- Oct 14, 2013
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I recently picked up a HP Pavilion 505n with a screaming fast 2.2ghz Celeron and I want to upgrade it to play games from the early 2000s, stuff like Halo, Silent Hill 2, Red Alert 2, Max Payne...stuff that doesn't play well on these new fangled x64 multi-core computers, especially Silent Hill 2 which does not work right on multi-core machines, and Max Payne which runs poorly on newer machines.
The system sports a 478 Socket, so I figured I would put in a Pentium 4 Extreme CPU with hyper threading (at a speed of 3.4 ghz). I also want to max out it's ram to a whole 1gb. The problem left is the graphics card. What is by far the best PCI (not express) Video card from this era? I've looked at the VisionTek X1550 but it's useless without the adapter as it has some funky proprietary port which adapts to dual VGA or dual DVI. I am kind of glad it doesn't have even PCI-E 1x on there because any 1x card could be bottle-necked by the processor.
I also have a spare PCI SATA raid controller card to put in SATA drives into the tower to avoid using really old hard drives and risk one failing.
note, this is all in good fun, not meant to be a serious every day computer and in all honesty it's not worth dumping alot of cash into a machine that is 15 years old (tell that to the Amiga crowd). I have already confirmed the machine to be working.
The system sports a 478 Socket, so I figured I would put in a Pentium 4 Extreme CPU with hyper threading (at a speed of 3.4 ghz). I also want to max out it's ram to a whole 1gb. The problem left is the graphics card. What is by far the best PCI (not express) Video card from this era? I've looked at the VisionTek X1550 but it's useless without the adapter as it has some funky proprietary port which adapts to dual VGA or dual DVI. I am kind of glad it doesn't have even PCI-E 1x on there because any 1x card could be bottle-necked by the processor.
I also have a spare PCI SATA raid controller card to put in SATA drives into the tower to avoid using really old hard drives and risk one failing.
note, this is all in good fun, not meant to be a serious every day computer and in all honesty it's not worth dumping alot of cash into a machine that is 15 years old (tell that to the Amiga crowd). I have already confirmed the machine to be working.
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