The way we were..

Vap0r · 11-26-2003, 01:42 PM

This should be an interesting thread, what complete systems have people had before their current one? (PC's only no consoles, and in their most upgraded state)

My first was;
P1 100Mhz
16MB RAM
1 GB HDD
4 MB Matrox Graphics

Then
P3 700
512 MB
25 GB
32 MB Geforce 2

Now
XP2400+
512 DDR PC2700
80 GB
128Mb Radeon9500 Pro

Emanon · 11-26-2003, 01:52 PM

Quote:

My first was;
P1 100Mhz
16MB RAM
1 GB HDD
4 MB Matrox Graphics

had the same thing!

then
xp2800+
1.5gig ddr pc 2700
80gig ATA133 8mb cashe
40gig
FX5600 256mb

one hell of a change

**Wolfie** · 11-26-2003, 02:12 PM

Laser 128K (Apple Clone)
Don't even ask about the specifications, I try to blot that time period out of my memory :P

Then an IBM Aptiva
16 MB RAM
2 GB HD
Crappy vid card and sound card

Then a gateway computer
P2 350 MHz
128 MB RAM
8 GM HD
2 - Voodoo 2 cards ran in SLI mode

Now
AMD 2.6+ chip
512 MB RAM
120 GB HD
20 GB HD
ATI 9600
Sound Blaster Live

HSantal · 11-26-2003, 02:29 PM

First.

IBM 486 SX 20 - upgraded to DX 40
4 MB Ram - upgraded to 64 ( i think)
120 MB HDD - upgraded to 540 MB
512 kb video card - upgraded to 1 MB

Second

Pentium 166 - upgraded to 233
64 MB - upgraded to 128 MB
4 GB HDD - upgraded to 10 GB HDD
16 MB video - upgraded to a Voodoo Banshee
SoundBlaster 16

Current

2.0 GH P4
80 GB 7200 rpm HDD
512 MB RAM
64 MB nVidia GeForce 2 MX w/ TV-Out
ROM Drive DVD/CD-ROM: 24X10X40X CD-RW
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card

Cobra · 11-26-2003, 03:15 PM

8086
4mhz
640k ram
10 meg HD
PC Speaker

=Sarc= · 11-26-2003, 03:42 PM

486 50Mhz DX something or other
16 MB RAM
500 MB HD or something around there
Video.. so bad I can't remember what it was.
4x2x24 CD-RW

I had that one for a while and it was upgraded a lot over the time my family had it. My brother used it for several years of schooling and he's 12 years older than me.

P2 - 200 Mhz
32 MB RAM
3 GB HD
SB PCI128
ATI something with 4 MB
Reused the CD-RW above

This one died pretty hard. The CPU fan stopped working after a while and I lost my love for it.

P3 - 733 Mhz
640 MB RAM
15 GB HD
GeForce 256 SDR
Reused the CD-RW and soundcard above
12x DVD Samsung

This one served me well with only one upgrade. I had it when I joined TG. I don't love the DVD drive anymore. It doesn't read burned CDs very well.

XP1800+
512 MB RAM
120 GB HD
GF4 Ti4400
GameTheater XP soundcard
16x10x40 CD-RW
16x DVD

Also a good computer but getting a short work term with the government made me splurge for my current setup. I still use this as a backup workstation.

XP2400+
512 MB RAM
9700 Pro
Reused the HD, CD-RW and soundcard above.

I bought a 40 GB HD, 24x10x40 CD-RW and 16x DVD for the previous setup. Now I need a real monitor for it. TVs don't make good monitors.

**GhostintheShell** · 11-26-2003, 03:46 PM

My first "pc" was a Timex Sinclair.

You hooked it up to the tv and typed in the programs by "bubble key" keyboard.

No hdd or tape or floppy, if you shut it off you lost your program.
I think you could buy a tape drive for it, but it was too expensive for me.

