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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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I don't remember for sure but it was probably an Athlon XP. I know my first self built computer was a 2000+, I think I built a 2700+ based system or something along those lines a few years later, though it could be I was still using the 2000 at that point.
 
AViking

AViking

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2004? I think C2D came out in 2006 so I would have still been running AMD. 2400+ I think. DFI Lanparty? Maybe half a gig of memory. Videocard I can't remember.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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Asus P4P800SE, P4 3.06, 2gb ram, Albatron ti4200.

I remember it so well cause it was my first build. My previous computer, which was my first in years was a 2002(I think) Dell. P4 2.4, 256mb ram, some kind of low end Geforce card.

My previous machine to that was a beige box 486DX50 I purchased. Can't remember the specs.

My first machine was an Atari800 around 1982 I think.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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I built myself one of those Shuttle SFF's with a Pentium 4 2.53Ghz, 512 MB of RAM, and a GeForce Ti 4200. It was pretty badass at the time. I remember having to upgrade it to a Gig to play WoW on it correctly.

I think that I still had my work issued IBM Thinkpad T20 at the time. That thing was a tank. The T30 that replaced it was total rubbish, since the mobile Pentium 4 overheated and got lousy battery life.
 
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child of wonder

child of wonder

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I think I had just built my first computer after selling my Dell with a 2.0GHz P4.

Athlon XP 2600+
512MB RAM
80GB SATA hard drive
ATI 9700 Pro
17" CRT monitor
 
SKORPI0

SKORPI0

Lifer
Jan 18, 2000
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AMD Athlon 64 3200+, DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb (socket 754), 2GB PC-3200 DDR400, EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT AGP 256mb (AGP 8x), 24" CRT Monitor (1600x1200, 4x3), Windows XP, Western Digital 250GB hard drives, Antec case with 500W PSU.
 
WhoBeDaPlaya

WhoBeDaPlaya

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Sep 15, 2000
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AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice @ 2.6GHz
Zalman CNPS7000 Cu
ABIT NV8
1.5GB OCZ DDR400 Value
250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16
NEC 3540A (Liggy/Dee)
Connect3D X800GTO @ 595/550, 12-pipes
Creative Labs SB Audigy 2 ZS
ATI TV Wonder Pro
CoolerMaster Praetorian PAC-T01-EK
2x Klipsch ProMedia 2.1
2x BenQ FP91G+ 19" LCD
 
tcG

tcG

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Jul 31, 2006
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This was from probably around 2005...

Opteron 165 @ 2.25GHz (damn thing didn't OC for some reason)
2GB Patriot DDR2
EPoX motherboard
6600GT
Lian-Li PC65B case

Can't remember the rest. I remember being disappointed that it didn't OC like I wanted.
 
yottabit

yottabit

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10 years ago I would've been running an A64 3000+ Winchester with 1GB of RAM, a 36 GB Velociraptor with a 250 GB secondary drive, and a Radeon 9600 XT, all stuffed into an Antec Sonata case! It was fun to see this thread and see that Antec Sonata case again... I forget what I was using for a monitor, I had some great ~20+ inch CRT I used for years.

Around this time 10 years ago I would've recently upgraded from a P4 2.0C Northwood w/ 256 MB of RAM. I think that PC started off with a Geforce 3 Ti 200 I carried over from my Athlon Thunderbird rig.

In 2005 I made my most expensive video card purchase to date to update my A64 system (from ZipZoomFly, anyone remember them?

ORDER TIME: Sat Jul 09 2005 05:07:56 P.M. PT

ORDER CONTENT:
1 x (321326) ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP 8X 256MB DDR3 Vide Card w/HDTV-Out, DVI & VIVO Retail ***Free 2nd Day*** @ $419.99

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SUBTOTAL : $419.99
SALESTAX : $.00
SHIPPING : $.00
TOTAL : $419.99
------------------------------

EDIT: Did anyone else buy a 9600 XT partly because of the "Free Half Life 2" voucher? I remember buying my 9600 XT and then having to wait like a year for Half Life 2 to come out, ahahha. That voucher introduced me to Steam though!
 
