Intel Pentium 3 in 2019 Running Modern Windows and Linux - Prepare for Lag
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Today we are going to take a look at two modern operating systems running on an IBM eserver xseries 220 server. This isn't just any Pentium 3 desktop, this machine is equipped with dual processors, can take up to 4GB of RAM, and has a ton of internal expansion options. Let's see if this 2001 behemoth can handle Windows 7 and Xubuntu in a nearly stock configuration.
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is that why the archives where down for a few days?
AA Computers and Technology try lubuntu or another light weight Linux
@@32BitLink It was down because I was renovating the studio. I had to unplug the server.
Find a pci gpu like a hd 3450 or hd 5450 or install something like windows 2000 on it & have the top end games too run be something like quake 3, unreal tournament & similarly aged games. (windows xp sp3 might also be a good operating system for it.)
Graphics this has should be a savage s3 4lt with 8 mb vram.
In the next video you may want to consider using Zorin OS Lite. It's well suited for old machines.
this computer looks beautiful
I love the case so much!
AA Computers and Technology I agree, I would love to buy one and make it a sleeper
@Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji ...and also for a thing not really meant for display, since it's a server!
in complete contrast with 2018 case trends.
yeah i hope ill find that pc case and put
my 1080ti on it
"Standard VGA Adapter" -- you haven't installed GPU drivers.. :/
I'm guessing you skipped through some of the video?
@@AAComputersandTechnology Heh nah, I'm guessing you skipped checking device manager, even the basic drivers for what the mobo GPU has onboard is 1000x better than just not bothering to install any.
Any drivers available would not work with these operating systems.
@@AAComputersandTechnology If it's an S3 Savage, you may find Vista/W2008 R2/W7 drivers out there. g'luck with the Nvidia though!
@@AAComputersandTechnology Latest driver: www.philscomputerlab.com/uploads/3/7/2/3/37231621/s3_savage4_4.12.01.8226.zip
The machine would be A LOT less sluggish if it had some kind of video acceleration so the CPU wouldn't have to be pegged all the time rendering the desktop.
Yeah impossible to find a video about win 7@p3 with a decent graphics card. By decent i mean any kind of GeForce 😂
Try Windows 8 Consumer Preview on it since it's the last beta Windows 8 build to run on non-NX and non-SSE2 cpus. 😉
I definitely will! Thanks for the info!
Could I Google that to find the iso?
TheRobster3 I have a download to x86 and x64, if you want?
@@damian9303 If there's no viruses, then sure.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B7oySu4XPUZ1c2JTVUtVT21qSHc/view?usp=drivesdk drive.google.com/file/d/0B7oySu4XPUZ1SkdiOWRGaHktbmM/view?usp=drivesdk
Laughed out loud with that tutorial throwback!
Pentium 3 era was just a cool time to look back at.
The only real potential it has is as a Retro Rig running an outdated OS like XP or 98.
Windows 98 would be a waste. It can only use 1 cpu.
@@takeshi7 I didn't think about that. Looks like it would be limited to W2K or XP then.
damn small linux is up to date and use only 8mb of ram.
@@A-Predator 2008 is what you call up to date?
@@Zero11s sorry i was missinformed until i checked it by myself.
If you can put a basic GPU, since according to what I saw is that neither the CPU nor RAM are the bottleneck in that system, to see how it would go with a GPU
Yup, can't wait to get that GeForce 6200 in!
@@AAComputersandTechnology Ohhh that GPU, I have one of these in that days, and I play COD4 and try to run GTA IV but the card doesn't have full directx support and have artyfacts but was good memories
Hopefully it has an agp instead of just pci.
@Malcolm Davis you could get aero working with a gpu.... I tried running 7pro on a single p3 with an fx5500 and got aero to work, but yeah everything was slow as hell. with a gpu at least the cpu will be freed up from graphics tasks too
@@cake5000 It's seems that there's PCI-X slots......
That is a really awesome case. I would love to build a sleeper PC in that case.
i have a old PC with these specs:
-pentium ll 266mhz
-264 MB of RAM
-ATI radeon 7000 64mb
-6 GB HDD
os:antix linux 17
the system is usable
i didn't connect it to internet for the moment...but he can launch firefox :D
i am very impressed
but this PC doesn't have a sound card = no music
your system is perfect for Windows 95d lite
Try one of these OS’s:
Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1, Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Novell NetWare 4.2, Novell NetWare 5.1, Red Hat Linux 7.1, SuSE Linux 7.2, TurboLinux 6.5, UnixWare
0:26 that background/studio shot looks beautiful man!! You've come a long way since I first subscribed to you :D
Load a more lightweight Linux distribution like Linux Mint XFCE and you will be fine. I run this distribution on an IBM NetVista from 2005 with 1GB ram and the PC works fine for everyday tasks.
