Computer Evolution 2.0

[SteakPhish]

Those of us who consider building computer to be a hobby go through new parts on a fairly consistent basis. It's kind've interesting to compare what you have to what you used to have. I remember just 2 years ago I was rocking a 166mhz P1, 64mb of memory and a Matrox MGA Millenium. That thing could play Quake 2, Decent 2, Decent Freespace...Commandos...Red Alert...well you get the general idea.

 

I didn't know any better either. The most powerful computers I'd been around were those at school, and while I did manage to get Driver installed on one of them, I generally didn't game on them.

 

Once I got a job and some serious cash together, I built my first rig....and I was addicted from there.

 

Share the experience and tell us how your rig evolved. Use your own discretion as to what a new "rig" is. I say if it's a new mobo, cpu, and memory, it's a new rig, but it's kind've a tossup.

 

I'll display my rig's evolution in a moderately easy system...with some backstory for the hell of it.

 

My First Rig

 

After my neighbor got a Dell computer, which had a 2.0ghz P4 and a Geforce 4 MX440...well I thought it was the greatest thing in the world since all my craptacular games ran blissfully on it (yes I installed my games on his computer just to see how they ran). So after getting some birthday money together...I got my first rig. $420, it was.

 

CPU: Athlon XP 2400+

 

RAM: 256MB Crucial DDR 266 (one DIMM slot refused to work, no matter what memory was put in it)

 

VIDEO CARD: Integrated Geforce 2 MX ----> Geforce 4 MX440 ----> Radeon 9800 PRO

 

Motherboard: Asus A7N266-VM

 

 

Later in the year, for Christmas, my daddy got me a Radeon 9800 PRO. It kind've felt overpowered considering the staggeringly low amount of memory, but hey.

 

 

 

In the summer, I got the overclocking itch and my motherboard was adamanet about not letting me do it. Also, my 9800 Pro was really getting pissed sitting inside such a crappy system...so it was upgrade time again. I kept the processor and the video card, everything else was outta there.

 

 

My Second Rig

 

CPU: Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.4ghz, 200mhz fsb. OC'ed the sh*t out of it. ----> Athlon XP 2500+ with an overclock. Moderately pleased.

 

Memory: 512MB Corsair Value Memory, later upgraded to 1GB.

 

Motherboard: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe. Seriously, who HASN'T owned one?

 

Then I splurged...and got what I have now, a 6800 Ultra. My Athlon XP system was really choking it, but I didn't care because dammit I had a 6800 Ultra. I sold the 9800 PRO.

 

 

My Third, and Current, Rig

 

CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ s939

 

Memory: 1gb OCZ Platinum 2-2-2-5 memory

 

Motherboard: Abit AV8 3rd eye edition

 

Video Card: PNY Vergo 6800 Ultra

 

I also slammed in a 160gb SATA drive to accompany my 60 gigger which I had all the way since the beginning. How it hasn't died yet I dunno.

 

There you have it. Let 'er rip.

 

 

 

 

[Forfit]

Thats interesting....

 

I heard from a guy once, he said "You will go poor trying to keep your computer upgraded" and those words are true.

 

But first off, the first computer my family owned, was back in....maybe 1996? it was super fast...160 something Mhz CPU, 64mb? ram, 1.5Gb HDD, it was smoking fast, i know... for a whopping $3,000, give or take a few hundred....(not too sure i was like 8 Years at the time)

 

But then we got a new one that was built by me bro. it just died recently but a nice computer indeed

 

1.2 Ghz AMD CPU

512Mb Ram

40Gb HDD

onboard sound

Geforce 5200 64mb gfx

 

And then i wanted my own computer, so a friend donated one

 

500Mhz AMD cpu

128mb Ram

onboard sound/video

30Gb Hdd

 

(Hey! it was free... )

 

And then i junked that a while back and bought another new one which i am happy with

 

AMD XP 3200+ @ 2.2Ghz

1GB pc3200 RAM

160GB Samsung HDD

Asus A7V8X-LA mobo

Soundblaster Live! 7.1 with 7.1 speakers

Dell 17 CRT monitor

Nvidia 5500 128mb (need upgrade.)

 

i ran out of money so yeah i havent gotten into the PCI X stuff yet with the AMD 64's.

