Your Upgrade History

As svol mentioned... "you wouldnt liek to see my upgrade history"

Well i would actually LOL, if you can take a few days out to write it hehehe
But in the meantime, here is mine, pretty much complete really.

Okay.... but bear in mind most of this is from memory, so i cant really
supply dates. (or maybe later if i look at my reciepts)
And im not including computers that wernt mine. This is from the first
system that I purchaced with my own moolah. (+) means something was
added at a later date as an upgrade. If there is a minus item before it
that means something was replaced obviously

1st system (circa 1994-5 i think)
Pentium-166
Unknown Motherboard (33mhz or 50mhz system bus speed)
32Mb EDO RAM
2.1Gb Seagate 4200rpm HDD
12x CD-ROM
3.5" floppy
Soundblaster 16 audio
4Mb PCI Diamond stealth 2D graphics card. (not 3D mind)
17" Generic monitor
Honeywell keyboard (yes the same one i just got rid of!)

- 12x cd-rom + 32x pioneer slot loading CD-rom (this is where i got my liking for slot loading drives from)
+ 100Mb external Zip drive for backups.

big upgrade here (mid 1997):
- Pentium-166 + Pentium2-300
- old motherboard + Gigabyte 440LX motherboard (66mhz system bus)
- 4Mb PCI graphics card + 4Mb ATI RagePro 3D graphics card (oooo 3d!)
- 32Mb edo ram + 64Mb PC66 SDRAM (couldnt use edo with new motherboard)

(Late 1998)
- 2.1Gb Seagate HDD + 16.8Gb IBM 16GP 5400rpm hard drive (man that was alot of capacity in those days!)

Went over to canada October 1999. Put old 2.1Gb HDD back into the system i left at home, and took the 16.8Gb HDD with me with OS + Games intact.

Canadian system (Late 1999)
Celleron-500 (based on the Pentium2 Mendichino core)
128Mb PC100 SDRAM
Asus P3B-F motherboard (66mhz system bus, 75, 83 or 100 also possible)
16.8Gb IBM HDD from home
52x sony CD-ROM
3.5" floppy
100Mb internal Zip drive
SoundBlaster 128 Audio card
Viper V770 32Mb TNT2 3d AGP graphics card (oooo fast!)
Optiquest V75 17" monitor (VERY nice monitor)
Altec Lansing speaker set

+ T10/100 network card.

First Overclocking attempted.
Managed to Overclock:
CPU 500Mhz up to 562Mhz (system bus 66Mhz up to 75Mhz)
Graphics card 125Mhz/150Mhz up to 157Mhz/205Mhz (man it got HOT!)

Returned home to Oz. Sold celleron-500 system completely, except for the 16.8Gb HDD that came home again

So home system STILL was (Late 2000):
P2-300
Gigabyte 440LX motherboard
64Mb PC66 SDRAM
16.8Gb HDD
4Mb PCI RagePro 3D graphics card
17" generic monitor
SOundblaster 16
32x CD-ROM

Between (late 2000) and (mid 2001)
- soundblaster 16 + Soundblaster 512
- 4Mb Ragepro 3d graphics card + Gigabyte 32Mb TNT2 Pro 3d card
+ 40Gb IBM 60GXP HDD (16.8Gb became backup drive)
+ 196Mb PC133 SDRAM (for a total of 256Mb SDRAM)
- Gigabyte 32Mb TNT2 Pro (it died in its ass bigtime) + Leadtek 32Mb
Geforce2pro 3d card (BIG improvment!)
+ 56k modem and net access at home.
- 32x cdrom + 52x sony
- 52x sony (was crappy and way too loud) + Pioneer 106S 16x DVD drive!

Big system upgrade! (March/April 2001)
New generic OMNI case with 300W Power supply
- Pentium2-300Mhz + AMD Athlon 1200Mhz
- Gigabyte 440LX + Asus A7V-133 motherboard
- 256Mb PC66/133 SDRAM + 512Mb PC150 SDRAM
- Soundblaster 512 + Soundblaster LIVE!
+ Ricoh 12x10x32x cd burner

Later that year, due to overclocking requirements:
- fop32-1 + Swiftech MCX-462 + 80mm delta!
- Crap 300W power supply + 550W enermax PSU (wonderful unit)

More overclocking (mid 2001)
CPU from 1200Mhz up to 1400Mhz stable
System bus from 133 to 150.
GeForce 2 pro graphics card from 200/400 to 215/460

(Late 2001)
- A7V133 motherboard + Iwill KK266Rplus (never liked that crappy asus board, it died)
- 16.8Gb IBM HDD retired (it was getting old and slow, but still worked!) + 80Gb Maxtor D740X HDD added as the backup drive.

