The PC Nostaglia thread, post your OS, CPU, RAM, GFX upgrade history.

JU_88 · 10-14-12, 09:32 AM

Post either since your first PC -or as far back as you can remember, might seem boring for some, but not for nerds like me

1999 - to present, here is mine.

1999
win 98
AMD K6 II 500 mhz Socket 7
96mb SDRAM PC100 (was supposed to be 128 - but i got scammed

)
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16mb

2000 (My first ever PC build)
win 98
AMD Duron 600mhz socket A
256mb SDRAM PC133
Matrox Millenium G400 32 MB (upgraded to play Deux EX)

2000
win XP
AMD Athlon XP 1500 socket A
256MB DDR 2100
Matrox Millenium G400 32 MB

2001
win XP
AMD Athlon XP 1500 socket A
256MB DDR 2100
Creative Geforce 3 Ti200 64 MB (Upgraded to play GTA3, OFP and S.O.F II, the Matrox struggled with these three)

2003
win XP
AMD Athlon XP 2000 socket A
256MB DDR 2100
Creative Geforce 3 Ti200 64 MB

2003
win XP
AMD Athlon XP 2000 socket A
512 MB DDR 3200
Creative Geforce 3 Ti200 64 MB

2004
win XP
AMD Athlon XP 2000 socket A
512 MB DDR 3200
MSI Geforce FX 5600 256mb (Upgraded because the GF 3 was too old in general)

2004
win XP
AMD Athlon XP 3000 socket 462
512 MB DDR 3200
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB (Upgraded for DOOM 3 and Half life 2 -also because the FX5600 turned out to be complete crap)

2005 (MY Silent Hunter 3 Rig)
win XP
AMD Athlon 64 3000 socket 939
1GB DDR 3200
Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT 128MB (This card was amazingly good value at the time)

2006
win XP
AMD Athlon 64 3800 socket 939
2GB DDR 3200
Gigabyte Geforce 7600GT 256 MB (was a cost effective upgrade to trade in the 6600GT)

2008
Win 7 ultimate
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Socket 775
4GB DDR2 800
XFX Geforce 9800GT 512MB (Had been holding out for the 8600GT but it turned out to be a dissapointment, so saved up for this instead)

2010
Win 7 ultimate
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Socket 775
4GB DDR2 800
XFX Geforce GTX 275 768MB (9800GT was starting struggle a bit)

2012 (Just ordered)
Win 7 ultimate
Intel i5 3450 Socket 1155
16GB DDR3 1600
XFX Geforce GTX 275 768MB

Will upgrade Graphics card early next year.

Sailor Steve · 10-14-12, 10:11 AM

From 1986 I did all the work for my friend's boardgames on an Atari 520ST. It came with no hard drive, so I eventually purchased a Zip drive from Iomega and a 20 MB (yes megabyte) HD.

In 1996 I bought my first PC:
AMD don't remember what.
Windows 95 (later upgraded to 98)
Never knew the graphics card or sound card.
10 GB HD, and I wondered how I would ever fill it up.
Bought it mainly to play Red Baron 2, but quickly discovered the original Silent Hunter.

2005:
Intel Pentium 4, 3Ghz
512K RAM, since upgraded to 2 and then 4GB
160GB hard drive, which I initially thought I'd never fill up. It's still the only internal drive, but I have a 2TB external that holds all my files.
128KB graphics card, later upgraded to 512 and then a 1GB ATI 4650 (the biggest I could get for an AGP slot)
Onboard sound, since replaced with a cheap SoundBlaster card, which does the job quite well.

And that's the one I still use, as I've never been able to afford a replacement.

the_tyrant · 10-16-12, 08:15 AM

My first "proper" pc was a Lenovo
It was a Pentium 4, 512mb ram, integrated graphics, 80gb hard drive.
It ran windows xp at the time.

Than, when I entered middle school, I got my first laptop. A Samsung, with a Pentium duel core, 2gb ram, 160gb hard drive.

I than built my first desktop in 2008, my dad bought me a part every time I do good on a test, my average shot up, and I got myself a new desktop shortly after.

