Post specs for every system you ever owned

[jollygrinch]

1st:
Comedore64
- the hell if i know what was in that thing, all i know is that all the good games pluged into the back of the keyboard.

2nd
- 386, i swear the thing ran on diesel and coal. managed to run borland c/c++ 3.0 though. took five minutes to compile a text based prog...lol

3rd (current)
- athlon classic 550
- sd11
- 192mb pc 133
- 8.4 gb wd 7200
- 3d prophet gforce 1 sdr
- sb 512
- crap modem and nic

4th (also current)
- duron 850
- 128 mb pc 133
- crap sound/modem/vid

At the core of every system: "I'm sorry dave, i'm afraid i can't do that."

 

[Toejam31]

1.) Commodore 64.

Where I learned to hate BASIC that came misprinted in computer magazines. Some of those games never would run, no matter how carefully I typed!

2.) 468DX-2
8MB RAM
(2) hard drives, one 250MB, the other 350MB
50MHz clock speed ... with Win3.1.1 and AOL.
14.4 modem I eventually upgraded to 28.8.
Huge full tower.
2X CD-ROM.

I didn't know diddly-squat about computers, and it showed. I learned how to fall asleep in a computer chair with one eye open in front of this machine. The monitor was 14", and curved as a fishbowl. Thirty minutes of staring at that thing and your brain tried to implode.

3.) Pentium 200MHz (Slot 1)
(2) Western Digital 2GB hard drives
16MB of EDO-RAM
16bit SoundBlaster
8x CD-ROM
Mid-Tower w/200-Watt power supply
15" generic monitor
U.S. Robotics 33.3K modem
Labtec speakers (Man, the worst!)
Some kind of low-end 8MB video card

In the beginning of 1987, this was a pretty hot machine!

4.) Pentium II 266MHz w/440BX chipset
64MB SDRAM (66MHz)
(2) 8GB hard drives (Maxtor)
AWE32 SoundBlaster
16MB SDRAM ATI All-In-Wonder
16X CD-ROM
ATX mid-tower w/200-watt power supply
17" KDS monitor
U.S. Robotics 56K Modem
Yamaha speakers
Win 95-B (OS-2)

This system is still running, and has been since April of 1998 ... my mother uses it everyday. The hard drive has never been formatted, and the OS seems fine. I've since replaced the video card, added more RAM, upgraded the mouse and keyboard. I don't think you can kill it ... we call it Fred, because her boyfriend's computer is Ethel. What can I say ... they are gaga over each other! LOL!

5.) Gateway Pentium II 350MHz w/440BX chipset
128MB PC100 SDRAM
(2) ATA-33 hard drives, one 8GB, and one 16.4GB - IBM
32MB SDRAM ATI Rage Fury
AWE64 SoundBlaster
8X Toshiba DVD
External 7100 HP CD-RW
World's worst mid-tower case (I really hated it.)
250-watt power supply
Logitech mouse
Logitech keyboard
U.S. Robotics 56K modem
17" Gateway monitor (A little better than the KDS)
Boston Acoustic speakers with a small sub-woofer
Canon Printer
HP scanner
Win98 SE

This system is still running, too ... I sold it recently to a newbie customer of mine, and he is pretty happy with it, although there are some components he wants to upgrade, because he likes newer games. It was formatted only recently, and ran for almost two years without a problem of any kind. I only formatted the drives because it wasn't mine anymore. It wouldn't win any benchmarking tests, even when new, but it is solid as a rock. The friggin' HP still works, too ... I yanked it out of the drive case, installed it internally, and although it is slow ... it's functional. My only complaint with the system was finding decent ATI drivers.