Dude that OS doesnt run on a PC even 2x the speed of this.
Puppy Linux
that's a pretty cool find at a garage sale. Thanks for showing
Does that make it a pentium 6?
Pentium VI ?
@Malcolm Davis r/whooosh
Pentium 9 (3 squared)
Pun aside its a pentium III x2 like the athlons
@@TR2000LT Wooow what great arguments there!
Yay an akimbo P3-S system. Love it. Those were great. With good AGP cards it could rven run crysis at 20-30 FPS
I still remember my old Olidata desktop with Pentium 3, 2001-2007 🥲
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I'd love to get my hands on that machine! Imagine upgrading it to the best P3's. Also, terminal based benchmarks without a desktop using up ram and CPU might be fun to see.
i wonder if there is pinmod or fsb overclocking on a system like this?
I think the main issue with the GTX 1060 is the fact that the CPU does not support SSE2 or any modernish instructions. The 1060 with a PCI to PCIe adapter may work on a Pentium 4 machine, though I am not sure. Also, where does one find the PCI to PCIe adapter?
unless you mean socket 478(not even sure), there is pci-e boards for p4
yeah, i have 775 Pentium 4 computer with PCIe x16 1.0 slot and GTX 750 ti is working with it just well. without any adapters ofcourse.
Thanks for the flashback at 3:05
Seems that your computer have a S3 Savage 4 Pro GPU or something similar, which in Linux, is not really well supported by default. That's the reason you are locked at this resolution because it seems to be using the framebuffer and software rasterizer. You probably need to install xserver-xorg-video-savage to get it working properly, and, this package is not installed by default with xubuntu (Same with xserver-xorg-video-openchrome to get the VIA GPU working used in some thin clients). You can try installing this package and checking if the GPU is working. Also you can check if you have 3D acceleration with glxinfo, you probably have OpenGL support (But for a really old version)
I want... no, I NEED that case for putting inside it modern components. It would be a super duper cool gaming case.
Puppy linux would run awesome in there!
Hi - yes i have a few version on USB sticks from Version 2 to Version 5, some of the older ones run with less than 512k very happily - i have one on a P4 laptop with damaged hard drive , another boots of cdrom and runs in ram as well.
I have a paranoid friend who has a P3 or P4 machine, no hard drive and uses Puppy on a USB all loaded in ram only, to only do his internet banking
@@georgemaragos2378 I think that even 7.5 will run fine from usb in any p3 or newer machine, and have the advantage of being more updated and compatible with ubuntu.
But yeah puppy linux is awesome
@intellyMine97 Yeah, my singlecore atom is worse than that system and was able to browse the web and even watch netflix at sd resolutions fine.
@intellyMine97 Yep, for sure. Mine was a singlecore atom n455 @1.6ghz with 1gb of ram (actually 768 because of the fixed 256mb of the onboard potato gma 3150).
WinXp was a bit slow on that.. Actually was slower than a coppermine 1.4ghz p3 or even a 462/a athlon 2ghz.
The case design is so slick for 2001/2002
🙂 have u tried any used older ATI or HD or Radeon cards? i remember hearing on a retro channel that they sometimes work better on ancient pcs, try an HD7570 or HD5670 or maybe something like a V4800 😀
If he hasn't, this is definitely something he should try and revisit this with; Pascal and newer cards on both sides seem to have trouble with older computers even through actual PCIe
I have an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI 64MB, very old and crappy card, but it does manage to run the LXQT desktop of lubuntu 19.10 pretty well (after an overclock from 140 core 140 memory to 220 core 166 memory plus very tight memory timings)
@@virtualtools_3021 🙂 thats interesting
I have a Dell L1000R with a Pentium III and 256MB of RAM with Windows 7 and XP installed. I also have a EVGA GeForce 6200 installed in it as well. Supprising preformance now from a PC that orignaly had 16-Bit color max. Now can play Oblivion at times full speed at low settings.
I love these old Pentium III machines. I have an old dual cpu pentium iii rig running windows 2000 and it's great for an old machine.
oh wow this is actually an entertaining experiment. Pushing the limits of hardware at that age is fairly uncommon on UA-cam these days
This is actually pretty common in UA-cam. There are a lot of retro tech channels which test old PC parts from late 90's and early 00's with modern apps.
