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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to those of us with low-end rigs playing high-end games, 800X600 is a lifesaver!
for those who push the envelope in overclocking, my soon-to-self-destruct graphics card salutes you
Benjamin Bain (a.k.a. sabre1/drifter)
rig name: ANCIENT PWNAGE
Intel 478 (2.4 ghz w/ 333 mhz fsb)
Northwood 10
512 DDR SDRAM
40 gb main hard drive (5,200 rpm) 2x 20 gb hard drives (4,800 rpm)
350 Watt psu
Nvidia GeForce 6200 256 mb PCI graphics card (overclocked)
Linear Mode
