Hi yall. I'm an old skool overclocker with an old PC. I haven't felt the need to upgrade my system really in four years, but an upgrade is coming in the next year. Its nice to still be using a rig that's old and you built and tweaked yourself.

My rig is an old AMD Athlon Thoroughbred B XP-M1600. 45w 1433mhz. M/B DFI Infinity Rev1 Nforce2. 2x256mb ADATA BH5 CL2 DDR400 ram. now upgraded to 2x512mb Corsair BH5 CL2 DDR400 ram. Asus Geforce4 Ti4800 256mb Rev1.1 AGP8x graphics, Tagan 480w PSU, Coolermaster ATCS-201 case, random fans, Pioneer DVD+/-RW 16x x2, WinXP.

This rig has been in many states. In the early days I had it on a DIY watercooling rig that kept it really cool at 2.74-3.1ghz. BH5 ram is supreme overclockers ram, all of my sticks easily run 274mhz fsb (DDR548) at tight CL2 timings.

Nowadays I have it at 2470mhz 10x247 1.60v (from 1.45) on a modified Coolermaster 80mm HSF. I get about 40*c full load in a 26*c room.

It unrars a 700mb movie from 14mb rar files faster than a core2duo 1.73ghz 2gb ram laptop i used recently that had vista. I use a stripped, tweaked XP that runs well in low ram on slow processors. This OS is stripped so it can run on really old laptops with minimal ram. I use a slightly fuller setup but i have enough ram. It's always been close to silent or silent.

It does what I want it to for now, which is browsing the net, and storing/playback of video and music files. I have 2x500gb, 2x750gb and one 80gb C: Hard drives in it.

I posted this because of the upgrade to 1gb ram. I can feel the extra headroom it's given me. Tabbed browsing in IE still eats ram. I did it in the last hour.. Sticks kindly donated by a mate who has upgraded them out of his system. This system didn't cost too much when i bought it as the CPU was cheap, the graphics was a card someone had tried to modify, knocked a component off, and couldnt figure out how to get it back on. I resoldered the SMD resistor and fitted a arctic cooling rear exhaust cooler. I've spent extra cash on hdd's over the years but i consider a large hard drive array a necessity.

This system has run pretty much 24/7 since its build date 3-4yr ago. It ran 100% load for the first two years. Just shows that a well made pc can be useful for years.

Anyone else got similar here?