Dell Dimension 2400 CPU Upgrade
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2015
- Can a cheap and simple CPU upgrade give an old, low end computer enough oomph to cut it in the modern world? Watch and see!
In a new and exciting twist, UA-cam refuses to let me upload a custom thumbnail for this video (and this video only, seemingly.) The complaint is "unable to finish saving thumbnail". I've tried a multitude of pictures, high and low resolution alike, so it's not that. Once again I suspect that data integrity means little to UA-cam and that this indicates a screw-up in their database. I guess all this figures, since I spent a lot of time working on a custom thumbnail.
If you want to perform this same upgrade, look for S-Spec # SL6PG. This CPU also works in the Dimension 4550. Just be sure you have the latest Dell BIOS first!
As for the mistake around the six minute mark, well sometimes my mind doesn't always keep up and sticks random, peripherally correct (at best!) words in. Outside of the various "amateur filmmaker" videos, none of my work is scripted or rehearsed. Most everything is done in one clean set of takes.
Windows 2000 Task Manager... a.k.a. "VR Matrix Simulator"!
I like fiddling with old dusty computers more than I do building new ones.
The Dimension 2400 was the first computer in my household that was considered "Mine" when I was younger. I love the system, and mine currently serves as a UA-cam and web browsing box attached to the TV in my bedroom. It runs WIndows XP and is GREAT for running old games! Only thing I did that I don't see many people doing with this old system (Which is a good idea if you can find one for cheap) is I put a PCI graphics card in it, at least if you plan to use the system with any sort of wide screen monitors. The onboard graphics I believe only support 800x600 resolutions (Correct me if I'm wrong)? The graphics card also fixes a lot of the problems the system has with in-browser video playback!
Thank you, I found the enabling HT part very useful. I had no idea I wasnt fully utilising my upgrade.
Still waiting for my 3.06 to arrive, can't wait! Awesome vid, thxs for sharing this.
I've got one of these machines that I pulled from a recycling pile last year and was shocked at it's as-new condition. It seems as though the thing was bought and simply never used, it cleaned up as though it just came out of the box, and I love it for that - a typically disposable model that survived.
It looks like you got the custom thumbnail working! I know UA-cam has given me problems with those in the past if I set the compression level in Gimp to 0 when exporting the image; setting it to 1 or higher allows it to work. You have to love the custom thumbnail system's ever-ambiguous error messages :-).
Great channel Bill, thanks for sharing your videos.
I have the exact processor, the 3.06 P4 with hyper threading running at 533 FSB. I thought it was an oddity, but now that you mention it also, I am now sure of it. I am glad I kept her. I want to build the computer up to max settings for the motherboard and keep it as it was my main system for years. I also have a rare oddity graphics card, I cant remember the exact specs, I think the GeForce 860 ultra, the one first card that took up 2 bays and had an elaborate heat sink set up with heat pipes and massive cooling. It was only produced for a couple months as it was too hard to cool. I will add this to my system also as it was around the same time period. Great vids, keep up the good work!
Good to see the old p4 still gettin it done!
Hey Bill
i found a Dell Dimension 3000 on a curve, so i when and picked it up... it was full of dirt and a little wet, dry it up, some heavy cleaning, did not have a CPU, memory, no drive, no optical drive. i still had some P4, memory, and some other left over parts and it worked, and it has not stopped working,
You sound just like the guy from Negativland. Have almost his humor as well.
Ive had my dell dimension 1100 since new and is still working at the moment, ive upgraded it somewhat with the p4HT 2.8ghz proccessor and maxed out the memory which is only 2Gb ddr2 then ive removed the green plastic shrowd over the heatsink and added an extra cool master cooling fan attached directly to the heatsink leaving the worn fan attached the back of the case, the reason why i did this is because the dell fans are wired differently and set off an alarm if not replaced with an original and i didnt want to buy a new one just yet, i then fitted a sound blaster 24bit sound card, a usb pci card and a sata card for my sata bluray drive and fitted an ide multi with lightscribe as the primary, ive also replaced the old ide cable with round ones for better routing and last thing i upgraded the psu to 500watts, and she works well 👍
love the videos bill keep it up!
Something that I thought was slightly interesting was that the Pentium 4 logo during boot changed when you enabled Hyper Threading.
Like always enjoyed your videos keep up the good work.
A 2020 edition is now needed! I actually have a pair of G4 powerbooks, one being a 1GHz Titanium, and the other being the HiRes 1.67GHz Aluminum. Both struggle, but somewhat pulls through. The 1GHz was given a 256GB SSD (2 partitions, 1 for OS 9 and the other for OS X), and the 1.67GHz was given a 512GB SSD, which probably helps both machines be able to pull through.
I have a literal stack of Gateway e-2100 desktops that I wanted to Hyper Thread, I couldn't find a chip and the one I've decided to keep I swapped the board from a Gateway 510x (same board with newer revision/microcode support) so I could run a 3Ghz 800mhz bus P4... I didn't know about this chip and this will make my life soooo much easier! Thanks!
I recently picked up a Dell Dimension 4600 for about $30.. Plan to set it up in my bedroom and use it mostly for UA-cam, email, and other misc. surfing on the Web.. Has a 3.2 GHz P4 with hyperthreading and an Nvidia 6200.. Will likely be adding more RAM so it has 3GB, upgrade the HD to a 7200 RPM one, and add a wireless networking card.. After seeing how well this one performs, I'm glad my expectations turned out to be realistic.. I didn't know these CPU coolers had issues with becoming brittle.. Good to know,, I will use extra caution when working on it..