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what did you pay for your 1st pentium 3 and what was it?

I remember my parents paid $1500 for a 533MHz Celeron, I then replaced that CPU with a P3 600MHz, this was 5 years ago, I think...
 
Originally posted by: ryan256
PII -400 MHz
160MB RAM
13GB Hard Drive
Voodoo 2 3D Graphics Accelerator

~$3000
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i went with the voodoo banshee!!!!
i thought motocross madness looked amazing🙂
 
My mom took a picture of my baby brother 9 years ago at Staples, sitting in front of a PC. Thought it was a cute moment.

If you inspect the picture closely, you can see the PC spec sheet stand which reads as follows:
Hewlett Packard
Pentium 100 Mhz (33% faster than 66Mhz!)
16 DIMM RAM

$3,999.

Jesus Christ. That kind of money gets you top of the line PC + a kickass flatpanel. That's not even factoring in how much a dolloar was worth FAR more back 9 years ago. (Probably today's $4000 assuming 3% compounding inflation)
 
Originally posted by: E equals MC2
My mom took a picture of my baby brother 9 years ago at Staples, sitting in front of a PC. Thought it was a cute moment.

If you inspect the picture closely, you can see the PC spec sheet stand which reads as follows:
Hewlett Packard
Pentium 100 Mhz (33% faster than 66Mhz!)
16 DIMM RAM

$3,999.

Jesus Christ. That kind of money gets you top of the line PC + a kickass flatpanel. That's not even factoring in how much a dolloar was worth FAR more back 9 years ago. (Probably today's $4000 assuming 3% compounding inflation)
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oh yah.
i remember going thru computer shopper and seeing the most ghetto systems for $799.
its really amazing how cheap they actually have become.
i wonder if anyone has done a study avg desktop pc 1995 to avg desktop pc 2005+accounting for inflation.


 
Originally posted by: ncircle
mine was the slot 1 p 3 450.
upgraded from a celery 300 NON a.
i think i paid $219.00 for the cpu 😱
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somwhere around there.

I paid about 1500 for everything

Slot 1 P3 450
Abit BH 6
128 ram
Plextor 16x burner
Voodoo 3 3000
no name 48x cd rom
no name case
15" KDS monitor
no name keyboard
no name mouse
Antec PSU
HP Deskjet printer
and some other stuff

damn I wish I knew about newegg back then.
 
Originally posted by: Eghck
Originally posted by: ncircle
mine was the slot 1 p 3 450.
upgraded from a celery 300 NON a.
i think i paid $219.00 for the cpu 😱
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somwhere around there.

I paid about 1500 for everything

Slot 1 P3 450
Abit BH 6
128 ram
Plextor 16x burner
Voodoo 3 3000
no name 48x cd rom
no name case
15" KDS monitor
no name keyboard
no name mouse
Antec PSU
HP Deskjet printer
and some other stuff

damn I wish I knew about newegg back then.
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I traded in a shiatload of games for my 1st cdrw, which i think was 179.00 at eb on sale.
newegg...i knew about computer shopper and compuplus online.

 
CPU ? It was the 667 "flip chip". I had the II-350 for a long time before that.
I couldnt even begin to imagine what it cost back then.
 
Never had a P3, or a P2 for that matter. I went from a 486-DX2 66mhz to a 75mhz "Blue Lightning", to a Cyrix 686, then to AMD chips (K5 133, K6/2 400, Duron 800, Athlon XP 1800+), then onto my random Intel chips.
 
Was an upgrade from a P2-333 to a P3-733, forgotten how much I've paid... but it was a small fortune 😉
 
Originally posted by: ncircle

I traded in a shiatload of games for my 1st cdrw, which i think was 179.00 at eb on sale.
newegg...i knew about computer shopper and compuplus online.
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man that really would have helped, I remember I got the upgrade bug and soon after upgraded to a Geforce 256 and Toshiba DVD drive. I think I also wasted some money on a SCSI card and burner too. No wonder I was so poor in college.
 
the only intel processor I've ever used was a 100 MHz processor way back in the early/mid 90's.

I've used amd for as long as I've been building my own boxes.
 
Pentium 3 933MHZ
256MB RAM
60GB HDD
Geforce 2

I think this was back in 2000 and the system was around $2500.
 
not sure. I know it was a P3-500MHz Slot. It was an upgrade to our $5000 Pentium 90, SCSI beast. We had 16MB of RAM!!!
 
p3 700/100, in a system with a geforce 256, 20 gb harddrive, and 768 mb ram (came with 256 minimum, put the rest in myself) and a 19" fd trinitron monitor for about $2200 or so, iirc. 440BX chipset ftw!
 
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