[magicalhippo]

I've only had one fatal PC accident, which took out the motherboard and CPU. This happened about a decade ago, CPU was an i7-870 and I ran Windows 7 on it.

The SSD and GPU was fine, so I quickly changed the motherboard to a several-years old low-end dual-core Celeron I had held on to when upgrading someones PC. It didn't have more than 2GB of memory either.

Windows 8 had just been released, so I tried installing that as I had read they had spent some effort trying to make it run better on lower-end hardware.

Surprisingly, with the SSD, I could hardly notice the difference to my old box in regular use. Sure it was a tad more sluggish at certain things, but overall it ran like a champ. With the beefy GPU I could even play a lot of games at decent framerates.

I recall being quite impressed at the time.