Hi All
 
Do you all remember when the 2000 Mhz Pentium4 hit the market and what a big rage it gave the crowd, for just being the first ever released 2000Mhz CPU, even though it's overall performance wasn't much faster than the AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400Mhz rofl, it only shined in Q3A based games this is where it's Rambus Memory interface and its Netburst Tech really showed it's true native performance, also it came with SSE2, only back then SSE2 was not really supported, although these days it might get along a lot better than back then.
 
But overall the 1.40Ghz Athlon T-Bird was the king over this CPU, but for the ones that really loved Intel this was Intel's best at the time. And since there are quite a lot of Intel users here, I thought to share some awesome history of back then as I bought this mainly for Quake III Arena, it was the best you could get for just that game rofl.
 
So it all began yesterday, after having a nice BBQ at my sister's place, she gave me my old gaming system from 2001 back and it came with these parts:
 
Intel Pentium4 2.00Ghz Willamette Socket 423 256KB L2, 400Mhz FSB
ASUS P4T Rev. 1.07 0135 With Intel i850 Chipset & AGP Pro 50 x4
2x 256MB PC-800-45 ECC Rambus Samsung Original
2x 128MB PC-800-45 Non-ECC Rambus Samsung Original
HIS ATi Radeon 9550 AGP 256MB 128Bit DDR
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
3-Com 3C905C TX-M  10/100MBit Ethernet Card
Sweex 5 Ports USB 2.0 PCI Card, 4 External, 1 Internal
Enermax Modu 82 525 Watt PSU
A-Open H600-B ATX Case
 
My plan is to clean this thoroughly and make it look like new again as when I built it back in 2001, which will have this name & layout:
 
Stealth 2001
 
Intel Pentium4 2.00Ghz Willamette Socket 423 256KB L2, 400Mhz FSB
ASUS P4T Rev. 1.07 0135 With Intel i850 Chipset & AGP Pro 50 x4
2x 256MB PC-800-45 ECC Rambus Samsung Original
2x 128MB PC-800-45 Non-ECC Rambus Samsung Original
Gainward GeForce3 AGP 64MB Golden Sample Rev.A 0131 with ViVo.
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
3-Com 3C905C TX-M  10/100MBit Ethernet Card
Sweex 5 Ports USB 2.0 PCI Card, 4 External, 1 Internal
Enermax Modu 82 525 Watt PSU
A-Open H600-B ATX Case
 
So here some pics of my progress :)
 
Stealth 2001 undergoing disassembly

 
Cards removed

 
Case dismantled, CPU, CPU HSF & Ram still in place

 
ASUS P4T CPU, CPU HSF, Cards & Ram removed

 
Intel Pentium4 Willamette 2.00 Ghz & 1.70 Ghz Socket 423 CPU's top

This was the first 2000Mhz CPU ever to be made for the consumer's market, It used Net Burst Technology to which only performed best in games that used idTech 3 engine also known as the be famed Q3A Engine.
 
Intel Pentium4 Willamette 2.00 Ghz Left & 1.70 Ghz Right Socket 423 CPU's rear

 
P4 2.00Ghz Right & 1.70 Ghz left S423 CPU's flipped mode

 
CPU repasted

 
CPU repasted closeup

 
Stealth 2001's parts cleaned top

Note the Gainward GeForce3 AGP Golden Sample, I will replace the Radeon 9550 AGP 256MB< as this was the same exact GeForce3 I had in this system, back in the day I bought it with the P4 1.70Ghz CPU, which I later upgraded to the 2.00Ghz CPU about 9 months later in December 2001.
 
Stealth 2001's cleaned parts rear

 
Stealth 2001's cards cleaned top

 
ASUS P4T Rev 1.07 0135 top

 
ASUS P4T Rev 1.07 0135 rear

Note the lovely Golden PCB color, This Motherboard is the first i850 based motherboard released for the consumers market, it was made in 2001 week 35 aka 0135 and it was made in Yang An, Taiwan.
 
ASUS P4T Rev 1.07 0135 headshot

That big blue CPU HSF is the Thermaltake Indigo Orb for Socket 423, it cools the the 2Ghz Monster under it's hood
 
Cleaning Case side panel, dust visible

Here I was cleaning the side panel, this is how I cleaned the entire case after taking it 100% apart, with hot water and anti bacterial soap.
 
Rear Case fan before treatment 

 
Rear Case fan after treatment

And yes those little scrubs of dirt I did remove them after I made the shot before putting it back in the case haha xDDD
 
Rear case fan placement before treatment

 
Rear case fan placement after treatment

 
Stealth 2001's Mobo, CPU, CPU HSF & Cards in place after treatment

 
Stealth 2001's Mobo, CPU, CPU HSF & Cards in place after treatment side

 
Gainward GF3 GS & Indigo Orb Closeup

 
IO Drives mounted

 
Lian Li Ventilated Slot brackets placed

 
Stealth 2001 Renovation Complete Front
 
 
Stealth 2001 Renovation Complete! Side

 
Stealth 2001 Renovation Complete! Side

 
And there you have it, it's all done ! xDDD All I need to do now is a first bootup, which should gop well, I will run some old games from 1999 to 2003, see how this P4 does
 
The only 3D Mark I really liked was Mad Onion's 3D Mark 2001 SE, so I do plan on running that one on this 2Ghz P4 :)
Stay Tuned for more in action pics and 1080p video's!

