This listing is for a re-purposed, highly customized Wyse Rx0L retro gaming machine with the following specs:-1.5 GHZ Sempron 210U-1 GB DDR2 RAM-2x 16 GB Solid State Hard drives (Main SATA, secondary IDE, 30GB total storage)-ATI Radeon x1200 Graphics-2x DVI outputs, 1 of which supports VGA (via included adapter)-Realtek ALC 662 HD Audio-Realtek RTL8169 Ethernet Adapter-2 front and 4 rear USB 2.0 ports-2 Serial Ports-PS/2 Keyboard port-PS/2 Mouse port-Built-in PC speaker (Windows audio routes over this when no speaker is connected)
Windows 2000 configuration:-All hardware drivers installed-Daemon Tools v3.47 installed for mounting ISO's as virtual CD drives-Palemoon 26.5 Web browser (based on Firefox 38 ESR)-.net 2.0 Framework-2005 Visual C++ Redistributables-Windows Installer 3.1-ATI Catalyst Control Center-DirectX 9.0c-TomComm Unzip utility
Includes the following:-Computer-Power Supply-DVI to VGA adapter
About this build:While I sell a Windows 2000 thin client geared more towards industrial applications (see my store if that is what you're looking for), I wanted one more aimed at retro gaming. This hardware ended up being the perfect fit once I found drivers for everything.
Thanks to a universal SATA driver I found specifically for Windows 2000, I managed to get a SATA disk-on-module working in DMA Mode (was stuck in PIO mode otherwise). The OS is installed to this disk, and for additional storage, I have also installed an IDE SSD (disk-on-module) to the IDE port to double your storage space. Each drive has roughly 15GB of space for 30GB total.
Also thanks to BlackWingCat's porting of ATI drivers for cards beyond the x8xx series to Windows 2000, I got the integrated x1200 chip working perfectly, including with the catalyst control center. Performance across the board is about 5 percent faster than the same benchmarks run under the Windows XP installation I used to put on this particular unit.
The installation is otherwise a vanilla installation with SP4 and the final official update rollup installed - NO extended kernel (I did experiment with KernelEx but had nothing but problems so I started over and left it as a vanilla installation).
While this machine targets a fairly narrow era of gaming (late 1990s/early 2000s), what it does run it runs well. Pretty much any game released in that transitional time between 98 and XP should run great. And you might have luck with games a few years either side of that timeframe.
Also after much searching and experimenting, the most recent web browser I was able to get running was Pale Moon 26.5, which is based on Firefox 38 ESR. Much of the modern web is still not usable, but it is far better than something like Firefox 12 or IE6. Homepage is set to a Google y2k search page that emulates Google as if it were the year 2000 (Google very recently discontinued search support for a lot of older browsers, so this was the next best option).
Benchmarks:
3dMark 99
7,382 Overall73 FPS - Race75 FPS - First Person
3dMark 20003,917 Overall72 FPS - Helicopter (Low Detail)58 FPS - Helicopter (Med Detail)62 FPS - Adventure (Low)58 FPS - Adventure (Med)
3dMark 20013,884 Overall51 FPS - Car Chase (Low)63 FPS - Dragothic (Low)
63 FPS - Lobby (Low)
18 FPS - Nature