GiGaBiTe
Veteran Member
I'm trying to downsize my horde, and this machine needs to go.
It was given to me sometime back with a number of faults that prevented it from powering on, but I've since gone through it and fixed all of the problems it had (mainly the power supply was bad, but also bad RAM.) I made a few modifications to alleviate heat problems known to exist on Dell machines of this vintage. The first is the power supply fan is reversed so it pulls cool air from the rear of the case instead of the hot interior, the second is I designed and printed a simple duct which slots over the blower for the CPU to make sure all of the hot air exits the case. Without the duct, much of the hot air hits a metal plate and is redirected back inside the case.
Here is the duct if you need to print one:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3731496
As it is now, it boots to a Windows XP install and works fine. I had been using it to play some older games and it works well, though it could use a discrete video card. I has an AGP 4x/8X slot and will fit low profile cards.
Specs:
CPU 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 (I've tested it up to a 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 and it works fine)
2 GB DDR-400
120 GB IDE HDD (The motherboard has one SATA port if you want to swap IDE for SATA)
I'm asking $60 plus shipping to CONUS only.
It was given to me sometime back with a number of faults that prevented it from powering on, but I've since gone through it and fixed all of the problems it had (mainly the power supply was bad, but also bad RAM.) I made a few modifications to alleviate heat problems known to exist on Dell machines of this vintage. The first is the power supply fan is reversed so it pulls cool air from the rear of the case instead of the hot interior, the second is I designed and printed a simple duct which slots over the blower for the CPU to make sure all of the hot air exits the case. Without the duct, much of the hot air hits a metal plate and is redirected back inside the case.
Here is the duct if you need to print one:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3731496
As it is now, it boots to a Windows XP install and works fine. I had been using it to play some older games and it works well, though it could use a discrete video card. I has an AGP 4x/8X slot and will fit low profile cards.
Specs:
CPU 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 (I've tested it up to a 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 and it works fine)
2 GB DDR-400
120 GB IDE HDD (The motherboard has one SATA port if you want to swap IDE for SATA)
I'm asking $60 plus shipping to CONUS only.