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Gillbot

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Jan 11, 2001
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Originally posted by: RanDum72
Originally posted by: Gillbot
P3V4X mobo and PIII slot1 933@1164MHz with an Alpha cooler and twin screamer black label delta fans.

Exactly what I had before!

Same OC speed?

Originally posted by: Golgatha
Originally posted by: Gillbot
P3V4X mobo and PIII slot1 933@1164MHz with an Alpha cooler and twin screamer black label delta fans.

Pretty similar here. ASUS P3V4X, PIII Coppermine 700@933Mhz, 1GB RAM (4x256MB PC133), 80GB IDE RAID 0 on a Promise TX2 card (I think it was 80GB?), and Voodoo 3 3000 AGP. That was gaming bliss back in the late 90s. Dual booted Win98SE and Windows 2000.

My current system isn't too shabby either. Q9550@3.0Ghz, 8GB A-DATA DDR2 800, Crossfired Visiontek 4850s. Dual boot WinXP Pro 32bit and Vista Ultimate 64bit.

If I could buy back my exact mobo/chip I would in a second. That thing was a blast to OC. I bet if the mobo would clock higher than 166fsb, that chip would have taken even more!
 

tr1kstanc3

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Sep 25, 2001
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Opteron 165 dual core i overclocked from 1.8ghz to 2.6ghz on an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe 939 motherboard. the system lasted me 2 years which is the longest i have gone without upgrading.
 

hemmy

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Jun 19, 2005
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Probably a tie between my current 3ghz C2D, 4gb ram, gtx 260 and my pentium pro 100mhz, 100mb hard drive - still in use today, only had to replace the CPU fan
 

imported_Woody

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Aug 29, 2004
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Macintosh PowerPC 7500

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_7500

It came with a 100MHz PowerPC 601 and 16MB RAM, and a 500MB SCSI hard drive
During the many years I operated it I upgraded it to a 300MHz PowerPC 604 and over 400MB of RAM and a Voodoo II video card. And dual 10GB SCSI drives.
It was the first Mac to use PCI slots and had eight ram slots upgradeable to 1GB
It had several unique features including the ability to interpolate video pixels via hardware in real time to up convert to a higher resolution and clarity.
It also supported video conferencing (supply your own camera) before it became popular.

It was the most upgradeable computer I ever owned and it stayed in service for about 8 years.
 

harpoon84

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Jul 16, 2006
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I've never really 'splurged' on a system, I prefer to buy mid range parts, but my current rig (E4400 @ 3.3GHz, 8800GTS 320) is probably as close as I ever got to 'high end' status at the time or purchase.
 

CZroe

Lifer
Jun 24, 2001
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I had a Katami 500MHz Pentium III in a 440BX-based Asus P2B on launch day (Feb 28, 1999). It had 128MB of PC100 SDRAM and a Voodoo Banshee as a hold-over for the soon-to-be-released Voodoo3 (upgraded on day 1).

It kicked ASS.

Anyway, I later realized that the much-cheaper overclocked 366MHz Celeron A@550MHz was faster for non-SSE applications due to full-speed cache, so I also had an Abit BP6 dual-Celeron board running two of those bad-boys in SMP (Windows 2K) with a GeForce 2 GTS-V. Soon after, I was building my Williamette P4 with RDRAM, GeForce 3 (purchased at launch for $300), 60GXP, etc. I didn't consider AMD Thunderbirds yet because there was no "nForce" to give them a decent chipset/motherboard. I really stayed ahead of the game back then. :D

I'm super budget-conscious now, so I'm running a Q6600 in an Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus (hybrid 680i-equivalent) with 8GB DDR2, 2x1TB HDD, and a GeForce GTX280 (stepped up after getting suckered into a 9800GTX after the first big price drop). Yeah, the 280 sounds like a non "budget-conscious" choice, but I started with 2x8800GTs ($215 for BFG when everyone else was clamoring for stock at $280) until I needed those to upgrade my nephew's PC. I then upgraded to a 9800GTX after the big price drop, then freaked out when it dropped again... I was still in my eVGA Step-Up qualifying period, and the GTX 280 had another big price drop, so I recouped my full cost toward a GTX 280. I paid BOTTOM DOLLAR for everything else ($280 for 2x1TB Hitachi, $180 for the Q6600, etc). ;)
 

Viditor

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Oct 25, 1999
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3 come to mind...

@home,
1. Celeron 300A OC to 450
2. Amiga 3000 with a Toaster and a Raptor

@work,
SGI Onyx 3400 w/16 CPUs and 2 InfinitePerformance graphics pipes
 

Drsignguy

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Mar 24, 2002
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The 4 in my sig...........3 showing, 1 will be under construction..........soon:)
 

quadomatic

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May 13, 2007
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lawl...

2004:

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
512 MB of Ram (later upgraded to 768MB of ram, made a huge difference, but that wasn't quite in the same time period)
80GB Maxtor HD
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB

Those were the days....Or

Pentium III 500mhz
256MB of Ram
Nvidia TNT2 32MB

But probably not since that was 2000, and GeForce2 came out in 2000.