This Acer Veriton, formerly used as an office PC, has been upgraded over the years exclusively with salvaged parts. For a long time, this computer stood around unused and forgotten. Unfortunately, I suspect that there will be no seriously meaningful use for it in the future either.
I am mainly documenting the setup here because this computer was essentially the “first” retro XP PC for the longest time. The fully functional 3.5″ floppy drive could prove to be very useful one day. In order to make full use of all six SATA-II ports on the motherboard, a SATA power splitter adapter was used and several mounting frames for the additional data carriers were printed.
Hardware:
| Base | Acer Veriton S670G (2009) Desktop Ready-use PC |
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (SLAWQ) Penryn → Yorkfield (45 nm) Stepping C1 4 Cores, 4 Threads 2.83 GHz Caches: L1 : 256 KB L2: 12 MB 95 Watts TDP |
| Socket | T (Desktop) FC-LGA, 775 Contacts |
| Cooling | Air, Acer OEM Aluminum, top-blow, PWM controlled |
| Mainboard | Acer OEM (Veriton S670G) Micro ATX |
| Chipset | Intel Q45 (SLB8A) Eaglelake Q (65 nm) Stepping A3 Passive cooled 17 Watts TDP |
| Southbridge | ICH10DO Passive cooled |
| Memory | 8 GB Samsung (4 x 2 GB) DDR3-1333 @ 1066 MHz, 7-7-7-20 2T (1.50 Volts) Dual-Channel DIMM (Unbuffered) 4 of 4 Slots used |
| Graphics | Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT Tesla → G96 (65 nm, UMC) 1 GB DDR2 VRAM PCIe 2.0 x16 Overclocked 50 Watts TDP |
| DirectX OpenGL OpenCL Vulkan CUDA Shader Model | API 11.1, Feature Level 10.0 3.3 1.1 – 1.1 4.0 |
| Used Graphics output | HDMI @ 1920 x 1080, 60 Hz |
| Audio | Realtek ALC888S (PCIe, integrated) |
| Boot device | SSD Samsung 750 Evo (250 GB) 256 MB LPDDR3 DRAM-Cache SATA-III @ SATA-II 2.5″ |
| Storage devices | HDD WD Caviar (500 GB) WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 5400 rpm / 8 MB Cache SATA-II 3.5″ HDD Samsung Spinpoint (640 GB) HM641JI 5400 rpm / 8 MB Cache SATA-II 2.5″ HDD Samsung Spinpoint (640 GB) HM641JI 5400 rpm / 8 MB Cache SATA-II 2.5″ HDD WD Scorpio Blue (500 GB) WD5000BEVT-00A0RT0 5400 rpm / 8 MB Cache SATA-II 2.5″ |
| Optical drive | HL-DT-ST GH24NS95 (DVD Burner) SATA 5.25″ |
| Magnetic-based drives | Matshita (Floppy disk drive) Floppy 3.5″ |
| Network | 1 Gbit Ethernet, RJ-45 Intel 82567LM-3 (PCIe, integrated) |
| Power supply | FSP (Acer OEM) 300 Watts max. SFF |
| Case | Desktop, Acer OEM Veriton S670G |
| Miscellaneous | PCI – USB 2.0 expansion card PCIe x1 – USB 3.0 expansion card Fan in front of the expanded 2.5″ storage devices |
Firmware:
| Manufacturer | American Megatrends, Inc. |
| Type | BIOS 8 Mb ROM (1 MB) |
| Version | P01-A3, 05.05.2010 |
Software:
| Operating systems and versions | x64 Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 22H2, German x64 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, German x86 Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3, German x64 Linux Mint Always up to date, German |
| Type of boot | BIOS |
| Partition table | Master Boot Record |
Benchmarks:
| PassMark | 683 Points https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/display.php?id=310410507765 |
| Cinebench R23 | Single 423 Points Multi 1153 Points |
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