Preach, brother. The whole point of PC building is to customize it to your liking, but it feels like cases in particular have all collapsed into a monoculture devoid of alternatives.
I kick myself daily for throwing out my translucent colorways PC case. I thought they would last forever and I could keep getting soulful cases. I was so wrong. We need to go back...
1 year ago
Anonymous
Since nobody makes them anymore and eBay israelites want upwards of $200 for good examples, I wonder how feasible it would be to simply spray paint a "modern" case. For instance, the N400 has the anatomy of a traditional case (7x internal 3.5 bays, 1x external 3.5 bay, 2x 5.25 bay) and I could sort of imagine it in beige. Maybe pull an LGR and stick some vinyl woodgrain texture on the ribbon where the power button and USB ports are.
1 year ago
Anonymous
yeah I am not paying that much, they can eat a bag of shit. I will deal with my $50 PC case from NZXT and get over it. I am sure some company will come out with something soulful eventually.
man, why did my dad buy me a pc in 2000-2001? my life would be so much better if he had never bought it for me, and i think he knows that as well
its astounding how one purchase can have such a tremendous impact on your sons future
the p3 cant even support 4gb of ram, even the slot 1s could technically see 4gb of ram but that's a theoretical max. Most motherboards maxed out at 768mb of ram ~1gb. The Pentium Pro line and pentium had a theoretical PAE of 64gb. Only a moron would believe OP's bullshit.
well that picture mobo's manual claims it can
it is an insane amount of memory for a P3, though, anything over a gig is, i'd say
hell 4GB is a lot for a pentium 4, and only starting to become normal for a core 2
as with a lot of things back in the late 90s, they made a lot of baseless claims. It was a strange time, my little zoomer. We thought it was bullshit then. Today it is noob bait. I don't even think SIMMs nor DDR modules went up to 1gb sticks. I think DDR had 1gb sticks WAY later but it was ECC ram or had compatibility issues because they were made after the fact and came out of china. There was essentially no way you could get 4 1gb sticks in 1999. I think the max size was 128MB or 256MB and they were like $300 a pop, so you would be spending $1200 for essentially 2gb of ram.
>I don't even think SIMMs nor DDR modules went up to 1gb sticks.
that mobo/p3's used SD-RAM DIMMS, not SIMM nor DDR ram, and they did go up to 1GB, and yes they were expensive server ram, that is a dual socket board, i'm by no means saying normal people had this technology
1 year ago
Anonymous
>ECC >2008
I stand by what I said
1 year ago
Anonymous
also also the xeons back then had support for 128gb of ram and were used well up to 2012. That is not ram for a p3 my little zoomer buddy.
1 year ago
Anonymous
you were saying?
1 year ago
Anonymous
>my chinese ram released 9 years later means I am right >zoomer hands
have a nice day
>Most motherboards maxed out at 768mb of ram ~1gb
VIA chipsets can see 512MB sticks, if a motherboard has 3 RAM slots you can get 1.5GB SDRAM with a Pentium 3
t. done that myself
nobody claimed it was available upon release of the P3
1 year ago
Anonymous
it wasn't even released during the p3's lifetime. It was released 9 years later from China because HP and Dell wanted cheap server ram. So you spending $650 for a $30 PC doesn't make you right, it makes you moronic. Nice case though.
1 year ago
Anonymous
anon for frick's sake all i said was that it was possible to use 4GB of ram with a P3, that's all i said, i didn't say it was cheap, or common, or available in 1999, or that it even makes sense to do, you're making shit up
1 year ago
Anonymous
good luck with your stability issues and constant crashing as everything struggles for addresses.
1 year ago
Anonymous
well i can't comment on that, i'm not OP and i'm pretty sure OP made his computer up
as a side note there are P3 boards with more than 4 slots, so you can make up 4GB with 512M sticks as well
1 year ago
Anonymous
I had a dual celeron (because I couldn't afford p3s and celerons were still good enough) board with 1gb of ram for Windows 98SE/2k. It was a pretty comfy system for it's time. 98SE would struggle unless I took ram down to 768MB or 512MB. Windows 2000 was super stable with it though. I think I tried Windows XP on it and went back to Windows 2000 because of the issues XP had back when it was released.