Many thanks RiffeDK! xDD this one will be used for retro games too, it's gonna be fun playing with it again

Haha awesome! Musta been a monster back in the day.

Hay many thanks guys!
 
Also many thanks for my 28th Blue Ribbon rjohnson11 !!!
Well it was only a monster with games that were based on id Tech3 engine for the rest a 1.4Ghz Athlon Thunderbird or Pentium !!!/S 1400 really crushed it xD
 
But when playing games like X-Wing Alliance, Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Call of Duty + United Offensive, Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast & Jedi Academy, this system was the best you could get. It destroyed everything out there, Pentium4 actually performed on it's best with Rambus memory over single channel SDRAM or PC_2100 DDR Ram setups.
 
So if any of you plan on doing a Retro P4 build go for the Intel i850 or i850-E chipset and use RDRAM.

The P4 Xeons used the Intel i860 chipset and these even supported the much faster PC-1066 Rambus memory, some of these systems had even 8 slots to company 4GB of Rambus PC-1066 RDRAM!!! and this stuff was very VERY expensive back in the day xDDDDDD
So far only Tyan & iWiLL had the support for the i860 with PC-1066.
 
 
If I'd ever do such a system I'd go for the P4 Xeons that have Hyper Threading and are based on Northwood C architechture with this Supermico P4DC6:
http://www.supermicro.nl/...ard/Xeon/860/P4DC6.cfm


Keep in mind when using RDRAM you need to fill all 4 banks,when only using two RDRAM modules , for the two slots that would not be used you had them Dummy sticks, which would trick the system that they were filled also rofl.

haha coolieeez xDDD I have those games too as for updates Jedi Outcast has version 1.04 as where Jedi Academy has 1.01 as latest updates :)
 
you can grab them here:
 
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Patch 1.04:
http://jediknight3.filefr...night_2_Patch_104;3825
 
Jedi Knight III: Jedi Academy Patch 1.01:
http://jediknight3.filefr...m/file/;20459#Download

Thanks man
 
Hah! I had the Ti-4600 from Leadtek after this GeForce3 xD and Actually the NV25 which was used for the GeForce 4 Ti AGP x4 line was nothing but a GeForce 3 Ti on steroids xDDD
 
The NV28 was used for the GeForce4 Ti AGP x8 series which had these models:
 
GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x --> a GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP x8 support
GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE --> a GeForce4 Ti 4400 with AGP x8 support
GeForce4 Ti 4800 Ultra --> a GeForce4 Ti 4600 with AGP x8 support
 
So basically all what NV28 had over NV25 was AGP x8 support, for the rest it was all identical to that of NV25.
 
GeForce3 uses NV20 so does geForce3 Ti, even some call it NV20 Ti as the Ti models go, the Ti line added Advanced Pixel Shader & Soft Shadows Support, which the GeForce 4 Ti line improved just due to their greater capability of speed.
 
GeForce3/GeForce3 Ti has 4 Pixel shaders & 4 vertex Shaders, GeForce4 has 8 Pixel shaders and 4 vertex shaders. in many cases a Ti 4600 was more than twice as fast as a GeForce3 Classic rofl.
 

As fr the Ti4600 I just bought this one off ebay for a nice deal xD
A Leadtek GeForce 4 Ti-4600 Ultra with ViVo Boxed: http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310637374105
This card will be tested in my P4 of course xD
 

Hmm that is an idea, but mainly I use it to play Q3A on it
There are still people playing Q3A online too, always fun to join in with this classic

XrayMan

 
Good job.         

hehe thanks mate !

Hey all

No Ryzen for me, too boring As I have something way cooler to work on at the moment!
Today I bought an upgrade for this golden oldie!!! :D YUS!

For this system I have bought some Awesome ram for it:

4x Samsung Original 512MB PC800-40 ECC RDRAM
(MR18R162GEG0-CM8)
 It took me over 3 years to find this exact memory type and it had to be PC-800-40ns with ECC support, as that the ASUS P4T does support ECC which was pretty unique.
The Reason I wanted PC-800-40ns ECC is that this will be my P4 Retro Workstation, and that ram type is the fastest possible for this system, which is also used with Dual Socket 603/604 i860 systems.

