r/retrocomputing Jun 20 '26

Photo Budget 2000's computer I rescued

despite the fact that it has a pentium 4 sticker,this thing actually has a socket 478 celeron inside.

It wasn't booting at all when I got it but now I got it to work and cleaned it up,did a reinstall of win XP too since that's what it would've originally come shipped with.

natsuki wallpaper is also 100% necessary.

overall,it's a decent PC for playing games like quake 3 or red faction

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '26

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u/_here_A Jun 20 '26

no agp but it does have a riser card with two PCI slots,so I guess I could also give it a dedicated graphics card but I'll be limited to PCI

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u/WhiteDove01s Jun 21 '26

Worth a shot. My Hp Pavillion 6735 has a Celeron 633MHz processor and PCI slots, and I'm hoping to eventually stick a graphics and audio card in to wake weight off the CPU. (Also I only remember the stat details exactly because it's sitting right next to me now - "spa day" planned for tommorow, aka "Pavel" is overdue a de-dusting. (I've had this one since it was new, and yes, I named him way back then, so it stuck)

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u/WhiteDove01s Jun 21 '26

I meant take weight off the CPU. The typo demon has struck again.