LGR - Restoring a 1999 Gateway Essential 450 PC
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Date: 2022-04-14
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ryjoskoczek
Pentium III 500. Dang, this was state of the art tech when it came out. At the time a lot of people was still rocking at 233mHz. My parents weren't able to afford it back in 1999 and went with cheaper Pentium Celeron 466. Those were some really crazy times for PC clock speeds - only 4 years later Pentium IV was clocked -3GHz (on a single core of course) and there were rumors that the future is multi threaded. Back then I imagined that this is some sci-fi tales and it can't get any better then single core at those whooping 3, 06 GHz.
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Pentium III 500. Dang, this was state of the art tech when it came out. At the time a lot of people was still rocking at 233mHz. My parents weren't able to afford it back in 1999 and went with cheaper Pentium Celeron 466. Those were some really crazy times for PC clock speeds - only 4 years later Pentium IV was clocked -3GHz (on a single core of course) and there were rumors that the future is multi threaded. Back then I imagined that this is some sci-fi tales and it can't get any better then single core at those whooping 3, 06 GHz.
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Mattribute
My brother and I had a 1999 Gateway P3 500. It was similar to this but it came with a TNT2 video card. We had a blast with that thing, played Starcraft, Diablo 2, Homeworld, Flightsim, and countless others. It was our first DVD player. We also got no small amount of schoolwork done too. All around great machine to have, but yeah, the cooling was crap and you had to clean it.
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My brother and I had a 1999 Gateway P3 500. It was similar to this but it came with a TNT2 video card. We had a blast with that thing, played Starcraft, Diablo 2, Homeworld, Flightsim, and countless others. It was our first DVD player. We also got no small amount of schoolwork done too. All around great machine to have, but yeah, the cooling was crap and you had to clean it.
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Alejandro
The IDE to SD was interesting. I never had had a pentium 3 on that time only a amd k6-2 until I move to celeron 420 and then my actual computers core2duo like. Is was any difference since this was also 450 MHz like my k6-2. Maybe the agp capability (great card btw. I found a pentium 3 laying around idk from when it come maybe I'll do something like this one day.
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The IDE to SD was interesting. I never had had a pentium 3 on that time only a amd k6-2 until I move to celeron 420 and then my actual computers core2duo like. Is was any difference since this was also 450 MHz like my k6-2. Maybe the agp capability (great card btw. I found a pentium 3 laying around idk from when it come maybe I'll do something like this one day.
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Jasmine
12: 06 Um, because you live near an airport DUH-yeah, note for travellers: Don-t book a room in a hotel near the airport if you want peace and quiet. I stayed in a hotel that was close to San Diego International once and was kept up half the night by the sounds of Boeing 737s taking off
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12: 06 Um, because you live near an airport DUH-yeah, note for travellers: Don-t book a room in a hotel near the airport if you want peace and quiet. I stayed in a hotel that was close to San Diego International once and was kept up half the night by the sounds of Boeing 737s taking off
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Will
This is remarkably similar to my aunt's Gateway (hers was windows ME but i think had an identical case) which was the very first machine i saw the internet on! super nostalgic box for me, man. I can't get over the way they used the PSU fan and a janky air tunnel to cool the entire thing!
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This is remarkably similar to my aunt's Gateway (hers was windows ME but i think had an identical case) which was the very first machine i saw the internet on! super nostalgic box for me, man. I can't get over the way they used the PSU fan and a janky air tunnel to cool the entire thing!
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Jasmine
Well that -Shortcut To Shortcut To Shortcut To Shortcut To My Documents- thing reminds me of how I used to change the cursor on every Windows XP computer I found from an arrow to a banana because I thought that was funny and that the owners of the computers would get a kick out of it-
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Well that -Shortcut To Shortcut To Shortcut To Shortcut To My Documents- thing reminds me of how I used to change the cursor on every Windows XP computer I found from an arrow to a banana because I thought that was funny and that the owners of the computers would get a kick out of it-
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Dave
Clean the bare motherboard at the kitchen sink. Use soap and water rinse it well and dry it carefully with an air compressor nozzle for 10-15 minutes. i do it all the time, they always look new and run good. new cooling fan, thermal paste and add some memory if you got it.
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Clean the bare motherboard at the kitchen sink. Use soap and water rinse it well and dry it carefully with an air compressor nozzle for 10-15 minutes. i do it all the time, they always look new and run good. new cooling fan, thermal paste and add some memory if you got it.
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Zlatan
Oh man, this was my exact case. Although I bought mine a bit later with an Pentium III - 1GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, SB Live. I upgraded to 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3500 (told parents I needed it for school: ) ) and Boston Acoustics BA7500G surround sound. Man I loved that system.
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Oh man, this was my exact case. Although I bought mine a bit later with an Pentium III - 1GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, SB Live. I upgraded to 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3500 (told parents I needed it for school: ) ) and Boston Acoustics BA7500G surround sound. Man I loved that system.
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Kissa
Playstation 2 ============-
CPU - 294 MHz-
RAM - 32 MB-
This 1999 computer ======
CPU - 450 MHz-
RAM - 64 MB
Seems powerfull to me
Also, when you compare to the game cube:
Game Cube ================-
CPU - 485 MHz-
RAM - 24 MB
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Playstation 2 ============-
CPU - 294 MHz-
RAM - 32 MB-
This 1999 computer ======
CPU - 450 MHz-
RAM - 64 MB
Seems powerfull to me
Also, when you compare to the game cube:
Game Cube ================-
CPU - 485 MHz-
RAM - 24 MB
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Dave
I was so hoping for a Pentium 3 socket 370 but no you got a little brother socket 1 Pentium 3. Socket 370 was a work horse, never slowed down never glitched and bumped. just reliable and smooth operation without guessing if it was still thinking or stalled.
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I was so hoping for a Pentium 3 socket 370 but no you got a little brother socket 1 Pentium 3. Socket 370 was a work horse, never slowed down never glitched and bumped. just reliable and smooth operation without guessing if it was still thinking or stalled.
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