So.... who can remember all the systems they built for themselves?

[scaryjim]

1 System, just upgraded alot

Like dwarfish axes being handed down through the generations, you mean?

[Choo Choo]

I can't remember the specifics of the builds, but here's basically what I've built in the past for myself. I've had a look at my order history at ebuyer for some reminders.

1st build was in 2003. It was an Athlon XP 1700+ overclocked to 3200+ speeds. Originally had an Asus A7N266-VM-L motherboard then got an A7N8X Deluxe. I used several graphics cards with this mb and later upgraded to an Athlon XP 2500+ that was rubbish at overclocking.

2nd build was a Sempron 2800+ on some MSI nforce 3 motherboard overclocked to some amount that I can't remember. That motherboard started playing up so I replaced it with a DFI lanparty nforce 3 mb and I couldn't overclock the cpu even a little bit, despite being apparently one of the best overclocking boards at the time. It was unstable at everything except stock so that's where it stayed.

3rd build was a Pentium D 805, initially overclocked (again can't remember how much), but then taken back down to stock. I think it was because of the massive amounts of heat it chucked out. That was on an ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe mb with 2gb ram and a Geforce 7600GT gfx card. I've still got that one within the family.

4th build was a Core2Quad Q6600 on an ASUS P5K mb, which was later changed to a P5K-E wifi. It had 4gb ram, 640gb (total) hdd, Geforce 8800 GTS 320mb gfx card, tv tuner card, OCZ 600W stealthxstream PSU, and some big Scythe heatsink. This was the most that I've ever spend on a build and for the time was top notch. This one is also still in use within the family.

Now I'm just using a desktop replacement laptop. No more hassle and no more temptation to spend money on computer parts.

[Koolpc]

Lost count.

[arthurleung]

1995: Pentium 90Mhz, 16MB Ram, 230MB + 320MB HDD (I was 9 when I built it)
1998: Pentium /w MMX 166Mhz (overclocked to 225Mhz), 32MB Ram, 2GB HDD
1999: Pentium II 300Mhz (overclocked to 450Mhz), 128MB Ram, 2GB HDD
2001: Pentium III 800Mhz (overclocked to 920Mhz), 256MB Ram, 20GB IBM Deathstar (It failed 3 times in 4 months, ended up "upgrading" to 40GB 5400RPM IBM which lasted for years)
2002: Upgraded to 80GB HDD
2003: Upgraded to 80+60GB HDD
2004: Athlon XP 2500+, 1GB Memory, 200+200+160+160+80+60GB HDD
2005: Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.7Ghz, 1GB Memory, Tons of 300G HDDs + god knows how many
2006: Another Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.7Ghz, Also a Pentium D 2.8Ghz @ 4Ghz
2007: Core2Duo T7200 laptop
2008: Xeon X3350/Q9450, DELL T8400 laptop
2009: Nothing yet.

I still remember the motherboard brand and chipset for the motherboard but I won't remember the model name. Could probably look it up though.

Between 2005-2007 I literally install one new HDD every 45 days (while selling the smallest drives). The uptrend halted since 2008 and my storage steady at just over 9TB. Planning to get 8x1.5TB RAID6 upgrade and sell all my non-TB drives.

I threw so much money into all this stuff that would eventually become junk :S

[Behemoth]

Will this do you ?

The 2007 - 2009 PC (current PC specs in the my system tab)

Gigabyte GA965 DS3 rev 3.3 Mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 CPU (1.8 GHz)
4 Gig DDR2 Corsair
Radeon X1800 XT which was later upgraded to an 8800 GT
Pioneer Burner
1 TB HDD space
SB Audigy 2 sound card

The 2006 - 2007 PC

AMD Athlox 64 X2 3800
2 Gig ram
Gigabyte GAK8 SLI Pro Motherboard
ATI Radeon X1800 XT GFX
850 Gig total HDD Space
Pioneer DVD Writer

The 2003 - 2005 PC

AMD Athlon XP 2600 (1.91 GHz)
Gigabyte GA7N400 Pro 2 (sadly this got roasted mid 2005 when I was doing a case change, so it was replaced with the board below)
Abit NF7S V2 Motherboard
1 Gig ram
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro GFX
500 Gig total HDD Space
Pioneer DVD 117 DVD Drive
Pioner A06 DVD RE-Writer

The 2002 - 2003 PC

AMD Athlon XP 2100 (1.73 GHz)
Abit KD7 Raid Motherboard
512 megs of ram
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128 meg (was a rocking little card)
200 gig total HDD space
Pioneer DVD 117 DVD Drive
Floppy Drive

The 2001 - 2002 PC

AMD Athlon AXia 1.2 GHz CPU, which was later upgraded to Athlon XP 1700 (1.4 GHz)
Asus A7V 133 Moterboard
256 Megs of ram
Geforce 2 Ti 64 meg GFX
120 gig total HDD space
Trax Data 40 x 32 x 40 CD Writer
SB Live 1024
Floppy Drive

Which was later upgraded and comprised of :

Abit KR7A RAID
Same RAM, GFX card and other bits as above but had 2 x 60 Gig IBM GXP120's running in RAID 0