It had an amd triple core cpu, 2gb ram, 250gb hard drive, hd 3850 video card.

My Samsung died on me, and I got an ho touchsmart to replace it. It was a total POS, lets just ignore that it once existed.

I finally moved on to my current Fujitsu. I LOVE it, its specs are not amazing, but it I overall a great computer

I also built myself a new desktop. Xeon 5640, 16gb ram 3tb hard drive, gtx570 graphics

Lionclaw · 10-16-12, 08:47 AM

2003
Windows XP Home
AMD 2500+ Barton
GeForce 4Ti 4200
Creative Audigy 2ZS

2004-5
GeForce 6600GT

2006
Windows XP Home
AMD 3500+
Geforce 7600GT

200?
AMD X2 4200+
XFX? GeForce 7950GT (removed passive cooling and added a Zalman GPU cooler fan)

2008
Windows XP Home
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
XFX GeForce 9800GTX+

2009
Windows Vista Home Premium

2012
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Antec P280
Intel Core i7 2600K
GeForce GTX 560
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

Herr-Berbunch · 10-16-12, 08:56 AM

My first was my mum's old work PC - she took it home when she was upgraded, then gave it to me about Jan 2003. It was, I think, identical specs to JU_88's first.

Then at the back of 2003 I got a laptop, Acer Aspire blah blah. It was ok, but crap for gaming so then in 2004 I bought a Medion PC -

2.66 GHz P4 processor
ATI Rage Pro 128 Mb (later updated that year to Nvidia FX5700 graphics card (with free Far Cry), later upgraded in 2005 to ATI X800XT)
1 Gb DDR 333 RAM (upped to 2 Gb, then 3Gb)
XP Home, then Pro.
Donated to stepson, still working.

2010 - now, I've a custom built (through work) PC
Xigmatek Utgard case
Gigabyte EP41-UDL3 (not overclockable!) Mobo
Core2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz processor
GTS250 1 Gb graphics card (upgraded to GTX560Ti OC)
4 Gb DDR2 800 RAM
Win 7 Pro

Rhodes · 10-16-12, 09:06 AM

My first pc was a x386, 4 meg of ram, a disk of 40 megs I think, bought in second hand in 1992 or 1993 by my father, can't not remember well, but he did his master thesis on it. Win 3.1 and f15 strike eagle was my first game I played.

Pentium 200, 32 meg of ram and 10 gigas disk (IIRC) in 1995 or 96. Win 95 and 98.

Pentium III 500 after, with 256 megs ram, win 98 for a long time witha riva tnt ultra 32 as gpu.

AMD 2000, 512 and after 1g of ram, win XP, 60 gigas disk for a long time, form 2003 to 2010.

Now a pentium i5, 6 g of ram, 500g disk, Win xp, Asus nvidia gforce 9800 gt.

Tchocky · 10-16-12, 09:31 AM

I remember longing for a math coprocessor in order to play Falcon 3 with the realistic flight model....so that would definitely make that computer an Intel 386.

Beyond that I cannot remember

HunterICX · 10-16-12, 10:17 AM

Having no recollection of the old MS-DOS computer specs I used untill in 1995 we got a Pentium PC.

1995
Windows 95
Pentium 65Mhz
8MB Ram
4MB VGA Card
400MB Hard disk

1998
Windows 95 and later Windows 98
Pentium 2 330Mhz
64MB Ram
8MB VGA card
800MB Hard Disk

2000
Windows ME (shipped with the build) later Windows XP
Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz
128MB RDR Ram
Nvidia Geforce 2 440MX 64MB
4GB Hard disk

2005
Windows XP
Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz
1GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce FX5500 later FX5700 256MB
80GB Hard disk

2008
Windows XP
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66Ghz
2GB Ram
Nvidia 8800GT 512Mb
500Gb Hard Disk

2010
Windows XP later Windows 7
Intel Quad Core Q9400 2.66GHZ
4GB Ram
Sapphire ATI HD5850 1Gb
500Gb Hard Disk

2012
Windows 7
Intel i5 2500K 3GHZ
8GB Ram
Asus Nvidia GTX560Ti 1GB
1TB Hard Disk

HunterICX

MH · 10-16-12, 01:05 PM

486 with PCI MB...wow...lol.

adams79 · 10-17-12, 04:48 PM

I remember the first computer I had, around 1993-94, it came with only 4MB of RAM and Warcraft II required 8MB. That was, consequently, also how I spend my first $100, buying Warcraft II and 4MB of RAM from Circuit City (CPU was a 486). Also, I had to use a boot disk to run the game.