6.) AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz w/VIA KT133 chipset
MicroStar K7T Pro mainboard
256MB PC133 Virtual Channel SDRAM
nVidia GeForce2 GTS 64MB DDR (Reference Design)
Adaptec 29106B SCSI controller
18.3GB IBM SCSI hard drive
Plexwriter 12/4/32 SCSI CD-RW
Pioneer-115 DVD (IDE)
Sigma Designs MPEG-2 decoder card
SoundBlaster Live! X Gamer
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 22" Flat Screen CRT
Klipsch 400-watt 4.1 THX speakers w/160-watt subwoofer
NIC card for 500K cable modem
Canon Printer
HP scanner
Microsoft keyboard
Optical Intellimouse (Explorer Pro)
Addtronics full tower
300-watt Antec power supply
Win98 SE

This system is dead, dead, dead. Not even Victor Frankenstein could bring this machine back to life. If you've read any of my previous posts, you'll remember that I did everything humanly possible to keep it running, including replacing the video card, the power supply (twice!), and the memory. When the hard drive died, I gave up. This was absolutely the most unstable piece of crap I have ever owned. Does it really matter why? Who cares? It's dead. I've salvaged the new components I bought .. they'll go into a spare machine fairly soon, but you can be sure that it won't have anything to do with MSI, Antec, or VIA. I still like AMD processors, but what good does that do when they are coupled with badly designed mainboards and lousy, buggy chipsets? Call me when AMD gets their act together and finally starts making their own chipsets AND motherboards. Then I'll take a second look.

7.) Current system:

Intel Pentium IV, 1.7GHz w/850 chipset
Intel D850GB mainboard
512MB PC800 RDRAM
(2) 75GB, 7200RPM ATA-100 hard drives (IBM)
Visiontek GeForce3 64MB DDR
Plexwriter 16/10/40 CD-RW (IDE)
Pioneer-116 DVD
Sigma Designs MPEG-2 Decoder card
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum
Same monitor - Iiyama Vision Master Pro 510
Same speakers - Klipsch 400-watt 4.1's.
Epson Stylus Photo 870 printer
Microtek Scanmaker 4 (SCSI)
Logitech cordless keyboard and cordless Mouseman Plus
Alcatel Speedtouch USB DSL modem (1.5mbps)
U.S. Robotics 56K Voice/Data/Fax external modem (backup)
Dragon full-tower
Enermax 550-watt power supply
Windows 2000 Professional (SP-1)

This system is the real deal. Plain and simple. I'll be glad to post some benchmarks next week, if anyone is interested. The system appears to be stable ... no blue screens, no memory problems, and is the fastest machine I've ever seen, much less used. How about a 20 second boot time, for starters? You want frame rates? It's wonderful. It looks cool, too, black with gold fan grills.

Of course, I have to reserve judgement ... the system is still very new, and it might take a while to discover the bugs and work around them. But right now, I can say that the games look great ... the DVD is the best, ever (check out the burst rates for the Pioneer-116) ... the Plextor burns at full speed with no buffer-underuns, and I have no words for how impressed I am by the GeForce3. And I haven't even overclocked it yet!

The mainboard is kinda sparse, could have a better layout, and doesn't offer much in the way of overclocking options, but I'm not complaining. Yes ... I know that the Northwood socket is coming, and I've gotten myself into a no-win upgrading position. But by the time I feel like upgrading, I'll want to replace the motherboard and memory, anyway ... too many good things are on the horizon that might get rid of all the old bandwidth issues that have bottlenecked our systems for years ... and that will require a major upgrade, I'm sure.

This entire system was paid for by the warranty company to replace the AMD computer, anyway ... so who am I to complain? I LIKE upgrading!

See ya ...

Toejam31


















<font color=purple>If there was a reason for everything, having faith would be redundant.</font color=purple>

 

[Guest]

First PC (apart from the BBC model B)
386 sx25
16mb ram
100 MB HDD

P120
32MB
1GB HDD

AMD K6II 266
64MB
Matrox mill 4mb
3.6 gb HDD

PII 350
256MB Mil 16Mb
2 x Voodo 2 12mb
PCI128 sound
8.4 GB HDD

Athlon 750 Classic
256 MB PC100
13.5 GB HDD
PCI128 Sound
32mb tnt2
FPS1000 spkrs

Athlon TBird 800
512mb PC133 ECC reg
20gb IBM HDD
32mb geforce
SBlive
4x HP cdrw
FPS1000 spkrs

Athlon Tbird 1.0ghz
1.0 gb PC133 ECC Reg Ram
30gb IBM Telesto HDD
32mb Geforce
SB Live
12x10x32 CDRW
FPS1000 spkrs

1.2ghz athlon c
512mb ECC reg DDR ram
64mb Radeon DDR
SB Live
12x10x32 CDRW
12x DVD
46gb Telesto HDD
FPS1000 spkrs

Thats it for now



if at first you don't succeed , destroy all evidence that you ever tried...

