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That was the rig I used since I received my new rig, last week. I had it for 2 years or so.
P4 3.2 Ghz with 1 Gb of DDR. And no graphic card whatsoever.
I played CS AND CSS with THIS. I never had a game with more than 20fps, all at low in 800x600.




Pretty horrible, right ?
I had XP on it, but since I lost my XP cd and my hard drive blew up after a year, I installed Debian on it.So no more gaming, and since the chipset wasn't really Linux-friendly, each time I wanted to plug something in, I had to lsusb, but it only worked once. If I wanted to replug something back after doing that, I had to reboot the computer.
I'll post my new rig shortly in the designated topics for it, but I just wanted to show you guys the thing I used before I had my current rig.

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ENTERPRISE

Old rigs are still very useful for filestorage ETC...Many uses. Keep it alongside your new rig !

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Yeah, but with a 40Gb hard drive, it's not really useful...

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Blameless

Hard drives are cheap.

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So that's why I took a 640Gb on my new rig.

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exileschild

Ahhh memories from the good ol' days. I'd say keep the rig as well..never know when it will come in handy. Your sig rig is obviously light years ahead of the P4..well you get the point. Enjoy & Game on!

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The primary gaming computer in the house is in my signature, powered by an old pentium 4 at 3.2 Ghz. It's treated me pretty well for a good six years but most new games actually play better on my laptop simply because of the more cpu power. I keep telling myself one of these days I'll pony up the money and get around to building a new computer. One of these days

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Hell yeah. I did the tricks to optimise Crysis on ATI cards. Photoreal II makes me cry. It's so beautiful...

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I would just buy a larger HDD for the older rig and use it as back up...thats what im doing so if my rig craps out im ok.

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I did same thing, was an old Gateway BTX I had, worked decent I had it maxed out ram and a good old pci-e card. but the CPU was just so week. I had than rig since 2003 did not upgrade other than laptops until August 2009 lol. My current rig now, besides all the temp problems is like taking a Jet to work. Beats any old beater.

But FYI, trust me that old p4 wont ever give up, so if you are waiting for it to break down or burn up. Not going to happen lol, P4 is like the **** roach of computers, will outlive anything.

I gave my old rig to away, my nephew just turn 6 so thought it was time lol