Ok for my old computers - just quickly...
1. My first computer was Pentium 100Mhz, do not remember how much RAM and a small hard drive. I bought it in 1996 as far as I remember. All working under DOS and Win 3.11. However I invested a lot of money these days to buy a 17" Viewsonic monitor (it lasted more than 10 years).
2. In 1998 I did an upgrade of RAM, hard drive and CPU - now my CPU was 200Mhz MMX.
3. I do not remember when, but like one or two years later I upgraded to Pentium II 350 (Klamath). My hard drive was 6.4GB Quantum Fireball one. The motherboard was SpaceWalker (Shuttle 661). I was using this computer until the middle of 2007 (however several upgrades during the years - HDD controller + 80GB WD hard drive, video card Voodoo Banshee and later NVidia MX 440). This computer is still alive!
4. In mean time in 2002 I bought a Pentium IV 2.8Ghz with Epox motherboard. New Philips 17" CRT monitor was bought, because the Viewsonic one burned. I was using that for replacement of computer 3., but computer 3. was left alive (in a box under my bed). I was using that PIV computer for two years, until I moved to another house. I left that computer to my parents... I needed a computer for my new house - so I revived my old 3. comptuer back online... I upgraded it to 512RAM (SDRAM 100Mhz). I was using the old PC for modding my Motorola phones since 2004
Oh and I bought a second Philips 17" CRT monitor, which I am using now
5. This year I decieded that it's time for me to change computers (it was deadly slow for todays criterias). So in May 2007 I invested a lot of money. The whole problem was that I am a huge fan of old (retro) Arcade games (MAME) and I was not able to play most of them on the old PC.
a) The first part of the upgrade was a Core2Duo 2.8Ghz with 4MB L2 cache, 2GB Kingston DDR2 667, ASUS P5B-VM motherboard (it sucks btw) and a new case. The PC 3. was set in a box again and later presented to a friend.
b) The next thing was three months ago with the Samsung 32" SlimFit TV with HDMI input (it was still not a part of the PC config, but soon it would be).
P.S. Sorry - not the real photo, since I don't have it here at work
c) Two months ago I bought this video card (needed passive) with HDMI out:
P.S. The pictures are a little outdated, since I replaced the hard drive and the DVD burner with new SATA II (320WD hard and Pioneer burner)... Now the big blue IDE cable is missing
d) Finally a month ago I finished my MAME configuration:
Now I am able to play Arcade games on 32" screen with almost deadly silent PC (I modded few things on the case, like corc on the panel, replaced the noisy power supply with Fortron Bluestorm II and etc - it's super quiet now)...
Tell me about your configs now
