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Could this prebuilt vintage PC actually be GOOD?! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-12-05 00:19:31
Imported:
2024-01

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There were an increasing number of cheap, proprietary PCs in the late  1990s -- many of which couldn't be upgraded well, or at all. But this  Dell Dimension XPS could be almost as good as a custom-built computer.

Sources:
"Professional PCs," PC Magazine, December 2, 1997.
Ensoniq AudioPCI photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_AudioPCI#/media/File:Ensoniq_ES1370_1.jpg
"Company News," The New York Times, December 11, 1997.
"Pentium Part II," PC Magazine, June 10, 1997.
Pentium Pro photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_80521ex200_256k_top.jpg
Pentium II commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npoeopfU-IQ
Pentium II photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentium_II_300_Deschutes_-_SL2W8_-_case_removed-4670.jpg
AMD challenges Intel with cheaper MMX chip," Computerworld, April 7, 1997.
"Intel's Celeron 266," PC World, May 1998.
Slot 1 Celeron photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KL_Intel_Celeron_Covington.jpg
"Celeron CPU Caches Up, Adds Muscle to Basic PCs," PC Magazine, October 6, 1998.
"Celeron 300A," Maximum PC Power User Handbook, autumn 2000.
Pentium II in box photo: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/index.php?title=Intel_Pentium_II&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#/media/File:P2box1.jpg
Socket 370 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_Socket_370_-_open-top_oblique_PNr%C2%B00346.jpg
Socket 370 slotket adapter: https://postlmg.cc/4K6p8jmw
"Rage 128," Maximum PC, February 1999.

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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).

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Could this prebuilt vintage PC actually be GOOD?!

There were an increasing number of cheap, proprietary PCs in the late 1990s -- many of which couldn't be upgraded well, or at all. But this Dell Dimension XPS could be almost as good as a custom-built computer. Sources: "Professional PCs," PC Magazine, December 2, 1997. Ensoniq AudioPCI photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_AudioPCI#/media/File:Ensoniq_ES1370_1.jpg "Company News," The New York Times, December 11, 1997. "Pentium Part II," PC Magazine, June 10, 1997. Pentium Pro photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_80521ex200_256k_top.jpg Pentium II commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npoeopfU-IQ Pentium II photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentium_II_300_Deschutes_-_SL2W8_-_case_removed-4670.jpg "AMD challenges Intel with cheaper MMX chip," Computerworld, April 7, 1997. "Intel's Celeron 266," PC World, May 1998. Slot 1 Celeron photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KL_Intel_Celeron_Covington.jpg "Celeron CPU Caches Up, Adds Muscle to Basic PCs," PC Magazine, October 6, 1998. "Celeron 300A," Maximum PC Power User Handbook, autumn 2000. Pentium II in box photo: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/index.php?title=Intel_Pentium_II&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#/media/File:P2box1.jpg Socket 370 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_Socket_370_-_open-top_oblique_PNr%C2%B00346.jpg Socket 370 slotket adapter: https://postlmg.cc/4K6p8jmw "Rage 128," Maximum PC, February 1999. 00:00 - Introduction 01:11 - Drives and ports 01:53 - Not quite what it seems 04:35 - Upgrades 06:09 - The Slot 1 story 09:24 - Reassembly and cleaning 11:19 - I should have installed Windows Me on this 12:34 - Video cards kinda sucked back then, but we still liked them 13:31 - passport.mid is the best, fight me 15:40 - It's a good computer ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on social media! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).

Comments

Anonymous

Big brand prebuilts of the nineties were way more upgradable than what we see today (for the most part). Also I don't think intel did on die L2 cache until after the P2, i firmly remember adding in cache separately to the motherboard of our P100. And there is no mention of on die L2 cache for pentiums on wikipedia. My understanding was that intel wanted to eliminate third party L2 (for good or bad) was the motivation for socket 1.

Anonymous

Wow, now Colin is shilling Dells?! But seriously, I enjoyed this one a lot. My very first computer that I could call my own was a Pentium 233 MHz laptop. I played Half-Life for the first time on it at way below the panel's native resolution, and only got about 20 FPS with the software renderer. At the time, I thought it was amazing.

thisdoesnotcompute
>>123815020

I haven't rolled through Intel ARK to check all the variants, but for sure the Pentium Pro had on-die cache, and I *think* some of the later mobile Pentium chips did as well. As for why Intel decoupled the cache from the CPU die, Tom's Hardware is my source about the production yield concerns: https://web.archive.org/web/20060329130136/http://www.tomshardware.com/1997/03/01/the_intel_pentium_ii_/ EDIT: I decided that the reference to just "Pentiums" in the video as having embedded L2 cache was too ambiguous, so I rewrote that section a little to reference the Pentium Pro specifically.