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Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-14T04:54:22Z

Dexvx:

The last year of the twentieth century brought about the Pentium 4 towards the end of the year. Though clocked at an impressive 1.5 GHz, it struggled to perform against high end Pentium III's and the Athlon Thunderbird. Also, this was perhaps the last year that there were multiple GPU contenders.

== The Hardware ==

=== CPU's ===
* Intel Pentium 4 1.5 GHz (Willamette, 256K L2, 400 FSB)
* Intel Pentium III-EB 1.13 GHz (Coppermine, 256K L2, 133 FSB)
* AMD Athlon-C 1.2 GHz (Thunderbird, 256K L2, 266 FSB)

=== Chipset/Motherboard ===
* For Pentium 4 (Socket 423):
** i850: Abit TH7, Asus P4T
* For Pentium III (up to dual Socket 370):
**i815E/i820: Asus CUSL2, Asus P3C-E, Microstar 815E Pro
**i820/i840 (dual): Asus P3C-D (i820), Intel OR840 (i840)
**Via Apollo Pro133A: Asus P3V4X, GA-6VX-4X,
**Via Apollo Pro133A (dual): Abit VP6, ASUS CUV4X-DLS, Iwill DVD266-R, MSI 694D Master-S
* For AMD Athlon (Socket 462)
**Via KT133: Abit KT7-RAID, Aopen AK73 Pro, Asus A7V, MSI K7T-Pro2

=== Video Card ===
* Nvidia GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB
* Nvidia Quadro 2 Pro 64MB
* ATI Radeon DDR 64MB
* 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 (technically, only the 5500 was commercially available)
* S3 Savage 2000 (Alternative)
* STMicro Kyro (Alternative)

Note that the STMicro Kyro and S3 Savage 2000 cannot compete with ATI/Nvidia, but they are listed here for their significance. The Savage 2000 was the last video card S3 released (its subsequent failure was a major contributor to S3's bankruptcy). The STMicro Kyro was an interesting budget solution that used Tile Rendering. The Voodoo 5 6000 was never publicly released, but those fortunate enough to have working samples have indicated it performed well in legacy titles.

=== Sound Card ===
* Aureal Vortex 2
** Diamond Monster Sound MX300
* Creative Sound Blaster Live!

Year 2001 System Build

2017-11-14T04:44:07Z

Dexvx:

2001 was the first year of the new millennium. It brought us a clock speed race ala the Willamette based Pentium 4 facing the higher IPC Palomino based Athlon XP. For servers and workstations, AMD took their first foray into this market with the venerable Athlon MP. On the GPU front, we have out first DirectX 8 based video cards coming out to market. It was also the year that Windows XP launched!

== The Hardware ==

=== CPU's ===
* Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz (Willamette 256K L2, 400 FSB)
* Intel Xeon 2.0 GHz (Foster 256K L2, 400 FSB)
* Intel Pentium III-S 1.4 Ghz (Tualatin, 512K L2, 133 FSB)
* AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (Palomino, 1.6 GHz, 256K L2, 266 FSB)
* AMD Athlon MP 1900+ (Palomino, 1.6 GHz, 256K L2, 266 FSB)

=== Chipset/Motherboard ===
* For Pentium 4 (Socket 478)
** i845: Gigabyte P4 Titan DDR, MSI 845 Ultra,
** i850: Abit TH7II-RAID, Asus P4T-E
** SiS 645: Asus P4S333, Gigabyte 8SRX
** Via P4X266/A: Tyan Trinity 510
* For Xeon (dual Socket 603):
** i860: Supermicro P4DCE, P4DC6
* For Pentium III-S (dual Socket 370)
** Serverworks Serverset III HE-SL: Supermicro P3TDE6
** Via Apollo Pro266T: MSI Pro266TD, Supermicro P3TDDE
* For Athlon XP (Socket 462)
** AMD 760: Abit KG7-RAID, Asus A7M266
** SiS 735
** Via KT266A: Abit KR7-RAID, EPoX EP-8KHA+, Shuttle AK35GTR
* For Athlon MP (dual Socket 462)
** AMD 760MPX: Tyan Thunder K7 S2462

Intel began their transition of Pentium 4's to Socket 478. The i850 with RDRAM at the time was still the overall fastest solution for Pentium 4's. The i845 launched with SDR-SDRAM, but towards the end of 2001, DDR-SDRAM support was added. The Via P4X266/A and SiS 645 provided an interesting alternative for the Pentium 4 that included support for DDR-SDRAM and were generally faster than the i845.

For AMD, the aging AMD 760 chipset was being replaced by the Via KT266/A. Another alternative was the SiS 735 chipset.

