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

[Stallion]

I have had at least 7 I guess.

P100
P III 550katmai
Celeron 466
p III 700E
P4 1.6A
P4 1.8A
P4 2.8

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: 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

excellent choices both on chips and Vcards... High value!!! Except the 1600 of course.. you get a palamino dog too? I sold that literally 6 days after I got it.. clocked like 50Hz xtra.:roll:

had my celeron 300 like 3 years since it clocked to 550 Mhz and the 128KB cache did'nt hurt back then because of short pipe.. PII and III's wernt any faster even with 512KB cache but cost 2.5x as much.

If I were you, I'd wait for reasonable priced X2, like a $250 version.. No way does current models have "value" looking at your purchase history. $550 entry is just crazy and I'll be really drunk or had a really crappy day when I order it to reward myself.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: 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.)

Haha you are amazing steep.:thumbsup: Ghost is my favorite app...keep like 20 images of various comps and various times of installs for each comp...

I ever tell you how I fixed my AOL buddies comp? The one with 83 icons in taskbar on boot? Well he was whining about how slow it was, all he uses is aol, so on boot I took a look at taskmgr turns out he was using 525MB of ram... anyway I told him get another 512MB of ram, that'll fix it... (I'm pretty much a helpful guy but there are limits...no fkn way was I going to delve into that nightmare of malware, spammed out POS box)...sure did fix and only $66.

 

[Steeplerot]

lol I usually tell aol peeps just to buy a new system, (more ram and faster pc to crunch more spyware faster) :roll: but thats a great idea.

If it is a bro I would tell him to get the hell off off that crap though.

Friends dont let friends aol!

Thanks for the friendly words, and thanks for the extensive AMD knowledge you bring to AT.

I have used your guides for tweaking some of my rigs and the info is second to none,

I built at least 2 dozen customers stock a64 rigs before I upgraded my own mobile athlon and your guides helped me get my 3000+ winchester up to 2.58. :thumbsup:

 

[bozicek]

Uf, need to think a lot
Year 2000:
Celeron 333, GF 2MX, 256ram....
Year 2001 totaly change:
Elite K7S5A, Duron 850@1130, GF 2MX, 512DDR
and here started (and didnt spent any money on new components. Always sold whit max profit old one). from 01-05 today
Radeon 8500LE
Processor XP2000+ sold
Next mobo whit Epox 8RDA3+ (sold ECS Elite)
Processor Barton 2500+ fried because OC
back to XP 2000+ sold and buy
Barton 2500+ sold and get
Intel 2.533 and mobo - only have 2week to see that is crap (533FSB dead end) sold and buy
Barton Mobile 2500+ (thank god I didnt sold mobo when went to P4)
Radeon 9600pro (sold 8500LE) sold it and buy
Radeon 9800pro sold it and buy
XFX 6600GT
A64 3000+ and GA K8NSpro

I didn include my HDD (from 8GB to 40GB to 80GB, to 120GB-became to small get another 120GB); and RAM (256 on C333 - 512 on Elite then another 512, sold 512, buy 512, sold 512, buy 512 now have 2*512 = remember earthquake in Taiwan few years ago when RAM prices went sky high. Men I have a lot of profit that time)

 

[eplebnista]

4, 1 at a time(i.e. parted out old systems to finance the new ones)

Dell XPS R400
XP1800
XP2500
A64 3200

(last three were self-constructed)

 

[raanemaan]

8 if I remember correctly.Went from a pentium 75 to the current amd 64 3000+ skt 754.

 

[apapia]

Just got my 2nd last month!

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ E/Venice
XP90 HSF w/92mm Panaflo H1A
DFI NF4 Ultra-D
1GB (2x512MB) OCZ "Value VX"
eVGA nVidia Geforce 6800 GT
Chaintech AV-710
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150
2x 160GB Hitachi T7K250 RAID 0
Lian Li PC60B Plus
Dell 2005FPW 20.1" Widescreen LCD

 

[apapia]

Upgrade path:
Celery 300A (@450) w/8MB Intel crap video -> Geforce 2 MX -> Athlon 1.33GHz T-bird w/Geforce 2 -> Radeon 9500 (softmod to 9700) -> Athlon 64 3200+ Venice w/6800GT

 

[The Green Bean]

P3 500MHZ
P4 1800MHZ Willamette
AXP 2500+ @ 3200+
Now 3200+ A64 @ 4200+

Looks like Ill be keeping this for 2 more years

 

[nealh]

Hmm..sad actually

Pentium(cant recall II or III) 450@620..my best o/c from compuwiz1
PIII 700@980
Athlon1700@1600mhz
P4 2.4@2.9
A64 3200@2550

2 laptops..Athlon 1500 and P4 3.0ghz HTT

I also had a Pii 333 but this maybe have been prior to 5yrs..close

 

[blckgrffn]

Well, I am reimaging my test box here at work so I guess I have nothing better to do

1: 2000 -Gateway 333 Celeron w/12 meg voodoo2, 64 megs of pc66 ram (ran quake2 and dues ex like a champ!) 98 first edition, baby! Sold to highschool friend for $50 in 2002, ran until Christmas 2004

2. 2002 - Falcon NW Talon 1700+ w/nforce1 w/integrated Geforce2 & 256 dual channel cas2 pc2100 - upgraded to 8500 64 meg after 1 month Upgraded to 512 Crucial pc2100 about 6 months later, XP Home, legit even! Upgraded many times, went from 8500 to 9500 Pro to 9800 Pro to finally a 6800...