1 year ago
Anonymous
XP and 2k should be sweet with 4GB (though obviously you can't use it all due to PAE being disabled, unless you use advanced/datacentre server editions of 2k instead of the usual workstation edition, then you should be able to use the 4GB fully
even though 2k workstation and xp claim 4GB support, that's 4GB total address space, which includes more than just the main ram, which lead to all kinds of confusing during the period where people started getting to 4GB while still on a 32bit edition of windows, then windows saying "4GB (3.26GB usable)" or what-have-you
with PAE (36bit address space), you really can use all 4GB of ram, because the address space is widened such that it can fit alongside the rest of your peripherals
1 year ago
Anonymous
I switched immediately to 64 bit windows xp/vista with my core 2 quad. I don’t really care for xp and skipped sp1 and went straight to xp sp2/x64
1 year ago
Anonymous
well when 4GB actually started to become affordable for consumers, your machine was likely already 64bit, so you should have been moving to XP x64 or Vista 64bit as well
but obviously that isn't an option for a Pentium III
1 year ago
Anonymous
I bet you think vinyls sound better too 😉 and crts are good.
>after the fact but not on release, and it was well after newer stuff was released
P3 tualatins were around 2001
around same time you could get motherboards with a chipset that supported 1.5 - 2GB
bruv it wasn't worth $640 when it was new
>taking the bait.
wew lad
also, that's a pentium 4 sticker, i'm too old to fool that easily
For how many people who want old beige cases, you'd think at least one manufacturer would heed the opportunity.
beige and translucent colorways cases would be amazing. I am so sick of glass gaymer bullshit.
Preach, brother. The whole point of PC building is to customize it to your liking, but it feels like cases in particular have all collapsed into a monoculture devoid of alternatives.
I kick myself daily for throwing out my translucent colorways PC case. I thought they would last forever and I could keep getting soulful cases. I was so wrong. We need to go back...
Since nobody makes them anymore and eBay israelites want upwards of $200 for good examples, I wonder how feasible it would be to simply spray paint a "modern" case. For instance, the N400 has the anatomy of a traditional case (7x internal 3.5 bays, 1x external 3.5 bay, 2x 5.25 bay) and I could sort of imagine it in beige. Maybe pull an LGR and stick some vinyl woodgrain texture on the ribbon where the power button and USB ports are.
yeah I am not paying that much, they can eat a bag of shit. I will deal with my $50 PC case from NZXT and get over it. I am sure some company will come out with something soulful eventually.
yet people buy thinkpads because reasons
Because it's just 200 bucks for rugged laptop, worth your money much more than cheap ass chink android phone
>rugged laptop
Old thinkpads were a rugpull all along
ching chong bing bong
I kind of want a case like that for a sleeper build. Good find anon.
Same.
thats $640 Australian dollars right? so $10 USA?
man, why did my dad buy me a pc in 2000-2001? my life would be so much better if he had never bought it for me, and i think he knows that as well
its astounding how one purchase can have such a tremendous impact on your sons future
>still blaming daddy for your shit life choices
hello autism
what P-III chipset/motherboard lets you use 4GB of RAM?
if it's some kind of high-end server board, maybe it is worth a bit more (though still not 640 USD)
he made it up, and is too young to know 4GB ram is excessive for a P3 board
it's possible though, pic related can do 4GB ram
the p3 cant even support 4gb of ram, even the slot 1s could technically see 4gb of ram but that's a theoretical max. Most motherboards maxed out at 768mb of ram ~1gb. The Pentium Pro line and pentium had a theoretical PAE of 64gb. Only a moron would believe OP's bullshit.
