My Windows XP Battlestation - Compaq Presario SR1620NX
Posted by shadowkoishi93@reddit | retrobattlestations | View on Reddit | 13 comments
Recently picked up a bunch of parts PCs from the mid to late 2000s, including this pair of SR1620NX units. One of them was gutted to house my current sleeper build, and the original parts are now spares for the other 1620NX that I decided to restore as an XP era build. As this case form is identical to the first PC my parents bought new at some mom and pop pc shop, I decided to try to recreate how things were in 2004-2009 when that Compaq we had was the main PC (and until 2008, the only PC). The one we had was an SR1303WM which was a replacement for an identical Compaq we had that succumbed to the infamous capacitor plague.
It currently has a sata dvd/cd writer and a crucial 512gb sata ssd. The original optical drives were notorious for bad lasers. It also has 1.2gb of ddr ram.
gunshade@reddit
Could be neat to play Toontown Sunrise on one of those PC’s…
Efficient_Corner_892@reddit
Uh-oh!! Double Trouble!!
Old_Argument_7987@reddit
Coincidentally I think I have two of these
FinalJenemba@reddit
I worked at Staples in college from 2005-2007ish. I sold a TON of these. Along with very similar looking glossy laptops. The desktops were much better than the laptops. I was there when Vista came out and I remember getting a pack of stickers from Compaq that said "windows vista ready" to stick on all the boxes lol.
Feisty-Turnip9118@reddit
I’ve got my grandfather’s old p4 in the closet. The year I got it I found I could order old cpus for about $15 and upgraded it all to max specs. Then put it back in the closet.
Expensive-Vanilla-16@reddit
I had / have a similar HP and swapped out my cpu with a 6000+ and 2gb of corsair xms2 ram and I forget which Nvidia video card at the moment. I need to recap it and see if it still works.
YngwieMainstream@reddit
Shitload of connectivity, DVD-RW, but a Sempron.
That's how they get you.
shadowkoishi93@reddit (OP)
At least the motherboard itself, which was made by MSI, supports the Athlon 64 x2
YngwieMainstream@reddit
Had a Barton and then a 3700+ with a 7300gt. My first HD rig, just in time for the last 3 seasons of SG-1, lol.
Sansui350A@reddit
I gutted one of the smaller ones of these out once, did it up in red (the grey band), and gloss black everywhere else, put some better guts in it, and called it the "rapePAQ". Was a nice little gaming PC for the time actually, ran quiet, air cooled, played most stuff with a few things turned down settings-wise. Looked GREAT. No shitty RGB crap either. Took it to the game room at an Anime con once.
That was, damn, at-LEAST 13yrs ago now.
aussiepunkrocksV2-0@reddit
Love when the stickers are still on these. What happens if you call the toll free number? Does it connect to HP?
YandersonSilva@reddit
This was my starter unit for XP! First retro desktop actually, a couple years back now - I'd only had laptops up until that point. It has since got ship-of-theseus'd to the point where it has none of its original components, but the HD I have in my current XP machine (which is comically overpowered) got its start in one of these.
zzTWiLiGHTzz@reddit
Have a similar SR1700 (same case) with Sempron single core processor. Good for XP and DOS applications. The case does not look too old and this black plastic does not suffer from yellowing (of course). Made by HP and amongst the last machines to bear the famous Compaq marque.