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) 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-
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)
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.
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!
Pentium 120Mhz ASUS Motherboard 32MB RAM - EDO as i recall 512MB HDD 4X CDROM 1MB Video Card 85W PSU Windows 95
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
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
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
XT 8086 ~9.54MHz (IBM clone) > 1MB DRAM ~10-20(?)mb HDD 5.25" low density Hurcules Graphics Monochrome Amber Monochrome Monitor
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.........
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-Overd...oryZ3674QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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.
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.
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.
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.