VanBuren Posted June 5, 2005 CID Share Posted June 5, 2005 i think i have pretty old rig here, bought it in 2001, so i guess its time for a upgrade when i can afford it... AMD XP 1700+ 512MB DDR RAM ( 266 Mhz ) Gainward FX 5900 Ultra ( upgraded from GF3 Ti-200 in -04 ) VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted June 5, 2005 CID Share Posted June 5, 2005 I got mine in November of last year (2004) Intel P4 HT @ 3.0GHz 512MB DDR2 ram @ 533MHz ATI Radeon X300 and my old one: (date unknown, around 2000) Intel Celeron @ 666MHz 64MB ram 4MB integrated video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helloimtim Posted June 5, 2005 CID Share Posted June 5, 2005 Just built mine amd 3100+ 512 ram soon to jump to a gig Dual drives So I hope mine will be ok for the next 6 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azag Posted June 5, 2005 CID Share Posted June 5, 2005 I have a Gateway Select 1000 (since 2000 I think?) w/ AMD Thunderbird 1GHz (replaced once while in warranty for dirty fan lol that was nice of them ) 512MD SDRAM PC133 (added some RAM was up to 768MB but one module died) Had an ATI Radeon 32MB which I have replaced since with Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 (not much improvement but a little better ) Western Digital WD400BB - 40GB internal HD (the original) added Maxtor 60GB internal HD and Maxtor 5000LE - 80GB external to USB 1.1 (slow access...yuck need a USB 2.0 PCI card badly ) pulled the DVD 16X Drive (not burner) and pulled old CD Burner (which died and was also replaced by Gateway glad some companies were good before the out-sourcing explosion to save a buck I now have in their places TDK CD-RW Burner 16/10/40 X and Sony DVD RW DRU-530A 8X Burner (I should have waited for Dual Layer Burners ) Also side note use 12" oscillating fan for cooling processor and HD's ect. (I don't trust my old AMD since heat was and can be an issue and their thermal overloads malfunction and burned out and processor subsequently melted down unlike Pentium III of that time period) Here are my Temperatures with big ass fan and side cover off: Motherboard: 23 degrees C (73F) CPU: 26 degrees C (79F) (CPU fan speed 4470 RPM) Aux: 22 degrees C (72F) Conclusion time to buy a new rig soon... Peace, Azag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted June 5, 2005 CID Share Posted June 5, 2005 I've had mine since 2/02 Celeron 1.2Ghz 256MB RAM Intergrated graphics Intel 810E 40GB HDD I also later added another 40GB HD and a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer 5.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 heres a picture of me at the PC maybe you can help me with the date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 Just built my latest system this year. Only thing I carried over from the old one is the 1gig of ram, IBM 40gig HD, and the ATI card. My Rig: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Clawhammer (Socket 754) Mainboard: DFI LANPARTY UT nF3 250GB GPU: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB Disc Drives: LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-52x/32x/52x DVD-ROM/CD-RW | LITE-ON LTR-52x/32x/52x CD-RW Memory: Kingston (PC3200) DDR400 2 x 512MB HD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB S-ATA RAID0 | IBM Deskstar 40GB Ultra-ATA 100 Sound: Logitech Z-5500 Digital | nVIDIA MCP2-S 8CH Audio + S/PDIF (Coaxial) Case: Logisys Arcrylic Clear (2xUSB, Mic + Input Out) Cooling: Thermaltake Sonic Tower Heatpipe Cooling PS: Logisys Glacier Aluminum & Arcrylic Moded Gaming 500 Watt I want to get 2-3 gigs of really great low latency ram (OCZ, Corsair, Mushkin, Kingston HyperX) (2-2-2-5) I also desperately need a better graphics card for this motherboard (ATI Radeon X850XTPE 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 VIVO AGP 4X/8X Video Card) After getting those two things, I can easily ride the rest of this year out with it. 1st qt. of 2006, I can sell it and prepare to build a next generation system with all the fixins'. Dual Channel AMD 64 chips should be really cheap by then. Not to mention ATI's new dual GPU technology will be polished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 Gateway bought in 1998 Upgraded to P3 500Mhz (originally P2 450Mhz) FREE 384MBs of RAM (max) Sound-Blaster Live sound card (originally onboard) FREE NVIDIA 440MX 64MB (originally onboard) 10GB originally, added two 40GBs DVD-/+R 8X (originally DVD-ROM) Added 350 PS (original PS died) Added 3 case fans (neon) Hopefully I will replace this old machine this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 have had mine since dec. 04 Intel P4 2.8E OCED 3.4GHz 2GB DDR2 533 Crucal Ballistix memory 2x250GB Maxtor DMax 10 HD's BFG 6800GT 256MB graphics Card Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Replaced P4 1.7GHz 1GB DDR 400 2x80GB Maxtor DMax 8 HD's BFG Nvidia FX5600Utlra Planing to get a Duel core P4EE along with a nvidia Geforce 7800GTX later this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 got it last year around this month 1st Computer I have a Gateway 300xl. Pentium 4 2.80GHz 512MB RAM (upgrade to 768MB RAM) 120GB HDD (added second 80GB) DVD Player (replace with sony