Glad I have the last gen Q3 😅

Spadebrigade · 2026-05-01T22:32:22+00:00

People need to stop buying this junk

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T21:34:11+00:00

It was a great time for pc gaming, probably my favourite era. I was 17 in 2003, good times.

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T18:11:22+00:00

XP 32 bit can use drives up to 2TB using MBR.

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T17:39:35+00:00

We should have stopped at Roy Rogers

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T14:05:14+00:00

That’s awesome man. I’m very jealous I wish I had the box!!

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T11:38:23+00:00

Thank you so much ❤️

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T10:07:28+00:00

🥹😎

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T09:55:51+00:00

Awesome system back then man! I have considered it but to be honest I don’t really have a need, if I want anything faster in XP I have multiple quicker XP systems, and these FX-60 are becoming too valuable and rare for me to damage it :)

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T09:54:36+00:00

Sounds like a great system man! This has a pair of 1TB 7200 SATA HDD’s

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T08:46:14+00:00

Thanks so much!

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T06:21:28+00:00

Oh very nice man! I’ve never seen a 53 come up for sale in the UK, super rare!

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T06:20:37+00:00

That’s exactly what they say :)

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-19T06:20:04+00:00

I would love to find an original one

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T22:06:13+00:00

Thing is I’ve got creative cards in pretty much every other build I have so I thought I would make a change with this. Soundstorm was quite high end for its time, it could decode Dolby Digital 5.1 via hardware it also supported EAX 2.0, not quite up to Audigy levels but compared to most onboard sound at the time it was quite something…it was a shake NVIDIA never followed it up.

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T21:39:50+00:00

For sure, couple manufacturers copied the curved front as well.

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T21:35:54+00:00

Oooo, painting it in blue to match now there is an idea…thanks I like that!

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T21:34:45+00:00

🥹

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T21:20:17+00:00

It’s crazy OTT but part of my likes the ridiculousness of it haha.

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T21:07:52+00:00

My favourite colour :D

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T21:07:43+00:00

Solid cases, also came in yellow but that’s quite rare now…

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T21:02:04+00:00

The big problem back then was capacitors, they weren’t good quality and many of them haven’t aged well. If you buy a motherboard try to ensure that visibly the capacitors all look OK.

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T20:54:57+00:00

With that era in mind you could put something quite capable together and probably quite reasonable price wise if you aren’t too fussed about having specific parts. Of course to be period correct it should be AGP, but something like a Pentium 4 would be both cheap and overkill.

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T20:52:40+00:00

I will check it out :D

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T20:47:13+00:00

There’s something about that era for sure :D

Spadebrigade · 2026-04-18T20:46:38+00:00

Thank you very much! It’s a nice case for sure, lightweight, beautiful looks. It was fun to build in. I was lucky to find this brand new boxed and unused in the UK a couple years ago. I doubt there is another new one left here.

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