3. 2003 - Bought a 2500+ barton first week of release $175, Abit NFS-7 V.2 - $125, 512, XP pro, ran at 3000+ for almost 2 years, actually only just sold it, it was in the link in my sig, my longest standing combo outside the gateway, which was while I was in High School...

4. 2003 - 300 mhz PII with 196 megs of ram running 2000 server as home web/mail server -speedy Got borked when foreign exchange student parents hosted hosed it with spyware, always password protect servers!

5. 2003 - wanted a second box, got another 2500+ and moved the HyperX, got a gig for main box, named "Halle" for special someone,7500 AIW and rebuilding file server...

6. 2004 - New webserver, 900 mhz Duron, 256 megs ram, Server2003, much improvement...

7. 2004 - Damn you Dell and your deals! 600m w/1.6/512/64 Meg Radeon 9000/SXGA+

8. 2004 - Thanksgivingish - SOCKET 939 DAMN YOU TO HELL! Ruined my LAN party (for me), newegg borked up 3 times, credited some other random guys credit card for like $400... pawned off what I ended up with (MSI K8 NEO2 Platinum & 3000+ Winchester), finally ended up with 3400+, DFI, and in march 2005 6800U...whole rig sold for $1300 two seeks ago, about 90% of its parts value, good enough for me...

9. 2004 - wanted a TV computer - used old halle MB & Processor, used original 2500+ and Abit in halle, picked up 9000 AIW for Halle, got a $40 160 gig WD on Black Friday, now I have three desktop computers all more powerful than any of my suitemates

10. 2005 - OSX sounds cool, get G4 400Mhz from helpdesk where I work, run it for two months w/512 PC133 as main chat and websurfing box. To slow but tired of windows, I returned it and gathered some parts for a linux box...

11. 2005 - sold TV computer, used a little of the proceeds to piece together 1 ghz P3 box, put Fedora Core 3 on it, had a $18 geforce 2 GTS (still pleasantly powerful!) and 512 PC133...still a little slow...

12. 2005 P3 left after couple months, parted out on the forums... A64 2800+ (At 2.0, naturally on Soltek NF3 250gb board) coming in its place 768 HyperX 333, 5700LE, replaced the fan on the vid card, true power 430 controlling all the fans, never quite gets linux on it. Currently the GF is using it in lieu of her regular desktop while I upgrade it. Made an awesome extra LAN box and stuff, but overkill really. Mobo and processor already sold on the forums pending getting the GF's comp up and running.

13. 2005 - Socket 754 and AGP are so yesterday! Sold gaming rig as I don't play games in summer, got those parts at the AMD/MS thing a couple weeks ago, got rid of my last AXP a couple weeks ago and put the stuff in Halle's old case, All 12cm fans and such...waiting for some next gen vid cards this fall The description is in the sig....

14. 2005 - Mobile Celerons! What a nifty idea! Damn you Karaktu for having such great prices! 1.8 @ 3.06 on Aopen 875P board, 2*256 BH-5, GeForce4 Ti4200 w/big Zalman cooler, hooked up to the GF's 30" Widescreen samsung via DVI, hooked up to Pioneer reciever, etc optically Most fun OC'ing ever, more voltage, more FSB, run Prime, repeat! The 1.6 I got was *only* stable to about 2.9 or so...
Probably a couple more that I forgot in there, but that should about cover it!

 

[Pederv]

I used to have a rule "If it costs less than $350 and I'd be able to see the difference in performance, upgrade." Needless to say my upgrades have slowed down over the past few years. 4

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: 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

excellent choices both on chips and Vcards... High value!!! Except the 1600 of course.. you get a palamino dog too? I sold that literally 6 days after I got it.. clocked like 50Hz xtra.:roll:

had my celeron 300 like 3 years since it clocked to 550 Mhz and the 128KB cache did'nt hurt back then because of short pipe.. PII and III's wernt any faster even with 512KB cache but cost 2.5x as much.

If I were you, I'd wait for reasonable priced X2, like a $250 version.. No way does current models have "value" looking at your purchase history. $550 entry is just crazy and I'll be really drunk or had a really crappy day when I order it to reward myself.

lol, yeah, the 1600+ was a Palomino...I was lucky to get 150MHz more out of that thing. Oh well, it was only $55 even back then. Also, my old 366 could hit 550 sometimes, and my 566 could hit 850 sometimes... (though usually a little bit less)

And yeah, that's why I'm still unsure I want to do the X2 thing...it's a lot of chip for the money, but it sure is a hell of a lot of money. My "sensible side" is telling me that a cheap Venice 3200+ would be my best option for now...

