Yeah those Pentium Ds are hungry. I've got a Pentium D 805 somewhere that is of absolutely no use now.

It's barely even worth putting it on eBay :-|

Old games box as in PC games from a few years ago, or an emulator/MAME box?

PC games. And no reason not to mame etc. The card was pretty Damn good in 2008.

Got me an Atari 2600 emulator and what seems like the entire back catalogue of games. :D

I tried MAME in the past for all the 2d fighters, I used to be into them in a big way about 8 years ago. If nothing else it helped confirm that King of Fighters is a shit franchise.

 

I never really played arcades :-|

Neither did I, but had a lot of fighting games on my Megadrive/Saturn.

I have a mega drive. In a black plastic carry case.

Are they approaching antique status in that they're worth anything yet?

Actually, yes.

Might need to check if it still works then!

Put a load of it on eBay will see what I get back for it. Keeping the 9800GT and the new mobo, may be useful.

I want it but I know my wife would kill me <puts on watch>
 

I love the slogans companies put on these things usually promising way more than they can deliver, or will only be relevant for a short period of time. Guess it serves a purpose at shifting units though. The box has:

"the ultimate games console!!!!rar!e2£$"!!!"

emblazoned on it in what looks like times new roman (fail)

Bear in mind that a lot of the mobos for the Pentium D will usually take earlier-grade Core 2 Duos and Pentium Dual Cores with just a bios flash. Should be able to pick those CPUs up nice and cheaply these days and power usage figures are miles better.

The motherboards are in the council tip now. Dell and Packard Bell, so probably proprietary fittings anyway. Sold the p4d for a fiver on eBay but accidentally posted it to the wrong person :-$