[WildeKarde]

I remember getting a 3dfx and convincing one of my mates the better graphics were just due a a new driver on the matrox millenium card

Ah, the days of "20fps is really good for 640 x 480"
I remember most of my mates couldn't actually get outlaws to run without jerking at 640 x 480. The 3dfx card really boosted it to playable fps

[Theydon Bois]

Originally Posted by namuk

P100 is that pentium 100? remember getting a price for a P90 around 96 and the price was around £2100 as i wanted to play X-wing/tie fighter maxed out which was around 640 x 480 and lower for X-wing

Yep.

I had (and I mave have missed or added one):

486/25
486/100
P100
P266
PII400
PIII600?
PIII733
P4 1.2
P4 1.8?
AMD3500
E6600
Q6600
i52500K

[Berties]

^ beat you

IBM 4.7mhz XT
Amstrad 1512 with 40MB HD
286 12mhz
386SX 25
386DX 33

[namuk]

Originally Posted by Theydon Bois

Yep.

I had (and I mave have missed or added one):

486/25
486/100
P100
P266
PII400
PIII600?
PIII733
P4 1.2
P4 1.8?
AMD3500
E6600
Q6600
i52500K

your Cpu upgrades were very Frequent in them days, they actually made a massive difference only due to pc gaming went ballistic that snows near the end of your list, in the P2/P3 days i had one of them due socket boards that took P2 and P3 think it was an Asus due to tech moving that fast,
the P3 667 coppermine i had was a nice Cpu though
the first Cpu i had was a 486 DX100 and ram cost a fortune 16mb = £300 and that was cheap at the time,
i had most of the Amd xp range (think that is what is called) even the 3200xp and it came with a copper base endless list
do not even want to think what i have spent over the years on Cpu's.

[Berties]

Went to the skip last week spotted motheboard with one of those plug in slot type CPU's (slot 1/2?) Always thought they were a poor design, wasting space plus cooling? Although back then fitting another type of CPU cooler wasn't that common.

[namuk]

cooling was not an issue back then.

[Berties]

Originally Posted by namuk

cooling was not an issue back then.

But noise was. Cases had 8cm fans, stock coolers meant those loud 3000rpm units.

[namuk]

Originally Posted by Berties

But noise was. Cases had 8cm fans, stock coolers meant those loud 3000rpm units.

one reason i had less case fans , the stock coolers then were the norm unless you had a silly Delta fan on there for overclocking and some run upto 7### RPM and that was dam earbleeding loud, no one was bothered about noise then though it was only the Uk ect market that demanded low noise fans latter on, the US are all Deaf now

[Stockholm]

Nah, noise was all part of the nostalgia! My first PC was bought by my dad from Dixons for a silly sum of money at the time. It was a P100 Packard Bell horizontal desktop thing that the monitor sat on top of. The monitor was a whopping 15" and had a very low resolution. Before it arrived I saved up my pocket money and bought Euro Fighter 2000 published by Ocean Software. I read the massive manual from front to back in anticipation of becoming a fighter pilot. The day arrived and I went to install it - it didn't work as it said I didn't have enough memory

I kept it way past the year 2000 and tried it with every computer I owned at the turn of the decade, and yet it never worked with any of them owing to that silly memory error, this is despite it being a title from 1995 attempting to run on machines much more powerful than anything that was available back then.

I think the disc must have been corrupted or something. Never got to play it to this day...

ps I managed to recoup £250 or thereabouts in something like 1999 or 2000 for the Packard Hell.

[OLDCell]

Was 14 in 1996 and was also scribbling FPS and overclock configs down on bits of paper, and also jumping mountain bikes over friends laying on the floor and not succeeding and breaking one mates ribs and another's fingers

Those were the days!!

[Theydon Bois]

Originally Posted by namuk

your Cpu upgrades were very Frequent in them days, they actually made a massive difference only due to pc gaming went ballistic that snows near the end of your list, in the P2/P3 days i had one of them due socket boards that took P2 and P3 think it was an Asus due to tech moving that fast,
the P3 667 coppermine i had was a nice Cpu though
the first Cpu i had was a 486 DX100 and ram cost a fortune 16mb = £300 and that was cheap at the time,
i had most of the Amd xp range (think that is what is called) even the 3200xp and it came with a copper base endless list
do not even want to think what i have spent over the years on Cpu's.

I was very fortunate to have a rich mate who worked in the stock exchange that refreshed his PC every 18 months and bought a top of the range one each time at a cost of approx £2k. He would then sell me his old one for a stupid amount of money, something like £200. I think the first was a Packard Bell, and the rest all Gateway's. I even got the 733 (or was it a 933?) for nothing because it kept crashing and he just wanted shot of it. I suffered countless crash to desktops and reboots through Everquest, mostly while I hunted goblin something gills under the lake and I would have to return and grab my corpse again.

I then found that there was a faulty batch of motherboards and bought a new one and installed it -one of my first proper repairs. So got an 8 month old £2000 PC for free and paid about £100 for a motherboard.

I went through a wealth of CRT's as well, but had a 22" illyama (about the same size as my sofa) for a long long time before getting my first flat screen, 17" TFT baby!

