Have you ever waited THIS long to upgrade?

[Ferocious]

My system last month...

450 P2
V3-2000
128 megs PC-100
8 Gig (slow ass) HD
17" crt monitor.

My new system (1 month old).

2.4 Ghz P4
Radeon 9700 Pro
512 PC-1066
120 Gig (fast!) HD
17" Flat Panel


What a nice difference!

 

[PhaZe]

which lcd?

 

Even before i checked the specs in the post i knew my answer. Plain and simple.. I upgrade to much...

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Ferocious
My system last month... 450 P2 V3-2000 128 megs PC-100 8 Gig (slow ass) HD 17" crt monitor. My new system (1 month old). 2.4 Ghz P4 Radeon 9700 Pro 512 PC-1066 120 Gig (fast!) HD 17" Flat Panel What a nice difference!

Darn, that goes back to about 1998, possibly 1999. Thats light years for technology!

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Ferocious
My system last month...

450 P2
V3-2000
128 megs PC-100
8 Gig (slow ass) HD
17" crt monitor.

My new system (1 month old).

2.4 Ghz P4
Radeon 9700 Pro
512 PC-1066
120 Gig (fast!) HD
17" Flat Panel


What a nice difference!

The answer is YES.

Celeron 500
192 PC100
8 (slow) + 60 (7200rpm) HD
GF2 MX400 PCI
17" Non flat panel CRT.

GO 1999!

 

[Viper96720]

I had almost the exact same setup. Except it was 400-P2 and 19" monitor. It got retired last year

 

[ShowdOWN]

you made your upgrade worth the wait. well at least for a few months till the new stuff comes out.

 

[amdskip]

One of my major upgrades was a pentium 166 to a thunderbird 900.

 

[Ferocious]

which lcd?

Dell 17" UltraSharp

Darn, that goes back to about 1998, possibly 1999. Thats light years for technology

June 1998 with a 350 P2 and the Intel i740 graphics card originally. I upgraded to a 450 P2 and a V3-2000 some months later.
That was my last upgrade till I got my new system about 4 weeks ago.

 

[Duvie]

Well I guess no one needs to tell you that there will be a noticeable performance increase!!!

I went like this...
CPU:
p-pro 200 (1997-1999)
amd k62-400 (1999-2001)
amd tbird 750
amd tbird 1100
amd tbird 1400
p4 1.8@2.4
p4 1.6@2.74

the last five have occurred since january of 2001

VID:
3d stealth 2000 4meg edo
ATI PC2TV 8meg edo
Voodoo 3 2000 16mb
Radeon DDR 32MB
Geforce 2 Pro (gainward overclocker)
Radon 8500LE (died)
Geforce 4 Mx 440
Radeon 8500LE (the replacement)
Radeon 8500DV


I am like the ANTI YOU!!!

 

[optimistic]

I went from Pentium 166 to Athlon Thunderbird 1.2Ghz back in 2001.

I love that Pentium 166, it made all the minimum requirements for all the games

Would have kept it longer if I only knew how to fix the sound back then.

 

[krackato]

Just on mhz, you multiplied your clockspeed by 5.3x. I once went from a 486 50mhz to a Pentium II 400mhz, which an 8x increase. Still, how's that extra 1950mhz treatin' ya?

 

[bsr]

that had to have been a huge leap in speed.

 

[stingrae]

hey hey..AWESOME UPGRADE!!..
i shud waited a bit more i guess..i went from a :
Cel-433
128MB RAM
440ZX
Asus TNT2 Deluxe(d one wit d works,3d glasses n all dat crap!)
8 gig 5400 seagate

TO
Athlon 1.4Ghz
256MB DDR266
ECSK7S5A (sis 735)
40 gig Barracuda
stuck wit the TNT2 for 4 months then went for a GF3ti200 1 month b4 the GF4Ti4200 released thinkin that the speed difference wudnt be too much..oh how i regret THAT!!..this bloody gf3 is freeeelin slow at any new game at 1024x768++...PLUS,i dint much difference in all my old games from the tnt2..on the other hand..the thunderbird was an amazing BUY!!..also the barracuda...

only on rant tho..bloody Tbird gets frickin HOT!!..67degs on a bad day!!
JoE

 

[Xazzu]

I've waited something like that long and the only reason I'm upgrading now is because my motherboard caps went kablowey

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

HA! I laugh at that upgrade. A few years back I went from

- 386@20 MHz
- 8 MB RAM (upgraded from the original 2MB)
- 200 MB HD (400 MB with that stupid compression crap in DOS)

to:
- PIII - 450 MHz
- 128 MB RAM
- 10 GB Hard disk


for those of you counting, that's a:
- 22.5x boost in CPU speed
- 16x boost in memory size
- 50x boost in Hard disk size.

