DOSjockey

I've got a problem...  LOL
 
The G20T just showed up a few months ago.  That thing is an absolute blast!  High miles and it didn't work, but I only paid to ship it so tossing a few more bucks at it wasn't offensive.  It's kind of hard to get me out of that thing now.  I just love driving it.  Tight manual transmission, and FWD with a wet-clutch LSD between the axles.  The thing just plain bites into corners like it's RWD, though.  It shouldn't be this good, but it is; even with 207,000 miles on the clock.  Hey, it was cheap.  If it pops tomorrow, it'll still be worth tossing in a replacement engine.
 
The Impala is undergoing extensive suspension modifications at the moment, to bring everything up to modern standards.  Yes, it's the same model featured in Supernatural.  Someone was eventually going to ask.  LOL  That's not why I bought it, though.  I saw it in the show, and thought I'd really like to own one.  The only reason I've (since that picture) been replicating the show car's appearance is because it'll crank up the price if I sell it at some point.
 
Almost thought about getting a custom plate that said "COMPNS8N" for the Jaaaaaaaaag (to quote Clarkson), given the long hood and flashiness.  LMAO  Nothing quite like a traditional, comfortable, leisurely fast grand touring convertible.  They're quite reliable, fun, and if you ever want one, the prices aren't too bad right now.  They're going up, though.
 
That Rover has been pretty much everywhere it wouldn't have to hop on a boat or plane to reach.  No little paragraph will describe that one.
 
Being from the Southeast US, I obviously keep a pickup truck.  Had two a while back, a 2000 Ranger (shouldn't have sold it) and I still have the '08 Dakota, but I can't stand the thing.  I've never liked it, but it was a tax purchase, I needed something right then, and it's was only about 8 grand brand spanking new.  Stupid move.  Should have sold that before the Ranger.
 
I've had some pretty insane vehicles, but I've grown to dislike owning anything that's too out of line.  It's tough to run them around towns, and I don't like to be the center of attention all the damned time.  You own a couple, and then you either get into the lifestyle or just can't stand the experience.  Hell, the Impala is bad enough, in that regard.  Blows my mind how much attention it gets, but when you roll all four of those windows down and hit the road on a brisk evening...  It's all worth it.
 
Right now, I've got my eye on the new Ridgeline to replace the Dakota.  I've been all over those things with a fine-toothed comb, and I'm satisfied that it will meet every requirement I have of a pickup these days, and they are NICE.  Quick little buggers, too.
 
In the end, nothing too expensive in the herd now, but they're all fun to drive and practical (minus fuel mileage); and fun is what matters.
 
Any car is special, so long as the owner enjoys it, and any car can be a blast to own if you just let yourself have fun.

Hell, my whole home is filled with HUE bulbs.  I'm a huge RGB fan, but not specifically for the reasons you might think.
 
RGB allows you to use any color light you like, wherever you like.  It also allows you to use none at all.
 
As a result, I favor the proliferation of RGB features.  For those times they're the right answer to an aesthetic problem, you've got them.  When you don't want them, turn them off.  This also lets more people with more tastes to enjoy the same products without conflicting with their own artistic vision.
 
Given a choice between otherwise identical cases; one with no lighting, one with single-color lighting, and one with full RGB lighting, I'll take the RGB case any time.
 
I'll also have it in my peripherals, to match.  My eyes are extremely sensitive, so a lighted keyboard prevents the bright monitor from obscuring the key cap legends.
 
As long as I'm having a lighted keyboard anyway, it may as well match the case, and so on...
 
RGB is good.

How's this to add to the "DOSjockey sucks" factor:  I got it for free.  LMAO  
 
It even came with a fancy display case (kind of like a tiny, glass-top humidor) and some development literature.  I wish I still had the extras, but there's just no finding replacement stuff like that.  At least I still have the drive.  I love those things.