Although I had been tinkering and over clocking and upgrading, I never built from scratch until the AMD, but then my last six or so have all been built by me. By 2003 though, I had joined a company that was selling there own PC's to clients and I got in with a builder - we used to get £50 per build, and so could rake in extra cash. I then started designing a better build quality, and think my tally had just hit over 200 by the time I left, it became automatum, so all my builds have been a piece of **** - plus there is no chance of getting things wrong really. Sorry, digressed a little!

[Theydon Bois]

Originally Posted by Berties

^ beat you

IBM 4.7mhz XT
Amstrad 1512 with 40MB HD
286 12mhz
386SX 25
386DX 33

Didn't add my Intellivision, Commodore 64 or Atari ST, nor the programming I did on 380 and 480Z's at school

[Berties]

I built the Antikythera mechanism.

[Theydon Bois]

Originally Posted by Berties

I built the Antikythera mechanism.

I initially drew plans for the Handron Collider in crayon and fuzzy felt at primary school.

[namuk]

Originally Posted by Theydon Bois

I was very fortunate to have a rich mate who worked in the stock exchange that refreshed his PC every 18 months and bought a top of the range one each time at a cost of approx £2k. He would then sell me his old one for a stupid amount of money, something like £200. I think the first was a Packard Bell, and the rest all Gateway's. I even got the 733 (or was it a 933?) for nothing because it kept crashing and he just wanted shot of it. I suffered countless crash to desktops and reboots through Everquest, mostly while I hunted goblin something gills under the lake and I would have to return and grab my corpse again.

I then found that there was a faulty batch of motherboards and bought a new one and installed it -one of my first proper repairs. So got an 8 month old £2000 PC for free and paid about £100 for a motherboard.

I went through a wealth of CRT's as well, but had a 22" illyama (about the same size as my sofa) for a long long time before getting my first flat screen, 17" TFT baby!

Although I had been tinkering and over clocking and upgrading, I never built from scratch until the AMD, but then my last six or so have all been built by me. By 2003 though, I had joined a company that was selling there own PC's to clients and I got in with a builder - we used to get £50 per build, and so could rake in extra cash. I then started designing a better build quality, and think my tally had just hit over 200 by the time I left, it became automatum, so all my builds have been a piece of **** - plus there is no chance of getting things wrong really. Sorry, digressed a little!

all hard earned for me one reason i built my second system, thing is i new the shop was taking the smeg after reading a few mags and going to snows,
illyama monitors were proper mans screens, a mate still has my old one and still waffles on about the BNC connection using Photoshop
the sad git and i can call no one think that monitor was actually replaced last year though,about time.

[gvers]

Originally Posted by Berties

Went to the skip last week spotted motheboard with one of those plug in slot type CPU's (slot 1/2?) Always thought they were a poor design, wasting space plus cooling? Although back then fitting another type of CPU cooler wasn't that common.

If you go back and get it I've still got one of those processors in my draw at work . Up until april we still had an old 486 running the wireless link to our fork lift trucks (Flakey software that did not like 16550 UARTs).

My first PC was a 486DX50 and I built it myself and every one since.

[wolvers]

I've been thinking, but I just can't remember what was in the PC I had back then. Probably because I was............

Originally Posted by Razor

getting **** faced at clubs and shagging everything that moved.

Actually, I'm struggling a bit to remember what I had 5 years ago let alone 15!

[pRot3us]

Completely off topic :

Nam, I want to punch your avatar in the face!

I don't know why but Bungle always had that affect on me, I just want to give him a full on life affirming ****kicking.

This is all

[namuk]

seen as Bungle Brings out the Jack Torrance in you , i will change it

[jjgreenwood]

I think in 1996 I had one of those ESCOM pc's with the first pentium chips in it. Think I got it in 1994. I seem to remember it had 16mb of ram and a 80mb hard disc. It ran windows 3.11 and it was connected to demon internet and I had to buy .net magazine to find web and gopher addresses because there were no search engines.

[Miss Chief]

I remember overclocking my celeron 300A with a piece of sticky tape. Cover one of the pins and it ran at 100MHz fsb instead of 66MHz.

[Chox1988]

Originally Posted by Miss Chief

I remember overclocking my celeron 300A with a piece of sticky tape. Cover one of the pins and it ran at 100MHz fsb instead of 66MHz.

I knew someone who did similar with a dell which i think it had a p4 in it, strangely this method only worked in the dell, even if you had the same chip in another machine, maybe something to do with the bios but thats over my head, by covering one pin it either unlocked it for overclocking or it ran faster

[Theydon Bois]

Thats how us oldies overclocked our PCs, with jumper placements. Another page in my notebook showed in relation to the PII266 I had:

Pins 3+4 = 266
Pins 1+2 = 100
Pins 5+6 = 300

I initially underclocked my PC to a P100 before getting 15% increase in speed.

[TheNameIsJambo]

I had to short out 2 points on my AthlonXP 2500+ with a pencil to allow it to OC to a 3200+

That's also where my fascination with Arctic Cooling started! And those were also the days where I would put a 14" deskfan beside my PC for superior cooling abilities!

I also have vivid memories of having very cold toes!