Almost 20 years ago (jesus, that hurts to say now), I was nearly ready to begin my computing course at Middlesex University in North London.
Disappointment of the course and ineptitude of the University aside, I had put together a damn good rig to handle almost everything that you could throw at it (in a purely gaming context, of course).
Naturally, over time i upgraded to an Athlon 64 (by the end of my 1st year), but I wanted to try and rebuild the machine I have the most fond memories of.
To that end, I have acquired the following.
CPU: Athlon XP-2500+ (AXDA2500DKV4D, 333MHz FSB)
CPU Cooler: AMD Branded AVC AV-112C86 - Copper Core Heatsink & Fan (Originally bundled with the Athlon XP-3200+)
Memory: 1GB GeIL (2x512MB, PC3200, 2.5-6-6-3 timing)
Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR
Graphics Card: ATi Radeon X800 XT (made by Sapphire)
Rather than risk it all, i'll be using a modern 400w PSU and i'm going to use a small 128GB SATA SSD because i'm not going to mess with trying to find working, small capacity SATA hard disks.
Now I just need an era-specific case, i'd love to find the Jeantech Butterfly case, which opens up much like a Powermac G4. I'm nearly there, as i have a few leads on one of those cases, most recently in lithuania (shipping will be a *****), with a bit of luck, I can finally throw all of it together and then I can get it loaded up with Windows XP SP3 and sling Doom 3, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Far Cry on it![Cool :cool: :cool:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Disappointment of the course and ineptitude of the University aside, I had put together a damn good rig to handle almost everything that you could throw at it (in a purely gaming context, of course).
Naturally, over time i upgraded to an Athlon 64 (by the end of my 1st year), but I wanted to try and rebuild the machine I have the most fond memories of.
To that end, I have acquired the following.
CPU: Athlon XP-2500+ (AXDA2500DKV4D, 333MHz FSB)
CPU Cooler: AMD Branded AVC AV-112C86 - Copper Core Heatsink & Fan (Originally bundled with the Athlon XP-3200+)
Memory: 1GB GeIL (2x512MB, PC3200, 2.5-6-6-3 timing)
Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR
Graphics Card: ATi Radeon X800 XT (made by Sapphire)
Rather than risk it all, i'll be using a modern 400w PSU and i'm going to use a small 128GB SATA SSD because i'm not going to mess with trying to find working, small capacity SATA hard disks.
Now I just need an era-specific case, i'd love to find the Jeantech Butterfly case, which opens up much like a Powermac G4. I'm nearly there, as i have a few leads on one of those cases, most recently in lithuania (shipping will be a *****), with a bit of luck, I can finally throw all of it together and then I can get it loaded up with Windows XP SP3 and sling Doom 3, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Far Cry on it
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