 

[Mavicator]

Osborne II Portable

Commodore 64

Commodore 128

Another Commodore 128 (with 1571 drive, woohoo!)

Zenith 286/10, 20mb hd, 8mb ram

Dell 386/20, 250mb hd, 32mb ram

486/33, 2gig, 64mb

Celeron 300, 4.5gig, 64mb, Voodoo2

Pentium II-400, 64mb, 8.5gig, Geforce 256

Athlon 700, 128mb, 10.5gig, Geforce 256

Tbird 1ghz, 512mb, 20 gig, Geforce 2 GTS

Currently own:
Athlon 700, 50gig, 256mb, GeForce2 MX

Tbird 1ghz, 80gig, 786mb, GeForce 2 GTS

Building Tbird 1.33, 512mb, GeForce 2 GTS

-- *Ding Ding* Knowledge for the clueless!!! --

 

[MeTaLrOcKeR]

Heres what I can remember...

IBM PS/2
80886 XT

286 4MHz
640K Ram
80MB Seagate HDD
Hercules Monochroem Graphics Adapter (ORange and Black Monitor..OH YA BABY!!!!)
3½ Floppy & 5¼ Floppy

AMD 386 sx-25MHz
4MB RAM
80MB HDD
Hercules Monochrome Video Adapter
3½ Floppy & 5¼ Floppy

i486 Dx2 66MHz @ 80MHz
16MB Ram
540MB Maxtor HDD
1MB Trident VESA Video Card
2X Cd-Rom (plugged into Sound Card)
(Later upgraded to a 24X Panasonic CD-Rom)
SB 16 ISA with IDE Cd-Rom controller
3½ Floppy & 5¼ Floppy
28.8 Kbps ISA Modem

Intel Pentium 166MMX @ 233MHz
16MB EDO Ram
540MB HDD & 2.5GB HDD
ATI 3D Xpression+ 2MB PCI
28.8 Modem
24X Cd-Rom
3½ Floppy
SB 16 ISA

AMD K6 233MMX @ 266MHz
Turbo Guide 430TX Motherboard
32MB Pc-66 SDRAM (168-pinn) & 16MB EDO Ram (72-pin) 48MB Ram Total
24X CD-Rom
3.2GB Maxtor HDD & 540MB HDD
SB 16 ISA
ATI 3D Charger 4MB PCI
3½ Floppy

Celeron 400MMX @ 500MHz
Houston Tech. Micro ATX 440BX MB
64MB PC-100 SDRAM
ATI All-In-Wonder PRO 8MB AGP Video
3DFX VooDoo PCI Accelerator (useless)
6.4GB 7200rpm HDD & 3.2GB HDD
40X Infra Creative CD-Rom & 24X Panasonic CD-Rom
Monster Sound MX300 Sound Card
56K PCI Modem
Lots of case fans
3½ Floppy

Above System died (CPU Core Literally Exploded somehow and I had no choice but to stick in a P2 266MHz CPU I had lying around from an old system I took it out of, but at least i clocked that to 350MHz. Later on the Power Supply went dead and took the Motherboard with it, and for some reason it blew both my cd-roms also...)

THAN I got...

AMD K6-2 400MHz CPU
Some MB i cant remember
32MB SDRAM PC-100 (my 64MB from the celeron wouldnt work in here)
6.4GB and 3.2GB HDD
3½ Floppy
ESS 1686 ISA Sound Card (I lent someone my Monster sound card after my PC broke as ti wasnt servign me a purpose)
ATI All-In-Wonder PRO 8MB AGP
no cd-rom

*Power supply went haywire again so this time it did some crazy stuff to the MB, I could only use 1 PCI card in there*

After I considered that dead....I had nothign for about 8 months....Than came along a 166MMX Laptop that I had to fix up...I put 48MB SDRAM in it, a 5GB HDD, 56K PCMCIA Modem, it has a NeoMagic 1MB Video Chip and a Yamaha Sound Chip, 8X CD-Rom...wasnt to bad for what it was....I still use it.. and its networked to my current PC which I got last week...

