man times have changed...what hardware were u running six years ago?

[boomhower]

That sounds around the timeframe of my Opeton 165 machine, 2GB of ram and whatever was a decent video card at the time. I've done that OC'd machine and went on to a watercooled Q6600 system. Those days are long gone. Now I'm happy with an i3 Dell Studio and an iPad. Gaming is done on consoles. A basic dual core Intel is more than sufficient for even mild encoding. I really don't have much desire for anything faster, just lust after better looking hardware.

 

[Anubis]

pretty sure it was an opteron 180 that i oced with a 7800 GT 4 gigs of ram and some other stuff.

actually that rig still runs its in the other room with a diff gfx card

went from that to a C2D E8400 that ran at 4GHz to an I7 920 which i run now @ 4GHz

 

[l0cke]

An AMD Athlon X2 3800+, a whole GB of DDR, 2 x 250GB HDDs, and Windows XP. Cost twice as much as my current system.

Same thing for me, except I had a 7800GS and eventually upgraded to 2gb of RAM.

 

[CZroe]

Athlon X2 3800+ with dual 7800GTX. A year later it was a Core 2 Quad Q6600 with dual 7800GTX. I upgraded to dual 8800GT and later GTX280 + 9800GT EE PPU and it's still my current desktop. My notebook is an M11x R3 with a Sandy Bridge dual-core i5 and a GT540M which the 5-year-old desktop can still wipe the floor with, so excuse me if I don't think old system specs are particularly startling. It made the PS3/360 fanbois cry then and it still does.

 

[Doppel]

Last time I upgraded my desktop was maybe 7 years ago. Lost interest as people inevitably do with this hobby. Now I game on a console and use laptops.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I still upgrade my rig and my wife's rig. I don't go bleeding edge though nor do I overclock them. I just want stable, quiet rigs that I can throw a few hundred worth of hardware at every 3-4 years to keep them current. My wife's rig is due for an upgrade soon. I'm running a quad core Intel i7 with 8GB of RAM, a SSD, and a decent video card.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

On January 1st, 2006, I had an Athlon XP 2400+ with 1.5 GB or RAM and a Radeon 9600XT.

I had subscribed to EVE Online about three weeks previously.

Mostly because I wanted to multibox more efficiently for "gold" farming, I ended up with the triple-monitor Q6600 system I am typing this on now. I haven't had an EVE subscription in over a year and a half though.

 

[RichieZ]

12" powerbook g4 or possibly the very first 13" macbook

 

[Zorander]

Athlon X2 3800+
2x512MB DDR400 CAS2
ATI Radeon 9800Pro
250GB HDD
Antec P180
Antec TruePower 330W
Windows XP 32-bit

The whole system ran with quietness in mind. A fanless Scythe Ninja on the CPU, AC cooler on the Radeon, one low-speed exhaust fan on the P180 and, well, the TP330 was pretty quiet. Good times.

 

[Sonikku]

hmmmm...

Think it was a X800XT all in one wonder, 1 gig of corsair ddr ram and a socket 754 Athlon 64 3400+
I would have kept it longer, but there really wasn't anywhere else to go with an AGP socket.

 

[SKORPI0]

My first 64-bit processor system, circa 2004.

Athlon 64 3200+
DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb - socket 754
1GB DDR PC3200
NVidia GT 6600GT AGP
100GB IDE drives
Windows XP 32-bit.
Dual 21" CRTs.

 

[Brainonska511]

I think it was a couple of the following:

Pentium 4 Prescott
2GB of RAM
80GB hdd SATA
XP 32-bit
Nvidia 6800GTO

Pentium 4 Willamette
1GB DDR
40GB hdd IDE
Windows XP 32-bit
Nvidia GeForce 250 Ti (?)

Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2GB DDR400
ATI X200 integrated graphics (later upgraded to an HD3650)
80GB hdd SATA
XP 32-bit

 

[Chaotic42]

Hard to remember, but I think it was:

Athlon 3800+
Nvidia 7800
2GB memory

 

[IGemini]

That was my old Dell Dimension 8400. Pentium 4 3GHz Prescott, Intel 925X chipset, 1GB DDR2-RAM, Radeon X800XL. Still kicking as my parents' computer though it definitely needs replacing.

In another 7 months it would be my Core 2 E6600 build.

 

[Joseph F]

I was running an HP Pavilion a1430n tower with an
Athlon 64 x2 3800+,
1GB DDR,
one 250GB Hard disk and
an integrated Geforce 6150LE.

Before that,
a local shop-built 1.6GHz Northwood P4 (Non-HT),
256 or 512MB of DDR,
a 40 or 60GB Hard disk and
an ATi Rage 128 Pro.

Actually, if we're talking about January 1st. 2006, it might have been the P4.

 

[Rubycon]

Same thing as today - a box of sand with tiny switches. :biggrin:

 

[Possessed Freak]

HP laptop that had a desktop P4 in it. Massively hot, but played games decently.

 

[Wyndru]

I still have my blue cold cathode running in my windowed case. I've upgrade the hardware a few times, but have kept the same case through the upgrades. I've gotten sloppy with cable mgmt over the years though, I used to meticulously tie back and hide all of the cables but now I just throw it together and it looks like crap.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

My first 64-bit processor system, circa 2004.

Athlon 64 3200+
DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb - socket 754
1GB DDR PC3200
NVidia GT 6600GT AGP
100GB IDE drives
Windows XP 32-bit.
Dual 21" CRTs.

I miss DFI...

 

[HAL9000]

My current desktop is 6 years old... I've just kept it upgraded. Love my Mac Pro.

 

[rh71]

AMD Barton I believe? I revived it for the upstairs office, but have only used it a handful of times.

 

[duragezic]

AMD Barton @ ~2.2ghz I think. Probably 1 GB RAM, 9800 Pro. In early 2006 I upgraded to a single core AMD Athlon 64 @ ~2.3ghz. Was not a big upgrade (and I should have bought a dual core then), as the clock speeds were similar but it had better performance due to onboard memory controller and whatnot. In 2007 I dropped in a Opteron 165 which was just a dual-core version of what I had. And by that time I also had 2 GB of RAM.

I ran with that (added a ATI 4870 in 2008) up until earlier this month! Now I got some haus quad core with a shitload of RAM and all that stuff. Next up in the next couple of months is replace my 2005FPW and 4870.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i just bought 16gb of ram for $60...in ~2000 my brother paid $1/mb!!!!

 

[Red Squirrel]

My current desktop is 6 years old... I've just kept it upgraded. Love my Mac Pro.

Macs can be upgraded? Like, can you actually open those up with a screw driver? I thought they were pretty much molded/sealed and not expandable.

 

[HAL9000]

Macs can be upgraded? Like, can you actually open those up with a screw driver? I thought they were pretty much molded/sealed and not expandable.

You thought wrong I've replaced everything in my Mac Pro except for the power supply and the motherboard, I don't know where people get these stupid ideas from Macs are as upgradable as any computer.