How many computers have you had in the past 5 years?

[sangyup81]

I see all these people talking about how they don't want to upgrade their computer again in 2 years or 3 years or blah blah blah. Personally, I think it's BS but you guys can prove me wrong with the facts. Since June 2000, how many different computers have you cycled through? If you only had a computer for like 2 weeks because you returned it or whatever, you don't have to count it. I'm just trying to see what people's upgrade cylces really are since I believe people say they don't upgrade in 2 years but in actually they upgrade all the time. So let's see them!

I've had 9 myself. And I'm only 23 years old!

*EDIT* I would consider a mobo/ram/cpu upgrade a new computer. And it's easier to think backwards chronologically.

 

[n7]

4.

I currently have three, but i'm selling one soon, since i only need two.

 

[ryanv12]

I'm on my third...first was a Pentium III 700 MHz, then a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz, and now my Pentium 4 3.2 GHz. The fourth comes soon...my X2 4400+

 

[JSLIM]

I'm on my 3rd, and will be my first build also.

 

[theMan]

this includes the one i have now right? if so, 2. yeah, 2. no joke. my last computer was a 433mhz celeron that i bought in 1998. i sort of forgot about gaming for a few years, and the last games i played were half life, and star craft. i didnt upgrade untill doom3 and HL2 came out. hopefully i can upgrade a little sooner this time.

 

[Painman]

Current rig = 3rd in the past 5 years.

 

[HDTVMan]

4 Main rigs
8 if you include test boxes as servers.
If virtual servers could be counted then about 50.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I voted 3, I only considered my own personal home machines. I also had 2 family machines during that time

 

[imported_Doughboy]

I had a PIII 733 that held out until the Northwood era, I love the overclocking of Northwood, so I've built 2 in the last year... so I voted 3.

 

[Newfie]

2, im going to be building my 3rd one soon =D

 

[Markfw]

Well, I have 13 now, and couldn;t even could how many I have gone over in 5 years, but probably 30 or so.

 

[ssvegeta1010]

2, my P4A 2.0 desktop, and my M-P4 3.06 laptop.

 

[Jeff7181]

I upgrade in stages... so I never have a completely new computer. There are currently 3 running computers in the house right now though.

I put over 9 though...

366 Mhz P2 laptop (current)
"XP2000" spare computer (current)
My A64 @ 2.6 GHz (current)
A64 @ 2.48 GHz
mobile XP2500 @ 2.4 GHz
mobile XP2500 @ 2.3 GHz
XP2500 @ 2.1 GHz
XP1700 @ 1.8 GHz
XP1700 @ 1.6 GHz
XP1700 @ 1.46 GHz
Athlon 1.2 GHz
Duron 700 MHz @ 750 Mhz
K6-2 333 Mhz @ 366 Mhz
K6 166 Mhz @ 170 MHz (overclocked FSB, lowered multiplier)
Cyrix 486 DX2 @ 50 MHz
Intel 386 SX @ 16 Mhz

 

[Zebo]

All less than $100 except the pentium and the A64's

Celeron 300 (trashed saved nothing)
Duron 800 (parted out to forums members)
Athlon 1200 ( new comp, cracked chip got 1400)
Athlon 1400 (used 1200's parts then gave to brother)
Athlon XP 1600 (new comp again but did'nt OC worth shat so I sold chip in forums kept Vcard)
Athlon XP 1700 ( Clocking monster 2400Mhz from 1.47 gave to son eventually trashed)
Athlon XP 2500 (still have it)
Penitum 4 2.6C ( burnt CPU with too much volts sold mobo to forums members)
Mobile Athlon XP 2400 ( son has..clocking monster)
Mobile Athlon XP 2600 ( another son has..clocking monster)
Mobile Athlon XP 2600 ( This is my home office Comp underclocked and silent)
Duron 1.8 Ghz ( ran some tests then gave to sister as present)
A64 754 newcastle 3000 ( Oldest son has this one)
A64 939 Winchester 3000 ( mine today)

Next up is X2 which I hope I can keep two years+... it's really that kind of CPU like northwoods were, will have some serious staying power.

 

[Zap]

I voted more than 9.

Oh, you mean how many have I had, not how many I have now?

