Gaming box...out of semi spare parts

[Santilli]

Hi guys.
I've been looking around the house, and I have a bunch of stuff.
Plextor DVD and CD-rom, scsi, and 2906 card.
P-650 Matrox card
Voodoo 5500
Matrox P-450
Adaptec 2940 UW card
Promise 133 ATA card

I'm wondering what AGP motherboard, box, ram, and processor, I could use to build a gaming box?

Anyone have eyes on, or have, used stuff for sale?

thanks

GS

PS: David, got any boxes you want to sell?

 

[Mercutio]

There's nothing in that collection of parts that looks like it belongs in a gaming box, Greg.

At the moment I'd say a solid entry-level gaming machine would be something like...

Athlon64 3000 on a K8T800-based motherboard
1GB RAM
Some kind of DX9-capable card (I like the Radeon 9550, but a "real" gamer would call one of those too slow to be useful)
80GB Drive

That's not exactly something that people would have sitting around, used.

 

[ddrueding]

I'm putting a Gigabyte 6800 fanless on the market starting now...

Newegg is selling it for $264 yours for $200 plus shipping. Believe me, this will go a long way towards a gaming machine

 

[Santilli]

Well, you are both right.

I've just jumped off the deep end, and picked up ATI 700X and an 800XL.
I've use the prior with the 1.4 ghz I have at school, and the later I just installed in my home machine. Both 256 mb of ram.

Quake 3 is like an entirely different game, and speed. I've been downloading, and playing, high definition trailers, that wouldn't run on the Matrox P650. I've lost one monitor, down to two, but, I run both of those at 1280X1024. Not as crystal clear as the P650 at billions of colors, but pretty close.

Now I have to try and figure out the ATI software, which, this time, I did just a driver install.


I've been playing with the kids at break, using old games, like Quake 2, No one lives forever, etc. and they are really a different generation from the people teaching them. I'm not bad at this stuff, but, in the middle of the silicon valley, we don't have any computer courses at perhaps the best public high school in the United States, Mission San Jose High School.

That said, it's a great hook to get them involved in reading, and learning academic, or at least computer academic, vocabulary.

I've got two machines, and, I can bring my mac in for them this week as well.

I was hoping to try and put together a couple more boxes, but, you are right.

Thanks

Greg

PS
David I've got to bounce down and have a look around. I just dropped 550 on video cards, so the timing is a bit off. I was considering taking the Voodoo 5500 and the P650, and using them on medium old boxes for games. But, the components have to be pretty low end.