i played (and still do sometimes) age of empires so much on that Compaq laptop

i underclock it from 2.4ghz to 300mhz to extend the battery life, and it still runs great

Good game. It's been a long time since I played any of those. Well except for railroad tycoon 2. Lol.

That's certainly an underclock

yep, its downwards multiplier unlocked, i use Notebook hardware control or something like that to do it

looks interesting

What os does it currently run?

Oh it was a pretty fun game when I played it eons ago.

? If you mean the cpu its a 2.4ghz Pentium 4 Northwood

and when i travel i underclock it between 1.2ghz (for stuff like Flatout) and 300mhz (for dos and really old windows games)

oh OS'

I meant what operating system.

i dualboot XP and Lubuntu

Autocorrect got me.

XP for everything except internet

it has a 54mbps Wireless G card, 56k dialup (lol only had to use it once) and 100mbps ethernet

I love xp. It was a great OS. In some ways I miss it, less messy then the current os.

it uses less than 40MB of ram at idle

unlike windows 10 casually hogginh 1.5GB

What's really weird is my desktop from 2004 that came with XP had a gigabit nic but my parents who recently upgraded their internet I had to come and install a gigabit nic in it because there late Windows 7 desktop only had a fast ethernet nic (100mb) and they are paying for 200 mb/s internet.

And a (broken) laptop i am currently working on trying to fix to use, Dell inspiriion n5110, STILL has a 100mbps nic on board, even with the usb 3.0 ports

no idea what dell was thinking when they did that lol

2012 or 2011 i think they released it

But a 2009 optiplex 380 i got running as a minecraft server does have gigabit lan

Yep, so many things people say "why would anybody need faster than X" till a few years later things get a lot faster.

That's crazy. Also, this is kinda cool.

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/a-train-1bn

oh sweet its abandonware now

Yeah and this site allows you to play it in the web browser is you so desire.

in the web browser?!

Yeah. It works. I tried it.

Doesn't do well on a phone though. No mouse. Lol.

usb-c to a adapter disagrees 😄

Ah. Don't have that. Lol.

My Windows 10 hogs up 4.8 at idle and I stopped tons of stuff from running in background

then clearly you didnt stop enough

even completely stock not debloated at all it uses maybe 2.4gb

with all my launchers and stuff running i use 3gb on my desktop

Returned my pc and switched it out with a new one, this is the old vs new. The manufacturers forgot a fan on my first one

what the fuck is even that airflow setup