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The youngest hardware can not be any younger than mid/late 2006. I'm looking for hardware that was available to PC gamers at the time the PS3 and 360 were first launched.
Alright, I am working on a project here and I don't really want to spend much money on this. With that being said, I will pay to have the hardware shipped to me; but that's really all I would be willing to do.
Now my project involves using hardware from ~2005 and running various gaming benchmarks on it. Mostly modern games just to see how well old PC hardware compares with modern PC games. Since I'm not intending to make any money off this, nor do I need it to play games since the rigs in my signature are more than capable, I don't want to drop a lot of money into this project.
What I have is: a couple quality PSUs to power the hardware, naked bench to house the games, a very large Steam library (~100) modern and old games to run benchmarks on, Windows XP Home license, Windows 7 Fee Trials.
All I need is;
Various CPUs, motherboards, RAM and video cards to see how well old hardware works on modern games.
I intend to test these on various resolutions, including 720P and 1080P.
My shipping zip is 39564.
Let me know what you have.
What I am doing is proving whether or not a PC gamer really needs to upgrade his hardware every ~2 years to keep up with games unlike a console which can play games despite being on hardware from 5 - 6+ years old.
Hardware acquired so far:
HP LGA 775 Motherboard w/ Intel Pentium D 920 Dual Core CPU
2GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia 6200 PCI-e GPU
HP 478 Motherboard w/ Pentium 4 2.0Ghz CPU (Northwood)
512MB DDR RAM
Project main thread: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1736004
To see what I am doing here.
Alright, I am working on a project here and I don't really want to spend much money on this. With that being said, I will pay to have the hardware shipped to me; but that's really all I would be willing to do.
Now my project involves using hardware from ~2005 and running various gaming benchmarks on it. Mostly modern games just to see how well old PC hardware compares with modern PC games. Since I'm not intending to make any money off this, nor do I need it to play games since the rigs in my signature are more than capable, I don't want to drop a lot of money into this project.
What I have is: a couple quality PSUs to power the hardware, naked bench to house the games, a very large Steam library (~100) modern and old games to run benchmarks on, Windows XP Home license, Windows 7 Fee Trials.
All I need is;
Various CPUs, motherboards, RAM and video cards to see how well old hardware works on modern games.
I intend to test these on various resolutions, including 720P and 1080P.
My shipping zip is 39564.
Let me know what you have.
What I am doing is proving whether or not a PC gamer really needs to upgrade his hardware every ~2 years to keep up with games unlike a console which can play games despite being on hardware from 5 - 6+ years old.
Hardware acquired so far:
HP LGA 775 Motherboard w/ Intel Pentium D 920 Dual Core CPU
2GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia 6200 PCI-e GPU
HP 478 Motherboard w/ Pentium 4 2.0Ghz CPU (Northwood)
512MB DDR RAM
Project main thread: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1736004
To see what I am doing here.
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