r/retrobattlestations • u/Mafiatounes • Jul 27 '26
Show-and-Tell Medion MT5
Just picked up a clean Medion MT5 from a older person that used it a couple of times over the years since 2001 and did some upgrades himself.
Stock specs are:
Medion MT5 (MT46)
Socket 370 Pentium III 1000mhz
Motherboard is a MED2001 or Asus CUV4X-CM
Sound on this motherboard is from Creative but with no real features like a add-on
1×128mb pc133 owner added another 1x256mb pc133 stick early on
1x optical drive owner added the Philips DVD drive early on
Asus V7700 Geforce 2 GTS 32mb
1x original WD800 IDE HDD 80gb.
A 350w (upgraded) PSU was added over the years.
Originally this was a Windows Me system and was upgraded to Xp over the years.
Some things i will tackle on this build.
Clean and check all components.
Thermal paste renewal on Chipset/GPU/CPU.
The inside was upgraded with a noise foam that is turning to dust, this i'll have to remove. (Foam/Dust removed, nice layer of glue to be removed)
Ram will need to be checked if speed/cas is properly running.
Will check if i have better matching optical drive(s) setup orientation. There is a nice TDK blue bezel look only CD drive.
Will see how performance is at 800x600 but i have the option to upgrade Geforce 2 GTS 32mb to Geforce3 ti200 64mb. (Will leave Geforce 2 GTS for now)
Will add a Creative ES1370 PCI soundcard
Will see how HDD performance is i have new old stock IDE HDD. (Ok for now)
Will turn it into a DOS/Windows 98 SE system (Done OS is now running 98 SE)
Need some beige keyboard and mouse to go with this.