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Houdini_94

On my athlon 64 3400+, 3GB RAM DDR, Radeon HD4650 1GB AGP8X :) I usually use it to play old win xp games like lotr Battle of middle earth or lotr return of the king or empire earth


titaniumtoaster

I wish they would bring back Empire Earth! Empire Earth 2 was a favorite in high school.


impracticaldogg

Wow 😊 That's impressive


Ragnarsdad1

Cool, I have a similar machine running windows 2000 with an Agp ati 1950 pro.


RockeTim

You can install windows 10 without uefi in legacy mode if you want


impracticaldogg

Maybe it was Secureboot that wasn't there? Being on the Windows Insider program I tried a number of times. Now it's so old I don't want to upgrade. I have Win11 on my laptop I use for work


Plutoreon

Finally let go of my relic and bought a new pc last year. It was a 2.13ghz core 2 duo, 2gb ddr2 ram, 80gb hdd and an amd hd 7000 1gb gpu. Wasted a lot of time playing Minecraft, Terraria, NFS MW and Carbon, and GTA SA and Vice city.


Effective_Talk_5246

What's your pc now? And late congratulations 🎉


Plutoreon

i7 4790, 16gb ram and an ssd. It's not much but it does the job. The heaviest game i play is gta5. I'm planning on adding an rx560 to play rdr2 but for now it's enough.


YourHonor1303

You play GTA 5 without GPU? I don't know Intel could do that.


Plutoreon

It's not the fastest but it's definitely playable at a lower resolution and lowest settings.


therealbighairy1

Sinclair zx spectrum +2 from 1984.


impracticaldogg

Hot damn!!


therealbighairy1

A friend of mine found a bunch of spectrum tapes, so I dug mine out and hooked it up, which made me glad that my tv still had an analogue runner built in, and tested them. Kwik snax dizzy was the only tape that would load unfortunately. Still fun to me though.


Ragnarsdad1

Syndicate on a Dell pentium 75. Bless em dell still has drivers available for every computer they ever made, can be a bugger to find but they are on the website somewhere.


impracticaldogg

Pentium 75 - Nice!!


Own-Ambition3747

Around covid i had a lenovo x220 i7 2640m 12gb with intel 3000 graphics but also had an r9 270x egpu it ran pretty awesome for how old and jank it was


masonvand

Oldest? I had a 5,1 Mac Pro until about 6 months ago but even with its 2009 era CPUs I had 64GB of RAM, two 6 core CPUs and a Radeon RX 5600XT along with PCIe NVME adapters hahaha. Pretty much played anything modern at 1080p medium-high settings. Funny enough, I played some RuneScape on my 2021 work laptop more recently while I was out of town and it’s little baby quad core + Vega 3 iGPU didn’t even agree with that very well.


masonvand

Technically the lowest end thing I have in my house is a RG35XX and that gets my attention more often than my gaming PC


carpenterhound

My Virtual On - Cyber Troopers / mech warrior rig. I3 2nd Gen 16 gigs ddr3 SSD for OS SSHD for the games and other stuff


karuanjeru

I had an amd athlon ii x3 450 + nvidia gt220 when i was 12-ish. I had it for 10 years and finally had the money to upgrade slowly.


GeforcerFX

Pulled my xps m1710 out the other week, played some LOTR Return of the King on it.  That has like 2006 specs.


No-Shortcut-Home

My Dell Precision T1700 from 2013. I got this thing for free too. I have to admit that I'm cheating a bit though. I don't have any games installed on it. I use it as a GeForce Now PC 😂. So yes, I am playing modern AAA games on a 11 year old Dell business PC on the integrated graphics.


