 8 MB of vram. I am trying to remember the brand but can't seem to do so...

[FaZe Booce]

[flibberdipper]

close enough

YES THAT VIDEO IS AMMGSGSOGHDSFOUGujhdsGSKJD I LOVE IT

 

Literally downloaded it just to look at the hardware when I want to

 

EDIT: Honestly, my ideal P4 build would be something like what follows.

 

MOBO: ASUS P4C800-E

CPU: 2.4GHz P4 w/ HT (130nm)

RAM: 4x1GB Corsair XMS

GPU: Radeon HD 4670

HDD: 4x 160GB WD Caviar IDE (two seperate and then two on a Promise Ultra100 RAID card)

CASE: CoolerMaster ATC-201

PSU: IDK to be honest, maybe the one that came with the ATC 201 (assuming it will work properly with my hardware).

SOUND CARD: Auzentech X-Plosion

 

@iHardware Shelden