[SIP YEK NOD]

my computer started as a 400mhz p2

 

Start:

 

pentium 2, 400mhz

ati rage graphics

2gb hard drive

 

 

upgraded to diamond viper 32mb video card

upgraded to 600mhz p3

upgraded to 40gb hard drive

added CD burner

upgraded to Radeon 8500

upgraded to 250gb hard drive

upgraded to 3ghz p4

upgraded to new case

added 250gb hard drive

upgraded to Geforce 6800GT

Swapped stuff around with second computer. now has AMD athlon 64 3000+

 

 

 

 

this computer was upgraded 1 item at a time until it changed into the computer it is today. along the way i had a compaq 1694 laptop. up to last october, i had a 600mhz P3, radeon 8500 video card, and 40gb hard drive. needless to say, the computer sucked. total. ass.

[TwoZero]

First rig:

CPU: Amd Duron 1ghz (morgan)

Memory: 256mb -> 512mb

Videocard: GeForce 2 MX 400 -> GeForce 4 MX 440SE

Harddisk: 40gb -> 40gb + 3x200gb

CD/DVD: Philips CDRW -> Philips CDRW + DVD Rom -> NEC 2500A DVDRW + DVD Rom -> Nothing

(started as my first own computer, ended up as fileserver running 24/7)

 

Second rig:

CPU: AMD 64 3200+

Memory: 2x512mb

Videocard: GeForce 6600GT ViVo

Sound: Onboard Realtek 7.1 -> Audigy 2 ZS

Hardisk: 200gb -> 20gb -> 20gb + 250gb (first 200gb died, 20gb temp drive, got a 250 as replacement)

DVD: NEC 2500A DVDRW

 

Thats about it, I have a bunch of random old pc's, but I did way to much with those to remember.

 

[Wolf68k]

First rig

CPU: Intel Pentium 133MHz

RAM: 96MB SDRAM SIMM

Video:2MB video card (not a graphics card); slot type PCI

MOBO: unknown

Sound: SoundBlaster unknown model; slot type ISA

Modem: US Robotics 28.8k; slot type ISA

CD: CD-Rom 4x

HDD: 1.5GB and 350MB

 

Upgrades...

HDD: 350MB -> 8.5GB

4 port USB PCI card added

10/100 ethernet cartd added

 

 

Second (and current rig)....

Started off with

CPU: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900MHz 100MHz FSB

RAM: 256MB PC100 DIMM

Video: nVidia TNT2 M64 32MB AGP

Mobo: ECS (I forget the model but it was crap)

Sound: on-board VIA

CD: CD-Rom 52x

HDD: the same 8.5GB from the 1st rig

Modem: never used it

Ethernet: on-board

PSU: 350watt

Monitor: unknown 15"

 

 

Upgrades:

CPU: Thurnderbird 900MHz -> Duron 1.3GHz (added to 2nd) 100FSB-> XP 1800+ 266FSB -> XP 3200+ 400FSB (added to 3rd mobo)

Mobo: ECS -> Jetway -> ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe

RAM: 256MB PC100 -> added 256MB PC100 = 512MB (added on 1st mobo) -> 1GB (2x512MB) PC2100/DDR266 (added on 2nd mobo)

Video: TNT2 -> GeForce 4 MX 440 64MB (added on 1st mobo) -> GeForce FX 5700LE 256MB (added to 2nd mobo)

Sound: on-board VIA -> SoundBlaster Live 5.1 (same card added to 1st mobo)

Modem: none since 2nd mobo

Ethernet: 2nd mobo's was messed up used ethernet card from 1st rig -> 3rd mobo's on-board

CD: Lite-On 12x8x32 CDRW (added to 1st mobo), CD-Rom 52x -> Afree DVD-Rom 16x -> Lite-On DVD-/+RW DL SOHW 1633S

HDD: 30GB added to 1st mobo, 8.5GB -> 200GB added 2nd mobo

PSU: 350watt -> Antec TruePower 430watt (added to 2nd mobo)

Misc: Leadtek TV tuner card (added to 2nd mobo)

Monitor: unknown 15" -> Dell 15" -> Samsung 19" (added to 3rd mobo)

 

 

Current (so that it all make sense)...

