#retropc #acrylicpc #pentiumd Pentium D 925 Retro PC Revival And A VERY Retro Modding Case The reason we have this! https://amzn.to/2REXY84 This is a rebuilt...
Pentium D 925 Retro PC Revival & A Very Retro Modding Case
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Pentium D 925 Retro PC Revival And A VERY Retro Modding Case The reason we have this! https://amzn.to/2REXY84
This is a rebuilt Packard Bell imedia PC from around 2006 which was shoe horned into the totally awesome acrylic case from a manufacturer called Sunbeam (I think)
This was the first, or maybe one of the first, retail DIY acrylic PC cases in the UK. It was a thing of beauty back then and still is a head turner today.
This, in my opinion, was the beginning of the current trend for side windows and case mods in general. Don't get me wrong, people have been modding PC's since they were a thing, but this was a mainstream product for regular PC builders that wanted something they could show off, or customise to their own personal preference.
They sometimes still pop up on Amazon even now 10 years later! Maybe its time for a retro revival?
Anyway that's enough about the case, lets talk about the components.
Motherboard is the MSI 7301 this was an oem board made for a few SI's like Packard Bell, Tiny, Gateway and a few others. Again these still pop up for sale on EBay and Amazon weirdly!
CPU is the Intel Pentium D 925, rocking two 3.0 ghz cores and blazing through watts like they are going out of fashion! But still a relatively strong single core experience even against newer core 2 duo's.
RAM is Nanya DDR2 PC 4200u which is actually slower than the factory supplied RAM of 5300u, but this was upgraded from 1GB to 2GB so that might be either an oversight or maybe a cost cutting exercise?
PSU is pretty much unbranded but seems to tie in with the rest of the system and actually look a lot like the OEM Packard Bell one. We would assume this is around the 250w mark.
GPU duties are taken care of by the EVGA E-Geforce 9600GT 512MB card. This is a PCI-E 2 card and rocks a 1625mhz shader core and 1800mhz memory clock, and don't forget those 64, yep count them! 64 Stream processors to power through your favourite 3D titles :-)
HDD is a replacement drive in around 2011, by the look of it, and is a Western Digital WD3200AAKS 320GB model and CD and DVD tasks are provided by Liteon with the DH20A4 drive which will happily write and read CD CDR CDRW DVD-R DVD+R DVD-RAM and pretty much anything you throw at it.
So that is the current spec sheet. Now WTF do I do with it?
Retro PC? Modern rebuild? Let me know what you think or if you have anything you want to see put in it. I am totally open to suggestions.
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