Oldest rigs you're still using for games?

Just for fun and out of curiosity, if people have some interesting responses I'll make a new thread w/ a poll in a few days.


Putting together a parts list for my first new pc in 4 years, I've been thinking about how old my hardware has gotten. It's crazy because most of the systems I have were bleeding-edge when new. But I still run them all, and each still pulls its own in both work and gaming.

So what are the specs of your slow or old rigs and what are you still using them to play?


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my old rigs:


Desktop with Socket A Sempron mobile OC'd to 1.9ghz
Soyo MB
2gigs DDR
Radeon x1650 pro AGP OC'd
80gb
450w psu

used for steam games, HL2, TF2 (runs pretty well depending on server/# of players)




Desktop with a socket A Athlon Barton 2500 at 1.85ghz
Soyo MB
1.5gigs DDR
AIW X800 AGP
500w psu
160gb

used for same as above, doesn't run TF2 as well though (ram?), it gets some time playing warcraft 3 and Oblivion




Asus z81sp laptop with P4 660 at 3.4ghz
2gigs DDR2
Geforce 6800 go OC'd with custom drivers
80gb

This is going to throw some people, but I play just about anything on this laptop and do a lot of CS4 work on it. Only now, four years since I built it are hardware issues cropping up (wireless card died, usb ports starting to fail, multimedia buttons only sometimes work). But recently I've played TF2, demigod, and some other games all a decent frame rates and settings. I've also played through Crysis at mostly low settings (still looked good).




And my most excellent ancient gaming rig...
The Powermac G4, circa January 2001.
I've upgraded the hell out of this thing with free/old parts over the years, its specs:

733mhz powerpc proc
Geforce 3 ti500
1gig sdram
160gbhd
? PSU
-ram keyboard/mouse, and speakers were all scavenged,
for free, literally out of a dumpster (don't ask)

recently played return to castle wolfenstein, open arena, warcraft 3, and emulators

Sadly.. this is my main computer because I was jobless and very poor for these past 7 years, but I plan on getting i7 and a 58xx this holiday. I play a Half-Life mod called Natural Selection a few times per week, most of the time I just have internet browser up.

AthlonXP 2400+ OC'd
1.25GB DDR
Radeon 9600 OC'd
Windows XP

CPU: Pentium1 120MHz
RAM: 16MB
HDD: 1GB

Games: Duke Nukem, Shadow Warrior, Blood

P4... FTW!!! (only 65nm ones. )

Yup, I actually bought 2 Cedermill chips from ebay for 10 bucks both 3.6Ghz.

This is main rig I'm playing as this is only computer I've got:

Intel celeron 2.8GHZ (OC'ed to 3.0).

512MB of memory (Added another stick of 512).

IGP, Intel 82865G.

HDD 80GB IDE


I can only play few games. Main game is Wolfenstein ET. Getting about 20 (On non-player made large map) and 30 on small or normal map.