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton 400MHz FSB; clock speed 2.2GHz

Mobo: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe

RAM: 1GB (2x512MB) PC2100/DDR266 (currently choking the hell out of my system)

Video: nVidia GeForce FX 5700 LE 256MB; Leadtek WinFast A360 LE TD

Sound: SoundBlaster Live 5.1

CD: Lite-On 12x8x32 CDRW and Lite-On SOHW 1633S DVD-/+RW DL

HDD: Maxtor 30GB and Maxtor 200GB

PSU: Antec TruePower 430 watt

Misc: Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Expert

Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 997DF-T/T 19"

 

Time span: Feb 2001 -> May 2005

[Sutto]

I started off with a P1 140mhz PC with 16mb of ram and a 2 gig HDD, I used that 2 years ago to post on here. I knew it was crap but I didn't know how bad it really was until we upgraded to a Dell Dimension 2600 (P4 2.6ghz, 512mb ram, 80gig HDD etc).

 

Because I was used to my old PC I didn't know much about newer specs, so I thought this was great until I realised that the graphics card I had bought for it couldn't be used because it had no AGP slot.

 

Then I found out that if I wanted a new motherboard I'd need a new case, power supply and even keyboard and mouse. So after 2 months of just buying a new PC worth $2,000 I had to spend another $500 to put a low end graphics card in it. It all worked out because in the end I sold the Dell stuff I replaced for more than it cost me to buy the better parts.

 

Now I've got the following:

 

Sony 17" LCD

Altec Lansing Speakers

Antec Super Lanboy Case

Gigabyte Motherboard

P4 2.66ghz (from the dell)

2x 256mb Dell Ram

9600XT Gexcube Graphics Card

120gig Seagate HDD (Dell one was stolen )

LG 8x DVD Burner

TEAC CD Writer/ DVD Reader

 

 

[DJDeez]

I started off with a 386, 2 MB RAM, that's all I remember. Then I got a Pentium 200 MMX, with a VooDoo 3 and 32 MB RAM. My third rig was an AMD 1 GHz, it was a Fujitsu Siemens with everything built in, so I forgot about the specs. My current rig can be found here.

[Cran.]

Well, this is kinda different, but I think it fits in.

 

Bought in Early 2004.

 

CPU: Pentium 4 3.2GHz (sk478, 1mb cache)

Mobo: Gigabyte 8IPE1000-G

RAM: 1GB PC3200 Dual Channel (2x512)

Monitor: 17" Benq FP767 (16ms)

Graphics: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB DDR2 > S3 Savage4/Pro 16MB PCI > Nvidia fx5200 128mb AGP 8x > ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB DDR2

 

Here's the story; One day I was f*cking around with my BIOS settings, and I restarted. The f*cking video didn't work. I thought I messed something up in video settings. So we send it back to the local computer shop where we got it built. They found it that a capacitor blew, and lucky enough the whole computer was under warranty still, along with the 9800 pro (Saphire 1 year warranty). So we got the computer back. The display strugulled with having 1280x1024x16 on the desktop.

 

So in the end, for $60AU we bought a fx5200 from my dad's friend (He just got a 9800XT). So I had to wait 4 weeks for the 9800 pro to come back, as it was xmas holidays and my computer shop shut down for the holidays.

 

[Devyl]

Well, my VERY first pc was a commodore 64.... but let's jump forward a bit...

 

About 2 1/2 years ago, I had been out of the PC scene forever and a day. Even though it was in my blood, I had just been doing other things, mainly LIFE. Then I got the urge to build a PC again (at the time I had no computer as I sold my previous one... strange huh?). So it all started out with this:

 

Mobo: MSI Socket A

CPU: AMD Athlon 2400+

Memory: 512 megs of cheap DDR-333

Video card: GeForce 5200 Ultra

Hard Drive: 80 gig IDE-100

Monitor: E-Machines 15" CRT

 

Then I got power hungry... REALLY power hungry. Here's the list:

 

MoBo: MSI socket A ---> Chaintech VNF3-250 Socket 754---> Asus A8V Deluxe Socket 939 ---> Asus A8N SLI deluxe

CPU: Athlon 2400+ ---> Athlon 64 3000+ ----> Athlon FX-53 ---> Athlon FX-55

Memory: Crap -----------> Better Crap ---------> PQI Turbo Platinum 1 gig 2x512 @ 2-2-2-5

Video Card: 5200 Ultra ---> Nvidia 6800 8xAGP -----> Dual 6800 Ultras, SLI'd

Hard Drive: 80 gig hitachi ---> 500 gigs total Hitachi ---> Quad 250 gig Hitachi's (first terrabyte!)

