What was your First Build specs

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I just want to know what people first build specs were and possibly get some old skool specs in like from p2 p1 or before that maybe if anyone had VIA chips and which or any other no name processors post you first build please

mine:

P3 866mhz 133 fsb socket 370 chip processor (not slot)
Mobo intel 815eea 3 dimm slots 4 pci 1 agp sound and video
256 pc133 ram 186 pin i think not 168 not sure
video card: crappy Tnt2 16mb riva and built in intel 815eea graphics 4mb
Hard drive 1x 3.4gb 1x10gb
optical drives dvd rom drive blk
cdrom drive white (kept from old gateway case as backup)
Floppy defective (made all floppies put into unusable threw away week later):mad:
Case gateway 2000 G6-233m gutted out and modded a little. piece of :swear: but durable
Psu included with case 200-230watt
R.I.P. parts intel 810e mobo w/no front panel connectors scrapped immediatly
cdrom drive jammed when recieved kick the :swear: our of it
floppy drive murdered-:smiley:

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MSI K7N2 Delta-L
Athlon XP 2700 Tbred/B
512MB some generic DDR RAM
Seagate Barracuda 120GB PATA HDD
LG CD-RW
Crap generic PSU 400W
nVidia 16mb Vanta card (upgraded to 128mb GFX 5900nu 2 months after)

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Afraid mine are modern, I’m still using my first build:
Gigabyte K8NS-939 mobo
Athlon 3000+ Winchester
XFX 6800 128MB
512MB of “v-data” crap PC3200 ram (upgraded now)
Hitachi 80gig HDD
LiteOn combo drive
Blue Nemesis gaming tower
Came-with-case Orion 400wt PSU (upgraded now)
SoundBlaster 56k modem
Arctic Cooling Silencer 64 Ultra CPU cooler
Hopeless flickering 15’’ VistaPoint CRT that somehow produces a very good image.

I upgraded the ram and power supply but otherwise it’s the same deal.

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My first rig:

Cyrix 300
Venus motherboard with SiS integrated chipset AT formfactor
48MB SIMM RAM, 4MB dedicated to on-board video
5GB Fujitsu hard drive
48x Memorex (bleh!) CD ROM

That’s what I started with. I ran Windows 98 biyatch!

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Pentium 120Mhz
ASUS Motherboard
32MB RAM - EDO as i recall
512MB HDD
4X CDROM
1MB Video Card
85W PSU
Windows 95

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2600+ barton
256mb pc2100
ECS L7S7A2 (soon switched to MSI K7N2)
WD 120gb
9600SE 128mb

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Just built it like 2 months ago.

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700+
MoBo: Asus A8N-E
Mem: Patriot 1GB DDR400
HD: WD Caviar SE16 250GB SATA II
OD: Lite-On DVD Burner
GPU:Sapphire Radeon x800 XL
S.Card: Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Case: Aspire X-Plorer
PSU: Antec SP 2.0 500

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Athlon XP 2500+
Antec Truepower 450 Watt (?)
Western Digital 80 gig
512 Mb DDR Kingston Hyper X
ABIT KV7 mobo (?)
PowerColor -ATI- 9500
Audigy 2

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Wow pelvis and Big B now thats what im talkin about but hey look how much video and psu’s have grown and Girth Now thats a START :slight_smile:

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XT 8086 ~9.54MHz (IBM clone)

1MB DRAM
~10-20(?)mb HDD
5.25" low density
Hurcules Graphics Monochrome
Amber Monochrome Monitor

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Woah! AT that is some vintage stuff right there bro, monochrome:eek:, takes me back.

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Woah! AT that is some vintage stuff right there bro, monochrome:eek:, takes me back.
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Yeah, I remember playing Zork and Sierra’s first generation graphical adventure games on it.

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What OS did the beast run? How big was your monitor

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one word wow i would guess he was using microsoft 3.1 or dos on that i wish i could go back in time with a new A64 comp to the days of the intel 486 Dx 33 or intel over drive processor days and see what the people would say…

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hey guys do you think old technology would ever be worth any money in the future like this intel over drive processor thats still in box sealed? like the year 2049
i just want to get this as a collectors item to put on my shelf with other sealed products

http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-486-Overdrive-Processor-UPGRADE-BOXPOD5PV83-NEW_W0QQitemZ6812384717QQcategoryZ3674QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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What OS did the beast run? How big was your monitor
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I don’t rember exactly, but the monitor was between 13"-15", and most likely some version of DOS 3.x …Windows really wasn’t very popular yet back then. In fact, I used mostly DOS (and sometimes Norton Commander) until the release of Windows 95. Even in 3.1, you were basically just running a GUI on top of DOS anyway, so games ran much better in pure DOS.

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Thanks man, wow now I feel just fine with my monitor, just like you’re first one except in color. DOS gaming, well you had a lot of games at your disposal, Duke Nukem all the way.

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…DOS gaming, well you had a lot of games at your disposal, Duke Nukem all the way.
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Actually, I did play Duke Nukem 1 when it was new, but I don’t think it was even out yet when I had that PC.

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That’s pretty old when you’ve got an XT formfactor. That’s really old school there.

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here is my first build:
Intel Celeron D 2.8ghz
GF FX 5200 256MB PCI
DFI INFINITY 865PE REV.B
160gb samsung hdd/ 20gb main hard drive
350w jeantech PSU
stock cooling
jeantech light fusion case
512mb pc 3200 ddr 400 ram.