How to build a super Pentium 3

Specifications:

2 x 1ghz Slot 1 Pentium 3
4 x PC800 256mb RDRAM
1 x GeForce 7600GT

Havn't decided on storage yet, will accept advice, but I'm probably going to go for a PCI RAID card.

Category:

Gaming

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• pentium
• crysis
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• rig
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• Nvidia
• Ati
• dual

[jr540123]

question, dose rd ram fit into the same slot as pc-100 ram?

[Whyupgrade]

@jr540123 I believe SD RAM will fit into the same slot, you need to set some jumpers on the motherboard though.

[theBlackRockSh00ter]

I own a dual PIII Tualatin 1,4 GHz computer with 2GB SDRAM and this thing is slow as shit Q,Q it can't even play youtube 480p videos but an P4 2,66 GHz (no HT) can play 720p YT smooth. Can you tell me why?

[Whyupgrade]

@theBlackRockSh00ter Are you using a graphics card with the dual p3? If not then that's probably the problem. The on board graphics are likely terrible.

If you are using a card, look into your hard disk speed. That might also be sub-par for youtube performance.

[theBlackRockSh00ter]

@Whyupgrade

Yes I'm using a Radeon 3450 in this system but it doesn't help. The hard drive is an 80GB IDE drive a bit old but okay for this computer

[Whyupgrade]

@theBlackRockSh00ter Just check the speed of the disk, run a few read and write tests.

Otherwise I'm a bit stuck for a solution, I've seen Athlon XPs run 720p videos with no trouble. I can only suggest trying other browsers.

[LordMMX66MHz]

@theBlackRockSh00ter what os are your running?

[SpazticGamer]

so does it work?

what games and what framerates?

[jr540123]

@Whyupgrade thanks mine dose not have jumpers on the board it auto detects. it is a pentium 3 but its one of the smarter mobo's. thank i was just wondering cause i need to get some more horsepower out of my old rig.

[jr540123]

@theBlackRockSh00ter how much ram and what kind of ram. also did you turn on the L2 cache