Monitor (embarrasing) 15" CRT ---------------------------------------------> Hyundai L90D+ 8ms response rate 19" LCD

 

So that was then... And now, here's my current rig (current upgrade from last setup there):

 

MoBo: eVGA K8-NF41

CPU: Amd Athlon 64 X2 4800+

Memory: 2 gigs PQI Turbo Platinum

Video Card: 2x eVGA Nvidia 7800GTX's @ 509/1.3

Hard Drives: 4x Hitachi Deskstar 500 gig SATA II drives (2 terrabytes! w00t!)

Monitor: Hyundai L90D+ flatpanel @ 19" (considering getting another one)

 

[Cran.]

Ahhh, here is my complete evolution, every computer ever.

 

Desktops:

 

Year: 1997................>2000......................>2001('00 comp stolen)...................>2004

Type: Custom Newell..>Dell WebPC...........> IBM Netvista................................> Custom Newell

CPU: Pentium 100MHz>Pentium III 733MHz> Pentium 4 1.8GHz (one of first P4's)>Pentium 4 3.2GHz (sk478, 1mb cache, 800mhz fsb)

Mobo: Unknown.........>Unknown................>Unknown......................................>Gigabyte 8IPE1000-G

Memory: 32MB..........>256MB....................>512MB..........................................>1024MB Dual channel

HDD: 2x 1GB or something>10GB?.............>40GB...........................................>2x80 Western Digital 7200RPM 8mb cache

Video: Intergrated?....>Intergrated 16MB?...>GeForce 3?4? 32MB.......................>ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB DDR2

Screen: 15" CRT 1024x768?>15" LCD 1024x768? (Attached to chassis)>15" TFT LCD (1280x1024)>>17" Benq FP767 (16ms, 1280x1024)

 

Laptops:

 

Year: 2002.......................................>2005

Type: Dell Inspiron 8200....................>Clevo D900T/ITC M7300

CPU: Pentium 4-M 2.0GHz..................>Pentium 4 550

Mobo: intel?......................................>intel? 915GM

Memory: 384MB (1x256, 1x128).........>1024MB (2x512)

HDD: 40GB.......................................>60GB 7200rpm

Video: ATi Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB>Nvidia GeForce 6800 go 256mb GDDR3

Screen: 15" LCD (1600x1200)............>17" WideSXGA+ (1680x1050)

 

Yeah, i'm bored.

[Lawley]

First Computer

Some Packard Bell Crap Thing @ £1800

 

15" monitor

Intel Pentium Processor @ 120 mhz

16mb ram

1mb onboard graphics

1.5 gig hardrive

Radio Tuner the only one ive ever had

4x cdrom

 

Second Computer @ £1000

Made For us by local computer Shop

 

AMD Athlon 1800xp

19" monitor

cdwriter

256mb ram

radeon 7500 64mb

60 gig hardrive

 

Third Computer @ about £700

Made For Us By Friend

 

AMD Athlon 2000xp

512mb ram

radeon 9500 128mb

120 gig hardrive

Soundblaster Audigy 2

cd-writer

 

Fourth computer bought motherbaord/ram/chip and graphics for £250

second hand all the rest cost £200-£300

Built by me

 

Asus ????? Deluxe Motherboard

AMD Athlon 2400xp

Pixelview nvidia 256mb graphics card

80gig harddrive

Cd-writer

512mb ram

Turned it into blackpool illuminations with loadsa lights

RGB Neon Light at the bottom of the case

 

 

Current Rig (5th) @ £640

17" Monitor

Amd64 3200+ venice core @ 2ghz

MSI RS480M2 motherboard

512 MB ram upgrading soon too 1gig

160 gig harddrive

Sapphire Radeon X800 256bit

Logitech Mx510

9 in 1 card reader

DVD Writer

 

 

 

Edited September 28, 2005 by Lawley

[Alcoholica]

First Rig:

 

Can't remember exact details, but it was pretty OK at the time.

 

AMD Athlon XP 1800+

256MB RAM

SiS 7-something-or-other 64MB Integrated Graphics

40GB HDD

CD-RW/DVD Combo

 

Second Rig:

 

Again, nothing exact.

 

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

1GB RAM

ATI Radeon 9200 w/256MB VRAM

80GB HDD

DVD-RW

 

Third 'Rig':

 

Apple iBook G4 1.33 GHz

 

Current Rig:

 

Apple PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz, 160GB SATA. DVD-RW DL, yada-yada.