Pentium 3 is NOT cheap today.It's now expensive because it's rare.Pentium 3 CPUs cost $300 or $400 on eBay.Even you can sell only the CPU without selling the whole machine and buy a brand new PC
This opens up for the possibility of a follow up video with upgrades like dual Tualatins at 1.4 GHz and the best AGP card you can get.
the pc doesnt have agp sadly
As pointed up above, no AGP. Mainly due to the fact that this is not a workstation or even a regular PC tower, but a server, so, while quite powerful in some areas for the time period, in the graphics department is miserable.
I have a stock Xseries 226. First time I had to convert an OS download (Ubuntu Server) to not even DVD but to CD.
Just accepted it as a server though, no GUI. But wow does it still do absolutely epically as a server. Have about 5 different internet facing services running on it, and with only 1 CPU and 1 gig of ram, it barely uses any of it's resources and still runs quite happily.
3:05 oh boy, that music :)
do you know what that music is called?
yeah you deff need a good AGP card or something
The motherboard does not even have an AGP slot.
@@dyter424 then a pci card
I really wanted to have an IBM PC back when IBM is still making computers before selling it to Lenovo. This is one sweet case. I am a huge fan of IBM Computers.
That free RS membership bit was accurate as fuck
Get the PCI version of the gt610, it would highly help
Just had a $56 T430 show up from eBay today.... Woooo, it's even in great shape. Something I feel you should appreciate. This is a cool machine though... I ran a similar system, self built based on an Abit VP6 FCPGA (dual) board. Rand dual coppermine celerons overclocked beyond pIII levels. Windows 2K was the way to go back then, as it was the only OS that took advantage of more than one cpu... Other than Server OS's.... which 2K sort of was, but sort of wasn't at the same time. Great era!
Dat Refresh-Rate, yo. I remember when 009 Sound System was all over the place then. I miss the layout of that time, when Recommended for You and Related were both separate instead of just thrown together like a pile of unorganized paper these days. The 2009 layout was great
Try some windows manager like jwm or even twm or fvwm. Should work a lot better. Would be nice to see how can actually perform with a really light graphic interface.
I recommend Slitaz, Bodhi, or tiny core Linux for a system like this, paired with a more modern GPU by AMD or ATI even.
I have a Pentium III ThinkPad 570e running Windows XP fine(just don't even think of anything else than very basic tasks like mine sweeper or probably MS office ), didn't ever thought of running Windows 7 on the processor before XD
Getting windows 7 installed isn't too hard:
You can either prepare a win7 setup usb stick and boot it via plop boot manager (cdrom) or burn a win7 recovery CD from another machine that runs win7 x86 (not 64bit!) and from there, once again starting the setup via cmd from a usb drive (or hdd)
Obviously a Crysis killer right there...
Edit: I'd actually be interested to see what it could do with a GPU and more RAM. They did make GPUs for those kinds of slots back in the day, not very powerful by today's standards but way better than whatever integrated solution it's using now. Also maybe attempt to OC the cpus if possible? Unless they're locked or the motherboard doesn't allow it.
I can't tell if that's sarcasm. If I can get a decent PCI video card in it, it should be able to run Crysis :D
@@AAComputersandTechnology If so, better be as high res as you can go to take the load off the CPUs as much as possible. Unless you plan on doing just Crysis 1 then maybe it'll be fine at lower res idk.
@@AAComputersandTechnology a dual p3 tualatin with a decent agp card like hd3850 can actually run crysis quite well
@@talvisota327 Unfortunately this motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot, just PCI (not PCI-E) and ISA.
