I thought PII's started @ 233Mhz IIRC - or did you underclock yours ?Originally posted by LoopyJuice
PII 166mhz
16mb ram
2mb noname gfx card
14" monitor
1.2gb fujitsu hd
and the whole lot is still working
I thought PII's started @ 233Mhz IIRC - or did you underclock yours ?Originally posted by LoopyJuice
PII 166mhz
16mb ram
2mb noname gfx card
14" monitor
1.2gb fujitsu hd
and the whole lot is still working
XTR!!!
I had the same PC! Was it kinda a lilac coloured case, with a small circular power button, desktop style?
To be honest, I thought it was pretty solid, never crashed on me and was great for running stuff like Epic Pinball and old skool demoscene stuff.
Windows 3.1 was unstable, but we all knew that. Doom made me upgrade, and I'm sure it'll make me upgrade again.
Ruairi
So did i come to think of it... i'm just gonna go and check...
yup you were right it's a P1 166 with MMX technology i seem to remember it played Delta Force 1 okish, i had a go a while back and my god it was like a slideshow! I can't believe i used to think it was playable!
450 K6-2, 128 EDO RAM, 4gb HDD, SLI Voodoo 2's
That was my first comp but my dad has always had computers in the house so we have had everything from the ZX's upwards in the house.
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First "computer" would be Atari 2600.
First PC would have to be me old Apricot, can't remember the model but it had an intel 8088 cpu and ran msdos 2.0.
That was in the late 80's, those were the days
Remembers windows 2.something!! On my first or second pc!
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1st computer - ZX81 with 16k RAM soooo slow!! loading stuff by tape etc...great for getting into programming tho cos most games were so lame u could just as easily write ur own
first proper (if u can call it that) PC was a cyrix 6x86 (equivalent to pentium 166MMX), 64MB RAM, 3.5gig hdd, 2mb graphics
i still remember my glee at eventually prising the case off it & O/C'ing it to PII 200 & being "amazed" at the performance increase playing quake 1. happy days
if it ain't broke...fix it till it is
first pc was a 486 dx-50 with 4 lots of 1mb 32pin simms, this 486 had no cache either which i didnt know at the time!! based on a pc chips cheetah 6.1. had a 80mb hdd, ran windows 3.1 and all in a desktop case with an ast 14" monitor that i still have working today.
that rig was was getting on abit so i decided to make a beast of a 486 based on the gigabyte ga-486im mobo. had amd dx-100 chip (needed hs+f) got quite hot, originally i could only afford 2 sticks of 8mb simms but a few months on i got two more to total 32mb. soundblaster awe64 isa massive job soundcard, trident isa video card, 1mb i think it was and 320mb hdd with quad speed cd-rom! kept that rig as main pc for about 6months iirc. added 14400 serial modem to it and got on the net for the first time, this is when it was running win 95osr2.
after the 486s were getting out of date i made my first pentium system - p133 on a chaintech 5iem. had 256k of cache on a stick! improved performance no end iirc. first made with 1.2 gig hdd, but later added another 1.6gig seagate that i still have today to it and the quad speed cd-rom off previous pc.
few months on i upgraded the a bove pc to a p166mmx and overclocked it to 200 (later swaped mobo to a asus p55t2p4 as chaintech's primary ide co ntroller died!) asus has been on 24/7 since i got it in 1995, prooves how good asus mobos are even made back then!
kept the mmx @ 200 for a while, until i fancied a change when i started making an intirely new pc, in late 1998 i think, based on a pc chips m741lmrt that also still works spot on today 24/7, had p11 350, first of the 100mzh fsb p2's iirc with 8.4 gig seagate hdd and 64mb of pc100, later upgarded to 128 then adventually 192 recently when i started running 2000 pro on it (has 450mhz p3 now) kept that rig how it was for a year running windows 98fe, then paid 280 quid for a p3 450 cpu, kept with that system till i could afford an a bit be6 version 2.
saved up for abit, bought it and swapped mobo's basically with the above system. p2 350 went back into m741lmrt and added the slave hdd out of my p133 to it and ran 98fe once again used as back up system then.
ran the 450 @ 558, 124 * 4.5 for two years before i bought a tnt2 32meg for it, to upgrade from the pos cirus logic 2mb pci thing i was getting by with for all that time.