 

[Cursed]

First rig - Bought from Uncle (He payed about £3000 back in 1995)

 

16MB RAM

3GB HDD

250Mhz Processor

No Graphics

14" CRT

Windows 95b

Floppy drive

 

I wanted a computer that could play Sims - My brother now uses this- Rig 2 - Uncle Built it

128MB - Now 512MB

40GB HDD

Windows 98SE - Windows XP Pro

CD Drive - DVD

White and Silver case - Black gaming case

1.1 GHz Processor

15" CRT - 15" TFT

 

Then I wanted one that could cope with Vice City - Now my Dads - Rig 3 - Dad built it

256MB RAM - 512MB RAM

80GB HDD

Windows XP - Windows Vista Ultimate

DVD Player - DVD RW

Black and silver case - Black gaming case

17" CRT - 15" TFT - 19" LCD

1.1GHz - 2.0GHz

No Graphics - Nvidia Geforce 5200GX

 

4th and Current rig - Bought

Dell Inspiron 531

1GB RAM - 2GB RAM

160GB HDD

2.6GHz Dual Core

Onboard GFX - Nvidia Geforce 7300LE

Windows Vista Home Premium

Labtec 2.1 speakers

DVD RW

Firewire, SD etc.

15" TFT (Will be upgraded)

 

Part - Part = Upgraded

Edited May 27, 2008 by Cursed

[matthew1g]

First Pc:

 

15" crt

110MHz Intel DX4

16megs ram

1mb onboard VGA

CDrom

Floppy drive

1gig hard disk

 

 

Second PC-

VIA something P4 mobo

intel pentium 4 1.7Ghz

Geforce 4mx 64mb AGP

60gig IDE hard disk

256mb DDR333 ram

DVD drive

CD-RW

 

upgraded to:

Albatron mobo (forgot model)

Geforce FX5500 256mb

512mb ram

 

upgraded to:

550W tagan PSU

ASrock P4v88+

Geforce 6800xt 256mb AGP

pentium 4 3.0ghz with HT

1gb ram

250Gig hard disk

 

3rd PC:

Q6600 B3 stepping

2gigs takems 667 ram

geforce 8800GTS 320mb

asrock 4coredual-VSTA

320gig SATAII hard disk

DVD-RW

650W Xclio PSU

 

 

4th pc (which i'm currently using)

Q6600 g0 stepping

2gigs G.Skill 800mhz

7300LE ( was temporary)

320gig sata 2 hard disk

DVD-RE

650W coolermaster PSU

Asus P5KC

 

upgraded to

512meg 8800GT

4gigs OCZ reaper-X 1000mhz

 

 

that's all I had

 

[Edmachine]

I don't remember the real first one my family had, but I was little.

 

My second PC (2003 (probably)) Dad built:

Asus P4C800

Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz

1Gb RAM (4x256Mb) --- till 2004 or 2005: 512Mb

Palit 5600FX 256Mb --- 2007: New fan installed, the old one made weird noises / died.

120Gb Maxtor DiamondPlus HDD --- I had only 51.## Gigs available, because of partitions

400W PSU

Windows ME --- 2004 or 2005: Windows XP, ME couldn't handle the RAM

 

My current PC (2008) Self built:

Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850

2Gb RAM (2x1Gb) OCZ Titanium series 3-4-#-## (forgot)

Asus 8800GT 512Mb

250Gb Seagate HDD

600W PSU

Windows XP

 

It's a really big jump. The old one even played Battlefield 2!

Edited April 12, 2008 by Edmachine

[gtamodder]

First PC

 

200 mhz (not sure what CPU)

16mb RAM

No graphics

5GB Hard drive

 

Second PC

 

Celeron 1.2ghz

nVidia TNT 2 32mb

256mb RAM

20GB HDD

 

Third PC

 

Windows XP Home

nVidia Geforce 4 MX

512mb RAM

2GHZ Pentium 4

60GB Hard Drive

 

4th PC (My PC Now)

 

Windows XP Pro with Vista Home Prem (Dual Boot)

nVidia Geforce 7600 GT (Upgraded to 8800 GT)

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

2GB RAM DDR2 (Upgraded from 1gb)

500GB Hard Drive (upgraded from 160gb)

650W PSU

 

 

[Democrab]

Snip.

Nice bump, at least its on topic.

