Intel's Painful Pentium 4 ... in 2024

Published 2024-07-20
Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we're taking a look at the infamous Pentium 4...Only this time we're pushing things further than we ever have before with a more modern version of Windows, and a lot of troubleshooting and problems, join me for a video that became a world of misery, in a project that really should have just been stopped at the first hurdle.

Intro - 0:00
Troubleshooting - 0:55
What is the PC - 2:54
Instalation Ideas - 3:28
Lets try another avenue - 4:42
Windows 10 Woes Continue - 5:46
It's DVD Time - 6:37
Turns out DVDs are getting harder to buy - 7:33
Let's get this thing booting - 8:27
Things go very very wrong - 9:18
Let's find another Pentium 4 - 9:53
The next Pentium 4 system - 10:44
Finally Windows 10! - 12:00
Drivers and Pipeline Stalls - 13:27
Finally all up and running - 14:37
What's it like on Windows 10 - 15:28
Steam takes about 5 hours to load - 19:48
The (Underwhelming) Benchmarks! - 21:09
Conclusion - 26:02

Music:
SC OST
TTD OST


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Specs:
GPU: Matrox Parhliea, C680, Radeon 8500, Radeon 9700, GT610, and Finally HD5670
CPU: Pentium 4 Willamette 1.6Ghz and Prescott 3.0Ghz
RAM: 1GB RDRAM & 2GB DDR2 667Mhz
OS: Windows 10 64 bit

All Comments (21)
  • @gigiogigio5386
    The poor thing was retired, half asleep on a bench feeding the ducks and you made it run the w10 marathon 😂😂😂
  • @SynthMusicWorld
    I worked on the team at Intel that delivered the desktop BIOS for the P4 processor. I did validation testing for various OEM partners like Dell, HP, and Compaq. I miss those days!
  • @Xeraser2
    Well, at least the Pentium 4 didn't quite literally kill itself... Unlike modern 13th and 14th Gens... That's worth a point or two for good old Netburst, right?
  • @blunderingfool
    And next year we can look at the Pentium fi- wait... darn.
  • @Spaztron64
    Funnily enough my Coppermine Pentium 3 system decided to stop booting as well at the start of this month. No leaks, nothing, worked the night prior perfectly fine.
  • You've convinced me, I'll be building a windows 11 pentium 4 PC! Update: House fire :(
  • Test their competitor from AMD now . Athlons XP without sse2 are more painfull experience
  • Only LGA 775 Pentium 4s can run Windows 10, thats because of the NX bit requirement. Its IMPOSSIBLE to run Windows 10 with Socket 478 and 423 CPUs.
  • @apostolcv6796
    Ok, let's comment this crap. 1. It's obviously that Willamette can't run Windows 10 because do not have necessary instructions which were added in LGA775 Prescotts. 2. It is not a fault of 20th year CPU to have a deal with not optimisation shit like Windows 10. Anyway thanks for video and lot of pain 😂
  • @satoshi649
    Pentium 4 is a beast, I had a desktop with Windows Vista and a P4 HT when I was young.
  • @S3Bayaya
    P4 was my dream pc. Saw a tv ad, I was into game at the time, read a lot of video game magazine and 0 understanding of computer. Thankfully my parents smack me on the head and just play with my nintendo. I was 10 yo.
  • @6Twisted
    Crazy that Windows 10 uses more resources that these older games. It's sad that Windows abandon support for their "old" versions making old hardware unusable. Windows XP and 7 are still the best.
  • @LitteralBeans
    i love it when a pc takes 3-5 business days to open a blank notepad document
  • @leehastie12
    The troubleshooting segment at the start with the long beeping was comedy gold. Great to see you back making videos again, love your content!
  • @CHA0SHACKER
    The thing with the NX bit removal is while you can remove the NX bit requirement check on Windows 10, it won’t help since the OS actively uses it. So it will crash and be unstable. That is normal.
  • @broderperdurabo
    My cat loved the P4, he blocked the exhaust on the top of the computer... I hated it, sooo Hot!