2004 Gaming PC

Figo · 28 Nov 2016 at 08:39

Ok, for something a little different...

Dug this out from my parents loft.. my 2004 Gaming Rig

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AMD64 3200+
1Gb DDR
Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb

Figo · 28 Nov 2016 at 08:48

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Please forgive teenage me's interperetation of "cable management"

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And violla... a refurbed 9800 Pro.

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Figo · 28 Nov 2016 at 09:06

Forgot how much a pain the old AMD heatsinks were when it came to removing it, the 12 year old TIM on the cpu was near enough gone and a build up of grease/dust was evident. Really not hard to see why heatpipe designs took off when you see how thick and heavy that big block of aluminium is!

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Figo · 28 Nov 2016 at 09:09

The HDD was throwing up some errors, sounded like a grinder too so after getting to the desktop and trying to update steam and write to it, it started acting a little funny. None the less, that laptop you see in the first picture was what replaced my desktop back in thebday, and it's screen subsequently died.

Bit it turns out I did a fresh OS install just before it died so I'll be hooking that 2.5" 5400rpm speed demon of a drive up as a make shift measure to make sure nothing else is borked!

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I did have a little laugh to myself at "SeaMonkey" browser... Old Skool