dvd burner) CD-R CD-RW Player/Recorder Gateway 19 IN LCD Monitor got it around november of last year 2nd Computer I have a Dell Dimension 2400 (refurbished) Pentium 4 2.40 GHz 256MB RAM (upgrade to 512MB RAM) 80GB HDD CD-R CD-RW Player/Recorder DVD Player (added the one i took out from gateway) Dell 17IN LCD Monitor 3rd Computer (well Laptop) dont have it yet waiting after my wedding (im already married through court. wife wants through church) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzero2309 Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 Got mine ~3 weeks ago: Its a laptop by the way... Dell Inspiron 9300 CPU: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jypagan Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 Purchase on Dec.24, 1998 Intel Pentium II MMX 40GB(upgrade Original 8.5GB ) 128Mb Ram (Upgrade Original 96mb) and a crappy 8mb video card still works Still have original 56K modem, 48X Cd Rom but I add a CD-RW like 2yrs ago. On Feb.a D-Link Wireless card. Running WinXP Pro (its really Sloooooow) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 jypagan - PC66-PC100 RAM is really cheap and I recommend if you want to run Windows XP smoother that you upgrade to 256MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanBuren Posted June 6, 2005 Author CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 heres a picture of me at the PC maybe you can help me with the date. nice picture cholla VanBuren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkieXL Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 Built this box 3 years ago: Case: 3dCool Tornado 3000 - 7 drive bays/ Two 6" side mount fans/ One rear exhaust fan Mobo: Gigabyte 7VKMP CPU: AthlonXP 1800+ / 3dCool heat sink & fan RAM: 1 Gb DDR 333'z Video: Diamond Viper Pro7000 (old junk) VidCap: Broadway Pro 6.0/Ulead MediaStudio Pro Audio: Turtle Beach Catalina 7.1 Digital PCI/Harmon Kardon towers & sub HD: Western Digital 180Gb 7000rpm - Maxtor 120Gb 7000rpm CDROM: 2 Sony DVD-RW/CD-RW decks ...besides reformatting at least 10 times, it has been a fine box... -JxL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 My Oldest PC is an IBM ThinkPad 380XD bought in 1997 or 98 it has 128 megs of ram, 233 mhz intel mmx processor, 2 mb of memory for the graphics card, and a 10 GB HD. It is currently running SlackWare Linux 10.1. It's a bit sluggish, but works pretty good for what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brock Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 Oldest PC LMAO. I have a compaq pressario 1220 from 1990. Good ole 486 with 16mbs of ram, 2 gig hard drive, windows 98, and i think not too sure ati all in wonder pro (pci) on it. Good peice of junk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 I still have a 66MHz processor around somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 Toshiba laptop, 386....somewhere. Oh yeah, and a Commodore Amiga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccr1958 Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 1997 sony vaio...not using 1999 hp 667 MHz...not using 2003 alienware amd athlon 1.7 GHz 1GB ddr ram [2] 80 gig HD's 2004 dell 8400 P4 hyperthread 1GB ddr2 ram [2] 80 gig HD's networked with alien Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jypagan Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 jypagan - PC66-PC100 RAM is really cheap and I recommend if you want to run Windows XP smoother that you upgrade to 256MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob12345 Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 well not gonna say all about mine but heres something to say about min......have only 128mb of ram but full test on pcpitstop says only 126mb of ram and my power supply and wires are outside my case.......lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 My oldest computer is a Commodore 64here are some specs & a link.I can't find a date on mine they were manufactured from 1982 to 1994.I found out they made a modem for the Commodore 64 I have never seen one but from some web surfing there are some people using them on the internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 Microprocessor CPU: MOS Technology 6510 or MOS Technology 8500 (the 6510/8500 being a modified 6502 with an integrated 6-bit I/O port) Clock speed: 0.985 MHz (PAL) / 1.023 MHz (NTSC) Video hardware: MOS Technology VIC-II MOS 6567/8567 (NTSC) MOS 6569/8569 (PAL) 16 colors Text mode: 40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 My first computer was a 1998 Compaq 5170, P2- 350MHz,128 ram.10gig HD.Still works but set off to the side Going out to my work shop after its finished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted June 6, 2005 CID Share Posted June 6, 2005 VIC 20 - Commodore 64 - 286 w/ 2 5.25 floppy's (no HD) -- I still have the VIC 20 & Commodore 64 in my attic My first REAL computer was a 386sx 33Mhz - with something like 500MB harddrive and 4MB ram (upgraded to 16MB before I got rid of it...) it wasn't even 256 color display only 16.. haha - no internet.. windows 3.11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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