(early/mid 2002)
- AMD Athlon 1200Mhz (died due to overclocking beyond 1500mhz) + AMD XP1800+ processor
- Iwill KK266Rplus (it died due to overclocking hehehe) + Epox 8k3a+ DDR motherboard
- 512Mb SDRAM + 512Mb PC3200 DDR ram (new motherboard needed new ram)

(during the course of 2002)
- OLD 17" monitor + 17" Viewsonic high resolution monitor
- MS mouse + MS explorer 3.0 Optical mouse
+ 500VA UPS system (to prevent blackouts and protect the PC from damage)
- Pioneer 106S (stopped reading DVD disks) + Liteon 16x DVD
- Ricoh 12x10x32x burner (gettin old lol) + Liteon 48x24x48x
- honeywell keyboard (the only original component left intact from the initial system!!!) + Compac black USB keyboard

(Pending, Late november)
- Crap tinbox omni midtower case
+ UBER NICE atlas black case, anodised inside and out for my pleasure. a handful of silent casefans and possibly a 120mm fan and a 120mm to 80mm adaptor for the MCX-462. [laughs]

<b>All CDs will be protected and you are a filthy pirate! - <i>Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG)</i>
Serving THGC for over 2 years.</b>

My upgrade list is nice and short since the computer I now have is the first one I bought with my own money.

PIII 1GHz Coppermine
IBM case
MSI mobo
cheap 175W power supply
LG 4x8x24 CDRW
128 MB SDRAM
40GB 5400RPM Quantum HD
17" NEC monitor
IBM keyboard and mouse
no name speakers

upgrades
+ 128 MB kingston SDRAM
+ optical USB logitech mouse
+ 64 MB Powercolor Radeon 7500 PCI

The powersupply is killing me, but I will keep it until I build my own system next summer. The only part that is going to stay on my next upgrade is the optical mouse. Everything else will be replaced.

<font color=green>My other personality is schitzofrenic.</font color=green>

Agh, I'm too lazy at the moment to list everything plus, I need to take a shower... anyway let's just say I went from a 486 DX33 with 4MB RAM to a Pentium 133 with 32MB RAM to an AMD K6-2 450MHz with 64MB RAM (later upgraded to 192MB RAM) to an Athlon 1.2GHz with 256MB RAM to a P4 2.26GHz with 512MB RAM.

Intelligence is not merely the wealth of knowledge but the sum of perception, wisdom, and knowledge.

Whoa man... get a better PSU PLEASE!

<font color=red><b><i>"Humans are just overclocked Monkeys!"</i></b></font color=red>
<b>Serving THGC for over 2 years.</b>

I wish I could get a better PSU. The only problem is that it would be hard to find an Enermax supply that would fit in my case since it is an IBM case.

Cristal, says hi.

But as I said, my next computer will be nice. Probably get a 550W Enermax.

<font color=green>My other personality is schitzofrenic.</font color=green>

Yes. Enermax 550W is very niiiiice. Me got one.
They changed em though, silly people.
My model is one of the earier temp controlled ones... the new ones are knob controlled, you have to twiddle them!

<font color=red><b><i>"Humans are just overclocked Monkeys!"</i></b></font color=red>
<b>Serving THGC for over 2 years.</b>

mostly because i still HAVE all of the bits of my old computers...

the first one was a Dx2 66, some Brand X motherboard, that i've NEVER identified, and 16 meg of memory. .

IT was fairly fast, the Graphics were nothing to write home about, and the the 2 gig hdd was Big, slow, and noisey.


I replaced the CPU with a P150, the motherboard with an Intel Something.. ( i was young, i was care free, it lasted a week, then got hit by lightening.