 

First Rig:

150Mhz Cyrix 6x86

128Mb SDRAM

Tseng Labs 4Mb Graphics Card

20x CD drive

Quantam Fireball 20Gb Hard Drive

 

Thats all I can remember, ran Dailup awesomely xD

 

Second rig:

Athlon XP 2600+

ASUS motherboard with VIA chipset, That Died, got RMA'd, then THAT one died, Got a ASUS one with a SiS chipset, which died, and now it has a Axper motherboard (Gigabyte subbrand)

256Mb Ram > 1Gb Ram

Intergrated on all motherboards except the axper, and half way through the SiS motherboard, i got a 6800GS

ASUS Lite On CD burner > LG DVD Burner

Crappy Beige case > Coolermaster Centurion 5

WD 80Gb Hard Drive, Added 200Gb Seagate Hard Drive, then added another 80Gb Seagate hard drive.

350w PSU > 400w PSU > 500w PSU that can actually power my parts well enough NOT to cause errors.

 

Then I got a new mobo and CPU

 

Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 (Overclocked to 2.8Ghz currently)

ASrock 4coredual SATA2 (Need to get a new one, this one hates using a PCIe Graphics Card...)

GeForce 6800GS AGP > ATi x1600Pro PCIe

1Gb DDR400 Ram > 2Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-6400 CL4

LG DVD Burner

Cooler Master Centurion 5 (Maybe getting a Cosmos S or Lian Li Rocketfish soon)

Same Hard Drives

500w PSU (Soon to be 700w OCZ one hopefully)

[Andrew]

By eck we certainly do evolve our computers.

 

Anywhoo my first computer I can't remember the year, what a power house that was.

 

Intel Pentium 2 233mhz

64MB Ram

Crappy graphics (forgot which)

Crappy HD cant remember the size.

POS case

15" CRT

Windows 95

 

That lasted a while until we got the second rig (we didn't game much until recently)

 

AMD Athlon 1800 XP + 1.7ghz.

512MB Ram

nVidia Geforce 2 64MB Ti

40GB Maxtor HDD

Creative SoundBlaster Live!

Cambridge Sound works 4.1 System

17" Mitibushi Dimond Max that kicked arse.

Mesh Branded Case

 

After a while the processor fried itself, so that was changed to an Athlon 2000 XP, and the Ram upped to 1GB, case also changes to one picked up at pc world. The case kicked arse, huge ass case, space for 4 fans + 5 5/12 bays, and 2 3/14 bays. Also the HD started dying, so that was changed to a 120GB WD Caviar, and changed the graphics card to a nVidia geforce 6200 256MB.

 

AMD Athlon 1800 XP + 2.2hz.

1GB Ram

nVidia Geforce 6200 256MB

120GB WD Caviar HDD

Creative SoundBlaster Live!

Cambridge Sound works 4.1 System

PC World Case

 

In the end it was

My dad wanted his own rig as we started gaming, so in comes the 3rd rig.

 

AMD Athlon 2400 XP + 2.2Ghz

512MD Ram

nVidia Geforce 4 mx

40GB Seagate HDD

Time Branded Case

 

This didnt change much, except the graphics card died, was replaced with a nvidia geforce 6600 256MB. And added a creative soundblaster live 24bit with cretive inspire 5.1 speakers.

 

Then my sister wanted a pc, so she got bought some Packard Bell machine.

Intel Celeron 2.ghz

256MB Ram

On Board Graphics

On Board Sound

normal 2 channel speakers

 

My dad decided that he needed to upgrad his pc, so we more or less rebuilt it.

 

Intel core 2 duo E3000?? 1.8ghz

2GB DDR2 Ram

Asrock Mobo

nvidia geforce 6600 256MB

creative sound blaster live 24!

Time branded case.

 

It started over heating due to lack of cooling, so we got a better case, then that case was upgraded to one from maplin an iCute case. The graphics card has been changed to a nvidia 8800GT 512MB, and the motherboard to a gigabyte P35 DS3

 

Intel core 2 duo E3000?? 1.8ghz

2GB DDR2 Ram

gigabyte p35 ds3

nvidia geforce 8880GT 512MB

creative sound blaster live 24!

Maplin iCute case.

 

Out of the old spare parts, I built myself a test/server machine, whilst replacing some of the older parts in mine from the ones in my dads. At the time this was built we didnt have the 8800GT so I ordered a nvidia fx5200 for it, since it was to be used for uni programming.

