heheheh, yup, and the strangest thing is that it was a total success...for about 20 minutes, lol. the motherboard is ok but the chip itself it shot, right when i was in the middle of playing half-life as well, lol.
the retard rig:
dell XPSD233 mobo (made in 1997 so it may be the first XPS)
processor: (old) intel pentium 2 processor @233 mhz (new) intel pentium 3 processor @ 1 ghz
graphics
old) nvidia riva 128 4 mb agp graphics card (new) nvidia riva TNT2 32mb agp graphics card
memory: upgraded from 32 mb to 96 mb of old memory (don't know what it is, may be SD )
power supply: (old) 120w (new) 250w
hard drive: origional 4 gb partitioned hard drive (why the previous owner did that i will never know, lol)
testing material: playing origional half-life with graphics maxed out. got 80 fps continuously untill i heard a spark and the connections to the chip caught fire, it was at that time when i realized the benefits of keeping every squirt gun i ever owned since age 3, plenty of fire extinguishers to choose from, lol
the mobo, ram, graphics card and power supply were saved but the processor is toast. luckilly when i "obtained" these parts i stocked up on old emachines and they were all emonster1000's so there's plenty of 1ghz chips to kill with my next project. all i need is a non-shot p3 capable mobo, lol (to the celler i guess, haha!)
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rig name: death on the road
cpu: 2 ghz dual core AMD Turion 64
RAM:3 gb
GPU: 256 mb geforce 8200 w/ up to 1407 mb video memory
current speed records and benchmark scores:
aquamark3: 22,762
warhammer 40,000-the dark crusade: 76 fps
world of warcraft: 68 fps
F.E.A.R.: 96 fps