Intel Celeron 300A Slot 1 clocked to 450MHz
Unknown i440BX Motherboard
64MB PC-100 SDRAM (from old celeron, which worx fine here but not in the K6-2 I was using)
6.4, 4.3 & 3.4GB HDD's
50X Asus CD-Rom
Maxi Gamer Phoenix 16MB 3DFx VooDoo Banshee PCI Video Card
FAST AV MAster PCI Card (For Video Editing)
Monster SOund MX300 Sound Card (Got it back, YAY!)
10/100TX Base NIC
56K Modem
3½ Floppy
1 Intake fan at bottom of case and one exhaust fan at back of case
Cooler Master SECC Slot 1 CPU Cooler on CPU.

Burn MF, BURN!!!

 

[Guest]

Sorry to hear about your Amd machine Toejam. I got a dual MSI board running the Via 694x chipset and I love it!! Best thing you ever did was dumping your Amd.

"Cock-a-doodle-do" is what I say to my girl when I wake her UP in the morning!!

 

[Phelk]

Thoroughbred 2.1Ghz
300Mhz FSB
512Mb 150(300)Mhz DDR SDRAM
Radeon 2 (with Dual head)
120Gb 15,000rpm Hardrive
2 * 18.1" TFT LCD monitors
DVD-RAM

Okay, so I don't own it yet cause it's not available, but I've got 9 months to save then yeehah!

<font color=blue> The Revolution starts here... as soon as I finish my coffee </font color=blue> 😱

 

[btvillarin]

1) Pentium I that ran Windoze 3.1 (I can't remember what it's specs were because my dad lent it to me)

2) Packard Bell
PII MMX 333 (That was running at 233 after some benchmarks at PCPitStop)
6.4GB Fujitsu HD
64MB EDO RAM
Winmodem
ESS Audiodrive

3) My Current Homebrew
Asus A7V133
Athlon T-Bird 850 200FSB
256MB SDRAM CL=2 (Micron)
IBM 30GB 7200RPM UltraATA100
HP-CD Writer 9150i 8x4x32
ATI Radeon 32MB SDRAM
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! Value
3Com NIC
Teac Floppy Disk Drive

<i>OC...unless your computer's cheezy (is that a good rhyme?)</i> 😱

 

[munkey]

1. intel i486dx 66
unknown MB
no sound
unknown vid
1gig fujitsu HDD

2a. cyrix 6x86MX pr200(166)
MTI tech MB
47mb ram
SB AWE23
1gig fujitsu HDD
12x CD-ROM

2b. pentium i133MMX
IWill MB
64MB ram
no sound
16x CD-ROM
500MB seagate HDD

3. dual pentium 133
96MB ram
turtle beach audio
matrox millenium II
HP SCSI CD-ROM
SCSI seagate barracuda 2gig
1gig fujitsu HDD

4. AMD Duron850 o/c'ed(143*7.0)
Asus A7V133 MB
Sony 16x12x32 CD-RW
Generic DVD-ROM 4x
Castlewood ORB drive
SB Live Platinum w/livedrive
2x 40gig 7200rpm Maxtor HDDs
Geforce2Ultra video
Antec 1030soho case

if you didn't guess already the fujitsu HDD has been in almost all of my machines. everything before the dual 133 setup has since been either scraped or turned into artwork of some form.

is this reality... i thought it would more realistic.

 

[Guest]

1)
8088 (8MHz in turbo mode)
30Mb HD
640kB RAM
5 1/4" Double density floppy
External 3 1/2" Double density floppy (720kb)
EGA video adapter
Monoc. display
Soundblaster 1.x (don't remember the x) but it was a mono soundcard
Dos 3.2

2)
80486 33MHz
200Mb HD
8 Mb RAM
Tseng ET4000 graphics adapter with 32000 colors
dos 5.0 or 6.0 (dont remember)
3)
Pentium 75 MHz later upgradet to a 200MHz
1 Gb Quantum fireball HD
voodoo rush graphics chipset
32Mb RAM
win 95


4)
300MHz celeron @450/500 (500 if i turn on the watercooling )
20Gb HD
voodoo2 12Mb
win 98


<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by SkrueMcDuck on 05/14/01 07:13 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Guest]

Imagine this thread in a few years...