Edit: whoa enthusiasts still use these things!
http://www.timexsinclair.org/

Here's the exact model I had!!!
http://members.cox.net/obsoletetechnology/ts1000.html

**Overlag** · 11-26-2003, 08:00 PM

hmm

Amstrad 64 (4 years)
Tape drive
64k ram

Cyrix PR100 (4 years)
8mb ram
cyris logic 2mbit

PII350 @466 (2 years)
128mb ram
ATI rage pro "turbo"

PIIIe500 @750 (1 year)
256mb ram
Voodoo 3 2000

TB800 @900 (1 year)
256mb ram
Geforce II GTS

TB1200 @ 1533 (1.5 years)
256mb ram
Geforce II GTS

XP1500 @ 1533 (XP1800 rating) (10 months)
512mb ram
Geforce III

XP1800 @ 1600 (XP1900 rating) (5months)
512mb ram
Geforce III

XP1700 @ 1733 (XP2100 rating) (5months)
512mb ram
Geforce III

XP2100 @ 1900 (XP2200 rating) (2months)
512mb ram
ATI 9700 pro

XP2500 @ 2333 (XP3400 rating) (8months)
512mb ram
ATI 9700 pro

A64 XP3200 @ 2100 (XP3600 rating) (1 week so far)
512mb ram
ATI 9700 pro

realy, i do have way too much time and money

11-27-2003, 02:58 AM

Hmm...lets see.

1. Atari XE

2. Apple IIe

3. Laser 128EX

4. Pentium 233 w-MMX
Riva 128
64 MB EDO

5. Celeron 333a OCed to 475MHz !!! 8)
440BX mobo
KILLER VIDEO ALERT!!! :
Diamond Viper 550 with DUAL Diamond Monster Voodoo II cards hooked together in SLI mode!!! 3 freaking video cards!!! :shock: 8)
256 PC100

6. Celeron 1.2 Tualatin OCed to 1.5GHz
i815 mobo
ASUS GeForce 256DDR
256 PC133

7. AMD Athlon XP 1800P+ OCed to 1.75GHz
Via KT266 mobo
GeForce 3 Ti200
512 PC2100

8. AMD Athlon XP 2000P+ OCed to 1.8GHz <--- Can't remember
Via KT266 mobo
GeForce 4 Ti4600
512 PC2100

9. AMD Athlon XP 2400T+ OCed to 2.3GHz
nVIDIA nForce2 mobo
GeForce 4 Ti4600
512 PC3200

10. AMD Athlon XP 2500B+ OCed to 2.4GHz
nVIDIA nForce2 mobo
Radeon 9700Pro
512 PC3200

11. Intel P4 2.6C OCed to 3.6GHz

:twisted:
intel i875P Canterwood mobo
Radeon 9700Pro flashed to 9800Pro softmod
512 PC3700

**Tempus** · 11-27-2003, 02:48 PM

Commodore Vic-20
Commodore 64
Amiga 1000
Amiga 500
386-sx-16 - 2 megs RAM, 40 meg HDD
386-40 - 4 megs RAM, 170 meg HDD
p1-133 - 16 megs RAM, 1.6 gig HDD
p2-450 - 128 megs RAM, 9 gig HDD -- added 40 gig HDD
p4-2.0 - 512 megs RAM, 80 gig HDD -- total HDD now 320 gigs.

**Quarath** · 11-27-2003, 03:43 PM

If I count my days at home my fist was a Texas Instruments that connected to your TV.

The first PC was a
286
2mb RAM
40MB Hard Drive partition in 2 drives(And that was huge).I carry 3x more than that on my keychain.

The first I bought was a
P133
32MB RAM
2GB HD
Diamond Stealth Video Card
Sony flat screen trinitron 15" monitor.(

Still using the same monitor)

moved to a K6-2 350 then 450 then 550
got a 13gb HD for $200

Now have a AMD Thunderbird 950
512 RAM
160GB Hard Drive
Kyro II video (need major upgradge)
Plextor 16x10x40

11-26-2003, 01:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Vap0r Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 310	The way we were.. This should be an interesting thread, what complete systems have people had before their current one? (PC's only no consoles, and in their most upgraded state) My first was; P1 100Mhz 16MB RAM 1 GB HDD 4 MB Matrox Graphics Then P3 700 512 MB 25 GB 32 MB Geforce 2 Now XP2400+ 512 DDR PC2700 80 GB 128Mb Radeon9500 Pro