yeah there are some decent graphics cards available for pci but the pci slot is way too slow, it will run a lot worse than most agp cards out there. but at least it will make the pc usable without constant lagging when scrolling or moving windows, and can also provide accelerated video decoding which could even make it possible to play youtube videos on this old thing
I remember that dileup modem internet and its voice when connecting, when I was a child good old days
TWO Pentium III, and even at 1.1 GHz each you say? What an unnecessary luxury! I just installed Xubuntu on a fine HP OmniBook 6000 with 512 MB of RAM (the maximum it can handle - interestingly only abou 430 MB of RAM is reported as usable, but that's another issue I'll figure out why that is later) - and a single Pentium III at 600 MHz ;)
It's interesting that you've mentioned having tried Lubuntu: having read that LXQt should be less RAM hungry than XFCE I tried Lubuntu as well, however was greeted with a "What window manager do you want to use?"-dialog on a black screen - with no option to select. I finally got it running by manually editing some config text files, but several (setup) applications crashed and it just did not look that "styled through" like XFCE. And I quickly figured out that it does not make a big difference whether you're lacking 200 or 300 MB of RAM these days ;) So I switched back to Xubuntu (LTS 18.04, as this is the version which can be burned as "Minimal ISO" on a CD-ROM: the OmniBook does not boot from USB ;))
However I was pleasantly surprised that in my case almost all the hardware was supported "out of the box" without any hazzle: e.g. I have a 1024 x 768 (native resolution of the screen) true color display, touchpad works flawlessly (it even seems to recognise "two finger movements" to scroll up and down - no "gestures" like "zoom" of course, but still...), Ethernet and even my stone-age Wacom graphic tablet (connected via USB) is recognised and usable in Gimp - wow :) (Driver support for this mini tablet died long time off e.g. in MacOS X - the driver DVD still claims 10.4 support, but as far as I remember it stopped being usable already in MacOS X 10.6).
I've never used the "PCMCIA" slot, but "Hardware Info" told me that there is even a driver loaded for this, so it might just work as well :)
Of course for the rest: Firefox is slooooooow, Libre Office is "usable" for a couple of A4 pages I guess (text only ;)), but starting up e.g. Qt Creator (C++ IDE) and editing fairly simple C++ code works (memory usage is surprisinly modest still for such an IDE). Of course compiling C++ code on the other hand... better prepare a coffee or two ;)
Unfortunately modern benchmarks do not seem to work: I've tried "sysbench" which immediatelly stopped with an "Illegal Instruction" exception, and I did not even try "geekbench", as the minimum CPU seems to be Pentium 4 (and 2 GB of RAM - ha!). But "Hardinfo" (sudo apt-get install hardinfo) does have some basic benchmarks.
"But does it run... DOOM?" - yes! Well, sort of: unfortunately the GPU - an ATI Rage Mobility-M1 - does not have proper OpenGL driver support, so OpenGL is "software only" (Mesa driver). But when you "force software renderer" in the "Chocolate DOOM" port you get roughly 10 FPS. Bummer! My 486 (maxed out with some AMD 133 MHz CPU in the end) could do more at the time ;)
But the take away: it is really surprising how much backwards-compatibility there is in Linux, so running a "modern OS" on such stone-age hardware is still possible - at least from a pure technical point of view ;)
When you get a graphics card maybe you could also try antiX Linux? Few years ago I tried it on a Pentium M laptop with 512MB RAM and on a Celeron 333MHz PC with 384MB RAM and it worked pretty well on both. Latest version of it was released in 2018-12-28 so it's not some old abandoned Linux distro.
anti x is still being updated :)
the p3s where strong cpus for the day
Just not as strong as the athlon xp 3200+
Get a 8400gs pci video card, if you can't find one then get a 6200 pci video card.
If those cpus are dual Tualatin that system is faster than any atom system up until bay trail. Also, on pci you can get a gt 520. Anyway, if you can get any pci gpu newer than the GeForce 7/radeon x series you can get UA-cam 1080p60fps playback by using ie11 or by forcing h264 on UA-cam via h264ify.
I think that the gtx1060 may require a uefi bios.
If i'm not mistaken, the last nvidia gpu to work in legacy bios is a gtx750 but your mileage may vary, so i would go with a older one.
My gt1030 works on a non uefi machine from 2011
I still remember the days when a Pentium 3 was considered high end. God I am so OLD.
Free Runescape membership 3:05 had me rollin
3:08 THANKS FOR THE NOSTALGIA OMG
i recommend debian instead of any ubuntu distro on systems like this. That "System Problem"-Window is almost routine on pretty much any ubuntu distro these days. I always have to disable Apport (the service responsible for those messages) to get rid of it.
I have a Gericom 1st Supersonic 1GHZ (yes, thats the product name) with one Pentium 3 clocked at 1Ghz, 512MB 133Mhz SDRAM, 10GB IBM Travelstar IDE HDD, Trident Video Accelerator CyberBlade -i1 GPU (with 8MB shared Memory). It is kinda usable, but i run into problems: for example, firefox won't let me print out stuff (PDF and Printer) and the website crashes, i cannot play any Video Files (i tried VLC, SMPlayer etc...), Standby obviously doesn't work either.
Man....to improbe gui you MUST install factory GPU drivers, obviously it's not recommended to install a " modern " dx10 or later card, because AERO effect Will degrade CPU and RAM performances. But maybe a x800 xt is the right card for this system to see overall improvements in gui lags.