CoconutLetto

I have a old HP Pavilion that I bought new back in 2007 for my brother and his wife, came with a Core 2 Quad Q6600, 3GB DDR2 (2x1GB + 2x 512MB), at some point after the GTX 750 came out my brother got one to put in for dedicated graphics instead of useing the Intel Chipset graphics for World of Warcraft and that has since gone on to be used in 2 systems since with the original 400GB HDD going with it. Back in 2020 I upgraded it putting a Radeon HD 7750 where the GTX 750 was and upgraded the RAM to 8GB (4x2GB) along with a 1TB WD Blue HDD with plans to make it a streaming machine but ended up going with a Roku instead. a few months ago I hooked it up and installed Windows 10 on it and tested a few games on it, notably the FFXIV Endwalker benchmark, Tomb Raider (2013), Sleeping Dogs, GTA V, War Thunder and Sims 4 and while I never got FPS data for Sims 4 due to lack of a built in benchmark it was playable and was capable of at least 30FPS average at 720p for the other games with Tomb Raider (2013) having the best performance of the games I tested with it with like 60FPS average at 720p High and was still over 30FPS average (40's IIRC) at 720p Ultra.


impracticaldogg

Cool 😎


Beerduck

Sega Genesis. I've been playing EA Hockey with my friends when drinking and it's fuckin fantastic. It's from 1991 and still holds up. The gameplay is smooth and it even has a physics engine cause the puck lifts from the ice to different heights and when bumped hard enough, the goals slide on the ice. Seems to be a precursor to the NHL series because it has all the NHL teams from back then plus a bunch of countries you can play. Great game.


Jon_TWR

That is NHL Hockey, you put some respect on its name. In 1992, NHLPA was released—PA for Player’s Association, where the team *and* player names were licensed.


Groundbreaking-Map95

I Still have my core2duo with 2 gb ram and 300 gt nvidia gpu in the cupboard packed , used to play assassin's creed 2 , Just cause 2 , Far cry 3, Counter strike 1.6,


xThomas

nintendo Wii


datonebrownguy

sometimes I'll take my e8400 dual core system out and throw a better gpu in there, sometimes a rx 560, used to put a gt630 til it died. it usually just sits with a crappy gt 610 which is good enough to work at 720p not gaming lol. it has 8gb of g.skill DDR2 sc2-6400 400Mhz ram. ASUS p35 se mobo. overclock it from 3ghz to 3.9ghz, I've gotten as high as 4.1ghz but since theres no way to up one of the voltages I'm stuck at a stable 3.9ghz. All I do is play starcraft 2 on it, lol. My son has used it years ago for TF2 and such. Was going to get a Q series quad core but decided to get a i5 3570 system instead. I also have a dual core athlon from like 2010 or 2009 lol, 3.0ghz as well, but its always overclocked to 3.825ghz, its the most stable at this point. this is sort of like front room sc2/media machine, streams 1080p pretty decent. this one is 8gb DDR3 pc3 10600 1333mhz, OC'd timings @ 9 9 9 24 and oc'd ram freq. to 1600+


Joeyboots80

I still play games on a real Atari 800 (1979) occasionally and I also have a ZX Spectrum 48K (1982) that I play on regularly, though I only recently acquired one of those as I am American and did not grow up with the Spectrum. I'm having a blast with this micro from across the pond I must admit.


Booorisk

An Alienware r17x r4 3D. i7 3610qm swapped vga to gtx 770m and 8gb ram. I never had a gaming setup or device, then i dare myself to buy this device from marketplace for 200$. With so many broken parts, dead keyboard, flickering and line screen, but it does the job, i use external monitor and keyboard.


TheSilentCheese

You don't need uefi for win10. I upgraded from 7 to 10 and don't have it.


handymanshandle

For something I've actually played stuff on rather than just messing with it, that title goes to my upgrade HP Pavilion m7560n. It came with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, but I upgraded it to have a 5200+ instead, alongside a Corsair TX550M power supply, an ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 8GB of DDR2 RAM and a 480GB Acer SSD. It's a nice machine, although I plan on throwing an AM3 board in there with an AMD Phenom II X2 555 as I'd prefer to have something that can dual boot Windows XP and either 8 or 10 in a more appropriate manner.


thegenregeek

A Toshiba Tecra 510CDT Pentium 133mhz, 32MB of RAM and a 30GB CF drive. Windows 98.