<i>Yea I remember my first system. What a POS!
It only had <b>one CPU</b>, less then 2 GHz I think.

And only 512 MB of RAM. Can you believe it, we measured RAM in Megabytes!

And only 80 GB of storage, and it was on those old "hard drive" systems. Spinning magnetic media ... mechanical for cripes sake! Damn things failed all the time.</i>



In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

 

[Guest]

I think by the time we use technology like flash memory for mass storage we will have quantum computers.

 

[phsstpok]

<b>1st Computer</b>

Atari 800, 16 KB RAM, TV (no monitor), 410 Audio Cassette (no disk drives), about a half dozen cartridge games. Used to do telecomputing at college.

Upgrades

up to 32 KB memory by solder my own chips, up to 48 KB by adding another module, two floppy drives via ATR-8000 interface adapter. Never got around to adding the hard drive.

<b>2nd Computer</b>

Zeos 286, 10 mhz (overclocked to 12 mhz at the factory), 512 KB DRAM, 47 MB HD, Hercules Monochrome Graphics (Clone)

Upgrades

2 MB DRAM, Paradise 8-bit VGA graphics, 2400 baud modem (I think).

AMD AM386 DX/DXL-25 CPU, Cyrix FasMath coprocessor and mobo (brand unknown), 25 mhz, 8 MB DRAM, Western Digitial 16-bit SVGA graphics w/ 2D acceleration, 200 MB hard drive.

16 MB DRAM, 3.5" and 5.25" dual floppy drive

AMD 486DX-33 and mobo

AMD 486DX4-100 and mobo, Toshiba 16 MB SIMM (cost for all $1000).

ATI Graphics Expression video card (Local Bus), 400 MB HD

Cyrix Pentium clone (I forget the designator), 166 mhz, 32 MB DRAM (16 MB SIMM added to previous this one only cost $71 vs $500), mobo with SiS chipset (I think), ATI 3D Xpression (3D accelerator, PCI).

AMD K6, 200 mhz, mobo with Intel HX chipset (San Li, I think), 32 MB DIMM, ATI All-in-Wonder (PCI).

1.6 GB HD (failed in 6 months, no warranty)

Creative Labs Monster3D, Voodoo (1), 4 MB

Canopus Pure3D LX, Voodoo (1), 6 MB

3.5 GB HD

2nd 3.5 GB HD

HP 8100i CD-RW

AMD K6-2, 350 mhz (overclocked to 400 mhz), FIC 503+ mobo (unstable until I learned the 64 MB DIMM didn't work with the 32 MB DIMM. Separately each was stable).

VisionTek Geforce256 SDR (not overclocked)

<b>3rd Computer</b>

AMD Duron, 600 mhz (originally overclocked to 1007 mhz, now at 900 mhz for the summer, apparently), Abit KT7 mobo, 128 MB SDRAM, Maxtor DiamondMax 40VL HD, 40 GB, Cheap case with 300 watt power supply (after 13 years, I had to retire my old case).

Upgrades

Enermax EG351P-VE, 330 watt, power supply (for insurance).

486 fan and RAM heatsinks for the Geforce256 SDR which is now highly overclocked at 135/185 for normal stuff and 150/210 for games (up from 120/166 stock).

<b>Next Upgraded</b>

Probably a video card, something like a Geforce 3 MX, if and when it is available. There may be a Kyro II or a Radeon LE as before the Geforce 3.

A new sound card since I can't get Wavetable synthesis to work on the old Turtle Beach TBS-2000 with Windows 98SE. (FM synthesis is driving me crazy which isn't to far from the norm)!

I don't feel I need a system upgrade but I do need a second system so I will probably upgrade on the cheap. Most likely an AMD Thunderbird 1.0 Ghz with an ABIT KT7E mobo.