Yep it's a pre-built POS but I still do all my gaming on it. My parents got it for me as a present for graduating high school back in
May 2007. It's pretty damn old.
Its time is coming soon, but not quite yet.
The inside is about as lame and crowded as you'd expect from an OEM PC.
CPU:
Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
32-bit
GPU:
Nvidia 8600 GTS Power component failure
Nvidia GT 440 POS card from day 1, too loud. Finally got frustrated with it in 2014 and purposefully murdered it with dogecoin mining.
Nvidia GT 640
RAM -
4x1GB of ancient DDR2 memory. Since my computer is 32bit, 1GB of the memory is reserved for hardware stuff, effectively meaning I have only 3GB of RAM. So a lot of the time I'm waiting for stuff to switch in and out of the swap file. Loading times are
painful.
PSU -
Maximum 375W. This is an incredibly low power limit, so whenever I've had to swap graphics cards I'd have to do lots of research to get something that can run with this low limit. Unfortunately, the trend these days for graphics cards is "BIGGER AND MORE POWER", the low end is very ignored =(. Personally I think it's a very good reason for consoles to continue to exist, no need to worry about dropping 1k for a decent games machine or parts.
OS -
Windows Vista 32bit. The best UI and file directory structure of any Windows OS, no forced online cloud stuff, no strange "Libraries" directories as added in W7, no stupid services reshuffling from W8. I wish this thinking still existed at Microsoft, but its not happening. Support ends in 2017 so I'll have to get something new before then. Probably W8.1.
Motherboard -
Whatever generic OEM motherboard. It's based on ancient standards like the first generations of SATA and PCI Express........doesn't help loading times in games.
It has a floppy diskette port, I've actually used it before.
I have a sound card in a PCI slot, and a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card in a x1 PCIe slot.
HDD - 2x320GB. No head crashes in the 8 years I've had them, despite writing 100TB to the secondary over its lifetime. This seems miraculous to me having read countless stories of how bad and unreliable HDDs are.
SDD - None. Vista has no idea what those are.
Monitor - 21" 1680x1050 Dell generic. It has terrible support for most resolutions that aren't 1680x1050. 640x480 works perfectly fine for some reason, which is good because JP indie game devs have no idea higher resolutions exist.
Pleb tier wired mouse and a 13 year old PS/2 keyboard. Still works so no reason to replace.
Your new nightmare XXVII:
Hybrid Mode
