Specs & Price of your first Pentium PC

[Angrymarshmello]

Compaq Presario 8702 - Intel Pentium 166, 24 MB EDO RAM, 8 MB S3 video card, PowerVR 3D accelerator, 33.6k modem, Premier Sound, 8x CD-ROM, Compaq 1525 15" monitor - all for $1800 my junior year of high school after Thanksgiving

 

[microAmp]

Dell refurb from their outlet before they closed it.

200 MMX Intel
32 MB RAM
4 MB Matrox Millineium(sp?) 2
3.2 GB HDD (WD if I remember right)
Creative Labs sound card (don't remember the specs.)
28.8k modem.
Dell keyboard
2 button mouse

No monitor

$1700.00

 

[Jugernot]

Built my first PC in 1996:

Cyrix P166+
32meg EDO 60ns Simms
S3 Virge PCI 2meg
2.0gig NEC EIDE HD
Tyan Tomcam III Intel 430 HX chipset
33.6 Zoom Modem
17" Delta Electronics monitor (pretty expensive at the time)
8x Panasonic CDROM
Sound Blaster 16pnp

Total of around $1400

It was once a great PC!

Yzzim, Nope, RIVA 128 was not Nvidia's first video chipset. Their first was the NV1 most famously (or rather infamously) used in the Diamond Edge series of video cards. Here is a write up on it: Firining Squad's writeup

 

[Scouzer]

Custon Pentium 200MMX, some PC Bits mobo, 32mb of EDO RAM, integrated video and sound, 56k Flex modem, 2.6g HD, 14" CRAP monitor....$?

 

[dionx]

from a local computer fair:

$2000

15" shamrock monitor
Pentium 200MMX
16MB RAM
4MB diamond vid card
ISA sound
ISA 33.6modem
2GB Harddrive
24X CD-ROM
AT Case
AT mobo
2 piece speakers
keyboard
3 button mouse

 

[Sensor]

Pentium 60 (Socket 5)
540MB Western Digital HD
2X CDRom
15" monitor
Full-tower Case

Got it from the now-defunct Quantum for about $2300. It was a good deal, and a huge upgrade from my 386SX/16.

And it was worth every penny; if I didn't get a computer until they were as cheap as they are now, I could only imagine myself as one of those AOL people who ask for help finding the "Right-click" button.

--Ed

 

[ThaGrandCow]

My dad purchased it for the family, he went out and splurged the day the PII systems came out.

PII 266
64mb RAM
integrated graphics
56k flex modem
9 GB hd (I think)
17" trinitron monitor
SoundBlaster sound card
Altec Lansing speakers w/sub
4x CDR drive (possibly was a 2x)

It was the replacement to our Mac with a DOS card in it (the DOS card was running natively at about 33mhz)

EDIT: Price was around 2700-3000 dollars, I never got a straight answer from my dad concerning finances.

 

[Smolek]

it was a

pentium 75
520mb
4x cdrom
floppy drive
win95

for 300 (used)

 

[ThePresence]

Commodore 64 way back when I was a wee little thing playing Spy Hunter and Space Invaders all day. I still have the whole thing.

 

[AmRoD]

Before this IBM I had a 286, 386, and a 486 laptop,

My 1st one was a IBM p75 with 8mb ram, it came with a 720mb hd and x4 cd-rom and sb 16 soundcard, a 14.4 modem, and 14" monitor for 2500cnd, Later I upgraded to 64mb for 300$, put a voodoo 1 & then 2 in it, a 33.6 modem and cd-r (x2 creative labs was 650 back when it 1st came out) and then a 2gb hd (for another 300)

Then a year after it's warrenty ended it's CPU burned out

and then i had a celeron 300a and now this amd

 

[neovan]

P150
16MB RAM
2x CDROM
1GB hard drive
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~$2500 from a local PC vendor in the Computer Shopper magazine

 

[TheVrolok]

Gateway G6-200
Pentium Pro 200 MHz
32 mb RAM
4 gig HDD
Ensoniq Soundscape
Matrox MGA Mystique 4mb
15" Crystal Scan Gateway monitor
Fitsumi 12x CD-ROM
Gateway Telepath 33.6

$2719, top of the line at the time. Damn, didn't even spend half that for this gaming system I'm using now.