=== Video Card ===
* Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti500 64MB
* Nvidia Quadro DCC 64MB
* ATI Radeon 8500 64MB
* STMicro Kyro II 64MB (Alternative)

Note that the FireGL 8800 (Radeon 8500 based) didn't come 2002. The STMicro Kyro II did not offer the near the same performance as Nvidia or ATI, but it was an interesting budget alternative.

=== Sound Card ===

Best of the Year Builds

2017-11-14T04:42:34Z

Dexvx: /* Year List */

Best of the Year builds are system builds that contain the best consumer level components per manufacturer for their respective year. For example, the Best of Year 2000 contains a list of the core components that was the best for the year 2000. Only components that are available (even in limited quantity) applies.

== Year List ==

*[[Year 2000 System Build]]
*[[Year 2001 System Build]]

Year 2001 System Build

2017-11-14T04:42:29Z

Dexvx: Created page with "2001 was the first year of the new millennium. It brought us a clock speed race ala the Willamette based Pentium 4 facing the higher IPC Palomino based Athlon XP. For servers..."

2001 was the first year of the new millennium. It brought us a clock speed race ala the Willamette based Pentium 4 facing the higher IPC Palomino based Athlon XP. For servers and workstations, AMD took their first foray into this market with the venerable Athlon MP. On the GPU front, we have out first DirectX 8 based video cards coming out to market. It was also the year that Windows XP launched!

== The Hardware ==

=== CPU's ===
* Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz (Willamette 256K L2, 400 FSB)
* Intel Xeon 2.0 GHz (Foster 256K L2, 400 FSB)
* Intel Pentium III-S 1.4 Ghz (Tualatin, 512K L2, 133 FSB)
* AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (Palomino, 1.6 GHz, 256K L2, 266 FSB)
* AMD Athlon MP 1900+ (Palomino, 1.6 GHz, 256K L2, 266 FSB)

=== Chipset/Motherboard ===
* For Pentium 4 (Socket 478)
** i845: Gigabyte P4 Titan DDR, MSI 845 Ultra,
** i850: Abit TH7II-RAID, Asus P4T-E
** SiS 645: Asus P4S333, Gigabyte 8SRX
** Via P4X266/A: Tyan Trinity 510
* For Xeon (dual Socket 603):
** i860: Supermicro P4DCE, P4DC6
* For Pentium III-S (dual Socket 370)
** Serverworks Serverset III HE-SL: Supermicro P3TDE6
** Via Apollo Pro266T: MSI Pro266TD, Supermicro P3TDDE
* For Athlon XP (Socket 462)
** AMD 760: Abit KG7-RAID, Asus A7M266
** SiS 735
** Via KT266A: Abit KR7-RAID, EPoX EP-8KHA+, Shuttle AK35GTR
* For Athlon MP (dual Socket 462)
** AMD 760MPX: Tyan Thunder K7 S2462

Intel began their transition of Pentium 4's to Socket 478. The i850 with RDRAM at the time was still the overall fastest solution for Pentium 4's. The i845 launched with SDR-SDRAM, but towards the end of 2001, DDR-SDRAM support was added. The Via P4X266/A and SiS 645 provided an interesting alternative for the Pentium 4 that included support for DDR-SDRAM and were generally faster than the i845.

For AMD, the aging AMD 760 chipset was being replaced by the Via KT266/A. Another alternative was the SiS 735 chipset.

=== Video Card ===
* Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti500 64MB
* Nvidia Quadro DCC 64MB
* ATI Radeon 8500
* STMicro Kyro II (Alternative)

Note that the FireGL 8800 (Radeon 8500 based) didn't come 2002. The STMicro Kyro II did not offer the near the same performance as Nvidia or ATI, but it was an interesting budget alternative.

=== Sound Card ===

Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-14T04:03:28Z

Dexvx:

Talk:Best of the Year Builds

2017-11-14T03:51:38Z

Dexvx: Created page with "Putting these down as references. But still double checking launch dates. * https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54517 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_y..."

Putting these down as references. But still double checking launch dates.

* https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54517
* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_yCIkL0rVsntBG_S7nw6xxZoHF1uXmA-Gxq44jM/edit#gid=0

Best of the Year Builds

2017-11-13T23:08:02Z

Dexvx: /* Year List */

Talk:Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-13T23:07:28Z

Dexvx: Dexvx moved page Talk:Year 2000 to Talk:Year 2000 System Build: Name was too generic.

Putting these down as references. But still double checking launch dates.

*https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54517
*https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_yCIkL0rVsntBG_S7nw6xxZoHF1uXmA-Gxq44jM/edit#gid=0

Talk:Year 2000

2017-11-13T23:07:28Z

Dexvx: Dexvx moved page Talk:Year 2000 to Talk:Year 2000 System Build: Name was too generic.