well that picture mobo's manual claims it can
it is an insane amount of memory for a P3, though, anything over a gig is, i'd say
hell 4GB is a lot for a pentium 4, and only starting to become normal for a core 2
as with a lot of things back in the late 90s, they made a lot of baseless claims. It was a strange time, my little zoomer. We thought it was bullshit then. Today it is noob bait. I don't even think SIMMs nor DDR modules went up to 1gb sticks. I think DDR had 1gb sticks WAY later but it was ECC ram or had compatibility issues because they were made after the fact and came out of china. There was essentially no way you could get 4 1gb sticks in 1999. I think the max size was 128MB or 256MB and they were like $300 a pop, so you would be spending $1200 for essentially 2gb of ram.
s/2gb/1gb
$1200 for 1gb of ram, I looked it up, they were 256mb max size DDR sticks
>I don't even think SIMMs nor DDR modules went up to 1gb sticks.
that mobo/p3's used SD-RAM DIMMS, not SIMM nor DDR ram, and they did go up to 1GB, and yes they were expensive server ram, that is a dual socket board, i'm by no means saying normal people had this technology
>ECC
>2008
I stand by what I said
also also the xeons back then had support for 128gb of ram and were used well up to 2012. That is not ram for a p3 my little zoomer buddy.
you were saying?
>my chinese ram released 9 years later means I am right
>zoomer hands
have a nice day
>zoomer hands
that's a pretty old looking zoomer
>There was essentially no way you could get 4 1gb sticks in 1999
didn't even claim that
>Most motherboards maxed out at 768mb of ram ~1gb
VIA chipsets can see 512MB sticks, if a motherboard has 3 RAM slots you can get 1.5GB SDRAM with a Pentium 3
t. done that myself
after the fact but not on release, and it was well after newer stuff was released. You doing a thing doesn't mean it was done when it was relevant.
nobody claimed it was available upon release of the P3
it wasn't even released during the p3's lifetime. It was released 9 years later from China because HP and Dell wanted cheap server ram. So you spending $650 for a $30 PC doesn't make you right, it makes you moronic. Nice case though.
anon for frick's sake all i said was that it was possible to use 4GB of ram with a P3, that's all i said, i didn't say it was cheap, or common, or available in 1999, or that it even makes sense to do, you're making shit up
good luck with your stability issues and constant crashing as everything struggles for addresses.
well i can't comment on that, i'm not OP and i'm pretty sure OP made his computer up
as a side note there are P3 boards with more than 4 slots, so you can make up 4GB with 512M sticks as well
I had a dual celeron (because I couldn't afford p3s and celerons were still good enough) board with 1gb of ram for Windows 98SE/2k. It was a pretty comfy system for it's time. 98SE would struggle unless I took ram down to 768MB or 512MB. Windows 2000 was super stable with it though. I think I tried Windows XP on it and went back to Windows 2000 because of the issues XP had back when it was released.
XP and 2k should be sweet with 4GB (though obviously you can't use it all due to PAE being disabled, unless you use advanced/datacentre server editions of 2k instead of the usual workstation edition, then you should be able to use the 4GB fully
even though 2k workstation and xp claim 4GB support, that's 4GB total address space, which includes more than just the main ram, which lead to all kinds of confusing during the period where people started getting to 4GB while still on a 32bit edition of windows, then windows saying "4GB (3.26GB usable)" or what-have-you
with PAE (36bit address space), you really can use all 4GB of ram, because the address space is widened such that it can fit alongside the rest of your peripherals
I switched immediately to 64 bit windows xp/vista with my core 2 quad. I don’t really care for xp and skipped sp1 and went straight to xp sp2/x64
well when 4GB actually started to become affordable for consumers, your machine was likely already 64bit, so you should have been moving to XP x64 or Vista 64bit as well
but obviously that isn't an option for a Pentium III
I bet you think vinyls sound better too 😉 and crts are good.
not sure where this comment came from
Stop romanticizing the past
how was i doing that?
>after the fact but not on release, and it was well after newer stuff was released
P3 tualatins were around 2001
around same time you could get motherboards with a chipset that supported 1.5 - 2GB
Yeah I have a Dual P3 Server with 4GB of RAM in my collection of crap, there are boards that support that much RAM.
$640
kys
>GeForce FX 5200
I had that card back in the day, it was shit.
you done goofed
Cool story bro
>4GB RAM
Holy frick that's a lot of ram.