11-26-2003, 03:46 PM	#7 (permalink)
GhostintheShell Join Date: May 2003 Location: Guelph, Ontario Age: 37 Posts: 963	My first "pc" was a Timex Sinclair. You hooked it up to the tv and typed in the programs by "bubble key" keyboard. No hdd or tape or floppy, if you shut it off you lost your program. I think you could buy a tape drive for it, but it was too expensive for me. Edit: whoa enthusiasts still use these things! http://www.timexsinclair.org/ Here's the exact model I had!!! http://members.cox.net/obsoletetechnology/ts1000.html __________________ Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. Ernest Hemingway, "On the Blue Water," Esquire, April 1936

11-26-2003, 08:00 PM	#8 (permalink)
Overlag Join Date: May 2003 Location: NE Outer London, UK Age: 26 Posts: 1,540	hmm Amstrad 64 (4 years) Tape drive 64k ram Cyrix PR100 (4 years) 8mb ram cyris logic 2mbit PII350 @466 (2 years) 128mb ram ATI rage pro "turbo" PIIIe500 @750 (1 year) 256mb ram Voodoo 3 2000 TB800 @900 (1 year) 256mb ram Geforce II GTS TB1200 @ 1533 (1.5 years) 256mb ram Geforce II GTS XP1500 @ 1533 (XP1800 rating) (10 months) 512mb ram Geforce III XP1800 @ 1600 (XP1900 rating) (5months) 512mb ram Geforce III XP1700 @ 1733 (XP2100 rating) (5months) 512mb ram Geforce III XP2100 @ 1900 (XP2200 rating) (2months) 512mb ram ATI 9700 pro XP2500 @ 2333 (XP3400 rating) (8months) 512mb ram ATI 9700 pro A64 XP3200 @ 2100 (XP3600 rating) (1 week so far) 512mb ram ATI 9700 pro realy, i do have way too much time and money __________________ From Adam Webb

11-27-2003, 02:48 PM	#10 (permalink)
Tempus Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, FL Age: 38 Posts: 7,964	Commodore Vic-20 Commodore 64 Amiga 1000 Amiga 500 386-sx-16 - 2 megs RAM, 40 meg HDD 386-40 - 4 megs RAM, 170 meg HDD p1-133 - 16 megs RAM, 1.6 gig HDD p2-450 - 128 megs RAM, 9 gig HDD -- added 40 gig HDD p4-2.0 - 512 megs RAM, 80 gig HDD -- total HDD now 320 gigs. __________________ Battlefield 2/2142 Game Officer Contact me with server/player/admin issues. -- Suits are what you wear when doing things you shouldn’t want to do anyway. FROM THE TACTICAL GAMER PRIMER. 3) Support game play in a near-simulation environment. Where the focus of play would not be solely on doing what it takes to win, but doing so utilizing real-world combat strategy and tactics rather than leveraging exploits provided to players by the design of the game engine.

11-26-2003, 02:12 PM	#3 (permalink)
Wolfie Join Date: May 2003 Location: Michigan Age: 32 Posts: 1,405	Laser 128K (Apple Clone) Don't even ask about the specifications, I try to blot that time period out of my memory :P Then an IBM Aptiva 16 MB RAM 2 GB HD Crappy vid card and sound card Then a gateway computer P2 350 MHz 128 MB RAM 8 GM HD 2 - Voodoo 2 cards ran in SLI mode Now AMD 2.6+ chip 512 MB RAM 120 GB HD 20 GB HD ATI 9600 Sound Blaster Live

11-26-2003, 02:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
HSantal Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 52 Posts: 1,005	First. IBM 486 SX 20 - upgraded to DX 40 4 MB Ram - upgraded to 64 ( i think) 120 MB HDD - upgraded to 540 MB 512 kb video card - upgraded to 1 MB Second Pentium 166 - upgraded to 233 64 MB - upgraded to 128 MB 4 GB HDD - upgraded to 10 GB HDD 16 MB video - upgraded to a Voodoo Banshee SoundBlaster 16 Current 2.0 GH P4 80 GB 7200 rpm HDD 512 MB RAM 64 MB nVidia GeForce 2 MX w/ TV-Out ROM Drive DVD/CD-ROM: 24X10X40X CD-RW Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card

