Could this prebuilt vintage PC actually be GOOD?!

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There were an increasing number of cheap, proprietary PCs in the late 1990s -- many of which couldn't be upgraded well, or at all. But this Dell Dimension XPS could be almost as good as a custom-built computer. Sources: "Professional PCs," PC Magazine, December 2, 1997. Ensoniq AudioPCI photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_AudioPCI#/media/File:Ensoniq_ES1370_1.jpg "Company News," The New York Times, December 11, 1997. "Pentium Part II," PC Magazine, June 10, 1997. Pentium Pro photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_80521ex200_256k_top.jpg Pentium II commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npoeopfU-IQ Pentium II photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentium_II_300_Deschutes_-_SL2W8_-_case_removed-4670.jpg "AMD challenges Intel with cheaper MMX chip," Computerworld, April 7, 1997. "Intel's Celeron 266," PC World, May 1998. Slot 1 Celeron photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KL_Intel_Celeron_Covington.jpg "Celeron CPU Caches Up, Adds Muscle to Basic PCs," PC Magazine, October 6, 1998. "Celeron 300A," Maximum PC Power User Handbook, autumn 2000. Pentium II in box photo: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/index.php?title=Intel_Pentium_II&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop#/media/File:P2box1.jpg Socket 370 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_Socket_370_-_open-top_oblique_PNr%C2%B00346.jpg Socket 370 slotket adapter: https://postlmg.cc/4K6p8jmw "Rage 128," Maximum PC, February 1999. 00:00 - Introduction 01:11 - Drives and ports 01:53 - Not quite what it seems 04:35 - Upgrades 06:09 - The Slot 1 story 09:24 - Reassembly and cleaning 11:19 - I should have installed Windows Me on this 12:34 - Video cards kinda sucked back then, but we still liked them 13:31 - passport.mid is the best, fight me 15:40 - It's a good computer ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on social media! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).