RickC Sniper · 10-18-12, 07:09 PM

An Apple 2C. It had a 3.5 floppy drive and a 9 inch monochrome monitor. I loved Appleworks. (Sort of like MS Office)

I have no idea what year it was. My second pc was an IBM PC x286 with a 20 mb hard drive and a color monitor.

Takeda Shingen · 10-18-12, 07:49 PM

My first machine:

The AT&T PC 6300 back in 1984. The first one to be IBM compatible. It used GW Basic and featured a single 5.25 inch floppy drive.

Some stats I pulled off the web:

CPU: Intel 8086
Speed: 8MHz
RAM: 128KB
ROM: 16KB
Graphics Mode: 640 x 400 monochrome

I used to to type reports for school and play Ninja.

Imagine this, but all in shades of green.

danasan · 10-20-12, 02:46 PM

I used to use a Cyrix 6x86 PR133+ (M1), Socket 5/7 CPU, that might have been around 1995...

and I once had a ST Kyro II graphics board, around 2001, some kind of state of the art at that time.

I am pretty sure that only a few guys will remember these names...

MH · 10-20-12, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danasan

I used to use a Cyrix 6x86 PR133+ (M1), Socket 5/7 CPU, that might have been around 1995...

Yeah remember that one.
I was pulling my hair to make it work with the MB.
Trying various jumper settings to somehow stop my PC from freezing on me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by danasan;1950554
and I once had a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR"

ST Kyro II[/URL] graphics board, around 2001, some kind of state of the art at that time.

I am pretty sure that only a few guys will remember these names...

....and the almighty voodoo card.

10-14-12, 09:32 AM	#1
JU_88 Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 3,803 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	The PC Nostaglia thread, post your OS, CPU, RAM, GFX upgrade history. Post either since your first PC -or as far back as you can remember, might seem boring for some, but not for nerds like me 1999 - to present, here is mine. 1999 win 98 AMD K6 II 500 mhz Socket 7 96mb SDRAM PC100 (was supposed to be 128 - but i got scammed ) 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16mb 2000 (My first ever PC build) win 98 AMD Duron 600mhz socket A 256mb SDRAM PC133 Matrox Millenium G400 32 MB (upgraded to play Deux EX) 2000 win XP AMD Athlon XP 1500 socket A 256MB DDR 2100 Matrox Millenium G400 32 MB 2001 win XP AMD Athlon XP 1500 socket A 256MB DDR 2100 Creative Geforce 3 Ti200 64 MB (Upgraded to play GTA3, OFP and S.O.F II, the Matrox struggled with these three) 2003 win XP AMD Athlon XP 2000 socket A 256MB DDR 2100 Creative Geforce 3 Ti200 64 MB 2003 win XP AMD Athlon XP 2000 socket A 512 MB DDR 3200 Creative Geforce 3 Ti200 64 MB 2004 win XP AMD Athlon XP 2000 socket A 512 MB DDR 3200 MSI Geforce FX 5600 256mb (Upgraded because the GF 3 was too old in general) 2004 win XP AMD Athlon XP 3000 socket 462 512 MB DDR 3200 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB (Upgraded for DOOM 3 and Half life 2 -also because the FX5600 turned out to be complete crap) 2005 (MY Silent Hunter 3 Rig) win XP AMD Athlon 64 3000 socket 939 1GB DDR 3200 Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT 128MB (This card was amazingly good value at the time) 2006 win XP AMD Athlon 64 3800 socket 939 2GB DDR 3200 Gigabyte Geforce 7600GT 256 MB (was a cost effective upgrade to trade in the 6600GT) 2008 Win 7 ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Socket 775 4GB DDR2 800 XFX Geforce 9800GT 512MB (Had been holding out for the 8600GT but it turned out to be a dissapointment, so saved up for this instead) 2010 Win 7 ultimate Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Socket 775 4GB DDR2 800 XFX Geforce GTX 275 768MB (9800GT was starting struggle a bit) 2012 (Just ordered) Win 7 ultimate Intel i5 3450 Socket 1155 16GB DDR3 1600 XFX Geforce GTX 275 768MB Will upgrade Graphics card early next year. Last edited by JU_88; 10-14-12 at 10:08 AM.

