The oldest games I actually played on my first PC, being a 286, were Wolfenstein 3D, Ken's Labyrinth, Commander Keen and Duke Nukem 😀
So to explain why this build is taking so looooong: I have been quite busy in migrating to a new main rig. Well, not completely new of course. I almost never buy a rig completely new; waste of money. I bought me a mint condition Acer Predator Crusader II system. I immediately upgraded it with a GA-X58A-UD7 board, running a XEON X5650, paired to a brand new and shiny Gigabyte R9 390 😀 😀 😀 (had to buy that one new because that's the only model that fits the chassis).
So anyway, that has taken a lot of time obviously but I'm in the final stages now where I have it up and running the way I want. In between migrating from old main rig to new one, I scored some cool hardware. As stated before I'm going to build 2 systems at once, both extreme high-end for their time; one AthlonXP 3200 paired to the MSI GF3Ti500 and one Athlon64 X2 3800+ coupled to the MSI GF4Ti4800. They will both be true MSI machines as the XP will be running the full blown hi-end black and beautiful MSI Delta2 Platinum board, while the A64 will be running on an awesome MSI Neo2 Platinum board.
I still have to check the condition of the GF4 and the Delta2 because they are not perfect. Hopefully they still run...
On top of that I still have an Abit IC7-Max3 system aside, running a P4 3.0 . Some sticks of DDR550 memory are ready to be popped in and last but not least I managed to buy a brand new, never used, boxed with all accessories, Abit FX5900 card. So that will make a sweet rig too. But probably not for anytime soon. Both Athlon builds will surely require a hefty amount of time to assemble and setup properly.
Furthermore I scored a cool time period correct Pentium II chassis. I can put in my PII or PIII in this one, running a pair of Voodoo2's. So that's nice to look forward to.
And then I still have to find the time to do some cool upgrades to my Dell XPS 720 H2C too. Talking about luxury problems 😁 😁
Heresy grows from idleness ...