Hehe.  Those I didn't buy individually.  I found a fellow that bought out an old computer repair center thinking he would turn it over for a quick profit...  Don't know how much he paid (thogh given his reactions, I suspect it was far too much in a storage bidding war), but I was able to convince him I was his only salvation, and scored all 5 pallets.  It was a gamble, as they were already re-packed and wrapped, but I promised I'd take them anyway.
 
4 hours and a box truck rental (it was raining) and I got to see what he'd hidden in there:  About twenty reams of dot matrix printer paper at the bottom of the stacks, along with another twenty or so boxes of internal records.  Whoever ran that shop was obsessive about bookkeeping.  LOL
 
Ended up with a ton of those boards.  I might end up using those for the Doom builds, actually; though I was kind of dreaming of going 486.  With these, though, they could be Quake machines as well without spoiling the Doom factor, and I can use ATX cases.  There is actually another row of boards behind the one you can see.  They were purchased as replacements, and never used.
 
I've got other stuff in the totes you can see, so far as motherboards are concerned; just not all in nice, easily organized boxes.
 
I'll get some more shots of the funny stuff I end up with in lots like that.  I had about 50 "Mouse Brand" mice, actually.  That was a riot.  LMAO  Buying like that when I see a big lot allows me to sell the stuff I don't need to pay for the stuff I actually wanted to get. 
 
Bright side:  In their attempts to bury wasted money at the bottom of piles, they always forget something cool that offsets the rip-off.  This dingbat left a fully functional Sansui A/V receiver from their halcyon days in there.  Yup.  That one hit the shops.  LOL

I don't have a YouTube account, so I can't really post up any gameplay videos.  Maybe Floatplane will allow me to do something like that at some point.
 
Too scared of Google, so I'm excited about the new platforms cropping up.  That's a conversation for another forum, of course, but I think it would be interesting to see someone actually running games on hardware that people tend to discount as producing unplayable results, when it's quite often not the case.
 
Not sure what that CPU will do as-is, without the over-clock; but I did run Oblivion for some time on the Thunderbird CPU I originally bought for the machine.  It's all I could afford, and I enjoyed it just fine.  You know, I might fire it up tonight and see if the game runs fine.
 
Here's the REALLY cool thing:
 
That motherboard is an ABIT NF-7 2.0.  Obviously pretty hot for the era, and at that time my favorite manufacturer.  I bought that at a MarketPro computer show in the King of Prussia, PA convention center from a very nice long-haired vendor.  I bought my first ATX motherboard from the same man.  This was when you picked on off the table and they built a system right there to prove they weren't selling dead hardware.  LOL Around 2008, or so, I went to another in Maryland, and while it was a ghost of what it used to be, that man was still there...  And I bought a spare NF-7 from him.  LMAO  Wish I could remember his name.
 
Wouldn't be surprised if someone here remembers buying from him, as well.
 
My word those shows used to be absolute bedlam.  Sodom and Gomorrah rolled into Chinese New Year and Mardis Gras.  Scantily clad women, pickpockets, stolen hardware for sale, people pulling RAM out of cardboard boxes to match sets, laser shows, VR booths (Cybermaxx was the cat's ass back then), alcohol, and ABSOLUTELY standing room only.  The parking lots were particularly "interesting".  Hehe...
 
Lots of fun.   

How's this to add to the "DOSjockey sucks" factor:  I got it for free.  LMAO  
 
It even came with a fancy display case (kind of like a tiny, glass-top humidor) and some development literature.  I wish I still had the extras, but there's just no finding replacement stuff like that.  At least I still have the drive.  I love those things.

Your PC is a high end and since everyone already answer try this.
 

Nothing to intense, made some custom vinyls with my rolland printer for the side of my case(I'm a car guy too lol), sticker bombed the front case with skateboard stickers and 3d printed a headphone mount, drilled and tapped a hole to hold it, used a M5 bolt with female hex cap to make it look nice and clean.
 
Its tasteful. Added pics to attachments.

I can't even run Oblivion on my P4 based LGA775 machine - its (free) PCX 5750 chokes on even minimum settings.

