 Hey everybody, we're back today with our restoration of the Windows XP Gateway Tower PC and we're going to be rebuilding it so we can test it with our wonderful Sony GDMC 520 Trinitron color monitor. What we need to do is get back to where we left off from our last video And that will be with recapping the motherboard on the PC We're going to go ahead and remove our two bad capacitors that we were changing. Is there a replacement capacitor? Panasonic. Let's look at our new capacitors and also our 2.4 gigahertz Intel Pentium for processor What we're going to do now is install our cooler back on our CPU And that's just this low minimum heat sink It was on here originally. Now I have upgraded the fan on it to a flex-nuk-tua So hopefully that'll eliminate all our sound as well as increase our performance so this needs to be installed in this orientation and Before we obviously set that in there like that we need to add some thermal compound We'll be using some Arctic MX-4 thermal compound. Just apply some here. I actually do try to spread it. I know you don't have to Let's just need a thin layer and a whole chip Again, this old cooler is just all aluminum one plate or this so this heat sinks all aluminum and It doesn't have a copper core, but now we're ready to just Set our cooler down in here That's all there is to it and this will connect on this fan header on the board for the CPU right there and that We'll take care of that All right guys, so I'm actually thrilled to show you this next Portion of our restoration and that would be the tower itself. I've got it piece back together I did find most of the pieces. Let's look at it from the front and this is Pretty much the way it looks when I got it from the gateway store back in 2003. So we've got our disk drive and our empty slot covers and our other disk drive and One of the things that was not on here before was this front silver plate Which is plastic and then we've got our gateway logo and our Windows XP logo Pentium 4 now this is highly a Common style of design for this time period in the early 2000s and the funny thing about this or the sad thing about this is you Can tell there's really a very limited Air flow going on with this computer. There's no Ventilation at the top There's really nothing at the front Except there is a slot right here that has air holes where air could come through here and then get inside We look at the back of the shell. We've got a Single vent here and then our power supply again is up top So there's technically a vent right there and then our cards are down here. Let's open it up and show you what it looks like when it's been D manure and Very thick and heavy Very heavy case Shoo, everything's been thoroughly cleaned out as we said I Did make some modifications to our case as I mentioned before I Added this knock to a fan to the back This is one of their redo fans. So it's a $10 fan. It's a little bit cheaper than the premium ones They sell but it's still high-quality fan and then I've installed a small 12 volt Fan down here at the front of the case as an intake fan So this will actually pull in air from the front and help assist that by drawing in air and this will exhaust the dirty air and hot air out the back and so now we're just ready to go in and Reinstall this and hopefully it will boot up. So let's get the board in there First thing I'm gonna do is put the power supply back Slides in and then snaps in it's not secured with any screws. I also replaced this with the same Knock to a fan actually. I think this one's a little larger. Maybe a 92 millimeter and this is an 80 millimeter Now we're ready to install or reinstall our motherboard. Here's our ATI Radeon 9600 pro And this is 256 megabyte card again So it goes up here in the PCIe slot This is kind of a value card or budget card from the What I can remember on it from the Early 2000s Here's our sound blaster Card down in this slot and guys. We're officially ready For a boot test and see if we still can use this machine And use the moment with all the waiting for let's see we can get this to boot fans are engaged All right guys so after a couple minutes It's finally starting to boot up here into safe mode into windows. So once it does that hopefully I can just restart it and get it to Go back in restart normally and just as I thought it once we reset it I was able to get it to boot into just normal XP. I did love here. We go doom 3 and we'll see if this will launch and how to look and Run you can already hear the Processors speeding up here with the fans and everything going in the disk drive since it's an old-school hard drive Doom 3 is loaded up. Let's see what happens when we look at our options menu Go to video settings Got ultra quality and then How high can we go on our screen size? 1280 by 1020 100 yes On the floor for a bio scan Okay, let me get this started All right our restoration on this wonderful 2003 Pentium 4 Tower PC is complete I'm gonna go over a couple things that we did that are different from when I showed you Last now it has been running for three or four hours just to make sure that there is no issues with it But I did get rid of the very tiny fan that was at the front I showed you a little while ago that I had added it's been removed It started a vibration after about an hour and was making a noise so I replaced it with a larger fan that I actually positioned down in the center and It's a little bit tilting towards the board to kind of pull that air from the front in and down and under The RAM and the video card and sound card and then get up and thrown out The exhaust fan in the back so that was one thing that was a little bit different but everything else is working perfectly the caps are good and Everything's responding well on the screen I will talk about some software that we will be You know playing I'll be playing on I'm trying to figure out like what the limits of this machine are Let's talk a little bit. So it's do it does great with this kind of stuff anything that's old school from like Windows 98 or ME or obviously early XP titles It's going to do really well and it's going to be able to play most anything else too So like these kinds of games it really excels at and even something like the original Sims I'll show you some footage just got up to about 60 frames per second I don't even know if we get higher than that. I did measure that We're still going to be working on doom 3 because that's really one of the games that pushes this machine to the limits I Tried some of the higher graphics settings It was getting really choppy and down in the single digits for frame rates when I was tracking it but I was able to get that lower quality on there and get the frames to increase to almost playable like around 30 40. I felt like it was reading But what I'm going to do with this machine besides just continue to test it on our new CRT that we've got our Sony GDM We're also going to be tested old-school hardware in this thing. So I've got a couple of other graphics cards That are from the early 2000s in the mid 2000s that we're going to try one that's weaker than this one One that's more powerful than this one So we will try those graphic cards and I'll start by another hardware I've also got a new Pentium 4 CPU on the way because I got it on a great deal offer from eBay for $10 shipped and So the one that's in here right now is 2.4 gigahertz But that one is the same Pentium 4 up up to 3.2 gigahertz so maybe that'll give us a little bit of a performance boost and Doom 3 seems to be the one that's really Really a good test for this machine, but that's it. I'm going to seal it back up now and Again, I really enjoyed this Restoration, please let me know what you think about it. I haven't done a computer restoration like this I think ever on the channel So if you enjoyed it, please let me know and that way I could keep a look out for these kind of machines and Bring you future advice episodes and content surrounding these old great CPU towers just such a great unique piece from a forgotten company like Gateway It's great to see this machine working and thriving and it can truly last another 10 20 years Thanks again everybody. I will definitely see you next time with some more retro content