Intel 965 express yourself

Scorpion doesn't have a clue about finding video games to flip over and make a profile, Reeling in Tunnel B1, leave that well alone, Lucky for him, Thrift bytes is here to show you how its done.

We are in a transaction period at the moment, PS2,Gamecube,Xbox taking a back seat as most commonly found, and current Gens stuff is starting to Turn up more often.  PS3 WII 360, What I have named the "Thrift shift" that happens around the time the Next gen consoles our out or on there way.

The sims 3 £15-20 (ebay)
Little big planet 2 £10-15 (ebay)
Toy story 3 £8-12 (ebay)
Ratchet and clank tools of destrution £5-8 (ebay)

All of these games where £4.99 each, not the usual £1.99, Charity shop have a habit of pricing PS3 and 360 like there the new thing out, Unaware they are very long in the tooth for a consoles life span but £4.99 still a good price for them.

Even DS Games are turning up in the charity shops now, Can you imagine stuff like pokemon black 2 just sat on the shelf in a few years time priced up at £1.99. Still not there yet this zelda game was £4.99 but still worth every penny.

A few PS1 tiles here pretty awesome, Whats that? there not awesome..

Well for 19p they are, Even just for replacement boxes who would leave these on the shelf for the 19 pence, this was in cash generator, Its a depressing thought that someone out there is that hard up they are having to sell there PS1 games for 5p each.
Syphon filter 3,Rat attack,Break out,
Pro pinball fantastic journey witch some one had put the disc to Pro pinball the web inside as well bonus.

Saw this on my travels Its the two figures from the limited edition street fighter IV box set, The game wasn't there and the box was beat in, They wanted £4.99 for it, Yeah no.

More finds, War of the ring, God of war 2, AOE collector's edition.
Age of empires collectors edition is worth £3 cash and £5 trade in CEX, The pisser is when I checked it i didn't realize the disc for AOE 1 was missing, So CEX will not take it.

Well its ok, I found the disc I was missing today So £2 into it and I will get £5 trade back not bad, I must of had this in my hand a fair few times in the passed before I needed it, Its been sat in dove house for weeks.

Battle-zone on Atari 2600, The guy only wanted 20p for this, I gave him 50p its for charity anyways so hay, Don't think this is worth anything it just needed rescuing, That belongs in a museum. 

And finally COD4MW for £1.50 This one is safe to buy no steam linkage, As long as it has the book with the serial number on the back your good to go. 
And the Great big plus about this version of COD is that it runs smooth on the Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family Anyone with a Half old laptop will know what I am talking about, Integrated on-board graphics, That lay somewhere between late xbox/ps2 and early PS3/360, depending on the ram you have, Below I have made a Top Ten list of half decent modern-ish games I have gotten to run to a playable standard
on a intel core 2 duo 2.0ghz 3gb of ram windows 7,

Kingdoms of amalur Reconing

The most current game that runs at a consistent frame rate and supports the 360 controller.

Civilization V
May start to choke now and again but still very playable on the old 965.

TOCA Race Driver 3

A Bit dated now, But for a half decent racing game that runs smooth this is great, It supports the 360 controller and because the 965 falls short of stuff like Dirt and Test drive unlimited 2 this is a good alternative.

Tomb Raider Anniversary
Again a bit last gen, But also support for the 360 controller and I will take it that the other two tomb raiders for this 00s reboot will work as well legend, and underworld.

The elder scrolls IV Oblivion
Skyrim almost works on the 965 sometimes the frame rate calms down to the point of nearly playable then you go back to whiterum and things slow back down, So cut your losses, Oblivion runs smooth and still looks amazing on this chipset.

Minecraft
More game to fill anyone's boots, Minecraft not only works, it runs great, Because you get a great deal of options for the graphics on this game you can mess around with the setting tell you get it right.

Dragon Age Origins
Mass effect meets game of thrones anyone? Yeah before E.A totally ruined Dragon age with number 2, The fantastic bio-ware formula of fantastic writing  with the game play of knights of the old returns in this epic, That where going to set to low spec.

Age of Empires 3
Indeed you will be able to run this version of age of empires, Then you will uninstall it and get Age of empires 2 back, number 3 is good just a case of close but no cigar.

Fallout 3
Tried and tested if elder scrolls works Fallout 3 will work too, and fallout Vegas not bad, and supports 360 pad bonus.





Football manager 2012
To be fair most Phones, calculators and toasters can run football manager now days, but you don't now how funny the 965 express can be, tested and this version works.





So their you have it Ten Games That you can pretend your having a Some what Current gaming experience on your rubbish laptop with, and just in cast you can not find any of the above here is a few Honorable mentions that will run on the humblest of specs.