First post, by appiah4
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A bit of a backstory..
2004-2006 is a strange period for me. In 2004 I was running an AthlonXP 2500+ Barton and a Radeon 9800PRO.. However in early 2005 I was drafted into the army, so I sold off my 9800PRO. By the time I was back home a year later I was a lot more interested in the XBOX 360 than I was in PC hardware - the consoles were a terrific price/performance proposition at the time, so I spent a good deal of 2006 playing my backlog on my AthlonXP 2500+ and a second hand Radeon X1600PRO AGP. My next PC upgrade would be to an Athlon64 X2 4200+ and an ill advised Radeon HD2600PRO in 2007. In the meantime, I completely missed out on the Socket 754/940 and Socket 939.
This build is my attempt at trying to get a feel of what PC hardware was at the time (2004/2005 specifically) when I was really not paying attention. I went for Socket 754 because I wanted to experiment with the later AGP cards rather than the early PCI-Express ones, which I already have experience with on the AM2 platform.
I first set out to build it as a 2004 PC, but I did not own an X800 Series card at the time. By the time the whole build was done and Windows XP was set up, I owned an X800XT PE, but I stuck to the X1950PRO regardless, as it is the fastest native AGP card there is (I also own the HD3850 AGP and HD4650 AGP but did not feel like messing around with their PCI-Express to AGP bridge chips and drivers).
I use this PC to play shader heavy games of the late Windows XP era like Doom 3, Half Life 2, Halo:CE and the like. It is impressive how snappy the Windows XP experience is with a fast single core CPU, the fastest there is for the Socket 754 actually (which was traded to me by a fellow Vogoner, thanks to you once again!).
Anyway, this is it:
System Specs
ASUS K8V Deluxe
Athlon64 3700+
2GB DDR400
HIS Radeon X1950PRO AGP
Creative Audigy2 ZS
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