I have run heavily modified and upgraded Windows 98 Second Edition on a stock standard 8400. Super responsive. Single file transfer speeds rival the much newer Core I7. Unfortunately the main reason I run 98se is to gain direct control over the hardware, ability to log I/O etc - and not having a floppy drive on the board was a bummer.
@@DieselBricks You are thinking of the 805/825/845/865/875 Intel chipsets all the famous Pentium IIIs and IVs (Socket 478) ran on. The 8400 had a 925 chipset and was socket LGA775 (not to be confused with really old pin-type "775") I was forced to care for my mother the last 40 months of her life and - well - it was awful. I'd get five bucks and call all the thrift shops for old computers - and fell in love with 98se (did you know you can run Connectix Virtual PC 4.0 INSIDE 98se - and run XP inside of THAT ??????) Anyway a 2006 8400 can be fitted with a Pentium 672 (3.4 ghz single-core) with hyper-threading engaged, use a couple $5 SSDs in Raid 0 and yee gads - for certain tasks it's freaky-fast. Mine would boot up and be sitting at the desktop with no hourglass showing - before I could get my finger off the power button ! But no - no FDD controller on the board or provision for it in that chipset.
My Dimension 8400 froze when setup was checking for plug and play hardware, many errors later i got the setup to finish. Couldn't get any ps/2 keyboard to work without going in safe mode so i gave up. Btw mine has the 925XE chipset. It had a Pentium 4 550J, ATI x300 and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
You’d have to go with 32-bit Win 10. There is no direct upgrade from XP though so you need a fresh install. I plan to stick with XP on my 8400 and dual boot Linux. Will experiment with various distros.
i still use my old Dell dimension 8400, uograded memorry, changed hard disc and graphics card...works just fine
They look like very well built computers to me, designed for a long life.
I have run heavily modified and upgraded Windows 98 Second Edition on a stock standard 8400. Super responsive. Single file transfer speeds rival the much newer Core I7. Unfortunately the main reason I run 98se is to gain direct control over the hardware, ability to log I/O etc - and not having a floppy drive on the board was a bummer.
I thought they all did have a floppy controller.
@@DieselBricks You are thinking of the 805/825/845/865/875 Intel chipsets all the famous Pentium IIIs and IVs (Socket 478) ran on.
The 8400 had a 925 chipset and was socket LGA775 (not to be confused with really old pin-type "775")
I was forced to care for my mother the last 40 months of her life and - well - it was awful. I'd get five bucks and call all the thrift shops for old computers - and fell in love with 98se (did you know you can run Connectix Virtual PC 4.0 INSIDE 98se - and run XP inside of THAT ??????)
Anyway a 2006 8400 can be fitted with a Pentium 672 (3.4 ghz single-core) with hyper-threading engaged, use a couple $5 SSDs in Raid 0 and yee gads - for certain tasks it's freaky-fast. Mine would boot up and be sitting at the desktop with no hourglass showing - before I could get my finger off the power button !
But no - no FDD controller on the board or provision for it in that chipset.
My Dimension 8400 froze when setup was checking for plug and play hardware, many errors later i got the setup to finish. Couldn't get any ps/2 keyboard to work without going in safe mode so i gave up. Btw mine has the 925XE chipset. It had a Pentium 4 550J, ATI x300 and a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
What are you going to do on it when it’s finished?
Play older games.
Would these upgrades allow this computer to run Windows 10?
Not really sure if the cpu would be enough, it's not something I've tried. Would be fun to test it though.
You’d have to go with 32-bit Win 10. There is no direct upgrade from XP though so you need a fresh install. I plan to stick with XP on my 8400 and dual boot Linux. Will experiment with various distros.