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: 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.

P3-700 notebook (gonna be sold soon)
Pentium M 1.3GHz notebook (gonna be sold soon)
Pentium M 1.6GHz notebook
"main" machine, Keleron 1.6GHz@2.6GHz
"gamer" machine, P4 2.53GHz@3.33GHz
secondary gamer, mobile AXP2600+@2.4GHz
wife's machine in transition, Deleron 2.4GHz
server, Tualatin Celeron 1.2GHz
bittorrent/router, VIA C3
HTPC, Keleron 2GHz@2.66GHz
wife's previous machine out on loan to in-laws, P4 2.4GHz (perhaps permanent loan)
"caseless" A64 2800+@2.5GHz

This doesn't account for all the miscellaneous parts I have sitting around, and all the half-populated cases, and...

Anyone want to buy my gaming machine? Antec SLB case, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD, FX5900XT... want to build a small gaming rig to replace it with...

 

[osage]

looks like 18....

K6-300 to current A64 3200 with stops at Celeron,P3,Duron,T-bird,XP,Bartons,XP-M systems along the way.

 

[Concillian]

I voted 7. But then though about it more, and think it's really 8 or 9.

cel 300 @ 450 was more than 5 years ago
Slot A thunderbird I think was on the cusp, unsure of more or less than 5 years ago.
Duron 600 @ ~850 (being prepped to be given to my future nephew)
AXP 1500+ (stock since it overclocked so weakly) (I killed it by being dumb)
AXP 1700+ (currently in my fileserver, stock, since it needs little CPU powah)
AXP 2500+ @ 2.2 (sold)
AXP-M @ 2.3 (not in use, may sell)
A64 754 @ 2.3 (my "backup" machine)
A64 939 @ 2.5 (primary machine)
PIII something Dell laptop. (I use this primarily just for notetab light and hyperterminal for interfacing with my programmable engine management.)

So owned 8 or 9, 4 are currently still in use in my house.

 

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I've had 3:

P2 400 (I think, but I can't remember anymore)
AXP 1800+ (Assembled Dec 2001)
A64 3200+ (Assembled March 2005)

I did upgrade the video card on my AXP from GF3 Ti200 to R9700pro

I built my A64 when then X800XL's appeared for $300. I definitely purhcase with longevity in mind. I would have liked to upgrade my AXP, but my mobo only supported Palomino cores so there wans't much point.

I'm glad I got a 939 mobo so I can eventually upgrade to X2's when they come down in price (hopefully the high end ones will be closer to $200 or so in a couple years)


-D'oh!

 

[AllGoodNamesAreTaken]

1. One. Uno.

Dell Dimension 4100, August 2000
P3 800MHz, 512MB, 20GB HD

And I'm a Windows software developer. Yes, loading projects takes forever. I can't even listen to music while compiling.

Sure beats the Pentium Pro 200MHz I had for 5 years before that.

Do I win a prize?

 

[Corporate Thug]

4

 

[superkdogg]

I chose to go with only motherboards as a new computer. I change CPU/RAM and keep them for my upgrades when applicable, but the motherboard is the key factor for me. Either way, since I have 10 now and and had 0 a couple of years ago, I'm way over nine. Probably more like 20.

 

[RussianSensation]

2001 - AXP1600+ Radeon 8500
2003 - P4 2.6@3.2ghz + Radeon 8500
Don't plan to upgrade cpu/mobo or ram anytime soon. Maybe the videocard....

 

[corinthos]

prior to the past 1.5 years or so, i used to upgrade components often. now i'd like to try to upgrade only when actual needs justify it, so no money is wasted by paying a premium for extra power or features i will not/will rarely use at any given point in time.

my current rig is about 1.5 years old and contains the following:

-shuttle an35n-ultra nf2 mobo
-amd athlon 1800+ tbred
-512mb crucial pc2700
-powermagic 8500le (a built-by-ATI 8500 w/ dual RAMDACs)
-samsung spinpoint sp1614n hdd

still a snappy system, even though the cpu and vid card came out many years ago.

i intend to keep this as my primary rig until my actual needs exceed its upgradability. once i've squeezed all the value i can from my current rig or it becomes cheaper to replace with newer components that offer better price/performance for the dollar, i'll turn it into a light file server, PVR, firewall, or whatever.

 

[stevty2889]

dual P2 266mhz
pentium 200 MMX
P3 600mhz
P4 1.6ghz northwood
P4 1.8ghz williamette
P4 2.4B
P4 2.4c
P4 2.8 prescott

current sytems:

P4 3.06ghz P4
3.2ghz ES prescott
mobile P4 1.6 northwood
P4 3.4ghz prescott
Pentium-M 1.6ghz Dothan SFF

 

[JBird7986]

Accidentally voted 3, forgot about my laptop:

Pentium-S 200MHz
Pentium 4 1.7GHz
Athlon 64 3400+ 2.2GHz @ 2.32GHz
(Athlon 64-M 3400+ 2.2GHz)