My friend was walking down the street a few days ago and found a HP D530 SFF on the street. Since he knows I will take any tech, he gave it to me
. My plan is to try maxing it out as much as I can.(For 2005-1999 gaming)
MODS: I decided to come here since this is pretty old tech('03), not to mention I'll have to deal with people on TomsHardware/other MacRumor forums going on and on about how this computer is old and not worth it(if I haven't made it clear, it doesn't matter to me).
It has some good specs, and runs Windows XP pretty fast. It is AGP 8X(5V volt only)slot.
Pentium 4 2.53ghz
1GB DDR
Intel 82865G Graphics
(Intel GPU…)
40GB HDD
I want to throw in a Pentium 4 Extreme 3.4Ghz(hopefully the cooling will handle it, if not just go buy another cooling fan). I haven't used AGP slots at all, nor have any knowledge on it so I am not sure what to get(being that this is a SFF makes my life even harder
)
Some games I want to play are Half Life(82865G should handle it),Doom,Quake.
Some heavy ones, Red Faction, FEAR, Half Life 2(Surprisingly not that demanding but the G82 won't handle it I assume.)
Maybe chuck OS X on it

MODS: I decided to come here since this is pretty old tech('03), not to mention I'll have to deal with people on TomsHardware/other MacRumor forums going on and on about how this computer is old and not worth it(if I haven't made it clear, it doesn't matter to me).
It has some good specs, and runs Windows XP pretty fast. It is AGP 8X(5V volt only)slot.
Pentium 4 2.53ghz
1GB DDR
Intel 82865G Graphics
40GB HDD
I want to throw in a Pentium 4 Extreme 3.4Ghz(hopefully the cooling will handle it, if not just go buy another cooling fan). I haven't used AGP slots at all, nor have any knowledge on it so I am not sure what to get(being that this is a SFF makes my life even harder
Some games I want to play are Half Life(82865G should handle it),Doom,Quake.
Some heavy ones, Red Faction, FEAR, Half Life 2(Surprisingly not that demanding but the G82 won't handle it I assume.)
Maybe chuck OS X on it
