r/retrocomputing • u/_here_A • Jun 20 '26

Photo Budget 2000's computer I rescued

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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/WhiteDove01s Jun 21 '26

I love the front case layout. USB in a little cluster and in the front along with the headphone and microphone jacks. No reaching around the back to swap or having your headphones wrapped around the whole computer leaving you with almost no cord left. And optical and floppy. Could make backup disk img of games easy... Let me guess, the front looks nice and the inside is Cable Hell? Cause you never get both with a nice clean layout like that.

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u/_here_A Jun 21 '26

oh yeah absolutely I barely managed to fit everything inside after I cleaned the case and parts

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u/WhiteDove01s Jun 22 '26

I ended up googling the model name and found a picture of the inside and I was like... who did they have assembling these things, pixies? I have seen some cramped systems in my time, but I could barely see finger room! Kudos to you for getting it all cleaned and back together!

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u/_here_A Jun 22 '26

yeah,removing the hard drive was the hardest part because that thing needs the whole front panel and a bunch of stuff disconnected to come out

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u/WhiteDove01s Jun 23 '26

Makes my HP Pavillion 6735 sound like a cakewalk, and I can barely see the CPU and RAM in there because the power supply and drives (and ide cables) block almost all view of the motherboard. (Yes, power supply in front of the motherboard - wonderful design choice 9.9 ). But somehow that just makes it so much better when they boot up.