You are complaining that everything lags, but have only the unaccelerated driver selected in Windows 7 and the onboard graphics is quite slow. Put in a Geforce 6200 PCI and it will work much better
You need a video card. Even an old nvidia 6800 would do you well. I have a dual socket single core AMD Athlon system with an ATI Radeon x1650 that plays youtube videos pretty good, and scales the screen pretty well for such older hardware. I do not recommend gaming, but it would definitely make the overall windows experience better. Aero isn't even running due to the lack of driver support on that system.
That rendering on w7 is due to Microsoft warp renderer. On very fast cpus it can render faster than some low end gpus.
You should have tried with XP, a VERY-LIGHTWEIGHT Linux, and 98 SE. Games and productivity. If you could make an update video. Especially with a PCI (of whatever best interface it has) GPU! Like maybe the best Voodoo card you could afford that would work with it.
I can't wait for you to try it with a 6200 and 4GB of RAM... This machine is beautiful.
Wish there were more scans of the free catalogs they had at the time filled with store adverts and prices, microtimes etc, because 4GB of ram back then must have cost as much as a nice car.
I ran Windows 7 on my Pentium III 650mhz Gateway E-4200. It actually was pretty decent
nailed that notepad tutorial
Nice work...!!
The IPC of these Pentium 3 machines was actually pretty good for its time. They outperformed the Pentium 4 by a fairly significant margin clock-for-clock. Still wasn't going to beat a P4 when you clocked it up to 3ghz, but 1.1ghz isn't quite as terrible as it sounds.
The missing graphics card, on the other hand, was clearly a problem for this poor little system. I'm glad the days are over when special dedicated graphics cards were required just to render a desktop!
Nice edit
You are clearly held back by the inregrated GPU.Just sying, I get similar results on my Dual-Operon 12-core 16 GB of RAM when I use integrated SiS graphics.If I put a Firepro in, it flies.So, if you have an AGP slot in working order, just stick a 6200 in it if you can get your hands on one and try again.
No AGP, this is is a server, and a 18 yr old one...
Servers have expansion slots as well. The example I brought in my post is also a server board with Pci-e 1.0 x16. Came out of a 2U rack and got a Firepro W7100 in it now. XSeries 220 does not seem to have that option though, as specsheet shws no relevant expansion slots. A proper worksaton board would have been better for this kind of an experiment. Or even a regular desktop one, as a decent GPU (conciderin the other specs, not decent in todays terms) would make a huge difference. About PCI GPU-s I have no idea, what the options are or what hacks are needed to make them work properly.
@ More modern servers than this very old machine do have PCIE-E which HAPPENED to become the standard for video cards many years ago, but is not meant for graphics only. AGP WAS exclusive for video cards only, though, which makes it not surprising it was not present in many server boards. From some years later to the present day, you can get a server board to have decent graphics capabilities thanks to PCI-E, but it's not like developers included the interface with that goal in mind, you may consider that more like a nice lucky side effect. In a server you mainly want PCI-E to plug things like fibre channel cards and the like.
You say it runs horrendously at 1080P, power through it. I ran a single 500Mhz P3 at 1600X1200 (my GPU didn't support widescreen).
From the looks of it this system does not have an agp port, so try to get a high end pci video card and install Linux in the computer, dun do s portable installation, there should be no issue running linux
you used the wrong watermark
1.1 GHz does meet Microsoft's requirement of 1 GHz CPU for Windows 10. Also, I was able to get Windows 10 running on an old AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ PC from 2006 and it seems to run fine on it, even the 64 bit edition with 3 gb ram and a GTX 285.
I have the exact same PC! My uncle gave it to me ages ago, he used to work as a freelance audio/video editor and it was one of his old workstations that he used for that. It did work but unfortunately i have left it in a humid garage for about 8-9 years now and last time i've tried to turn it on (must have been about 2-3 years ago now), it didn't power on anymore. It's still sitting in there to this day and at this point it is probably beyond reasonable repair. I might one day try to take it home with me and see that's up inside. I remember when i first got it that i opened it up one time and there were huge expansion cards in there.
you chould use a geforce 6 agp card. that would support shader 3.0 and the windows 7 graphic effects.
Hopefully this rig has an agp as the pci doesn't have the bandwidth to cope. I think that's where most of the lag is coming from as the cpus have to compensate for the rendering of the websites etc.
This video no make sense! I love it !