I don't have a YouTube account, so I can't really post up any gameplay videos.  Maybe Floatplane will allow me to do something like that at some point.
 
Too scared of Google, so I'm excited about the new platforms cropping up.  That's a conversation for another forum, of course, but I think it would be interesting to see someone actually running games on hardware that people tend to discount as producing unplayable results, when it's quite often not the case.
 
Not sure what that CPU will do as-is, without the over-clock; but I did run Oblivion for some time on the Thunderbird CPU I originally bought for the machine.  It's all I could afford, and I enjoyed it just fine.  You know, I might fire it up tonight and see if the game runs fine.
 
Here's the REALLY cool thing:
 
That motherboard is an ABIT NF-7 2.0.  Obviously pretty hot for the era, and at that time my favorite manufacturer.  I bought that at a MarketPro computer show in the King of Prussia, PA convention center from a very nice long-haired vendor.  I bought my first ATX motherboard from the same man.  This was when you picked on off the table and they built a system right there to prove they weren't selling dead hardware.  LOL Around 2008, or so, I went to another in Maryland, and while it was a ghost of what it used to be, that man was still there...  And I bought a spare NF-7 from him.  LMAO  Wish I could remember his name.
 
Wouldn't be surprised if someone here remembers buying from him, as well.
 
My word those shows used to be absolute bedlam.  Sodom and Gomorrah rolled into Chinese New Year and Mardis Gras.  Scantily clad women, pickpockets, stolen hardware for sale, people pulling RAM out of cardboard boxes to match sets, laser shows, VR booths (Cybermaxx was the cat's ass back then), alcohol, and ABSOLUTELY standing room only.  The parking lots were particularly "interesting".  Hehe...
 
Lots of fun.   

Here's my 3200+ machine when I was swapping the heat sink out.  Don't have a shot with the new one, but it looks nice in there.
 
Tried to keep it vintage inside, and resisted the urge to go all out.  Obviously it's not modded to perfection, but I think it's clean for the era.  I did tidy up the cables a bit down below, of course.
 
Couldn't help including one of those round IDE cables.  LOL
 
That's an original WD Raptor down there.  When I say original, I mean I was standing in line at the launch event, just by chance.  The thing still works just fine.
 

Bad few months for photography, as I'm relocating my retro computing selection from my warehouse to satellite storage.  I'd say about 3/4 isn't pictured, and unfortunately most of those are vintage games, more interesting hardware such as CPUs, video cards, my 40 Seagate 220s for 5100-Series PCs, pocket computers, wrist computers from the '80s, better condition monitors, and so on...
 
Not to mention my stock of floppy games and software that rolls into the late hundreds or early thousands.
 
To give you an idea, if you peer closely at one of these pictures, you'll see 18, fully functional Bernoulli Box disks.  I've got enough in here to set up a "LAN party" or workstation from any computer era that doesn't involve flipping 50 switches to create a simple program; so, about 1979 or so until today.
 
The PS/2 386 in the office is used regularly, as is the 5150 on that old desk; under which is a custom Athlon XP 3200+ rig that still works just fine today.
 
A grand total of around 1,150 square feet is currently dedicated to rack shelving solely supporting vintage computing gear, manuals, and software.  Not a single blue LinkSys router taking up space in there, either...  Man, I end up with so many of those to recycle.  Always at lest two in every purchase.  I take it all to get a better deal, and then spend days getting rid of the useless crap like that.  LOL
 
Maybe I can snap a few more shots of some of my favorite stuff.  I've got special, signature, and internal launch editions of nearly every Windows release there's been since 3.11; several framed, but I'll get to the rest when I paint my office.  1.0 is a bit of a serious luxury purchase, and I just haven't found the copy I want to spend a grand on yet...  LMAO

Here's my 3200+ machine when I was swapping the heat sink out.  Don't have a shot with the new one, but it looks nice in there.
 
Tried to keep it vintage inside, and resisted the urge to go all out.  Obviously it's not modded to perfection, but I think it's clean for the era.  I did tidy up the cables a bit down below, of course.
 
