ah one of the later LGA 775 Pentium 4s?
I only had the older socket 478 Pentium 4 2.53GHZ

And I was just gonna ask where 76561198913362891 was, hoping your Pentium 4 didn't melt. I was worried you wouldn't be able to find a Pentium D replacement, so I'm glad that worked out.

Those Pentium D's get pretty hot, how do you deal with the stench? Because I can only assume the reason it took months to scrounge up a twenty year old CPU was you went wading through multiple city dumps to find it, so I imagine the CPU smells pretty rancid under load.

Originally posted by nullable:

And I was just gonna ask where 76561198913362891 was, hoping your Pentium 4 didn't melt. I was worried you wouldn't be able to find a Pentium D replacement, so I'm glad that worked out.

Those Pentium D's get pretty hot, how do you deal with the stench? Because I can only assume the reason it took months to scrounge up a twenty year old CPU was you went wading through multiple city dumps to find it, so I imagine the CPU smells pretty rancid under load.

There's a new thing called the interwebs...

Originally posted by x:

Originally posted by nullable:

And I was just gonna ask where 76561198913362891 was, hoping your Pentium 4 didn't melt. I was worried you wouldn't be able to find a Pentium D replacement, so I'm glad that worked out.

Those Pentium D's get pretty hot, how do you deal with the stench? Because I can only assume the reason it took months to scrounge up a twenty year old CPU was you went wading through multiple city dumps to find it, so I imagine the CPU smells pretty rancid under load.

There's a new thing called the interwebs...

I honestly didn't know that! And it takes five months to find a Pentium D? Seems kinda slow. Maybe OP was using a modem that still references bauds. I'll imagine that was a treasured family heirloom instead of a sweet garbage dump find.

Originally posted by nullable:

And I was just gonna ask where 76561198913362891 was

I thought I saw him the other day, turns out it was just 76561198913362892

i ran a pentium 4 system for like 10 years. never melted, yo. my main gaming machine from 2002 through 2009 when i finally upgraded... but i still kept it running after that for battlenet bots through 2012 when i finally got rid of it.

Half-Life 2, CS:Source, Doom 3, Medal of Honor: AA, the first Call of Duty. so many good memories with that build.