So, I got bored. I thought to myself, 'You know what I need? Another PC to play Source engine games on'.
So, half an hour of rooting around in cupboards, the loft, and the corners of my room, I have this:
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (going to overclock it when the GPU is finished)
512mb of RAM I rescued from a skip (Going to pull another 512 or even 1gb out of my media centre, Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't need 1.5gb)
Some VIA KT400 board
Radeon 9600 128mb (With an arctic cooling VGA cooler v3 I pulled out of a skip)
Samsung 80GB IDE hard drive I rescued from a skip. In perfect condition.
Some cheap case I rescued from a skip.
Let's just say, overclocking is much more fun when you don't care if it blows up The GPU is almost at 500mhz (stock is 324), and still going strong.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my 'blast from the past' When I'm finished, I might do this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFf7DCHH0aI