The 2000 - 2001 PC

AMD Athlon 550 MHz, which was then later upgraded to a 900 MHz Athlon CPU
Gigabyte GA71XE Motherboard
256 Megs of Ram
32 Meg GeForce 2 MX
20 gig HDD space
4 x 4 x 32 Philips CD Writer
50 Speed Generic CD Rom Drive
SB Live Value
Floppy Drive

The 1999 - 2000 PC

Intel Pentium 2 350
Gigabyte GA6BXC Motherboard
192 megs of ram
16 Meg Voodoo 3 2000 (woot, top card that was, gave it away in the end)
18 Gig HDD
SCSI 4 speed CD Writer
32 Speed CD Rom Drive
SB Live Value
Floppy drive

The 1998 - 1999 PC

AMD K6 350
iWill Motherboard (I think)
64 Meg Ram
Matrox Productiva G100 8 Meg AGP + 3DFX Voodoo Card (all your bases belong to me !!)
6 Gig hdd
24 Speed CD Rom Drive
Sound Blaster 16
Floppy Drive

The 1997 - 1998 PC (getting really low spec here now)

VX Pro mother board
Cyrix P150 CPU Later was upgraded to an IDT Winchip 225
32 Megs of ram
4 Meg S3 virge
2.1 Gig HDD
16 speed CD Rom Drive with a temper !!
Sound Blaster 16
Floppy Drive

The 1996 - 1997 PC (ok this really is even lower Spec)

Motherboard taken out of a Dell PC
Pentium 75 CPU
A Massive 16 megs of ram
ATI mach 64 Pro CT GFX with a whopping 1 meg !!
200 megs of HDD space !!
4 Speed Goldstar CD Rom Drive
Floppy Drive
Sound Blaster 16

And finally - The 1995 - 1996 PC

IBM PS1 486 DX2 66
8 megs of ram
Elsa ET 3500 1 Meg GFX
170 meg HDD
2 speed CD Rom
Opti sound card
Floppy Drive

[CrazyMonkey]

I cant remember them all exactly - (Only the most recent ones)

Built many myself and for others..

I do however remember an AMD XP3200+ system i put together with 1GB of RAM! And a Geforce 5600??

That thing still puuurs today Most reliable system i've ever had, she even runs without a heatsink on the gfx card or the cpu

[madman045]

1st PC bought was a P75 system

My first build was a K6-2 450mhz, second was a 1.33GHz AMD on a KT7A-Raid motherboard, next was a P4 2.8GHz (533) on a Gigabyte 8INXP motherboard, followed by a p4 3.2GHz (800) on a Gigabyte 8KNXP Ultra 64 motherboard with three 74GB SCSI drives, next is my current pc which is a x2 4400, Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe and my new build (almost finished) will be an E8500, P5Q Deluxe

[MSIC]

Nice one all, am enjoying this little trip down memory lane! Please add more personal comments too, such as so-and-so really kicked ass etc.

Windows still sucks it all up though

It's a good job that doesn't happen any more though

I proudly announce "it's a £32,000 keyring" - a 32mb EDO 30pin SIMM

Ebay! Ebay! See what you can get!!

Like dwarfish axes being handed down through the generations,

Nice I recognise this too.

Lost count.

Oh, come on! You can do better than that!

Will this do you ?

Have you ever been diagnosed with autism?

Seriously folks, keep this up!

[Badbonji]

I have only just started building since I was 17, so last year.

2008:
Q9450 2.66Ghz overclocked to 3.7Ghz (water cooled)
Asus 680i -> EVGA 780i a month later (680i didn't support Q9450, would work but no oc)
8Gb G.Skill 1066Mhz DDR2
Dual EVGA 8800gts 512mb SSC
150Gb Raptor
500Gb backup
Antec 900

Late 2008/2009 (Current build):
Core i7 965 3.2Ghz overclocked to 4.35Ghz (water cooled)
Gigabyte Extreme X58 (water cooled)
6Gb G.Skill 1600Mhz DDR3 overclocked to 1740Mhz
BFG GTX295
2 x 150Gb Raptors Raid 0 (Maybe SSD's this year if cheap enough, got uni to worry about though)
500Gb backup
1.5Tb Server

The old pc is now my dad's, which he got for real cheap Funny how he used to give me his old hardware.

[Behemoth]

Have you ever been diagnosed with autism?

Nope, should I have been ?

[MSIC]

Nope, should I have been ?

Sorry mate, didn't mean to come across rude or anything, i'm just so impressed with your detailed memory! LOL.
Edit: And upon re-reading, it does sound a bit insulting Apologies

[Salazaar]

I started with (I think) a PII-300 back in '97-ish which was my first full build. Though not my first PC which was a 386DX back in ye olde days.

I honestly can't remember the details of all the itterations and revisions on my PCs since. I don't think I've been through a single rebuild without using a significant number of components from the previous build.

[Georgy291]

i dont see the point in keeping the old system alive, i take as much as i can out the old system and either keep the rest or sell it

[Behemoth]

Sorry mate, didn't mean to come across rude or anything, i'm just so impressed with your detailed memory! LOL.
Edit: And upon re-reading, it does sound a bit insulting Apologies

Thats ok mate, apology accepted I've always had a good memory.

[CrazyindianZA]

Youngsters

I started with a

1987 IBM XT 4.77mhz 8086

[Disturbedguy]

Cant remember what I started with or what my second build PC was lol