Couldn't help including one of those round IDE cables.  LOL
 
That's an original WD Raptor down there.  When I say original, I mean I was standing in line at the launch event, just by chance.  The thing still works just fine.
 

.... No

Got enough 845E Max boards? (Says the guy who has bought 2 IC7-G's in the past week.)

Here we are.  Found a shot of some framed stuff.
 
That's my Bill Gates "Signature" copy of Vista Ultimate on the right.  I actually liked Vista.
 
Lunar is one of my favorite games of all time, and that's my original copy for Sega CD on the left.
 
No surprise I've got one of the LGR floppies, either.  Of course I'm a fan; and yes, it's floated on a PC-Putty colored matte.  
 
Really digging the lithograph print from Bethesda replicating the original Doom artwork.  I didn't want to spend the cash, but...  I had to.
 
I only recently started actually decorating things here with my geeky stuff, so I'm still super-excited about it all.

Hell, my whole home is filled with HUE bulbs.  I'm a huge RGB fan, but not specifically for the reasons you might think.
 
RGB allows you to use any color light you like, wherever you like.  It also allows you to use none at all.
 
As a result, I favor the proliferation of RGB features.  For those times they're the right answer to an aesthetic problem, you've got them.  When you don't want them, turn them off.  This also lets more people with more tastes to enjoy the same products without conflicting with their own artistic vision.
 
Given a choice between otherwise identical cases; one with no lighting, one with single-color lighting, and one with full RGB lighting, I'll take the RGB case any time.
 
I'll also have it in my peripherals, to match.  My eyes are extremely sensitive, so a lighted keyboard prevents the bright monitor from obscuring the key cap legends.
 
As long as I'm having a lighted keyboard anyway, it may as well match the case, and so on...
 
RGB is good.

I've got a problem...  LOL
 
The G20T just showed up a few months ago.  That thing is an absolute blast!  High miles and it didn't work, but I only paid to ship it so tossing a few more bucks at it wasn't offensive.  It's kind of hard to get me out of that thing now.  I just love driving it.  Tight manual transmission, and FWD with a wet-clutch LSD between the axles.  The thing just plain bites into corners like it's RWD, though.  It shouldn't be this good, but it is; even with 207,000 miles on the clock.  Hey, it was cheap.  If it pops tomorrow, it'll still be worth tossing in a replacement engine.
 
The Impala is undergoing extensive suspension modifications at the moment, to bring everything up to modern standards.  Yes, it's the same model featured in Supernatural.  Someone was eventually going to ask.  LOL  That's not why I bought it, though.  I saw it in the show, and thought I'd really like to own one.  The only reason I've (since that picture) been replicating the show car's appearance is because it'll crank up the price if I sell it at some point.
 
Almost thought about getting a custom plate that said "COMPNS8N" for the Jaaaaaaaaag (to quote Clarkson), given the long hood and flashiness.  LMAO  Nothing quite like a traditional, comfortable, leisurely fast grand touring convertible.  They're quite reliable, fun, and if you ever want one, the prices aren't too bad right now.  They're going up, though.
 
That Rover has been pretty much everywhere it wouldn't have to hop on a boat or plane to reach.  No little paragraph will describe that one.
 
Being from the Southeast US, I obviously keep a pickup truck.  Had two a while back, a 2000 Ranger (shouldn't have sold it) and I still have the '08 Dakota, but I can't stand the thing.  I've never liked it, but it was a tax purchase, I needed something right then, and it's was only about 8 grand brand spanking new.  Stupid move.  Should have sold that before the Ranger.
 
I've had some pretty insane vehicles, but I've grown to dislike owning anything that's too out of line.  It's tough to run them around towns, and I don't like to be the center of attention all the damned time.  You own a couple, and then you either get into the lifestyle or just can't stand the experience.  Hell, the Impala is bad enough, in that regard.  Blows my mind how much attention it gets, but when you roll all four of those windows down and hit the road on a brisk evening...  It's all worth it.
 
