Five years ago...

[VenQWish]

Hmmm, five years ago eey, well for me that was:
PII 300Mhz @350 (how's that for OCing )
64MB SDram (costed me 150€ back in the days)
Riva TNT2 Ultra (costed me 350€ back then >_<)
SB some lousy stereo sound card...

Then 4 years ago, bought myself a portable@
1GHz with a 8MB video card (boy was that a mistake, didn't know anything about that back then).
This baby costed me 2500€ and I busted it up in a month, no warranty (T_T)

Then I bought myself an AMD 1800+ with a Geforce3 TI200 (also 350€) with 256DDR.

Upgraded to a 2600+ with 512DDR and a HIS Excalibur 9800IceQ pro somewhere last year.
This one broke down on me last week, sniffle.

Now I'm getting a shuttle, with a AMD 64 3500+ Venice, with 1GB Dual channel DDR, 2x250 GB Sata/150 in striping raid and my beloved 9800pro in there.

Hmmm, how times do change, I love it , my wallet however does not.

/EDIT

There is nothing like obliterating a motherboard with a hammer and chizel!

Oh boy, I still have some scrap here, time to whip out a hammer, what a great idea ^^

[exAndrzej]

...beats having a Dutton inside...

Or being inside a...

Dear God


<stops typing>

[robbiec]

2000?
I was running an AMD 400 K6 III on a PCChips MB
FSB was at 83mhz as 100mhz was too unstable.
I had a 6GB Maxtor harddrive and a LiteON cdrom
Graphics was a SIS jobbie with 8Mbs shared ram
I think it has 128Mb Ram, Dimm type.
Modem = lucent noname I picked up for £8
OS = Dos 6.2 with OS/2 4.0 and also Win98
Perfect machine for surfing and compiling VB apps and a bit of light gaming, Privateer, X-Wing & Tie-Fighter and Su27 Flanker.

[1stoff]

darn I have probably killed around a trillion braincells trying to remember that far back, only a few left now , anyways here it is...er was

P3 800EB
Asus ?/:[& 815 mobo
2x126 PC133 SD Ram
30GB Deathstar ?? or a Maxtor
TNT2 32MB
17" aperture grill flat ADI
some cheap plastic things that made a noise
the same cooling solution that intel say you should use with their room heaters, an 80mm fan with tube fitted to the side panel

[Bull Dog]

AMD 500mhz, K7 and NOT a K6
128mb of PC100 ram
An FIC "MainBoard" (I call em motherboards or mobo's)
Diamond Viper V770 (NVidia TNT2) AGP 2x
SoundBlaster Live 4ch card.

[luhai167]

1996-2001
Pentium 166 (no MMX, no nothin')
16MB EDO RAM (later upgrade to 80MB)
1.5G HDD (later upgrade to 10GB)
Somekind of S3 Graphic card. But I know it laggs playing AoE.
Just resored a couple month ago to play those memorable dos games.

2001-2003
Celeron 666
128 MB PC133 (later upgrade to 256MB)
10GB HDD (Later upgrade to 80GB)
onboard Graphics (I play mostly Strategy games back then, and it does run CS)
Still use it as file server.

2003-2005
AXP 2400+
512 PC2700 RAM (Later upgrade to 1GB)
80GB HDD (Later upgrade to 200GB)
9800 Pro
Sold it.

2005
A64 3000+ Winchester
1GB PC3200 RAM
200 GB SATA
on-board X-press200 graphics. (The 9800pro brought my GPA from3.x to 2.X, I need to stay away from high performance GPUs)

[pumpman]

still got it
amd t bird 1gig
40 gig hard drive
256mg ram
32mb g eforce grpahics
cdrw
dvd rom
winoze 98 se
currently
couple of a64 systems three shuttles and a dual xeon setup

[siu99spj]

Blimey, that took some thinking, especially as that was my student days. Must admit I don't remember too many of them!