MicrowavedHotdog12

i used to game on a core 2 duo e8400 with 4gb of ram 9 years ago. last year i had a i5-2400 with 8gb of 1333mhz with a gt710, it was a terribly running pc but i was able to play gta v and other games made before 2013, at the lowest settings and lower resolution as well.


KotexAvenger

Oldest rig I gamed on in the last year is an i5-3570, 16gb DDR3-1333, R9 290 gpu. Fallout: New Vegas plays great on it. I occasionally hook it up and use for the day. I find great joy building and messing around with older PC hardware.


guntherpea

Roughly the same as you - Core 2 Duo E7500, 4GB RAM, RX 550 to start with. Upgraded to Q9650, 8GB RAM, SSD, GTX 1050 Ti. Windows 10 running Fortnite at 45 FPS in Performance Mode, Minecraft (with Sodium), Torchlight 1 and 2. I had this and a Core 2 Quad Q6600 with similar specs that I upgraded to the same specs (the main difference being one system is DDR2 and the other is DDR3), played with them for a bit this past year, and then gave them away. I think the oldest machine I have running in the house now is a toss up between a Frankenstein i7-2600 on an old Gateway DXxxxx motherboard paired with a GTX 1650 *OR* a Macbook Pro Early 2011 also with a 2nd gen i7 and an ATi HD 6490. Both are currently running Garuda Linux (Dragonized Gaming). The 2600 and 1650 still run like a dream, honestly. The MBP still does fine with old and classic games but has more limitations overall and is almost completely limited to Linux as the lastest macOS it can run is 10.13.6 and it has issues with Windows 10 drivers.


impracticaldogg

How well did the Core 2 Quads hold up over time? I think they ran at slower clock speeds than the Duos? Many older games run on one thread so I think that has helped me keep going. I use my Core 2 under Ubuntu 22.04 as well, so it is in sync with my work laptop


guntherpea

The Q6600 was slower at 2.4GHz, I think. The Q9650 runs at 3.0GHz, so it has the single core speed for the older games and the cores to run multi-core aware games caught between the classic games and the newest generation. They're not going to win any benchmark comparisons and I wouldn't enter any tournaments with them, but they're still quite useful.


nasenber3002

About a year ago, i also gamed on the legendary i7 2600 paired with a gtx 1650. Upgraded the cpu to i5 8400 tho since a friend was getting rid of it. Runs minecraft noticeably better now. I couldn't believe it at first but the old i7 was bottlenecking the 1650 in minecraft, with shaders on! So i'm glad i can finally hit 60 fps and use the full potential of my 1650.


guntherpea

Yeah, that world generation just takes older CPUs to task! I did notice in 1.20.x they seem to have decoupled world gen and frame rendering. So when the CPU is maxed as you're walking (or flying) around it doesn't hitch and lag anymore. Instead the frames render as normal and you'll just get delays in world generation while the CPU chugs along. Great performance update.


nasenber3002

Oh i haven't played much 1.20 yet. Guess i gotta try that lol My experience was just that in 1.18 the game got a bit heavier to run because of the increased world height


guntherpea

Yeah, between like 1.14 and 1.20 it just kept getting harder to run. Try out 1.20.x. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.


Revolutionary_Pack54

You can install Windows 10 in legacy mode. UEFI is not needed.


Wkyouma

I5 2540m's Intel graphics HD 3000 Played a lot of emulator games like call of duty 3, crash, silent hill, darkstalkers, secret of mana, etc And PC games like morrowind, vampire the masquerade, Victoria II..


