My plan first was to build a 90s retro gaming PC with Windows 98 but since it was a huge headache cos almost nothing worked on it and blue screens of death were showing and I'm not that into 90s anyway except a handful of games I decided to build a mid 2000s PC with Windows XP from the old PCs lying around. It was not my intention initally but almost all the components are high-end for the time:
- Pentium 4 (D?) hyper threaded 3.6 Ghz at stock
- Geforce 6800
- 2 gigs of random ram
- 80 gig Excelstor 7200 rpm HDD
And yesterday I got a really nice 19 inch 4:3 Samsung monitor so it is almost complete, the only thing left is a cooler for the GPU as the original was really loud and I made a custom solution for the time being while ordered a new cooler on ebay.
The first game I'm playing is Xpand Rally, an underappreciated really great racing game, it feels like RPG cos you have so many car upgrades available but so little prize money for each race, upgrading is really addictive, especially cos you really notice difference after each upgrade! It does work on modern PCs and is available on Steam but it looks terible on widescreen.
I will later add pics of this glorious beast PC.
Deus Ex (2000) - a game that pushes the boundaries of what the video game medium is capable of to a degree unmatched to this very day.