It's only natural for modern-day web pages to render slow on that old, integrated graphics only machine, but stuttering when simply dragging a window is obviously due to running the system with no graphics drivers! I do know this will be obvious for many viewers, yet not all of them, and I feel you should have made that clearer. You do mention very often there's no video card, but not the fact that there are no drivers for the integrated graphics either. Perhaps "no graphics card" to you is shorthand for "no drivers installed", but that might confuse some people.
i use Lubuntu on a 478 system with a SSD dual booted with XP and the thing is pretty quick. I have have Lubuntu on a Netbook with a SSD the thing is quit both are usable.
I think the main issue here is the lack of a dedicated GPU.
I mean, 2.2 GHz and 4 GB of slow RAM should be ok for Windows 7. I remember running it on an AMD Sempron 3000+ clocked at 1.8 GHz with 1 GB of DDR2, but I also had a dedicated GPU: NVidia FX-5500 (with AGP connection) if I remember correctly.
if you insert ati3870 or Nvidia fx5500 and install drivers it will be ok :) I have retro build with pga478 celeron 2.4ghz 2gb DDR ram and fx5500 and it's working fine I play UA-cam on 480p
4GB back then in a Server is comparable to 512GB or 1TB today
I actually run a 1ghz P3 netvista A40 and it's butter smooth(installing a sata ssd now). Have Xp installed with a AGP XFX GeForce 6200. Clearly you did not have the drivers installed properly. A 1ghz pentium 3 is actually faster than most early pentium 4s. They are great for late 90's to mid 2000s games.
I've been using a single core pentium 3 with 512mb ram as my main pc until summer of 2017, because I dint have money to upgrade. The system still works to this day, but thankfully, I've finally upgraded
🙂 neat
He upgraded to a P4 HT 😂
@@NickTheGreek5109 lol, no. I got an i7 that I plan to keep for an other 20 years 😂 😂
@@ΝίκοςΣ-γ7β wow, not bad... did you use it online? must have been painfully slow with most modern bloated websites
@@wot8219 I used it, yes, I tried to anyway. Many sites would not load anymore in xp,, I guess that a protocol was missing, since the os wasn't supported since 2014 iirc. I used a 3rd party app to watch youtube on 360p, without a browser, since even a 360p video was too much to handle when playing on a site like youtube. Also most games released after 2002 were, of course, out of the question.
You know, a bunch of the CPU power is going towards screen rendering when you use the basic display drivers...
Falling in love with this guy, like ^^
That case looks nice. I wonder if i could get a computer case with a similar design to that IBM?
Please install one of the latest nvidia agp/pci cards. You may also want to use Debian or something based on Ubuntu 16.04 since in later releases legacy drivers have been removed from the repository (basically anything older than the 8*** series will not have graphics acceleration on the latest versions) .
Upgrade to 4GB of ram and Windows 7 should actually run pretty good. I wouldn't bother with a cpu upgrade as there is not too much of a meaningful difference today going from the 1.1GHz PIII cpus up to the pair of max speed 1.4GHz models. Old computers need ram the most out of any other upgrade.
I saved an old pentium 3 machine from the dumpster, but i don't know what i should do with it. It's too new to run dos games and too old to run recent software. I could salvage the components and use them for my electronics projects, but it would kinda break my heart to kill a PC that still runs great.
3:05 that flashback
wow, that's a great video!
I am using a computer with Intel Atom/1 gb ram (as my daily driver on Linux Mint 18.3) performing similar to the one used in this video. But it never fail to work. I still can watch video, edit images on Photoshop and edit documents using Libre Office.
You should do a review on the Lenovo Thinkpad x100e there nice little notebooks its better than the dell latitude 2120 in my opinion
You could try a Puppy Linux, that might work better.
Nah, don't think anything can make a system with no graphics drivers bearable to use.
Linux kernels have drivers incorporated, my suggestion to try puppy is that it is such a light weight OS that this computer Might become bearable to use. The suggestion wasn't made so that you could play the latest high end games.
back in the day this would have made a slick server!
Get a GT520 512mb PCI.. pretty much teh best ya gonna do with a PCI slot
Have you thought of upgrading the system ripping all the parts out of it and putting new parts in it to make it better it will be like a sleeper workstation PC / Server
If you use Windows 7 on a Pentium III or similar cpu that lacks SSE2, do not use any Windows updates past somewhere in 2017. Microsoft dropped support for these cpus, and those MS updates from 2017 and later will crash the system without warning. If you desire privacy, then disable all of the known spying updates.
wouldn't it make it a lot better with an actualy GPU? They did exist in the P3 era after all...