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I had a Dell Dimension 43XX Pentium 4 I used for playing games. Upgraded to a slightly better graphics card and the power supply couldn't handle it; died and took out the motherboard. I went to an Optiplex from the same era with 2.8 GHz P4 and slapped in a 450 watt power supply and a midrange graphics card (not easy to find PCI cards these days). Works fine. Still running XP, which is the most stable Microsoft OS I've worked with -- seems to crash or hang only about once every 14-15 hours of use.
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