10-14-12, 10:11 AM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	From 1986 I did all the work for my friend's boardgames on an Atari 520ST. It came with no hard drive, so I eventually purchased a Zip drive from Iomega and a 20 MB (yes megabyte) HD. In 1996 I bought my first PC: AMD don't remember what. Windows 95 (later upgraded to 98) Never knew the graphics card or sound card. 10 GB HD, and I wondered how I would ever fill it up. Bought it mainly to play Red Baron 2, but quickly discovered the original Silent Hunter. 2005: Intel Pentium 4, 3Ghz 512K RAM, since upgraded to 2 and then 4GB 160GB hard drive, which I initially thought I'd never fill up. It's still the only internal drive, but I have a 2TB external that holds all my files. 128KB graphics card, later upgraded to 512 and then a 1GB ATI 4650 (the biggest I could get for an AGP slot) Onboard sound, since replaced with a cheap SoundBlaster card, which does the job quite well. And that's the one I still use, as I've never been able to afford a replacement. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

10-16-12, 08:15 AM	#3
the_tyrant Admiral Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 2,272 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	My first "proper" pc was a Lenovo It was a Pentium 4, 512mb ram, integrated graphics, 80gb hard drive. It ran windows xp at the time. Than, when I entered middle school, I got my first laptop. A Samsung, with a Pentium duel core, 2gb ram, 160gb hard drive. I than built my first desktop in 2008, my dad bought me a part every time I do good on a test, my average shot up, and I got myself a new desktop shortly after. It had an amd triple core cpu, 2gb ram, 250gb hard drive, hd 3850 video card. My Samsung died on me, and I got an ho touchsmart to replace it. It was a total POS, lets just ignore that it once existed. I finally moved on to my current Fujitsu. I LOVE it, its specs are not amazing, but it I overall a great computer I also built myself a new desktop. Xeon 5640, 16gb ram 3tb hard drive, gtx570 graphics __________________ My own open source project on Sourceforge OTP.net KGB grade encryption for the rest of us

10-16-12, 08:56 AM	#5
Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	My first was my mum's old work PC - she took it home when she was upgraded, then gave it to me about Jan 2003. It was, I think, identical specs to JU_88's first. Then at the back of 2003 I got a laptop, Acer Aspire blah blah. It was ok, but crap for gaming so then in 2004 I bought a Medion PC - 2.66 GHz P4 processor ATI Rage Pro 128 Mb (later updated that year to Nvidia FX5700 graphics card (with free Far Cry), later upgraded in 2005 to ATI X800XT) 1 Gb DDR 333 RAM (upped to 2 Gb, then 3Gb) XP Home, then Pro. Donated to stepson, still working. 2010 - now, I've a custom built (through work) PC Xigmatek Utgard case Gigabyte EP41-UDL3 (not overclockable!) Mobo Core2 Duo E7500 2.93 GHz processor GTS250 1 Gb graphics card (upgraded to GTX560Ti OC) 4 Gb DDR2 800 RAM Win 7 Pro __________________

10-16-12, 09:06 AM	#6
Rhodes Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal Posts: 4,516 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	My first pc was a x386, 4 meg of ram, a disk of 40 megs I think, bought in second hand in 1992 or 1993 by my father, can't not remember well, but he did his master thesis on it. Win 3.1 and f15 strike eagle was my first game I played. Pentium 200, 32 meg of ram and 10 gigas disk (IIRC) in 1995 or 96. Win 95 and 98. Pentium III 500 after, with 256 megs ram, win 98 for a long time witha riva tnt ultra 32 as gpu. AMD 2000, 512 and after 1g of ram, win XP, 60 gigas disk for a long time, form 2003 to 2010. Now a pentium i5, 6 g of ram, 500g disk, Win xp, Asus nvidia gforce 9800 gt. __________________ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16416646@N05/