Right now, I've got my eye on the new Ridgeline to replace the Dakota.  I've been all over those things with a fine-toothed comb, and I'm satisfied that it will meet every requirement I have of a pickup these days, and they are NICE.  Quick little buggers, too.
 
In the end, nothing too expensive in the herd now, but they're all fun to drive and practical (minus fuel mileage); and fun is what matters.
 
Any car is special, so long as the owner enjoys it, and any car can be a blast to own if you just let yourself have fun.

Bad few months for photography, as I'm relocating my retro computing selection from my warehouse to satellite storage.  I'd say about 3/4 isn't pictured, and unfortunately most of those are vintage games, more interesting hardware such as CPUs, video cards, my 40 Seagate 220s for 5100-Series PCs, pocket computers, wrist computers from the '80s, better condition monitors, and so on...
 
Not to mention my stock of floppy games and software that rolls into the late hundreds or early thousands.
 
To give you an idea, if you peer closely at one of these pictures, you'll see 18, fully functional Bernoulli Box disks.  I've got enough in here to set up a "LAN party" or workstation from any computer era that doesn't involve flipping 50 switches to create a simple program; so, about 1979 or so until today.
 
The PS/2 386 in the office is used regularly, as is the 5150 on that old desk; under which is a custom Athlon XP 3200+ rig that still works just fine today.
 
A grand total of around 1,150 square feet is currently dedicated to rack shelving solely supporting vintage computing gear, manuals, and software.  Not a single blue LinkSys router taking up space in there, either...  Man, I end up with so many of those to recycle.  Always at lest two in every purchase.  I take it all to get a better deal, and then spend days getting rid of the useless crap like that.  LOL
 
Maybe I can snap a few more shots of some of my favorite stuff.  I've got special, signature, and internal launch editions of nearly every Windows release there's been since 3.11; several framed, but I'll get to the rest when I paint my office.  1.0 is a bit of a serious luxury purchase, and I just haven't found the copy I want to spend a grand on yet...  LMAO

OMG I completely forgot I had this gem! Sadly the floppies no longer have good data on them.  I do have the original software though So I could shove it onto the floppies and use it if i can get them working  

 No thats not me on the receipt  

It's certainly seen better days, but here is my trusty old AT case which I bought for a dollar (plus shipping) from a guy in a case modding forum (pimprig.com) years ago.
I converted it to ATX, and some other mods, to house my Pentium 4 back in the day, and it's just about time to breathe some new life into it!

Bad few months for photography, as I'm relocating my retro computing selection from my warehouse to satellite storage.  I'd say about 3/4 isn't pictured, and unfortunately most of those are vintage games, more interesting hardware such as CPUs, video cards, my 40 Seagate 220s for 5100-Series PCs, pocket computers, wrist computers from the '80s, better condition monitors, and so on...
 
Not to mention my stock of floppy games and software that rolls into the late hundreds or early thousands.
 
To give you an idea, if you peer closely at one of these pictures, you'll see 18, fully functional Bernoulli Box disks.  I've got enough in here to set up a "LAN party" or workstation from any computer era that doesn't involve flipping 50 switches to create a simple program; so, about 1979 or so until today.
 
The PS/2 386 in the office is used regularly, as is the 5150 on that old desk; under which is a custom Athlon XP 3200+ rig that still works just fine today.
 
A grand total of around 1,150 square feet is currently dedicated to rack shelving solely supporting vintage computing gear, manuals, and software.  Not a single blue LinkSys router taking up space in there, either...  Man, I end up with so many of those to recycle.  Always at lest two in every purchase.  I take it all to get a better deal, and then spend days getting rid of the useless crap like that.  LOL
 
Maybe I can snap a few more shots of some of my favorite stuff.  I've got special, signature, and internal launch editions of nearly every Windows release there's been since 3.11; several framed, but I'll get to the rest when I paint my office.  1.0 is a bit of a serious luxury purchase, and I just haven't found the copy I want to spend a grand on yet...  LMAO