Windows XP gaming rig - ugly AF

"Nibby" (nibby68) 09/24/2018 at 21:35 • Filed to: None

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HP Pavilion 8480z ATX case
Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D 380W ATX power supply
Arctic 92mm fan
Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L LGA775 ATX motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz quad core processor
ThermalTake Contac 12 cooler
8GB DDR2 RAM
3.5" floppy drive
DVD/RW SATA drive
3.5" USB 2.0 + USB 3.0 front panel combo
Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1600HLFS 160GB 10,000RPM SATA HD
Toshiba 128GB 2.5" SATA SSD
Windows XP Professional
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit dual boot
AMD RADEON HD6570 1GB PCIe video card
Onboard gigabit ethernet
Onboard audio
Creative SoundBlaster Live! PCI sound card
Sony ENX-26 Gigapocket PCI TV tuner
USB 3.0 PCIe card

Minor damage on top corner

Had to cut off some of this rear plastic covering so it wasn’t blocking the power connector

The guts

Guts part II

BIOS screen

Windows XP desktop

Programs and games galore

System info + Speccy

Windows 7 desktop

System info + Speccy

As ugly as it is, works like a charm.

Aaron James > Nibby 09/24/2018 at 21:46

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Just take her glasses off and let her hair down. She’ll be gorgeous !!!!

Nibby > Aaron James 09/24/2018 at 21:55

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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Nibby 09/24/2018 at 22:00

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XP Royale is best XP.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Nibby 09/24/2018 at 22:06

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Iomegaaaaaa

promoted by the color red > Nibby 09/24/2018 at 22:06

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I love the way you think

Also, here’s something I promised you a while back when we were talking about Thinkpads:

Please take this and throw it onto any ‘80s-’90s-era appropriate IBM PCs.

Nibby > promoted by the color red 09/24/2018 at 22:13

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Saved, thanks! Should be nice and easy to adapt to other resolutions and aspect ratios.

Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition > Nibby 09/24/2018 at 23:02

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I got a 2GB 7870 kicking around somewhere if you are at all interested. You could even play Crysis, think about that.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > promoted by the color red 09/24/2018 at 23:35

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I’ve got that beat.

promoted by the color red > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 09/24/2018 at 23:53

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Ooh I like it!

facw > Junkrat aka Rick Sanchez: Fury Road Edition 09/24/2018 at 23:53

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I have one as well, though it’s currently shoved into my old desktop. I’ve also got an even more period correct Radeon 2900 Pro that I’ve been meaning to take to the electronics recycling. That thing was garbage when I got it, and I really should have sold it the second I bought a 3870 to replace it, but didn’t want to have to deal with shipping it.

facw > Nibby 09/24/2018 at 23:54

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Hey a dedicated sound card! That’s a rarity! (Ignores that I have a machine with a HT Omega Striker PCI sound card in it right behind me... )

Digital Camera Port! Fancy!

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > promoted by the color red 09/25/2018 at 00:05

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Then you’ll love  the fact that I still have OS/2 Warp Aurora beta CDs.

promoted by the color red > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 09/25/2018 at 00:13

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Also: Me when I hit the TURBO button in 3.1

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > promoted by the color red 09/25/2018 at 00:23

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Then your mind will be blown away finding out I have one of these, still in perfect working order:

promoted by the color red > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks 09/25/2018 at 01:08

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I used to read old PC Magazine issues when I was bored in college. The ads were great fun and so was sneering at them from my then-new 2012 ThinkPad T520 with its 4GB RAM.

Still, I really appreciate vintage computer tech even if it’s another expensive hobby I think I should stay away from. I’ll just stick with watching YouTube videos ripped from old tech demo CDs.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > promoted by the color red 09/25/2018 at 01:50

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YouTube is way less heartburn, that’s for goddamn sure.

I think I still have a ThinkPad 860 around here somewhere.

Nibby > facw 09/25/2018 at 08:30

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It’s just a serial port :P works like a charm

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 09/25/2018 at 10:52

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Hey, my work PC is running that same processor. Unfortunately , it only has 4GB of DDR2.  It struggles with more than a few open programs.  It was all I could scrounge from the machines in vacant offices in the department . Someday we’ll hire folks for those positions and they’re really going to have struggling PCs with only the 1.5GB I left in them.

Nibby > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/25/2018 at 11:13

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you’re a monster xD

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 09/25/2018 at 11:20

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I’d be surprised if anyone gets hired into those positions over the next year or two. I keep thinking that someday the library will replace these 10 year dell office boxes we’re all running, but budgets are tight and the Dean is, well, analog. We’ve talked about establishing replacement cycles like most of the rest of the university and all the local/state/federal government operations in the area, but she ends up looking at you like there is something growing out of your forehead. Because she doesn’t do more than an email window in Outlook and maybe a Word document open at the same time, she doesn’t see a problem...

Nibby > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/25/2018 at 11:28

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they all need to upgrade to AMD  Threadrippers with 64GB RAM

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 09/25/2018 at 11:38

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I heartily support this. Can we make you the next Dean of the library?

I was wrong, my machine is rocking a Q6600 from  2007.

Nibby > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com 09/25/2018 at 11:46

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yes, pls do thx

Boxer_4 > Nibby 09/25/2018 at 21:50

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Nice!

I still have the old Pavilion 8390, which was bought brand new. I still have everything that came with it, including the M90 monitor and Polk Audio speakers. The case is certainly weird on these, but it has a late ‘90s charm to it.

I installed the Zip drive much later (~2012). It was hard to track down at the time, and it probably still is.

It had the Iomega ZipCD installed from ~2000 until I replaced it with the DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive above.

I ended up painting the front bezel of the CD drive, as the different greys are ugly, as you have also noted.  One of the Krylon greys matches the darker grey color fairly well.  I forget which one, though I remember just matching it in the store based on the paint cap color and the blanking plate that was in place of the Zip drive. 

PS9 > Nibby 09/26/2018 at 00:52

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Can it run crysis? 

Nibby > PS9 09/26/2018 at 08:31

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maybe

Nibby > Boxer_4 09/26/2018 at 08:36

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aha sweet, any chance you have the original CDs?

Boxer_4 > Nibby 10/09/2018 at 21:39

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I might!  I’ll try to remember to look over the weekend.