I got an old computer, help me make it a badass early 2000's gaming rig!

[Dragonslayer182]

So, I got an old computer from the thrift shop for 20$. I want to make it a badass gaming rig for late 90's and early 2000's gaming. What parts should I get? Will post pics tomorrow.

Specs:
1.7ghz Athlon XP
1gb (2x 512mb) DDR1 RAM
32mb whatevertheforget integrated graphics chipset, but it's not ATI, Intel, nor Nvidia
40gb HDD (Still formatted in FAT32, despite having...:)
Windows XP
Several PCI Slots and 1 AGP slot
2 PC-133 slots and 2 DDR1 slots

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[Ninja Decoy]

you got it. A late 90s badass computer.
Chandler would be proud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnw3zsWk5Y

[Blockaium]

I've always thought this would be cool. just take this

clear out all the internals, and put your own monitor parts inside of the old computer frame, and then have the actual tower somewhere else. That would be kind of cool.

[ShadowsfeaR]

I've always wanted to supe-up an old IBM computer tower with modern parts so it's like people see it and are like "Ew dude wtf is that computer" and you turn it on and it's running modern games at max spec.

[Brickman]

I've always wanted to supe-up an old IBM computer tower with modern parts so it's like people see it and are like "Ew dude wtf is that computer" and you turn it on and it's running modern games at max spec.

yeah same, like some kinda beige colored tower from the 90s.

[Refticus]

why would you need this.

emulators and VMs exist for a reason.

[phflack]

why would you need this.

emulators and VMs exist for a reason.

pretty sure it's the other way around
instead of trying to run old things in a new computer case, he wants to run new things in an old computer case

[espio100]

you got it. A late 90s badass computer.
Chandler would be proud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnw3zsWk5Y

"Wow, what are you going to use it for?"
"Games and stuff"

Can relate

[Sentry]

Speaking of old computers, A few days ago my brother and I got our first ever computer fixed up again.
It had a 3gb HD with about 240mb of RAM. Computer is just full of junky images we made in Kid-Pix and pictures of our old bedroom and stuff.
It was pretty fun going back into the Kid-Pix program after about 10 years.

It also had old games like Starcraft, Diablo, Command & Conquer, Etc.

[Aide33]

I've always wanted to supe-up an old IBM computer tower with modern parts so it's like people see it and are like "Ew dude wtf is that computer" and you turn it on and it's running modern games at max spec.

this is my computer

I have a beige tower a beige Samsung keyboard and a Microsoft mouse from 2001.

I haven't upgraded it in a while but still runs loads of games.

[Dragonslayer182]

pretty sure it's the other way around
instead of trying to run old things in a new computer case, he wants to run new things in an old computer case

Actually I want to run old things with better compatibility, but the computer is so weak for that atm. It lags just running xp

[Kochieboy]

It lags just running xp

Yikes, is it proprietary by any chance?

[Dragonslayer182]

Yikes, is it proprietary by any chance?

Probably not, it's one of those computers that was built with store bought parts then sold to customers

[Compy]

I got 2 old laptops from when my grandma moved out of her home. 128mb ram, pentium III and Celeron D. I'm gonna rip out the os and write my own emulators for it. it's like a gigantic graphing calculator and I find that really cool for some reason.

[Dragonslayer182]

Hoooly stuff.

So, I discovered something wierd but cool about this computer:
It has 2 PC-133 RAM slots, but...
It also has 2 DDR1 slots of RAM.

I discovered this while trying to reseat the 1 piddly 256mb pc-133 stick it had in there, since the computer was beeping at me.

I instead just took out the 256mb module and put in 2 512mb DDR1 modules. The computer is sooo much more usable now. Still a little slow, but 10x better than before.