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The group is a bit smaller these days, just one buddy. We're doing some XP gaming. I got Battlefield 1942 running here, with the Battlegroup 42 mod. My Dimension E510 can really handle up to BG42 version 1.35b, but apparently they aren't hosting that on ModDB anymore. I had to find it on some shady ancient Russian file hosting site. But I got there in the end.

This is the first time out for my Precision 690, I've been working on it for about a month. I rescued it from a rage room, it was going to get beat to scrap. I asked, and they gave it to me! I swapped the single Xeon 5160 for Xeon 5355's. 2gb of ram for 32gb. The crappy display adapter for a GTX 980TI. It is an XP era powerhouse. I have not gotten XP x64 running on it yet, but it's running Mint 22.1 like a champ. I put an XP theme on it until I can dual boot the real thing. I am super stoked this thing is running. Mint might be the better option for it, actually! Good 32bit compatibility with Wine and Lutris, and full use of the 32gb of ram and 8 cores.

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[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

What’s that beautiful looking kb on the left with the black and white caps? A keychron?

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's an E-Yooso Z-19, with Glorious Panda switches, and double shot pbt caps, the brand escapes me.

The top half of the switch housing I replaced with clear ones I had from some other switches when I lubricated them. The original ones didn't let a lot of the RGB through. Not that I ever really use it, but it better work if I do. I found the caps and the keyboard at a bin store, $12 each! Fantastic luck, as they are both just my style.

Edit: How could I forget about the damping o-rings from Captain O-Ring! They're the perfect thickness.

[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That’s a beautiful keyboard. Nice setup!

[-] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you very much!

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