11-26-2003, 03:15 PM	#5 (permalink)
Cobra Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mesa Age: 31 Posts: 692	8086 4mhz 640k ram 10 meg HD PC Speaker

11-26-2003, 03:42 PM	#6 (permalink)
=Sarc= Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 4,428	486 50Mhz DX something or other 16 MB RAM 500 MB HD or something around there Video.. so bad I can't remember what it was. 4x2x24 CD-RW I had that one for a while and it was upgraded a lot over the time my family had it. My brother used it for several years of schooling and he's 12 years older than me. P2 - 200 Mhz 32 MB RAM 3 GB HD SB PCI128 ATI something with 4 MB Reused the CD-RW above This one died pretty hard. The CPU fan stopped working after a while and I lost my love for it. P3 - 733 Mhz 640 MB RAM 15 GB HD GeForce 256 SDR Reused the CD-RW and soundcard above 12x DVD Samsung This one served me well with only one upgrade. I had it when I joined TG. I don't love the DVD drive anymore. It doesn't read burned CDs very well. XP1800+ 512 MB RAM 120 GB HD GF4 Ti4400 GameTheater XP soundcard 16x10x40 CD-RW 16x DVD Also a good computer but getting a short work term with the government made me splurge for my current setup. I still use this as a backup workstation. XP2400+ 512 MB RAM 9700 Pro Reused the HD, CD-RW and soundcard above. I bought a 40 GB HD, 24x10x40 CD-RW and 16x DVD for the previous setup. Now I need a real monitor for it. TVs don't make good monitors.

11-27-2003, 02:58 AM	#9 (permalink)
Spectre Guest Posts: n/a	Hmm...lets see. 1. Atari XE 2. Apple IIe 3. Laser 128EX 4. Pentium 233 w-MMX Riva 128 64 MB EDO 5. Celeron 333a OCed to 475MHz !!! 8) 440BX mobo KILLER VIDEO ALERT!!! : Diamond Viper 550 with DUAL Diamond Monster Voodoo II cards hooked together in SLI mode!!! 3 freaking video cards!!! :shock: 8) 256 PC100 6. Celeron 1.2 Tualatin OCed to 1.5GHz i815 mobo ASUS GeForce 256DDR 256 PC133 7. AMD Athlon XP 1800P+ OCed to 1.75GHz Via KT266 mobo GeForce 3 Ti200 512 PC2100 8. AMD Athlon XP 2000P+ OCed to 1.8GHz <--- Can't remember Via KT266 mobo GeForce 4 Ti4600 512 PC2100 9. AMD Athlon XP 2400T+ OCed to 2.3GHz nVIDIA nForce2 mobo GeForce 4 Ti4600 512 PC3200 10. AMD Athlon XP 2500B+ OCed to 2.4GHz nVIDIA nForce2 mobo Radeon 9700Pro 512 PC3200 11. Intel P4 2.6C OCed to 3.6GHz :twisted: intel i875P Canterwood mobo Radeon 9700Pro flashed to 9800Pro softmod 512 PC3700

11-27-2003, 03:43 PM	#11 (permalink)
Quarath Join Date: May 2003 Location: Utah Age: 36 Posts: 737	If I count my days at home my fist was a Texas Instruments that connected to your TV. The first PC was a 286 2mb RAM 40MB Hard Drive partition in 2 drives(And that was huge).I carry 3x more than that on my keychain. The first I bought was a P133 32MB RAM 2GB HD Diamond Stealth Video Card Sony flat screen trinitron 15" monitor.( Still using the same monitor) moved to a K6-2 350 then 450 then 550 got a 13gb HD for $200 Now have a AMD Thunderbird 950 512 RAM 160GB Hard Drive Kyro II video (need major upgradge) Plextor 16x10x40

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