Pentium 4 PC build

[97pedro]

Hello everyone, this is actually my first post here in the forum, I just signed up.
As the title says, I want to make a pentium 4 pc, a top of the line for the windows XP era, like the year 2003.
I thought about doing this like 4 months ago, at the time a bought some parts thinking about doing it, but then some other things appear and I had to cancel it, but now I would really like to finish it.

The parts I have right now are:

An Asus P4P800E-deluxe
A Pentium 4 3.0ghz HT (I have it running on 3.4ghz no problem)
2 sticks of 512mb ddr400 ram (I think one is fried, doesnt always work and memtest86+ detecs errors using that stick)
A zalman 2 ball bearing cooler
A 300W Giler power supply from an athlon xp system I had.
A 80gb and a 120gb Seagate barracuda 7200rpm Hard drives
a creative audigy audio card
A power color ati radeon 9200se 128mb video card (from that same athlon xp system, very low end card from what I researched)
And a ATX case (again from the athlon xp system)

So for what I understand the things I have to get are:

1st a better psu
2nd a better video card
3rd another 512mb ram stick since one of mine is fried
4th possibly a better looking case (also this one doesnt have front panel usb)

Alright, so what do you guys think?

Thanks everyone

 

[micropage7]

looks nice, i may suggest if you could find try to get old case or just old branded case that support standard form (atx/matx), the steel is good
and the fans, actually zalman is good, i still run generic fans and so far it serves me well, just need oiling it

 

[brandonwh64]

My first water cooled build was a P4 with HT oced to "If I can remember" 4ghz

 

[97pedro]

Thanks for the replies.
The case, do you guys sugfest something that was amazing at the time?
Also, the graphics card, what should I go with?

 

[stinger608]

Hello everyone, this is actually my first post here in the forum, I just signed up.
As the title says, I want to make a pentium 4 pc, a top of the line for the windows XP era, like the year 2003.
I thought about doing this like 4 months ago, at the time a bought some parts thinking about doing it, but then some other things appear and I had to cancel it, but now I would really like to finish it.

The parts I have right now are:

An Asus P4P800E-deluxe
A Pentium 4 3.0ghz HT (I have it running on 3.4ghz no problem)
2 sticks of 512mb ddr400 ram (I think one is fried, doesnt always work and memtest86+ detecs errors using that stick)
A zalman 2 ball bearing cooler
A 300W Giler power supply from an athlon xp system I had.
A 80gb and a 120gb Seagate barracuda 7200rpm Hard drives
a creative audigy audio card
A power color ati radeon 9200se 128mb video card (from that same athlon xp system, very low end card from what I researched)
And a ATX case (again from the athlon xp system)

So for what I understand the things I have to get are:

1st a better psu
2nd a better video card
3rd another 512mb ram stick since one of mine is fried
4th possibly a better looking case (also this one doesnt have front panel usb)

Alright, so what do you guys think?

Thanks everyone

@97pedro , you should take some pictures of that awesome nostalgic hardware and post it all here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-nostalgic-hardware-club.108251/

We have had the Nostalgic Hardware club forum up for some time now. This would make a great addition to the thread.

 

[Frogger]

I have the same MB & Proc in running XP/Win 7 duel boot. I use a X 850XT agp card runs like a top. For a PSU any 350/400 watt will do. I found that the MB runs best when the ram slots are all populated with a slight increase in voltage.

 

[97pedro]

Ok, just got a sapphire x1950pro 512mb ddr3, its coming this week i think, also got a 450W LC Power psu and I'm trying to find 2gb of ram.
I'll post pictures when I get it.

 

[97pedro]

@Frogger you might be able to help me with the ram choice.
Will Corsair CMX512-3200C2PT CL2 work fine in this motherboard?

 

[Frogger]

^ should work fine spec:
Timing 2-3-3-6 Cas Latency 2 Voltage 2.6V
I am running slot A1/A2 ocz5001024ELDCGER-K pc4000
slot B1/B2 CMX512-4000PT XMS4000 512MB PC4000
a little reading FYI

nice vid card for that MB

 

[97pedro]

thanks!!!
everything is coming together, I'll see if I can get the cas 2 corsair ram, if I can't I'm ging with regular cas3 kingston ram.
@Frogger

 

[97pedro]

@Frogger I'm thinking on buying those Corsair XMS Ram, do you think they are going to work fine in my motherboard?
I lot of poeple say it's better having 2x1gb and noit 4x512mb, the ones I'm buying are 4x512mb.
Thanks

 

[Frogger]

If you can get the 2x 1gig go for it. I only used 4 because that's what I had in the ram bin.

 

[97pedro]

I can't find CL2 1gb dimms, everything I see is 512mb, but is there a problem on using 4x512mb? @Frogger

 

[97pedro]

Guys, I ran 3Dmark 03 and the result I get is 1221 for CPU and GPU.
Could be the graphics card that is holding this back?
I mean, I saw here in another topic the retro pentium 4 build, he got like 6000, so you think its the gpu? for cpu i'm getting 532. Also, I'm doing these tests with only 512mb ram.

 

[Frogger]

I can't find CL2 1gb dimms, everything I see is 512mb, but is there a problem on using 4x512mb? @Frogger

I have no issues just up the volts a bit for stable oc. You can always set the clocks manually or a just the bus speed.

 

[97pedro]

okok. what about the 3dmark thing, you know it is like that, because of the gpu?

 

[Frogger]

Most likely a single stix of ram issue the 1950 is a good card for that MB. When you get the ram installed & run up the clocks on it (bid card) you can run the bench again.

 

[97pedro]

Do you guys recommend a case with top mount psu, with good airflow?

 

[jboydgolfer]

I laughed when i saw this thread on the tpu Mainpage, I JUST found one of my old P4's in My Bathroom vanity, Of all of the places.2004 intel @ its best

 

[micropage7]

Do you guys recommend a case with top mount psu, with good airflow?

most of entry level cases are the same, especially with top mount psu, i suggest you just look around, or buy your local brands case.
in here i can get a case with psu for <$30

 

[97pedro]

Well, been so long since last update, here it goes.

I did end up chaning the case for something more time adequate, it's nothing special, but with some cable managment mods, it looks alright.

 

[Frogger]

Waiting from some bench marks.

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Oh yes post some benchs, lets fight retro P4 vs retro P4 (system specs on the side)!

 

[97pedro]

Here is the 3DMark03 benchmark, tell me what other benchmarks you want to see.

@Frogger

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

Here is the 3DMark03 benchmark, tell me what other benchmarks you want to see.

@Frogger

Add in some:
3DMark 2001
3DMark 2005
super pi 1M

I am quite curious about the CPU bottleneck and the difference between your Prescott and my Gallatin at similar clocks. My x850xt pe is matching your x1950Pro:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/6524371 (outdated score)

I will post some other of my scores as well! Maybe we should start a thread on retro Pentium 4 builds or something... I have seen quite a few threads here on P4 478 nostalgia builds!