Someone told me this Community might enjoy this big gal! Got her along with a keyboard and mice for 90€! Check out these specs!

Boi she’s also massive, especially compared to my main Gaming PC!

Both Train Simulator and Unreal work lovingly on it, though Stronghold 2 does struggle quite a bit the more I build… also awaiting Half Life 1 with all expansions and a copy of Age Of Empire (which I haven’t played a single part before) so thats exciting. Im also considering trying to get HL2 to run on it, but idk if it can handle that, what do you all think?

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    2 months ago

    Whoa, that Philips CD-RW drive just unlocked some core memories for me. That was my first CD burner. It was in a Dell Dimension XPS 233. How has your build been treating you the last 5 months? It’s awesome. Bet it didn’t run HL2. I tried installing the orange box on my XP build recently and couldn’t get Steam to connect.

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      2 months ago

      Haven’t used it in a while sadly. Getting my PC 10-III to run took a bit of priority… and then life happened and I haven’t really worked on any of my Computers. Gotta get done with some stuff before I can sink more Money into them!

      Sadly that particular CD-RW doesn’t seem to work. Never managed to get it running…

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I know what you mean. Just this week I got my XP machine out for the first time in months and months. There’s just no time anymore.

        Getting my disc drives working was a bit of an adventure. I have a Dell E510 that survived the capacitor plague. But for some reason, the IDE controller is shot. Luckily it had two sata ports for the HDDs, but I ended up getting a pcie sata card and then two IDE to sata adapters for my disc drives. I’m totally surprised that it worked.