First post, by ifkz
A few months ago Dad and I sat with an old family friend of ours for some good 'ole Texas BBQ. During the conversation I mentioned my new hobby of vintage computers and he mentions having one in his garage! I met up with him the other day and received the latest addition to my stable (or is it a harem?). My second Gateway 2000 branded machine with the specs of a Pentium 120, floppy, CD, soundblaster, a PCI video card, 1.5GB hard drive, Windows 95, and...a DAT tape drive? That's the first one of those I have seen since my work server back in the late '90s. I don't know if I should pull it and replace it with a spacer or keep it as-is. Another oddity is that the CPU has only a heatsink for cooling, it is not actively cooled with anything but a dust clogged case fan. I have some questions that have been kicking around it my head:
Should I worry about replacing the CPU thermal past after all of these years? Initial research is leaning towards a 'no' unless the heatsink is removed.
Should I add an active cooling fan to the CPU? Any good for sale links?
Should I pair this with a 3dfx Banshee or upgrade the PCI video card to something more along the lines of an ATI Rage II?
Is there a Vogons approved top games list separated by CPU? From memory Quake, Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3-D, and Descent would be ideal on this hardware. I am always looking for new fun games to play that I might not know about.
