I have almost everything... just waiting on an AKASA HS+FAN (with red LED's) to arrive from ebay and I'm off. I have ready, cleaned and waiting... Generic black Mid Tower Case 300 Watt PSU AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1333Mhz CPU (UC'ed to 1Ghz) ASUS Socket 462 Mobo 2x128MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM 2x20GB IDE …

Yes I think an AGP 6800 should be the last AGP card of the Geforces I collect. I was thinking of getting a 7950GT AGP, but maybe a PCIe 7950GX2 would be better, and easier to find! I just got a Gainward Geforce 2 MX400 from Ebay in mint condition for £5 including P&P, so the shelf above my main PC …

Have you all seen it? If not, I HIGHLY reccomend it. Jason Scott did a great job making the film, going into depth and covering a great deal of the story of the rise and fall of BBS'es. I was a youngster when the BBS was in it's prime, and only got a PC in 1994 (starting from scratch and learning as …

Luckilly, I had 2 pass through cables from older voodoo 2 cards that I have owned years ago at the back of my bits drawer. I even found the old SLI cable that me and a friend made out of a floppy cable, but if I remember it only half worked. The frame rates improved dramatically and I could run …

My graphics card collection grows, although slower than ever because Christmas ruined me for a while. I'm trying to aquire a good clean model of the most notable graphics cards released from the start of the 3D revolution back in the late 90's. I've probably owned 90% of them over the years but so …

I'm GPU limited. After reading a lot about the game, apparently Starcraft 2 works well with any decent Dual Core CPU (perhaps excluding the Pentium 4 D's). I have an i3-540 (dual core with HT), which I OC'ed to 4.2Ghz. This CPU is overkill for Starcraft 2. My ATI 4770 however is not so good. Putting …

Ran into some trouble with a new game, Starcraft 2. So far since everything has gone swimmingly after I built the i3, but SCII seems to want more power to run smoothly in 1920x1080. I'm getting around 15-20fps, but even V-Sync can't hide the fact that my hardware IS struggling. I was reading that …

I only recently returned to PC gaming after not owning a machine for a number of years. I built my gaming PC a few months ago and chose to go with a Razer mouse. I picked the Abyssus as it was available in my local store and it looked cool, but sensible. My first choice would have been a good wired …

Hi again... I made it a little further overall with my builds, upgrading my main PC (as it's christmas and I'm tired of NOT playing Starcraft 2). My specs so far are as follows... MAIN PC (RUNNING XP) i3-540 @ 4.0GHz + CORSAIR HS/FAN 2 GIG DDR3 1600 @ 1333 500GB SATA 2 INT 2TB SEAGATE USB2 EXT XI-FI …

Back in the day I never had a game I couldn't get enough memory for, even if it meant sacrificing one thing or another in order to make it work. However, I came across a good guide a few years ago and have had a lot of success with it, if only I'd have known all this back in the early 90's! But then …

Now I have specific hardware to aim for! Thanks for that most informative reply. I will let you know of the progress as it happens. Bought a Dremel Multitool today. Whats the fun in having a pimped out inner if the outer is just another plain case? ;D

It's in perfect condition, only really handled once or twice for a few seconds, then put away. I don't think he will know how much it is worth. In fact, he won't have a clue.

Over the years I've never hung on to any games, right from the first game I bought (The Legacy) in 1993. Too late now to collect them. My friend, however, never throws anything away and he must have every title he ever bought (through my advice) from Screamer to Fatal Racing, Command and Conquer and …

Well, as you said DOSBOX runs games a lot better than it did a few years ago, and now I have a C2D in my main machine I can even run build engine games like Redneck Rampage and Blood pretty much flawlessly at max cycles. Obviously DOSBox is great at the earlier games (Doom, Dark Forces, Full …

Thanks for the information! I wouldn't even have thought to disable caches in order to slow down the system, underclocking was the only thing that sprung to mind. Voodoo 3's are relatively easy to find, so I'll get one of those too. The reason I was thinking of getting a VooDoo 1 card was I seem to …

HI ALL :evil: Can I just say this is a very interesting forum, and I had no idea something like this existed. At least, Im glad I found it and am sure I'll have many hours interesting reading going over old posts and digging out information. Im trying to build a couple of PC's. My first PC was an …