I've been here on my PII rig (450mhz, 64mb ram and a Radeon 9250) but the site's layout was broken quite heavily in IE5. Currently browsing/posting from my Latitude C800 laptop (P3 800mhz, 128mb ram and some ATI mobility chipset), I wish this thing was a lot more powerful, great scissor switch …

This sort of crap from MS is why I'm so opposed to Windows 10, sticking with 7 and might use 8.1 once it's support drops. I just hate how aggressive MS is being, regardless of the quality of their product. (Let's try not to get into a massive 10 page argument about Windows 10 again, please)

Get a later, either new or used WD IDE drive. Basically the Caviar Blue IDE drives, all of them are extremely reliable and definitely worth the money.

For me? (Just warning you all, n00b level cringe here :p) Once was at a Car boot sale a few years back (Well, actually around 7 years ago now, or so) and came across a COMPLETE Pentium Pro setup, including a nice keyboard, monitor and some software. So, dumb/young me decided to buy this system, the …

Their website is horrible when it comes to getting old drivers - while on nVidia's site you can still get everything for RIVA TNT and up. Also, AMD's drivers used to be garbage eons ago. Oh, and try getting proper drivers for Windows 8+ for Radeon HD 4x00 and below. I have a P4 system with a Radeon …

You could also just try some more modern titles, would be pretty interesting seeing some semi-modern titles running on a dual P3 system No idea of your GPU but maybe try Skyrim or Crysis, would be impressive to see if you could tweak them to the point of running smoothly on a system like that

Provided I can find OpenGL drivers, would Quake II run on it? What about Unreal? I think a Rage 128 Pro / Rage Fury would be more suited. Or go straight with a Radeon 7500 / 7000 / 8500. I don't have much experience with the ATI Rage but it's quite old, older than any cards I have ever used I think …

In 2008/9 or so, my main machine was a crap, mostly defective Acer Pentium M laptop I literally got out of a skip one time, considering it only had 256mbs of memory and a failing 20gb HDD, it served me well and it's basically the first machine I personally owned. Currently, my main desktop system is …

Have done a lot, keep going from "Wow this is awesome I love messing with older hardware" to "screw this, I'm just gonna use Dosbox/VM" Personally, I enjoy building and configuring hardware/software more than actually playing games most of the time, I have no idea why but I just do. Doesn't mean I …