What computer were you using 10 years ago?

[dennilfloss]

Just came across a pic that summarized my system specs in a December 2003 thread on BBR (DSLR back then).

80 mm fans, 1 GB of RAM, 100 GB in two hard drives... And it wasn't bad back then. :biggrin:

I did have a nice custom rounded blue window cut in my case though.

 

[dainthomas]

Those Bartons OC'd like a beast.

 

[z1ggy]

Some POS Compaq.

I think a 500Mhz cpu and .5gb RAM. Who knows what else but I can only imagine the other jaw dropping specs it had..

 

[dennilfloss]

Those Bartons OC'd like a beast.

I ran that 2500 at 2.2GHz.

 

[Insomniator]

Hmmm Junior in hs... what the hell did I use.

I think my dad's P4 2.8 with a 512Mb of RDRAM (lol) and Geforece 4 ti4600 that i made him put in there for me.

Then the Radeon 9700 came out and made me very sad.

 

[nickbits]

Also had a Barton

 

[Ventanni]

Athlon64 3200+, 1GB DDR, Geforce Ti4200

Total bawler.

 

[biostud]

What I can remember:
Athlon 2500+
DFI Lanparty nForce 2
GeForce Ti4200

 

[Nohr]

Barton 2500+ @ 2.22GHz 185FSB
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Thermalright AX-7 w/80mm fan
1GB RAM
Geforce FX 5900

 

[nageov3t]

there's not a chance in hell I remember the specs, but this is what it looked like...

ATOT'ing:

 

[Ruptga]

We had a Sempron with 768M, I remember increasing the vram allocation to 128 trying to get some game to run. Actually in 2004 that machine might have had 256M, not sure.

 

[spacejamz]

Probably the 2800+ in back....

 

[Franz316]

Hard to remember but, I think it was a P4 2.8 with a Radeon 9700 pro. Or maybe that was the computer after, I'm not sure.

 

[rh71]

Also had a Barton

yup same... can barely run XP on it now

 

[vi edit]

Athlon64 3200+, 1GB DDR, Geforce Ti4200

Total bawler.

Yep. This all in a shiny Antec sonota case.

 

[Scarpozzi]

2003 was an in-between time for me in desktop computing... I ended up getting a top of the line system a year or so after.

Primary system was a PIII-800 with 2GB of RAM and probably some form of a GeForce video card.
HTPC was some cheap RISC processor at 1Ghz and 1GB of RAM
RedHat Server running on a P4 server @ 1.2Ghz and 2GB of RAM
Laptop was a Dell Lattitude C830 @ 2.2Ghz and 2Gb of RAM.....and 8lbs of dead weight when I decided to lug it through airport terminals.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Some sort of Athlon, whatever was before Athlon XP. It had a purple Soltek motherboard, which eventually died when the capacitors split open. It was a $500 build and ran Windows 98. I had a lovely 15" CRT at 800x600. So sad. But hey, it was black!

***edit***

Wait, just checked my Newegg order history. Ordered May 28, 2002.

Black Evercase case
Windows 98 SE
AMD|1600+/266 ATHLON 1.40G XP
CPU FAN IGLOO 2300
Crucial 256MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 266 (PC 2100)
DVD|LITE ON 16X LTD163 OEM BLACK
SOLTEK SL-75DRV5 Socket 462(A) VIA KT333 ATX AMD Motherboard
BENWIN EX-4A flat panel speakers
Creative SB0100 5.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Blaster Live! Sound Card
CARDEXPERT|GeForce2 TI450 NO-TV 64M RT
Total: $585.08

 

[natto fire]

Athlon64 3200+, 1GB DDR, Geforce Ti4200

Total bawler.

Yep.

Making us Barton guys jelly. I did get a 9800 Pro much sooner than I was planning, but only used a64 as a stop gap (via s754) between AGP and PCI-e.

 

[Svnla]

Dell vanilla white desktop with CRT 15" monitor. Intel 700 Mhz CPU, windows 2K, nothing special.

I think I paid about $1,500 back then, brand new.

 

[Childs]

Probably an Athlon XP with a Ti 4200 or FX 5700 Ultra. After the PIII I went AMD for awhile until the Intel Core series, but I cant remember any of this and base this off of cpu and gpu timelines.

 

[tential]

Athlon64 3200+, 1GB DDR, Geforce Ti4200

Total bawler.

This except 4 GB of ram(pretty sure at least). Why'd you only get 1 GB?

It was still running actually until I took all of the hard drives out so I could move my movies/tv shows to my new HTPC. Just gotta slot the video card back in and plug in the hard drive again and it'll be running but well, nothing worth while it can really do. It does web browse better than my kitchen PC due to the increased ram though lol.

 

[Ruptga]

4GB in 2004? Almost nobody would have bought that much memory for anything but a server. XP x64 wasn't even released until 2005, and even with that OS it was almost impossible to get one program to use more than 2GB at a time.

 

[nageov3t]

I started my job at a data center/NOC back in 2003-2004... IIRC, the most commonly used RAM chips were 512mb, maybe gig chips on something totally top of the line.

 

[RockinZ28]

P4 2.8c @ 3.4ghz
1 GB of Corsair DDR 400mhz
x2 WD 36gb Raptors in raid 0
22” Mitsubishi 2070SB diamond pro CRT.

Was nice in 2003. Was still using it up until a few months ago for my PC at work. Ran Win7 ultimate decently somehow. Think the PSU died.

 

[festa_freak]

600 MHz celeron compaq that could FINALLY run Jedi knight dark forces 2!

Think it had 128 MB RAM and I threw in another stick and WHOA! it was snappy fast after that!

That may have been around the time I purchased a medion computer from a store brand new. It had decent specs. My parents still used it until last year. I think it had an Nvidia 5300 or something in it.