:Q

 

[compudog]

March 1999

AMD 5x86 133 with 32MB
1.2 GB HDD
Trident something video

April 1999

Abit BX6 rev 2
PII-400
64MB
6.4 GB Hdd
TNT2 video

May 1999
PIII-600


November 2002
Asus A7N8X
AMD XP2100+
512 PC2700 XMS DDR
WD 60GB S.E.

wOOt!

 

[majewski9]

1996- P120 8 megs ram 1gig HD

1997- P120 24 megs ram

1999- Celeron 400 mhz 32megs RAM 3 gigs HD

2000- Celeron 400 mhz 96megs RAM

2001- Athlon 1.33ghz IWILL KK266 128 megs PC133 + Radeon 32megs DDR

2002- Athlon 1.33ghz ECS K7S5A 256 megs DDR SDRAM Radeon 8500LE 60gig 7200 rpm HD

2003- waiting for barton!

 

[LordMorpheus]

fall 2001:

pII 450
128mb RAM
13gb HD
RIVA nVidia TNT 16mb

After Fall 2001:
AthXP 2100+
512mb pc2700 RAM
80gb 'cuda IV
GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128 mb.


my old system had yours beat by inches, and your newer system has mine beat, so I guess you had the bigger jump.

 

[microAmp]

The longest I ever waited was 2 years for a upgrade on the CPU. That was from 1997 to 1999. After that it went all down hill. My motherboard upgrades are worse, most don't even last a year with me before being tossed or traded for a newer one.

P1 200 MHz -- 400@450 celeron
Celeron -- Athlon 750@893 MHz
Athlon -- TBird 1.2@1350 MHz
TBird -- AXP (1600+) 1.4@1.75 GHz

 

[PreDatoR]

My systems stayed pretty much the same for the last 6 months... only thing i've changed was 512 emgs of samsung pc2700 to 1 gig Corsaird XMS PC2700 and i've changed cpu's about 5 times lol other than that nothing has changed much... oh and a 2100+ tbred should be here monday. This is replacing a 1700+ tbred that has only been in my system for a week lol

 

[spanky]

nope... for me... it was like this:

k6-2 300 --> celeron 533 --> duron 750 --> athlon 900 --> xp2000+

 

[Spikesoldier]

66mhz 486 -> 1ghz p3 -> p4 1.8A@2.7

 

[tm37]

The upgrade path

First computer I bought was

AMD 133
600 MB Harddrive
1.44 Floppy
16MB Ram (edo)
2MB (that right TWO I PAID 35 dollars for that second damn MB:Q) Trident VC
Crappy sound
8X CD rom

Upgraded HD to 2.5 GIGS

Upgraded to a soundblaste 64 VAlue
Then a Creative labs Graphics Blaster (4mb)

Upgraded the MB, CPU and Memory to P 166 MMX w/ 32 MB Ram
Graphics Blaster DIed Fry's replaced it with a stealth II rendition Chipset.
New Hard drive 7.2 GB

Gave the case MB CPU MEM and VC to my sister and I bought the big dog.

Inwin towercase w/300W P/s
ASUS P2B MB
Diamond Viper TNT Card (16MB)
P2 350 and 32MB of PC100 RAM

Increased Mem to 64MB

Bought a Monster MX300 Sound card
Bought a Monster II Voddo 12MB Card

Upgraded CPU w/ P2 500

Bought Hercules Geforce 2MX VC
Which forced the purchase of an ASUS P3VX MB
Which forced the purchase of a Creative labs Live Value

Upgraded Memory to 128 MB PC133

Upgraded HD to 17.2GB

Upgraded CPU to P3 850

Upgraded Ram to 256
then 512

New Hard drive 40GB 7200RPM

That computer is my son's now

The Current Stable

This made me think of just what my Upgrade roadmap has been

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
66mhz 486 -> 1ghz p3 -> p4 1.8A@2.7

holy crap dude! 66mhz --> 1ghz?! hahaha