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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).
(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8722/i09024099ra0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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:
(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8977/moto0100bq1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/308/moto0101jl9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/908/moto0102ql9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3791/moto0103id1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2328/moto0104ie9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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:
(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/1789/moto0106ow7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2888/moto0107ds3.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2010/moto0109gb1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

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 :P

currently i dont own any pc... :(

Haha nice PC you have there Exploited...

yeah I am arcade games addicted... I am planning on having my own customized cabinet - it's the same addicting as flashing phones :)

Mine is AMD Athlon 3000+,Asrock board with Nvidia Geforce 6100,512 MB RAM,80 GB HDD running windows XP Unlimited.. And I'm pretty much satisfied with it as I'm least interested in playing heavy games.. :)
BTW, AMD FTW ;D

Im using Pentium IV 3.0 HT, 1.5Gb DDR Ram... 160 GB Maxtor HDD, 256mb DDR Ati Radeon.. Windows XP,Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu Linux Include..

yeah I do not play heavy games too... only MAME :)

i like to play heavy game such asa NFS.. ermm but its must have Higher Graphic

have you tried pro street then? :)

Here are my PC specs:
Processor: Intel Celeron 2.53GHz
Mainboard: ASUS P4P
Graphics Card: XFX 6600GT 128MB DDR3
Memory: Kingston 1GB 333MHz
Display: ViewSonic 19? LCD VA912b
Storage: 160GB + 80GB
Optical Storage: Sony DVD-DL Burner + LG DVD Player
Audio: Creative SoundCard
Operating System: Windows XP SP2

sjj you have a hell of a good monitor :)

The bad from SJJ's pc is Processor.. if u get pentium or C2d.. i'll be perfect..

not on that chipset sadly... That's the biggest "upgrade" problem - you want processor, which involves motherboard and usually RAM too... so it involve everything :)

Soon everybody will have to throw their IDE devices in trash too

yeah.. its too bad if he using Main Board Socket 478.. my pc is use Intel Board Socket 775 that i can upgrade to Core Duo Or Core 2 Duo.. now the problem for my pc is..im using DDR Ram, its so expensive price at the Outlet shop.. 2x expensive than DDR2..

@phil
so how bout the latest Technology at ur place? at my place will Release Hitachi Hard Drive 1 Terabyte.

My PC is quite old actually, I recently upgraded the graphics card from 5200 to 6600GT...
And I'm planning to upgrade my LCD to 22inch widescreen, its getting quite cheap here haha....

@sjj
How much cost for LCD 22" and what brands??

My PC:

AM2 X6000 3.0G 2M L2
ASUS M2NE
2G DDR2 800 Transcend
ASUS 8600GTS Silent
ST320G SATA2 HDD
ASUS 1814BLT DVD Writer
SeaSonic 430W PWR
Avermedia TV Card...

I'll upload pics when I  have time... ;)

hurm.. ur PC is so Ultimate..

Waiting for your pics - our PC's are so close in price and performance

Very busy with homework,maybe two or three days later

TOSHIBA

OS
XP media edition
UBUNTU faisty fawn

HD---160gb
CPU--Intel centrino Duo 1.61Ghz
RAM--2Gb
Video-Nvidia geforce go 7300


Beer--TECATE 340ml
cigarrete--marloboro white
LOL

(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t233/THRCKR/celu/pc.jpg)

so great masta.. Toshiba Drivers is so hard to Download it

i have the dvd with everything.

only with ubuntu i had hardwork with the nvidia drivers :'( but finally i can run beryl  :P

that's your home computer?

no is my personal PC, in my home have a desktop PC, i prefer my lap because i still in my bedrom watch tv and chek motohell LOL

Pentium -> Pentium IV -> AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core

My spec:
LG FLATRON L1753S 17"
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400++ @2.31GHz
ATI HD2400 Pro 256mb Video memory + 256mb shared memory
1GB RAM
160GB HDD
Samsung DVD RW

OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Linux Mint
(3OS on 160GB HDD :D )

my next computer will be the AMD quadcore for sure... Until now all my computers was Intel, but as soon as I bought the Sapphire (ATI, eg AMD) video card I am AMD ADDICTED :)

AMD is My next Target too.. i dont know that AMD have a Quadcore too.. yeah, ATI is so stable with AMD

the new quadcore of AMD is:

1. As cheap as the lowest quadcore of Intel QX6600 (?) at the same performance speed... so normal price

2. Easily upgradable - can be mapped both on old mother board chipsets and new (this strategy of AMD makes it very very easy to upgrade, without replacing Mobo, ram and etc)

3. Superb memory controller, which allows you to work with up to 4 video cards in Crossfire (whoa... not for me yet) :)

4. The first real quadcore single processor!!! The Intel "quadcore" is a combination of two dualcores... :)

so its still use the  AM2 socket for ? ermm if had a change i will get it

no - it use newer socket, but it is backward compatible with AM2 (you loose the new memory bus speed enchancements)

I should be getting a new PC soon...

I've bought my new PC, photos here
http://rokr.buildmy.ws/blog/

never heard of these power supplies, but "Lifetime warranty" sounds cool