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I was lookin' thru some of my old "my documents" from some of my older computers and came across some specs of a computer that I had built and remember being "oh so proud" of it. Looking at it today made me laugh considering some of the downright nasty stuff that's out there today ( tomorrow's laughing stock ?? )

Anyway, if you can remember an old pc or certain config that really stands out, post it here so people can get some idea of what was "the shizz" at the time.

I'm not sure when I had this (1998?) but here's a good one for ya.......:laugh

Enlight Midtower w/ 235W psu
Abit BH-6
Intel Pentium II 300 SL2W8 OCed to 558 Mhz ( P2 450 was the fastest thing out at the time. )
Some big crazy copper bottomed Alpha HS/dual fan
IBM 8.4GB Deskstar hdd
SB Live
128MB not sure of what
Voodoo Banshee by Guillemot with software Glide Switcher
Best Data 12MB Voodoo 2
Guillemot 12MB Voodoo 2 .....both running in SLi w/ some hacked drivers by some Russian guy fr wicked 3D !! :laugh worked great too !

Oh I remeber one I built right when I really started getting into the PC abusin thag..
lets see if I can remeber


AMD k6-2 350mhx
256 mb pc-100 MICRON!!! Whew baby
15 GB ATA 66 Western Dig HD
Asus P5-A Mobo
SBLive
Video Card was either a Velocity 4400 or a Conopus I cant remember
In an old white case with purple buttons by foxconn.
Man I remember that being the shit too.

I had this one built by GamePC back in April 1999.

Intel Celeron 400
Glacier 4600 Igloo cooler
Abit BX6 Rev. 2 motherboard
128 MB Micron PC-100 RAM
10.1 GB IBM Deskstar hard drive
Diamond MX300 soundcard
Hercules TNT video card
TEAC floppy
TEAC 40x CD-ROM
Addtronics 6896A case with 300 watt power supply
19" Viewsonic GS790 monitor
Aura Aspect 20/40 speakers
Diamond Supra 56K modem

The system was running up until a month or so ago when I took it down to give it to my daughter. Hopefully, when I put it back together again, it will run as good for her as it did for me. I did upgrade the CPU to a 533A (running at 800 MHz), added another 128 MB stick of PC-100 RAM, and upgraded the video card, first to a GeForce 256 DDR and now a GeForce 2 MX.

MAC

386SX w/Make it a 486 add on, and a 40mhz Cyrix Co-Processor, 4mb of Ram ($200 at the time) an SB16, 4X CD-Rom, Floppy, and a WHOPPING 1.08GB HD upgraded from a 40MB HD and a 2MB Trident SVGA Vid Card.. heh.. Hows that? eGo

i had a voodoo banshee in the first rig i built k6-2 350@400 128 MB PC 100 !

intel -486 dx2-66 stock hs
acer open mb
seagate 850 mg hardrive
4x cd reader
1- 3 1/2 floppy
1- 5 1/4 floppy
8 meg edo ram
2 meg trident video card
sound blaster clone sound card !
14.4 modem
14 inch monitor color acer
windows dos 6.0 and window 3.1
and prodigy internet service
total $1500
upgraded the modem to a 28.8 with voice speedster internal for $158.99
and added 8 meg edo 72 pin got $100 generic ram ! major undertaking to add ram at the time

I got y'all beat. My first pc i built when i was 14(yeah that was like 12 years ago lol ) was a 286 12 MHz w/ a math coprocessor with get this 1 meg of ram and that was a lot for back then IF i remember right it was 2 512k sticks as well. had a whoppin' 40 meg hdd and a floppy drive. That was when cd-rom's weren't very popular and i never put one in that machine. At the time i think the 386 DX 20's had just came out but that 286 would still smoke through a game of Commander Keen I will never forget the 9 pin dot matrix Epson Color printer i had though. Could hear it printing from 10 blocks away but hey it did color!

Hehe, you guys are just to young to remember the old days. I'm sure Flying Penguin will enjoy this:
Vintage 1984 PC.

first computer I ever built..

AMD XP1800+
MSI k7t 266 pro (won both of them from the amd roadshow giveaway )
384mb pc2100 kingston
40gig Maxtor 7200 2mb
SoundBlaster 512
pny geforce 2 mx200


heh...first computer i ever built and I am still using it as my main rig (with some slight upgrades of course)

and my first computer was actually a commadore 64
then we got a packard bell (not sure on the exact specs...other than being 66mhz with a 400mb harddrive, ended up upgrading from windows 3.11 to win98 for some reason....)

I traded a 5 hp Sears outboard motor and $300 for a Franklin XT, 4 Mghz 8088? cpu, dual 5" floppies, no hard drive and 64 kb ram on board. Had a CGA monitor. I think it was around 1988 or thereabout.

