CPUs: AMD 386DX-30 486 DX-2 (60mhz I think?) Pentium 166 (IBM Aptiva) Pentium 166 MMX (Some Packard Bell that was given to me) AMD K6-2 300 AMD K6-2+ 550 Pentium III 600 Athlon Thunderbird 1400 (Heat Sink Clip let loose and the chip fried) Athlon XP-M 2400+ 1.8ghz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ AMD Phenom …

I overpaid for an Nvidia 8600gt. The performance was not even close to what I expected. Although it is now living happily in my media center PC. Had to purchase a convertible tablet PC as a requirement when I started college. Went out and got the HP tx1000... Out of everything on this list, that is …

I do also own an old IBM server system with dual 3.06ghz pentium 4-based xeons. Not sure of what core. Maybe Northwood? If anyone is interested I could drag that loud, noisy, hot beast out and run some benches. Didn't know if it would get any love on here, seemed to be a little overpowered compared …

Haven't been back here in a while! Here are a few 3DMark2001 runs. Geforce3 Ti500 Dual 1.4Ghz P3 1.5GB RAM Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Windows XP SP3 This one is just after getting the system all set up: http://imgur.com/yQOtKnH.jpg This one is after setting various things in the BIOS to "High …

I knew nothing about the mx300 previously. I did have a "plain" Aureal Vortex 2 a few years back. It is actually probably still in my closet somewhere. I do recall having some problems with XP drivers. Are there any major differences between the MX300 and a run of the mill sound board with the …

Here is a link to a few photos: http://imgur.com/a/ZJ6U2 I will look in to the MX300. Right now I am running the Live! with no issues. Probably will pop the Audigy in later. I went with Windows XP. Just fired it up, and I am very pleased with the speed of the setup. Deus Ex gave me a little trouble …

Just acquired a Gigabyte GA-6VTXD from the 'bay for a whole ten bucks. I already had the rest here. The system as it stands is as follows: Dual 1.4ghz Tualatin 1.5GB SDRAM GeForce 3 Ti500 100GB Hard Drive OS: Windows XP - I am considering dropping down to 2k Sound: Right now I am using an SB Live! . …

Going to throw together some others when I get home. However, going for raw speed on my main work PC. Core i7-2600 @ 3.4ghz - 10.867s Win7 64bit 12GB I have multiple older PCs at home that I will try and post later. New to the forum/site... I feel like I have found my people.