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Chapbass

Chapbass

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May 31, 2004
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Summer 2003 I built the following:

Pentium 4 2.8C
Asus P4P800 (pretty sure thats what it was called?)
2x512MB pc3200 Corsair XMS DDR Memory
2x80GB SATA I Seagate HDDs in RAID-0
Radeon 9800 Pro
Soundblaster Audigy 2
Antec TrueBlue (I think?) 350W PSU

I was actually pretty proud of that machine. I had just graduated HS and that was my machine through my first 3 years of college. Once the Socket 939's came out I upgraded to an athlon dual core and an X850 I believe...
 
irishScott

irishScott

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HeXen said:
How do you guys remember all this crap with such detail? lol
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That's what happens when you put a lot of time into something. *shrug* I remember the graphics card and RAM of my family computer because I installed them, had to cannibalize some older computers to do it. Was my first time working with computers on that level.
 
WhoBeDaPlaya

WhoBeDaPlaya

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HeXen said:
How do you guys remember all this crap with such detail? lol
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I'm OCD when it comes to rigs. I can recall the exact details of each system I built (mine, bro's, folks' - about 12 in total) :

Fans, mobo, RAM, heatsink, thermal paste, types of screws (black/silver/blue anodized thumbscrews, etc.), case, etc.
 
Rubycon

Rubycon

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AViking said:
Nobody had 4GB back then. The OS wouldn't even have registered it all.
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That's not true.

While a 32bit program cannot use more than 2GB, the OS can certainly address more. It's not an open and shut case and some hardware and drivers had lots of issues addressing memory beyond the 2GB limit. However, when it worked, it was nice.

My board then supported 12GB RAM.

Today, mid and high end workstation/server boards can support 2TB of RAM! :cool:
 
M

manly

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kinda amazing how popular Athlons were back then. My rig was similar to the OP's, but a little less fancy. Haven't owned a newer desktop since.

Rubycon said:
That's not true.

While a 32bit program cannot use more than 2GB, the OS can certainly address more. It's not an open and shut case and some hardware and drivers had lots of issues addressing memory beyond the 2GB limit. However, when it worked, it was nice.

My board then supported 12GB RAM.

Today, mid and high end workstation/server boards can support 2TB of RAM! :cool:
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well, it's sorta true. He's implicitly referring to desktop OSs and 32-bit Windows XP can address only about 3.3 GB (4 GB being a hard physical limit).

You're right that Windows Server and other operating systems that supported PAE mode could address more.
 
Chapbass

Chapbass

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HeXen said:
How do you guys remember all this crap with such detail? lol
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Lol, yeah I seem to remember almost every part I've purchased for all of my computers....just interested in it a lot I guess. I remember all the specs on the servers and storage at work too. /shrug
 
AznAnarchy99

AznAnarchy99

Lifer
Dec 6, 2004
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I think this was around 2005 as well.

AMD Athlon X2 3800+
1GB DDR1 RAM
DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D 939 (What happened to them?)
XFX 7800GTX (I won this card for free from an XFX site. Valued around $600 at the time)
Antec P180 case with some Antec PSU. I think 500w.
17in Sony LCD 16ms which I upgraded to a 24in Samsung LCD

It was a great system, especially with that video card at the time. It lasted me until 2009 when I built a new system. I was able to sell the parts for decent prices too. I'm pretty much in a 4-5 year upgrade cycle but right now with the system in my rig it looks like its gonna push past that by far.

Before that system I remember running a Pentium 4 I think. I had a 9800 Pro then a x800 XT PE, both AGP. I bought that AMD system because I won the video card which was PCI-E so I had to start fresh.

God this is bringing back memories. I wish I had pictures of my old system. I just found the case I used for my Pentium 4 system.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133104

God damn that's ugly.
 
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AznAnarchy99

AznAnarchy99

Lifer
Dec 6, 2004
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TwiceOver said:
It's funny how we look back now and 10 years ago AMD was just eating Intel's lunch. Those early XP series processors and the early AMD64 line were just killing it.
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Yup. AMD came out with the first cheap dual core while Intel was still making heaters with the Prescott Pentium 4s.

I also remember with my P4 system, I used to think CFM was king.

I bought 4 of these babies.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811999612

My dad made me return them lol.
 
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