First post, by Almoststew1990
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- Oldbie
I started building my PII PC essentially because my main Windows 10 PC has trouble running games (DX8 and older I believe) full screen; I'd get a window / frame with the close button running these games, which means some of my bottom of my game is chopped off to fit the frame. However, my PII PC is not that stable, much slower than I anticipated (struggling with games that requires much slower hardware), a faff to install Windows 98, drivers etc...
In the end I cobbled together a S775 / Windows XP PC from spare parts I already had, which for gaming (so far!) has been absolutely perfect: I can play games from 1998 to 2005 at max settings at 75fps; it's very quiet due to the abundance of cheap aftermarket CPU coolers with large, slow fans, the ability to use relatively modern low end (i.e low power, quiet) PCI-E graphics cards like a nvidia 240, and the fact I can use a modern power supply; it's very cheaply as no one cares about S775 hardware right now; it's very stable as the hardware is relatively new; no driver issues; it can get on the internet easier to quickly download a patch; etc etc...
So why do we (yes I still have the urge to tinker with my PII PC... maybe switch to S370) build old PCs if it isn't to play games? Obviously pre-Windows 95 games are another issue...