Clearing out my flat and found a bunch of old gear that was left by a former flat mate. No idea what it's like or if it's even worth keeping...

So far identified:
PPentium D 3ghz
Geforce 9800gt, 512mb with vga, dvi and hdmi output. (plus a motherboard for those two)

Also a boxed gigabyte h61ma-d2v mobo, appears to be micro Atx and for Intel core chips.

Plus another tower that I haven't opened yet.

Other tower appears to be a Dell dimensions 5000 with some kind of unidentified p4 and an Asus graphics card that's maybe an 8500gt.

And an audigy sb0570. I'm thinking I may have the beginnings of a HTPC here...

One of them graphics cards will most likely handle hardware decoding. Stick it all together and try openelec.

Unfortunately, a "PPentium D 3ghz" is worth fuck all.

If, however, it was a 'Pentium D 3ghz' it would be worth Steve Manthorp travelling to north-of-the-border in order to shag your bum.

Thank heavens for the additional 'P', eh?

They're only s fiver on eBay, I didn't realise the Throb had pit his prices up that high!

As my TVs are only 720p I might get away with running some games on the 9800. Coupled with an i5 in that mobo and some rams and a cheap htpc case I may have a funky little movie and old games box.

I don't like the power figures for the pentium D - well over 100 watts!

Yeah those Pentium Ds are hungry. I've got a Pentium D 805 somewhere that is of absolutely no use now.

It's barely even worth putting it on eBay :-|

Old games box as in PC games from a few years ago, or an emulator/MAME box?

PC games. And no reason not to mame etc. The card was pretty Damn good in 2008.

Got me an Atari 2600 emulator and what seems like the entire back catalogue of games. :D

I tried MAME in the past for all the 2d fighters, I used to be into them in a big way about 8 years ago. If nothing else it helped confirm that King of Fighters is a shit franchise.

 

I never really played arcades :-|

Neither did I, but had a lot of fighting games on my Megadrive/Saturn.

I have a mega drive. In a black plastic carry case.

Are they approaching antique status in that they're worth anything yet?

Actually, yes.

Might need to check if it still works then!

Put a load of it on eBay will see what I get back for it. Keeping the 9800GT and the new mobo, may be useful.

I want it but I know my wife would kill me <puts on watch>
 

I love the slogans companies put on these things usually promising way more than they can deliver, or will only be relevant for a short period of time. Guess it serves a purpose at shifting units though. The box has:

"the ultimate games console!!!!rar!e2£$"!!!"

emblazoned on it in what looks like times new roman (fail)