Reply 20 of 22, by fronzel
Before you spend a single dollar i would try to rethink what you really wanna do with it. As you already discovered - for DOSBox it's just fine, can really run everything with it and not have problems.
Sure you could add a geforce 9XXX and have a wide variation of games from the early 2000s. But are these really what you are after?
Yeah you could hunt down a geforce and some RAM and maybe even a bigger HDD and whatever. Of course you could also install Windows 7 - but how much fun is that actually on a singlecore? AT least after you installed a virus scanner you will probably not have too much fun with it. A used dualcore system is like 50-100 bucks on ebay so maybe before you start spending a small fortune in parts I would think about selling the system and rather buying a new one. For a "gaming machine" as in "halfway recent gaming" it sure is a bit aged. Imho you'd have more fun with a beaten-up dual or quadcore and just throwing a cheap geforce 430 GT (like 50 bucks) into it.