 

[imported_whatever]

P1/133, died, so i got for free:
P1/166, was also concurrently using (but had gotten in 1996):
P1/200, had it forever, until I put together a:
Athlon/1.333, had it for a few years until I put together a:
XP/M 2500+ (OC'd of course), but I got bored with it and upgraded to a:
A64 3400+, also OC'd, in fact on water. However, I started craving a duallie and then bought:
P3/500, dual CPU, @ 560. Damn near silent as it has 1 fan in it, passive CPU sinks.
P4/2.4/133 NW core was bought somewhere in between the Athlon and the XP/M
I currently have the A64, Duallie and P4.

 

[imported_whatever]

Originally posted by: Zap
I voted more than 9.

Oh, you mean how many have I had, not how many I have now?

you have more than 9 computers right now?
all i can say is wow.

 

[sangyup81]

we have some ballas in here

 

[MDE]

What counts as a "computer?" I've been through 5 motherboards and 6 CPUs that I've actually used, plus another board\CPU combo that I just played with for a few minutes then sold but I've had just three sets of RAM.

 

[Steeplerot]

Only 9? I have built more then 9 from scratch in a day... :laugh:

*Granted it was a long knuckle-busting day

 

[Zebo]

Serious? Wow! You have your own shop?..hope you don't have to support.

 

[pnb263]

more than 9...

all these were BUILT in the past 5 years. most of them have seen or see currently usage as various servers around the house
486 (network print server, hosting 5 printers)
486/dx2 (network backup print server, hosting 3 printers)
p 133 (first stage firewall)
p 200 mmx (LAN test-web server)
p pro 200 (second stage firewall)
pII 300 (packet sniffer)
k6 233 (low-level MP3 server - host machine for LAN streaming)
k6 266 (2nd low-level MP3 server - host machine for secondary LAN streaming)
dual celeron 366 (old-time game server. Warcraft, Starcraft, etc)
dual pIII 900 (large volume storage - 1.2TB total storage)
athlon (cant even remember the stock speed... ) 900 (overclocked) (NO USE AS OF NOW)
sempron 1800 (at 2300) (main internet browsing/capture/preview machine)
a64 1800 (at 2600) (main capture/encode/heavy computation machine)

 

[Steeplerot]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Serious? Wow! You have your own shop?..hope you don't have to support.

I have had orders that I want to get out the day when the stuff comes in from the egg, and at work I can repair easily 9. (laptops slow me down though)

9 Pc's a day isn't that bad, it's fan and usb/fp wiring from the case to mobo that can slow you down the most though IMO... This case wins hands down the worst case to screw with the wiring

Nothing worse then getting a case and seeing the usb headers are all split up and not labled.....*pulls hair out*

At my last job they gave me a a64 rig to build and were amazed when everything posted in 35 mins...as long as it posts that first time your golden. troubleshooting sucks ass.

As far as windoze installs, ghost is my friend. I keep more then a few copies around at once for big jobs just use a cdkey haxx0r prog to enter the customers legit key and your set.


And NO I have a rule that you bring the pc over to my house after you call to make sure I have time and I will support for 1 month. No isp/spyware support at all..period. (unless you are paying me standard rate 50 an hour.)

I am not screwing with peoples spyware and install firefox by default on all my builds.

I do not provide aol disks either..last person who asked me for one I told then to look in a dumpster down the street...

So no I do not have my own shop per se, but I have homebuilt and sold about 40 pc's in the past six months and had 3 more built and ready to sell when my house in SF burnt...

When the movers get here to jersey where we moved to I am going to have to dissasemble and clean any smoke damage...

(I jumped back into the window to get my pet rat and was able to kill the power to my rig and my Gf's rig so the case fans didnt suck smoke in and was able to throw a blanket on the new rigs just built. -the fire didn't get in our apt but lots of smoke did, we lost al lour clothes and furniture but oh well.)

 

[SynthDude2001]

Since June 2000, 3, basically (with interim upgrades)...

1) Celeron 366 (later 566) with TNT2 Ultra
2) Athlon XP 1600+ with Radeon 8500 (Fall 2002)
3) Athlon XP 1700+ (at 2.4GHz) with Radeon 9700 Pro originally (August 2003), replaced by 6800GT last summer (July 2004)

Will be a fourth this summer once I upgrade to (hopefully) an X2 and a R520/G70

 

[Lonyo]

P2 350MHz, then a P3 600MHz, then big jump to an XP1900+, currently have a 2500+ mobile which is from continuous upgrades from the 1900+.
I've got pretty much got a new everything except case and monitor.
Probably going to upgrade to AMD64 later in the year.