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A computer that I commissioned Opal Computers in Bridgend to build.

This was the first computer that I bought and paid for myself, and I should not be too hard on it for it was a major step up from the 75MHz AST that I was given. Whilst the CPU specification was sixteen times what I currently had, from 75 MHz to 1200 MHz, I was very excited to have a machine that had a frequency gap this large. However, I have to say, this motherboard was pretty awful, even though I was on a tight budget (part-time job after school) it performed terribly and was the final shove I needed to start building custom machines, I'd had enough of the rather expensive ready-made systems with mostly awful performance and expandability.

Though the performance was bad for its period, it served its purpose of helping me with my school work. However, that's about as far as it stretched, video games of that era barely got a decent frame rate mainly due to the poorly performing SIS 305 integrated GPU, older titles ran much better but resolutions so long as they were 2D, and you didn't try to go above 1024x768. The motherboard had suffered multiple, serious capacitor failures and battery corrosion damage to the traces. The Duron and hard drive, however, are still in perfect working order.