My main Windows 98 computer
Specifications
- Processor: Pentium 4 @ 1.50 GHz, socket 423
- RAM: 256MB of RDRAM
- Graphics card: (needs to be replaced)
- Sound card: ESS Solo-1
- Operating System: Windows 98SE
- Other expansions: USB+FireWire card, video capture/TV tuner card, SCSI card
About this computer
This PC is interesting because it has one of the first Pentium 4 processors in it, released in late 2000. It also used RDRAM (like the N64!), which was a faster alternative to the SDRAM commonly used at the time, however that type of RAM was proprietary, ran hot (requiring heatsinks) and it was much more expensive - once DDR RAM was released that was the final nail in the coffin for RDRAM.
This computer was actually a dumpster find, and unfortunately it has some scratches, most likely because of the way it was stored in that dumpster, however they aren't that bad thankfully. The previous owner had left a lot of personal files on the hard drive (which have all been deleted now, of course), and it appears that they were using this computer with a scanner and some kind of camera, which would also explain the extra parallel port PCI card that was installed in the system.
It originally came with two IDE CD drives, an Nvidia Vanta (16MB) video card and a PCI parallel card, however I've upgraded it quite a bit with a DVD drive, a SCSI Jaz drive, a better video card and some other expansion cards.
This is currently my main Windows 98 computer.