I think this is a nice no-frills rig

. I've build 'boring' spare-parts systems myself several times, depending from what I had laying around and what I wanted to try out next and the Intel C2D is quite legendary.
In a way I prefer reading about these 'average' rigs instead of the ones that are maxed out over the top (though these have a charm of their own). I especially like that you simply used a 80GB mechanical HDD for your rig. It's not as rad as a modern SSD, but it works and I think the added loading times (even though they may be insignificantly slower compared to modern and faster drives) add to the experience.
I've never really minded longer loading times, it's the noise of these drives (not the coffee grinder, but the high pitched howling from hell) that I dislike

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RandomStranger wrote:FFXIhealer wrote:I really do like the fact that we have 10-year-old hardware in the Core 2 Quad and the Xeon quad-cores that are still PERFECTLY ABLE to run modern Windows 10 for everyday tasks and even gaming at 1080@60 with moderate graphics settings.
Yeah, I sort of find it odd that in earlier times if you had a 5 years old high-end setup, like a Pentium 1 or 2 with a Savage 3D, Voodoo 1 or whatever time correct card around 2000-2002, it was basically worthless trash for "modern" games. While today you can easily get by with a 6 years old 2nd gen i5 and a better GTX600 or HD7000 and not impossible to game with a 10 years old C2Q and a high-end Fermi or HD5/6000.
I am still using a Phenom II as my daily rig. It's been holding up for about 9 years now and I can still play modern games in it at low settings (though not the most demanding games anymore).