So now I only seek the following:
 
ASUS/NEC 5 Port USB 2.0 PCI Card
Intel Server Pro 1000 Ethernet Adapter
LS120 Super Floppy Drive
If anyone can help me find those ^^^ parts, that would be grand
 
Here some history & specs of this system, as this P4 means quite a lot to me, after the data I found on it as well... Some old memories regained.

Stealth 2001

Intel Pentium4 2.00Ghz Willamette, 256KB L2, Socket 423
ASUS P4T Intel i850 Chipset for Socket 423
2x 128MB PC_800-45 non ECC + 2x 256MB PC-800-45 ECC Rambus RDRAM
Leadtek GeForce WinFast A250 Ultra TD AGP 128MB 128Bit DDR
Creative Labs Sound Blaster LIve 5.1
Western Digital 60GB ATA 133 7200 rpm HDD
Sony 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
Enermax 525Watt PSU
















So if anyone can help me out with these parts that would be grand

The P4 2Ghz I bought for it around 2006 for 5 USD from Ebay Hong Hong. I kept the P4 1.7Ghz in my display cabinet.
My main goal is to rebuild this system to it's max upgradable possible setup without the use of Power Leap CPU Socket convertors and such other things and reuse it for retro Lan Parties and such fun activities :)
This system I used to train with for 4 hours per day on when I used to play in a Quake II, Quake III & Descent 3 League at my Computer Club, we would have matches every week  :cool:
So this is what I did before I started to collect 3dfx VGA cards, also this is something I really wanted to share with you guys

The only real reason I went for the P4 was because of its SSE2 CPU instruction set which it had in advantage over everything else.
That with a Gainward GeForce Golden Sample Power Pack 64MB 128Bit DDR + ViVo made it a powerful setup. Later in 2002 I upgraded to the Leadtek GeForce4 Ti-4600 Ultra

For everything else the P4 S423 2Ghz performs like a P3-S 1.4Ghz, that is only if SSE2 was not supported so yeah a P4 2Ghz was pretty much crap in most other applications & games.
But things like Lame MP3 Encoding, did go quite well, so hey it's not as bad as some tired to make it, right

The bottom line is that I love this rare retro build and I hope to enjoy it for many years to come

Any parts you're still trying to find?

After some reboots the ram is now 1984MB over 1920MB, still 64MB away from 2048MB..
 
Here the Bootup:


Here the Bios:


Here from Windows showing 1.93GB instead of 1.87GB but still not 2.00GB.


It seems I can't seem to find our which this changes and I can't find anything that could fix this as well.

After running Everest Ultimate 5.5 x86, it detected that 1 of the 8 halves is 192MB while the other 7 are 256MB:


It may seem how this system works, I could refit the ram as well, but I dunno, CPU-ID does detect 4x 512MB.
So might be the AGP Aperture size of 64MB, there by sparing 64MB for the VGA card.
 
Well I refitted the ram, and no change still 1984MB in Bios, AGP Aperture size is 64MB, so I think that is why;
1984MB + 64MB = 2048MB which the system is using, more Ican't really thing of, performance is dead stable as well.

Well I bought a gem for this old P4 today and a very rare item as well

ASUS V9999 GT AGP 256MB GDDR3 Rev. 1.01
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/142299072094?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT


This is the one of the best GeForce 6800 GT AGP 256MB's ever made and also one of the rarest to find, it took me 7+ years to find one
With this NV40 I want to see how well this system performs in games that have well optimized SSE2 Support

So by adding this NV40 in there that also allows it to run games that also support Shader Model 3.0 with OpenGL 2.0 & DirectX 9.0c API's.
This GPU will allow me to try out and test Primal Carnage Extinction running on the system @ 640x 480 x32, I really want to see if I even get a few fps, just for the fun of it

Stay tuned for lots more to come!

Yeah progress is a bit slow from this point as all the packages are now in transit, I will promise some fun tests in the following games:
 
Far Cry
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Doom 3
3D Mark 2001 SE
Freelancer
Primal Carnage Extinction as fun extra.
 
Maybe some other things. That NV40 is a vital part to make these Shader Model 3.0 games to run without issues.

Here a lovely package that came from SadTropher's place form the UK

Mitsubishi Electronics LS-120 SUper Floppy Drive
5x 120MB LS-120 Super Floppy Disks
NEC 5 Port USB 2.1 PCI Card + Front Bay 2 ports rear & 3 Front
Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop Adapter PCI


NEC 5 Port USB 2.1 PCI Card + Front Bay Combo front:


NEC 5 Port USB 2.1 PCI Card + Front Bay Combo rear


Front Bay PCB closeup:


Nec USB 2.1 Card & Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop Adapter PCI top:


Nec USB 2.1 Card & Intel Pro/1000 GT Desktop Adapter PCI rear:


And installed of course


Here from an other view:


Here the entire system that I named Stealth 2001:


Closeup of the 3 port USB 2.1 Front Bay:


As you see it works like magic 


The LS-120 I keep for my i860 system, the same for the ASUS GeForce 6800 GT AGP 256MB