I think iam hording too. But i only buying specific parts i only would mostly use on the computers iam building on.
If iam busy on one platform, iam not going to build two systems on the same platform.. I know i have space to do my things here.. But its not unlimited.. So i need to decide which systems iam going to build..
For the first dos games iam building on my NEC V20 XT system ( with the turbo button i can slow it down as a normal speed XT one, with turbo i can do the faster things on it)
My second system would be a 286 -12 system iam going to use it for every game that wouldnt run on de XT , or is to speedy for my 386 system.
My third system would be the 386 DX 40 mhz system, iam going to use it for every game thats to slow for my 286 system and for every 386 game
My fourth system would be the 486 system (iam not out which cpu iam going to use, but need to figure that out, whats best for me.
My five system would by more the time period of windows 95, it would by an 200 - 233 Mhz mmx system.
Then we had a long windows 98 se period.. So i decided to build two systems for this.
The slowest would be an Pentium III 550 Mhz (its still Pentium II 400, because of 2 voodoo SLI i prefer make it a little bit faster..)
The fastest windows 98se (iam also want to trying windows me instead) i think i would go on a dual boot with windows xp sp3. (this on two seperate disks)
This system would be build on S462 platform. (why?, i thought about to go for a Pentium III 1400 system as well, but those parts where very rare and expensive to get. The first socket DDR1 board did had 6 pci slots. later it changed to 5 slots instead.. For everyting i wanted to install in this computer i didnt had any pci slots left on the system board.. So i decided that it would a better idea to go for an intergraded NIC solution on de board it self so i saved one pci slot on this solution. And to make this build more special, i want to water cool it.. The bad side is that i need to change to case.. I have still have an old coolermaster HAF932 case here ( i wanted to sell it, but want to keep it to house this system in, this case would give me advantage for water cooling. ( in the older case i didnt had the space for water cooling)
The last system would be a total 32-bit fast system on S775 and QX9650. Its running already, but i need to make some improvements on this system. Iam also think of dual boot this system.. So it could to latest period of windows xp and to whole windows 7 32-bit period..
So with all of this systems i covered a whole period of gaming!
~ At least it can do black and white~