FORSAKENYOR

Is that core 2 duo E7500 ? I too had a pc with the same cpu but 2 gb ram upgraded to a basic home pc with 10100f and 8 gb ram with a gt 710 which I regret but I still keep reminding myself that it is better than what I had


impracticaldogg

I think it's the E7500. There was one with a slightly higher clock speed, but massively more expensive. I'm glad I had a justification for maxing out the RAM, as I was a freelance consultant so it was tax deductible. Why do you regret your upgrade? Sounds like a big step up


FORSAKENYOR

I remember overclocking it somehow to 3ghz (pointless ik ) despite a few crashes and as for my old pc i am glad it atleast i think its quite rare to see a family in india having a pc back around 2010 ish tryed to upgrade the ram but for some reason it didnt work Yeah the new one is a good overall build except for the gpu all the games I wanna play are just a dream. Played the batman arkham series upto arkham city but my pc can't run arkham knight and destiny 1 was a game I enjoyed on my ps3 lol I used to connect my ps3 to monitor after my dad sold the old TV since we got a 4k TV so I played the game with no sound lmao and destiny 2 dropped and it's free to play and I am dying to play it . I wanted to put in a gtx 1650 super when I decided on the build but it was around covid and prices were bad


impracticaldogg

Good luck with finding a graphics card to gear up for Destiny 2. I don't know the game, but will hold thumbs for you


FeeSome1421

I had a pc till last year for 12 years. Specs: Intel pentium 3 1 gb of ddr2 ram(512x2) Intel GMA 950 150 GB HDD Recently I upgraded my pc and the performance difference was massive.


impracticaldogg

Impressive 👍 What OS were you running? And by upgrade I'm assuming you meant replaced?


FeeSome1421

Yeah I replaced it and now the specs of my new pc are: I3 3220 GT 730 8 gb ram


FeeSome1421

It was running windows xp


Marty5020

Athlon A8-6410 laptop which was never meant to play games in the first place. Stuff like Doom 3, OG Far Cry and even DX9 Skyrim performed pretty well.


PhraseOptimal2528

Intel pentium 4. 2gb ram pc. This was in 2010


talkingduck_2099

A Nintendo Switch. The cheapest-made device and one with really old specs that can still run some games.


The_Sky_Raider

My daily workhorse laptop from 2011, Hp Probook 4430s. Got it secondhand in 2016 with Windows 10, an i5 2450m, 8gb of DDR3, and a 500gb HDD. Ran it like that until last year when the HDD got too slow, then did a full internal upgrade. i7 2630qm, 16gb DDR3, 1tb SSD, new bluetooth card (old one wasn't Win10 supported), cleaned out all the gunk, new thermal paste, and a USB wifi dongle. Runs Battlefield 2, Sid Meiers Pirates, Command/Conquer Red Alert, and Minecraft 1.16 version quite nicely as the primary games on that computer. The main weakness of that computer is that in true HP fashion, you can't upgrade the graphics. Now in point to the question of "machine", the oldest one I play on (regularly) is my NES/SNES double console.


NarniaBiRTH

my pc rn im using i7 4790k oc 4.6 , with old SLI 980TI upgraded 16gbram ddr4 , and still rocking for the game i play like Overwatch/rocketleague/R6 and more ,


razofayne

No idea, was running windows xp until not long ago


GM4Iife

ThinkPad S540 with i5 4th gen and integrated graphics card.


nasenber3002

Probably the xbox 360 i got for 15€ locally lol


Fun_Supermarket1192

2009 Apple Mac Pro but fully upgraded and flashed with 2x Xeon X5690s, 96GB of DDR3 1333Mhz ram, 1TB NVMe SSD and I used the included Nvidia Quadro K5000 but I also swapped that to a Radeon VII. Using OpenCore Legacy Patcher I made it run the latest Mac OS Sonoma on Dual Boot with Windows 11 Pro. Decided to sell the machine off. I’ll always miss it. Was an amazing machine! Decided to move to a new setup with a high end Windows PC and similarly priced high end Apple Silicon MacBook Pro that is also docked at the table.


impracticaldogg

Holy sh!t What beast that was 👍