How Old Is This PC Config?

400mhz Intel Celeron w/256mb
Geforce 2 MX/MX400 64mb

Don't have much knowlage on hardware, sorry. How old is this technology? It's running my Blitzmax efforts complete with sound fx, mod files (handled by Bass) just fine? Thanks.

well i made a comp with geforce 4 and athlon 1.6/7 back in may 02 and i think the gf4 were half a year or more old back then.

iirc I bought a celeron450/256MB/TNT2ultra in summer 1999. So, that's about 8 years by now.

I still use a GF2 :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_2

So around 6-7 years, I would guess.

the processor is slow

What?

I didn't think they even made 400Mhz Celerons!

Like Gabe said, the GeForce2 MX is easily the "newest" (for lack of a better word) component.

Thanks for the comments (and the links) ! Seems the gpu is still fairly capable. Overall is it safe to assume if my project(s) run ok on this pc, it should run ok on anything remotely modern? Just trying to keep an eye on the low end specs that are still out there. ;)

I can't remember where, but a few years back there used to be some charts you could download that showed the typical gamer's pc specs. I'd love to see something related to today's casual gamer's specs. Thanks again!

MGE Developer, I'd say it is around 7 years old. I've bought a 200mhz Pentium MMX in winter 1997, while the Pentium 2 was showing up.

400mhz Intel Celeron w/256mb (the very low cost in 1999/2000)
Geforce 2 MX/MX400 64mb (around 2000/2001)

I doubt the gfx card and the processor are from the same year, but who knows.

I would be still surprized anyone would use a 400mhz celeron today!

There are celerons from 266MHz all the way up to 3.6GHz.

For the most part a celeron is nothing more than a normal pentium 2/3/4/D with half the onboard cache disabled. (The 'normal' pentium chips have two cache banks on board. However, during manufacturing it's not unusual for one of them to contain a defect. Intel can force disable the bad cache bank, slap a celeron sticker on it, and still sell it for a discount -- beats throwing them away. Because of that, you'll find celeron's at pretty much the same speeds as 'normal' pentium CPU's since they can be identical, other than the cache.

Other than cache size, celeron's are often underclocked as well compared with the 'real' chip -- minor manufacturing defects sometimes only represent themselves when running at high speeds with low tolerances. just slowing things down can sometimes make an unstable chip usable as well -- voila, Celeron.


Anyway -- I bought a P2 400MHz in october 1998, so 9 years ago. I don't think that video card was out by then, though.

I remember having a Celeron 300a, this was running on a bus speed of 66 on 4.5x multiplier, so you pushed the bus speed up to 100 and hey presto you had a 450mhz Celeron running slightly toasty! Ran stable (if I didn't have the sides on the computer) for years!

If you had good cooling, the original Celeron 300A could be bumped up to 600Mhz... Intel did replace it with a different 300Mhz model later on that couldn't be overclocked so much.

I think you can safely say that anything < at least 1 ghz can be considered old :)

400Mhz is still PentiumII/AMDK6 Class, so long time ago.

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