GM Week 2020 - Potato PC Setup Competition

Well I had to choose the most potato of them all.

I have an Acer Iconia windows tablet that plays eve (5 years old?)
I have my monstrosity in an eatx server case that is based on an Asus ROG maximus IV which has no nvme onboard support but I strapped one in there.
Or there is my biostar ddr2 1066 system with 8 gig of ram and a 200g HDD for windows and eve which is potato mode (my fall over system if this doesn’t work)
But then I remembered I had computer on a wooden board that ran eve re-read the post and realised OH&S would not like a computer sitting on a board (I’ll attach a photo of the board) so it’s going into an Antec case circa 2002? And I have to replace the HDD because apparently windows XP and a 20 gig HDD isn’t enough to play eve anymore.

So into the new case and a reinstall of windows is underway
(I’ll edit this post when I have the full specs and it’s up and running properly)

Partial system specs;

  • mouse classic A4 tech trackball mouse model ok-720
  • keyboard dell sk-8110 PS2 keyboard (I couldn’t find my classic PS1 keyboard found the adapter’s to make it fit on a PS2 port though.
  • monitor some old monitor that has a Dell brand on the front however lost the mount and the bake plate years ago.
  • case Antec 4ru rack mount server case
    -psu one Antec TP-480 Blue (it hasn’t exploded yet!)
  • disk drive one generic DVD ROM (IDE)
  • HDD (upgraded from the 20 gig mini ide drive) something without a label I’ll update when I know what’s the spec of the drive (80 gig drive?)
  • Ram some ddr2 ram no label no idea of capacity I’ll update when I know. (2gig possibly?)
    -CPU whatever was in this motherboard
    -network card- dual redundancy network cards with WIFI backup (PCI of course) I’ll get the spec if I can
  • one emergency shutdown power board with independent breaker for if this catches on fire.
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