10-16-12, 08:47 AM	#4
Lionclaw Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,006 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	2003 Windows XP Home AMD 2500+ Barton GeForce 4Ti 4200 Creative Audigy 2ZS 2004-5 GeForce 6600GT 2006 Windows XP Home AMD 3500+ Geforce 7600GT 200? AMD X2 4200+ XFX? GeForce 7950GT (removed passive cooling and added a Zalman GPU cooler fan) 2008 Windows XP Home Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 XFX GeForce 9800GTX+ 2009 Windows Vista Home Premium 2012 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Antec P280 Intel Core i7 2600K GeForce GTX 560 Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

10-16-12, 09:31 AM	#7
Tchocky Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,874 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	I remember longing for a math coprocessor in order to play Falcon 3 with the realistic flight model....so that would definitely make that computer an Intel 386. Beyond that I cannot remember __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

10-16-12, 10:17 AM	#8
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Having no recollection of the old MS-DOS computer specs I used untill in 1995 we got a Pentium PC. 1995 Windows 95 Pentium 65Mhz 8MB Ram 4MB VGA Card 400MB Hard disk 1998 Windows 95 and later Windows 98 Pentium 2 330Mhz 64MB Ram 8MB VGA card 800MB Hard Disk 2000 Windows ME (shipped with the build) later Windows XP Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz 128MB RDR Ram Nvidia Geforce 2 440MX 64MB 4GB Hard disk 2005 Windows XP Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz 1GB Ram Nvidia Geforce FX5500 later FX5700 256MB 80GB Hard disk 2008 Windows XP Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66Ghz 2GB Ram Nvidia 8800GT 512Mb 500Gb Hard Disk 2010 Windows XP later Windows 7 Intel Quad Core Q9400 2.66GHZ 4GB Ram Sapphire ATI HD5850 1Gb 500Gb Hard Disk 2012 Windows 7 Intel i5 2500K 3GHZ 8GB Ram Asus Nvidia GTX560Ti 1GB 1TB Hard Disk HunterICX __________________ Last edited by HunterICX; 10-17-12 at 03:57 AM.

10-16-12, 01:05 PM	#9
MH Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,184 Downloads: 248 Uploads: 0	486 with PCI MB...wow...lol.

10-17-12, 04:48 PM	#10
adams79 Nub Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 2 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I don't know the whole list but . . . I remember the first computer I had, around 1993-94, it came with only 4MB of RAM and Warcraft II required 8MB. That was, consequently, also how I spend my first $100, buying Warcraft II and 4MB of RAM from Circuit City (CPU was a 486). Also, I had to use a boot disk to run the game.

10-18-12, 07:09 PM	#11
RickC Sniper Undetectable Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,221 Downloads: 132 Uploads: 0	An Apple 2C. It had a 3.5 floppy drive and a 9 inch monochrome monitor. I loved Appleworks. (Sort of like MS Office) I have no idea what year it was. My second pc was an IBM PC x286 with a 20 mb hard drive and a color monitor. __________________ Support Subsim http://www.subsim.com/store.html

10-18-12, 07:49 PM	#12
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	My first machine: The AT&T PC 6300 back in 1984. The first one to be IBM compatible. It used GW Basic and featured a single 5.25 inch floppy drive. Some stats I pulled off the web: CPU: Intel 8086 Speed: 8MHz RAM: 128KB ROM: 16KB Graphics Mode: 640 x 400 monochrome I used to to type reports for school and play Ninja. Imagine this, but all in shades of green.

10-20-12, 02:46 PM	#13
danasan Elite Spam Hunter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Flensburg / Germany Posts: 1,141 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	I used to use a Cyrix 6x86 PR133+ (M1), Socket 5/7 CPU, that might have been around 1995... and I once had a ST Kyro II graphics board, around 2001, some kind of state of the art at that time. I am pretty sure that only a few guys will remember these names... __________________ "I invite you to go inside this submergible hole in the water where you can nicely hide from destroyers."

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