We have a lot of good memories together. We shared lots of good games, movies and music on it. The first game that I installed on it was GTAIII, even though I had already beaten it then, but I wanted to see how it would run with all the settings on high! The last game that I installed on it was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which ran fine, but not with all the eye candy that I am seeing now on Arsenal Gear.
Metal Gear REX started its life with these specs:
- Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, Northwood Core 120 nm, Socket 478
- Gigabyte 8IR2003 running the Intel 865 chipset with built-in Realtek AC'97 sound codec
- Manli GeForce 4 MX 440 AGP 4X 128 MB (now in Shagohod, my oldest surviving system)
- 512 MB DDR-RAM 266 MHz (2x256 MB)
- 120 GB Western Digital HDD 7200 RPM
- Floppy Disk Drive (KIA)
- ASUS 52X CD-ROM (now in Shagohod)
- Sony 52x24x52x CD burner
- 17" LG CRT
Throughout the years, REX received the following upgrades and/or replacements:
- Intel Processor heatsink and fan (replacement)
- Realtek 8139 PCI Network Interface Card (add-on)
- Sony 16X DVD-ROM (add-on) (now KIA)
- XFX GeForce 6600 128 MB AGP 8X (running as AGP 4X due to motherboard limitation) (replacement)
- BenQ DW1640 DVD burner (add-on)
- Kingston 512 MB DDR-RAM 400 MHz (running as 266 MHz) (add-on)
- A VIA-based PCI-to-USB 2.0 card (add-on)
Not to count 4 power supplies, 5 mice, countless IDE cables, 60 and 80 mm system fans, 1 GPU cooler for the 6600 and 1 GPU slot cooler.
I am still proud that the keybaord that came with REX is still functioning properly (I am typing this from it). The same goes for the outstanding LG CRT.
I hope that you remain alive for many years, my dear REX. We still can learn a lot of things from each other.
He is running now Windows XP along with Ubuntu 8.04.
