I found that I could eek out a bit more from the hard disks by putting them on a PCI based controller card so I did that first. Once I had re-installed XP, and gone through the service packs, updates, and personal software, it actually ran like a brand new computer once again. It also helped that I'd reorganized where my pagefile was and how fast it could be accessed. I set it statically because a dynamic pagefile also takes up resources to shrink & grow. I was amazed at the performance improvement. I even was able to dramatically improve my graphics quality due to driver upgrades and some configuration homework on the ATI specs. Unfortunately one of my drives in my array is going out, and it didn't make itself apparent until after the process
. Man! Aside from the failing drive (which I've put some good miles on over the years) I was able to really improve the performance of my old PC. XP loads a lot quicker, applications execute faster, & 42 seemed to play a lot smoother except for the occasional refresh/glitching that happens when it reads my failing drive. I'll be plugging another one up tonight and I'm excited to get it all setup again and to get back on playing.Now my laptop.. is brand spanking new and I have 42 on it.. but it's really supposed to be for work not play