My first "gaming" PC was a Gateway G5-233 which I paid over 2k for.Once I started getting into the upgrade scene(3Fingers 3Dfx forum)it was the last prebuilt PC I ever bought.I pretty much learned to build PC's at AGN.

P233
64mb ram(came with 32mb)
2GB HD I think.
Onboard 2mb ATI video(I upgraded to a 4mb Trident card)
2x12mb Diamond Monster 2's in SLI
Onboard Ensoniq sound(I upgraded to a MX300 but that took me a couple years to get to)

Back then all I really played was Monster Truck Madness,Quake2,and Unreal and it ran those games like a champ.

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my first one, doesnt remember exactly what year but somewhere mid 80's.
Payed only 1700 Sfr. for it. What a rig, whohooooooo.....

next was a 286 with 40 MB harddrive and 1MB of ram, soon upgraded to 386 with 4Mb ca 800mb HDD ram but only lastet for a few months PS died so as it was at the shop already and my friend at the shop had some stuff laying around we put a Pentium 60 inthere, with 16MBRam (4x4mb) and a 1.7Gig harddrive. Lastet for 3 years and then bought my PIII 600 speedstep Dell Inspirion 3800 Lappy. 12gig HD 128Ram, upgraded after 2 years to 384 Ram and a 40 gig HDD. Still in use. besides my new self build rig sometimes last year. Since it was my first try at building my own i went cheap ECS board P4 GL+ with a 2Ghz celery 32 Mb Nvidia Video, 512 SDRAm, 60 Maxtor HD, overclocked running at 2.66.
Cost around 1000 Canadian with the 19" Dell screen

I had various ones for work before, but the first one I purchased for home use only was a 486/66 dx-2. Somehow the dx-2 was suppose to make it sound faster. :lol Came with 4mb memory (non edo), 4x cdrom, 1mb trident video, and a holey moley 400mb hard drive.

It did me fine, till that damn game called Quake came out. It was all in sloooow motion, but still fun. So I tried that overdrive thing, to make my 486/66 into a 486/133. That was maybe equivalent to a pentium 60. Didn't help much, Quake still crawled. So I kept trying ram till I had a whopping 24 megs. Quake was playable, barely. But still too slow.

Then I remember getting a 2gb hard drive on sale at best buy for 199. The guys there told me "that is all the space you'll ever need. Doh!


Quake was still too slow and rally championship demo came out. It looked like a fun game, and this 486 wasn't cuttin' it. Thats when I built me actual first, a p200mmx. 32mb ram, 10x cdrom, sb32 and a whole 2mb video card, sirge I think.

Well, this one played Quake great, Rally Championship too. But then, something called GL Quake came out.



So I purchased the infamous voodoorush card. Hey, it had the full version of Turok.

It played GL Quake just fine, and all the others too.


Then, Unreal came out. aaaahhhhh


But, that was the beginnings of the most immortal cpu in cpu history, the 300a.

Oh well if we are talking about 1st PCs Mine was an IBM ps/2, had 8 mb ram, 80 mb harddrive, floppy, 2600bps modem, and windows 3.1

then I got a Pack Bell Legend PLatinum, this bad boy had a 166 MMX pentium, 16 mb ram, 3.1 Gb Quantun Bigfoot, and a 16x cdrom with sound. I was rolling,
From then on I started building.,

The first system I ever USED was some old IBM, I saw a picture of it on one of FP's or eGo's threads about old computers. Anyways, no mouse, 5" floppy drive and dos for OS. I remember that I always used to play in the one program that was similar to etch a sketch, it made stright lines. It weighed a ton too, also had an old B&W monitor.

We later sold the IBM for $100 I think..

The second computer I ever used was purchased around the time I was maybe 8? I don't remember exactly, but we had just had a garage sale and my dad went out an bought a brand new Gateway 2000 with a Penitum 60. I remember trying out AOL and getting on Yahoo...no banner ads then!! We also got an old Cannon Printer which we still have today!! The monitor that came with that is also currently running in my dual setup as my second monitor!!! It had a 700mb drive and ran Windows 3.1, we soon upgraded to 95.

The third computer I ever used was a Dell Demension R450. Consisted of a Penitum II 450 MHz / 128mb ram / 12 GB HDD / DVD-Rom / ZIP Drive / a 17" monitor - Trinitron / Atlec Lansing Speakers / Logitech Wheel Mouse / Dell Keyboard - this thing is still running today...When my dad bought it in 97 I think, it cost around $4000 total? Anyways, it lasted quite a long time, having been abolute top of the line then.

It wasn't until 2001 that I built my first computer which was my 1.33 tbird system.

Anyways, I definately haven't had as much history as you guys, but computers really have come a long way, damn...