Post your old rigs...
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noveltylamp
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First Computer would be a 1984 Amstrad CPC464, but keeping to PCs:
October, 1994: Packard Bell Intel 80486 SX 50MHz, 4mb RAM, 340mb Seagate HDD, 14" Monitor, later added a Quad speed CDROM and Sound Blaster 16 which cost £264. Printer was a Citizen ABC 24pin Colour Dot Matrix.
Upgraded this PC to a DX2 66MHz, 24mb RAM, 1gb WD HDD.
Built new PC August 1997: Intel Pentium II Klamath 266MHz @ 300MHz (cost £550 in the month of release), Tyan Tahoe 440FX Motherboard, 48mb 70ns SIMMs, 6.4gb Seagate HDD, 24x Matshut
a CDROM, SB16, Full Tower Case with Seasonic PSU, Matrox Millennium II 4mb Graphics + Guillemont Voodoo2 12mb (added month of release).
Then i think it goes upgrade to 440BX motherboard and 128mb RAM, Celeron 400@500, then P3 Coppermine 500 @ 750 in a different motherboard, then Duron 800 @ 933MHz with Engineering Sample DDR, then P4 1.6GHz then P4 2.5GHz with 768mb RDRAM then A64 3000+ @ 2.3GHz and now this Opteron @ 2.75GHz.
The Packard Bell 486 which despite requiring a new BIOS chip soldering in to beat the Millennium Bug, is still going, and can boot into Windows 3.11 as fast as my modern PC can into XP.
October, 1994: Packard Bell Intel 80486 SX 50MHz, 4mb RAM, 340mb Seagate HDD, 14" Monitor, later added a Quad speed CDROM and Sound Blaster 16 which cost £264. Printer was a Citizen ABC 24pin Colour Dot Matrix.
Upgraded this PC to a DX2 66MHz, 24mb RAM, 1gb WD HDD.
Built new PC August 1997: Intel Pentium II Klamath 266MHz @ 300MHz (cost £550 in the month of release), Tyan Tahoe 440FX Motherboard, 48mb 70ns SIMMs, 6.4gb Seagate HDD, 24x Matshut
Then i think it goes upgrade to 440BX motherboard and 128mb RAM, Celeron 400@500, then P3 Coppermine 500 @ 750 in a different motherboard, then Duron 800 @ 933MHz with Engineering Sample DDR, then P4 1.6GHz then P4 2.5GHz with 768mb RDRAM then A64 3000+ @ 2.3GHz and now this Opteron @ 2.75GHz.
The Packard Bell 486 which despite requiring a new BIOS chip soldering in to beat the Millennium Bug, is still going, and can boot into Windows 3.11 as fast as my modern PC can into XP.
Sticky Mick
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My rig history goes something like this:
First rig:
AMD 486 DX4/120 (I now use this as a hair-brush
)
16Meg RAM (Woopeeee)
4x CD-ROM drive
Win 95.
From 1996-1998
Second rig:
Started out as a PII/350 Slot 1
QDI 440BX mobo
64Meg RAM (Woopeeee a bit more)
4x CD-ROM
4Meg ATI Rage Pro
ISA Soundblaster 16
Win98
It's now a PIII/750 Slot 1
Same QDI 440BX mobo
512Meg RAM (jebus
)
64Meg nVidia FX5200
CD-RW & DVD-ROM
PCI Soundblaster Live 5.1
Win98/SE
Current rig: (When I get it working again.
AMD 64/3000+
ASUS A8V Deluxe
1Gig GeIL DDR Dual channel RAM
nVidia 6600GT/128
CD-RW & DVD-ROM
Soundblaster Audigy 4
Win XP
First rig:
AMD 486 DX4/120 (I now use this as a hair-brush
)16Meg RAM (Woopeeee)
4x CD-ROM drive
Win 95.
From 1996-1998
Second rig:
Started out as a PII/350 Slot 1
QDI 440BX mobo
64Meg RAM (Woopeeee a bit more)
4x CD-ROM
4Meg ATI Rage Pro
ISA Soundblaster 16
Win98
It's now a PIII/750 Slot 1
Same QDI 440BX mobo
512Meg RAM (jebus
64Meg nVidia FX5200
CD-RW & DVD-ROM
PCI Soundblaster Live 5.1
Win98/SE
Current rig: (When I get it working again.
AMD 64/3000+
ASUS A8V Deluxe
1Gig GeIL DDR Dual channel RAM
nVidia 6600GT/128
CD-RW & DVD-ROM
Soundblaster Audigy 4
Win XP