then came along windows 2000..
next upgrade took a while due to being skint. kept the full tower atx case and bought an abit kt7 and duron 800 and new psu, kept 8.4 gig hdd and other stuff...abit doesnt post now and broke duron 800 trying to hard mod the multiplier! (used tnt2 on this mobo)
then xp...
then i made an athlon 1400 t-bird C rig, on an asus a7a266-e with 256mb pc2100 ddr ram, gf2 mx 400, 40 gig 7200rpm etc...to do seti@home, and few months later, xp1600 on pc chips m810lmr with 60 gig hdd...kept that as ma in rig for few months till 3 months ago when i made xp2100 tbred b rig.
well, kinda cheaty, first two were bought by parents, but I was basically the sole user most of the time...
Started off with a Pentium-100 based machine from Dell, with a massive 16Mb of RAM, and 2Mb of S3 Trio video memory!
Had a whole 1Gb of hard disk though ...still works though, some elderly relative has it.
then went up by a factor of 10ish to a 1ghz athlon, 128Mb RAM, tnt2, 20Gb HD....from pcworld.
still sits a couple of feet away...
First proper PC, that I actually paid for/built...is this nf7-s/2400+/512Mb/9700 gold/80Gb beast. I know which one I like most
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Started off with a C64 with a tape drive \m/ Then had a play with a lush little floppy drive for it.. Aztec challenge was probably the best game I had for it..
Then upgraded to a P100 Packard Bell with 16Mb ram.. THEN a P120 laptop (which I still have!) .. I think it's a siemens.. I'm too drunk to open my cupboard to see... No its not a siemens.. thats my mobile phone.
Anyway, about 7 years ago I bought a Tiny computer which was a P3 450Mhz. Overclocked that to about 600Mhz without even knowing it! Ended up playing Quake multiplayer and Ultima online with my 56k modem for 4 years until I bought a 1Ghz athlon and Asus A7a266 2 years ago. I think I was still using the memory from the Tiny (128mb 100mz).
THEN bought an A7V8x-x and a 2000 Athlon XP. Didn't tickle my fancy, so I gave that to my mother and got my Nf7-S/1700XP JIUHB DLTC3 combo that I run now..
I did love the C64 when I got it for christmas though.. I remember setting it loading Short Circuit (game after the film!) for thirty minutes, then getting my dinner.. then playing it alll night. Good times.
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Texas Instruments TI-80
ZX-81
Dragon 32
ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC464
Amstrad PC1512 <- First PC (8086, 640kb Ram, CGA Graphics, 2x 5.25 Floppies, 20Mb WD Filecard)
Opus PC5 <- (25Mhz 386, 16mb Ram, 40mb hdd, VGA graphics)
Since 1993, all computers built by myself
486 dx4-100 o/c'd to 120Mhz
P133 o/c'd to 180Mhz
Cyrix MII 300 <- Heap o cheap junk
AMD K6-2 450 @ 500Mhz
Athlon XP1500
Athlon XP2000 <- Current system
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If you don't count the Apple II, my first rig was...
Intel 486 SX-25
4MB RAM
170MB HDD
Integrated Cirrus Logic graphics
14" monitor
no CD-ROM, no sound card
That was late 1993... I upgraded it to a DX2-66, added another 16MB of RAM (at a huge cost!!), added an NEC 2x CD-ROM, SB16, a 250MB HDD and then a 17" monitor.
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anyone beat an atari st?
.....................
thuoght not. the best and always will be...
even more than than my current pc in some ways:
xp2800+,
9700pro,
2 * 512mb cas2 twinmos,
2 * 120gb 7200rpm hdd,
coolermaster201,
antec430w,
logitch coredless optical deluxe desktop,
dell/lg black 18'' 20ms lcd
dgr
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dothan 745 @ 2.4ghz | 2gb Corsair XMS (2-3-3-6) | dual raptors (raid0) | ATI 9700pro | CM201 | dual lg 1810
Amiga 500 always beat the Atari ST.
That was my first personal computer. And I did use it for word processing - typed up many school essays on it (they didnt like non hand written GCSE English submissions back then) and some early Uni reports before I bought a PC on student loan - you needed one back then to buy a PC :/
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