#REDIRECT [[Talk:Year 2000 System Build]]

Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-13T23:07:27Z

Dexvx: Dexvx moved page Year 2000 to Year 2000 System Build: Name was too generic.

Year 2000

2017-11-13T23:07:27Z

Dexvx: Dexvx moved page Year 2000 to Year 2000 System Build: Name was too generic.

#REDIRECT [[Year 2000 System Build]]

Best of the Year Builds

2017-11-13T23:06:25Z

Dexvx:

Best of the Year Builds

2017-11-13T23:05:26Z

Dexvx:

Talk:Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-13T22:59:04Z

Dexvx:

Putting these down as references. But still double checking launch dates.

*https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54517
*https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_yCIkL0rVsntBG_S7nw6xxZoHF1uXmA-Gxq44jM/edit#gid=0

Talk:Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-13T22:58:51Z

Dexvx:

Putting these down as references. But still double checking launch dates.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54517

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_yCIkL0rVsntBG_S7nw6xxZoHF1uXmA-Gxq44jM/edit#gid=0

Talk:Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-13T22:58:37Z

Dexvx: Created page with "Putting these down as references. But still double checking launch dates. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54517 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_yCIkL..."

Putting these down as references. But still double checking launch dates.

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54517
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bhlr_yCIkL0rVsntBG_S7nw6xxZoHF1uXmA-Gxq44jM/edit#gid=0

Main Page

2017-11-13T22:39:54Z

Dexvx: /* Gaming Build Guides */

'''Welcome to ''VOGONS Wiki''''', a reference site covering vintage computer hardware used for playing games that don't run correctly on modern computers.

Current goals:
* Write about the details, advantages, disadvantages and quirks of useful old gaming hardware.
* Write guides to help get old games running their best.
* Populate the [[:Category:Lists of devices|Device Library]] with as many devices as possible!

== Getting Started ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup Wiki Page Markup Guide] (how to make Wiki pages)
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlashMP3 FlashMP3] plugin info (add audio playback to pages)
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo EmbedVideo] plugin info (embed videos from common sites)

Note: Accounts require approval. Email michael @ dalegroup . net after you've submitted your request and he will approve asap.

== Gaming Build Guides ==

*[[Hardware guides]]
*[[Software guides]]
*[[Recommended Builds]]
*[[Best of the Year Builds]]

== Hardware Info ==

The [[:Category:Lists of devices|Device Library]] is a new project designed to record as much information about vintage PC hardware as possible. This includes high resolution photos, jumper settings, drivers and utilities, as well as tips for using each device to its fullest.

{{#ask:
[[Category:Lists of devices]]
| format=ul
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It uses Semantic Mediawiki to allow pages to be accessed like a database, so that [[Vogons Wiki:Running queries|queries can be run]] to find devices with certain characteristics, or to quickly compare a list of devices by displaying the desired characteristics in table form (for example, the [[Audio|list of sound cards]] shows which cards use the original Yamaha OPL FM synthesis method, and which cards use another almost-compatible alternative instead.)

Contributions are encouraged, especially the addition of devices not already present. The more devices are added, the better this resource will become!

There is already a good deal of useful hardware information on this wiki in non-database form, and this will (hopefully) be progressively moved over to the Device Library:

*[[CPUs]]
*[[Graphics Cards]]
*[[Sound Cards & Modules]]
*[[Motherboards & Chipsets]]
*[[Input Devices]]
*[[Monitors]]

== Game Setup Guides ==

*[[General DOS articles]]
*[[General Windows articles]]
*[[Specific DOS game guides]]
*[[Specific Windows game guides]]

== User benchmarks ==
*[[3dfx Benchmarks]]
*[[Socket 7 benchmark results]]

== [[Retrocomputing resources]] ==
* [[Interesting_Vogons_Threads|List of interesting Vogons threads]]

== Related sites ==
* [http://vogons.zetafleet.com VOGONS Forum]
* [http://www.vogonsdrivers.com VOGONS Vintage Driver Library]
* [http://www.dosbox.com DOSBox]

Year 2000 System Build

2017-11-13T22:39:51Z

Dexvx: Created page with "The last year of the twentieth century brought about the Pentium 4 towards the end of the year. Though clocked at an impressive 1.5 GHz, it struggled to perform against high e..."

Best of the Year Builds

2017-11-13T22:39:48Z

Dexvx: Created page with "Best of the Year builds are system builds that contain the best consumer level components per manufacturer for their respective year. For example, the Best of Year 2000 contai..."