 

Server/Test machine

Athlon 2000XP + 1.7ghz

512MB Ram

nVidia geforce fx5200 128MB.

40GB HDD

 

My machine

Athlon 2400XP + 2.2ghz

1GB DDR Ram

nvidia geforce 6200 256MB

120GB WD Caviar HDD

Creative SoundBlaster Live!

Cambridge Sound works 4.1 System

PC World Case

 

Then my sisters boyfriend, upgraded her machine, or rather rebuilt it.

 

AMD Athlon 64

1GB Ram

nvidia geforce 7300

 

We then added 2GB ram to it when we rebuilt my machine.

 

Now finally I got mine upgraded, when the student loan came through!

 

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66Ghz

Asus I31 Mobo.

2GB DDR2 OCZ Ram

nVidia geforce 8800GT

250GB SATA II HD

Creative sound blaster live!

4.1 Sound system

PC World case.

 

Since then been some minor tweaks to the system, the sound card is now a Creative X-FI fata1ly with Front drive, changed the surround sound to Logicteck X540 5.1, and bought another 2GB ram that doesnt work, because I need to change the sh*tty asus mobo. I'm going to change that to a gigabtye p35 ds3.

 

So now we're left with this.

 

My Machine

 

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66Ghz

Asus I31 Mobo.

2GB DDR2 OCZ Ram

nVidia geforce 8800GT

250GB SATA II HD

Creative X-Fi Fata1ty + Drive bay

Logictech x-540 5.1

PC World case. + 2 side fans after a bit of diy case modding.

Windows Vista Home Premium

1 X 17" lcd + 1 X 15" lcd ran in dual screen.

 

My Server/Test Machine

Athlon XP 2400 + 2.2Ghz

1GB Ram

nvidia 6600 256MB

2 X 40GB

1 X 120GB

 

Server/Test machine is connected to 15" monitor / keyboard and mouse via KVM switch.

 

Dads machine

Intel Core 2 Duo E3000? 1.8ghz

Gigbtye P35 DS3

2GB DDR2 Ram

nvidia geforce 8800GT 512MB

creative sound blaster live 24bit!

creative inspire 5.1

Maplin iCute case

Windows Vista Home Premium

HP 19" widescreen LCD

 

Sisters machine

AMD Athlon 64

2GB Ram

nvidia geforce 7300

creative sound blaster live

4.1 surround sound.

15" lcd

 

Oh I also sport a 12" iBook G4, 512MB Ram, 1.6ghz power pc processor.

 

Alot of changing over the years, but to keep up to date you've got to, lol.

Edited April 12, 2008 by Gangsta Killa

[Kaj.]

I'm still rocking the Toshiba laptop I got 5 years ago. It was/is my first computer, and wasn't too bad for it's time. Too bad it's a piece of sh*t now.

 

Intel 1.3Ghz Celeron

40GB HDD

256MB RAM

And let's not forget the 8MB on-board graphics

 

Thank god I'll be getting a new laptop when I go to college next year.

 

[nixxio]

(First Computer)About 4-5 years ago

Intel® Pentium® 4 2.4ghz

512mb ram

GeForce FX5600 256mb

40GB HDD

ECS P4VXASD2+ MoBo

Windows Xp Sp2

Still Using it until now

[H4milton]

My 1st pc was this:(2years back)(bought in 2001)

 

Intel Celeron 1.1Ghz

MOtherboard: I dont know exactly(energy star)

monitor:14" view sonic

ram: 128MB

video: dont know the model but it was 32MB agp

HDD: 40gb Quantium Fireball

 

 

in 2005 i bought a Ge-force MX4000 (palit) series.

 

Current pc(last year)

 

17"monitor SAMSUNG 794MG

motherboard: abit 945GC

HDD: 2*160GB

RAM:2gb

video: ATI 2600XT

Intel core 2 duo 1.6ghz

 

[Bad~Boy#17]

My first PC:

 

Dos 386

8 mb Ram

Onboard 2mb graphic card

Windows 3.1

 

My second PC:

 

Windows 95

64 mb Ram

Onboard 16mb graphic card

 

My current PC:

 

Amd Athlon 2600, 1.91Ghz

ATI Radeon 9200 128mb

Asus a7v8x-x with nforce

nVidia nforce sound card

512mb Ram