Anyway, for the first half of the year I had a PII-350 OC'ed to 434MHz (FSB=124MHz). Perfectly stable, in fact it became UNSTABLE when I clocked it back to normal speeds!!! Anyway, full rig was:
PII-350 OC 434
128MB RAM
32MB Voodoo3 3000
20GB HDD
1 x DVD ROM Drive
1 x SCSI 2x2x6x CD-RW Drive (Old Yamaha 4x2x16x had died earlier)
Sound Blaster Live!
17" CRT Monitor

I worked all summer and as well as being able to get myself to Hong Kong for the following summer (Best holiday ever!), I got meself a kick-ass rig:
AMD Thunderbird 900MHz (Couldn'y quite afford the 1GHz)
256MB RAM (Salvaged old 128MB stick)
64MB GeForce 2 Pro
20GB HDD (Salvaged old one)
40GB HDD
1x DVD ROM Drive
1x 52x CD-ROM Drive
1x 24x10x32x CD-RW Drive
Sound Blaster Live!
17" CRT Monitor (Old one)

If I remember rightly, the old bits, where not in the new PC, went in my brothers direction.

And my 'new' machine (Now over 18 months old, and an upgrade of the above) is:
P4C 3Ghz OC 3.3GHz
1024MB RAM
128MB Radeon 9800 Pro
2x 160GB RAID0
1x 80GB
1x 300GB
1x DVD ROM Drive
1x DVD±RW Drive
1x Samsung 710T (17" LCD)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2

The hard disk space has been needed ever since I got meself broadband. Damn the ability to download so fast!!!!

What's even more worrying is the fact when I think back to my first PC, a 286 12MHz, CGA Screen, 640K RAM and 16MB HDD!!!!!!!

[Lee H]

5 years ago... jeez lemme bring my account screen up and check what I bought

1 Ghz AMD "thunderbird"
2 x 512 Mb memory
2 x 40Gb HDD ( maxtors that I still had until about a month ago)
ASUS V6600 GEFORCE256 AGP
Plextor CD writer ( eeek @ the price )
CLabs Audigy SB1394 Sound card

[cm_uk]

166mmxpentium 1 oc'ed to 233mhz, some cheap mobo with built in audio and video , a 2/4mb gfx card cant remember which, some triangle shaped pci audio card 2.1 i think... 8x cdrom drive, 1gb hdd + 500mb hdd. win98se.14inch packard bell monitor...still worx on its way out tho... some cheap non ps2 mouse and keyboard lol oh the suprieme l33tness
WildMonkeyUK thats a beast of a setup, especially considering the time...

[Lee H]

WildMonkeyUK thats a beast of a setup, especially considering the time...

Thanks, but you should see some of the prices I paid for items...

For example I paid nearly 400 pounds for a DVD-Writer alone at one point.

I must be crazy

[Carlh]

Thanks, but you should see some of the prices I paid for items...

For example I paid nearly 400 pounds for a DVD-Writer alone at one point.

I must be crazy

Hmmm - If I recall correctly Lee (and I think I do) I bought that PC for you and it cost just over £1400.00 ........

Also the DVD writer was £418 and was the Pioneer 103 (Before any one asks I blew up his old motherboard and CPU therefore decided to buy him a new rig as I am a nice guy really)

[Butcher]

Hmm, as I recall:

P3 667 (o/c to 750)
1 GB PC133 RAM
GF2 GTS (cost a small fortune)
18GB 15k RPM SCSI disk (another small fortune)
18" TFT (large fortune)
SB live value

Think that's about right.

[Allen]

(Before any one asks I blew up his old motherboard and CPU therefore decided to buy him a new rig as I am a nice guy really)

You can blow up my mobo any time!

[Allen]

Mine was a PII 350MHz with 192MB RAM, 20GB HDD, Creative TNT2 M64 32MB (horrible thing crashed all the time), onboard sound, crappy case, crappy monitor, crappy keyboard, crappy mouse.

I still had my A1200 as well.

[oralpain]

Five years ago I had:

Athlon 700MHz, slot A
Partaily defective Epox KT133 mobo
2x256 PC133
Hercules Geforce 256 DDR 32MB
Aureal Vortex 2 (which I still use)
350W PC Power and Cooling PSU
20GB IBM Deskstar 35GXP (still works)