Next up was a P2 450, 2x128mb of Edo, sat in an asus P2bs, with the worlds loudest 400 wat psu.

then the worlds loudest IBM 10 gig hdd.

then a quieter 400 wat psu, an even queter 400 was psu, then an enermax psu.

Then the whole thing, and the 4 different hdd's i've aquired, (2gig, 2 gig, 10 gig, and the 200gig i'm using at the mo..)

for an Athlon Xp 2000, sat in an Asus Av7333, 1 gig of Corsair XMP Cas 2, a Geforce 4 ti 4600, and an audigy.

two of the 2gig hdds are raided together.. and the 200 is groaning under the weight of 5 different o/s's


If at first you <b> do </b> succeed, try not to look too suprised

For some one who has only been at this game for 3 years thats one BIG list svol!

Firstly was a Spectrum ZX80 with a tape drive that rarely worked!

Then 2 amstrads both 386's

A Wang which was another 386

A 468 dx2 66 with,
Maxtor 512 hard drive (it still works)
2x cd drive (Mitsumi)
8MB ram
28.8 modem (we were on the net some time in 94-95)
sound card (sound blaster 16 I think)
512kB graphics (from cirus logic)
added 800MB hd to this and new 6x cd

Then upgraded that to a 120 with new mobo
2.1Gb quantum hd, 32 meg ram
put a 6Gb hd in here at some point and then an 8gb

then there was a 233mmx
which used lots of the old parts that had built up from other upgrades e.g the 6gb disk

We then added a 450 PII to the colection

I got another computer which was a PIII 550

Then my athlon 2000xp
This was a fantastic computer but I killed the motherboard by under volting it (too much draw on the 12v line I think)
sold the esentials to my dad and got it working with a new mobo and bits from the old 450 (that has had a lot of upgrades done to it that I cant be arsed to go in to)

and now my 2.4 PIV which is shithot
I only overclocked the 2000XP and the PIV and them to 2100XP and 2.66 respectivly

I could go in to more detail but dont realy want to.



Now thats what I want to know!

1984: Commodore 64
1985: C..

No, This is just going to take way to much time. You'll have to do with the link in my sig. There is a description of my last four systems.

<i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>
<A HREF="http://www.btvillarin.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=655" target="_new">My systems</A>

1st system-Apple IIVX *yuck*

Intel Pentium 150Mhz
Shuttle Hot591p motherboard
4 8mb Pc-33 EDO simms
3com 10/100 ISA ethernet card
Sound Blaster Pro PCI
Cirrus Logic 2mb PCI video card
24x Cdrom drive
3.5 inch floppy
2.1Gb Seagate 5400rpm HDD
15inch AOC Spectrum monitor
generic 2 piece speakers
wierd old AT style keyboard
generic steel case, sharp edges!
200watt PSU
microsoft 2 button mouse

upgrade to-
sound blaster live value
48x cdrom drive
LG 8x4x32x Cd-rw
AMD K6-2 400Mhz
128mb Sdram Pc-100
Nvidia TNT 16mb

trashed the system, whole new one

AMD Athlon 1Ghz
FIC Ad-11 motherboard
2 sticks of 128mb pc-266 AllComp DDR
Linksys 10/100 PCI ethernet NIC
Creative Labs modem blaster 56k
Nvidia Geforce2 Pro 64mb (does 250/520 overclock)
kept the LG CD burner
17 inch KDS Vs7i monitor
3.5 inch floppy
microsoft intellimouse
basic keyboard
Enlight 7237 case
Enlight 300 watt PSU
Altec Lansing 4.1 speakers AVS500
20gb 7200 rpm Maxtor HDD

sold some of the parts to my family, they built a new computer to replace the old Mac and AMD K6-2 comp

my current computer
2 motherboards (I alternated)
Soyo Sy-kt333 Dragon Ultra
Gigasuck Ga-7vaxp
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
256Mb Crucial Pc-266 DDR
Radeon 8500 64mb
Asus 16x dvd-rom
generic 48x cd-rom
Viewsonic 19 inch monitor E90
3.5inch floppy
Altec Lansing 5.1 speakers 251
microsoft optical intellimouse
Chieftec/Antec style medium case (the one with a door and window)
basic keyboard
Antec 430 watt truepower
40gb Maxtor, 20gb WD, 46Gb IBM 75GXP, all 7200 rpms
integrated Cmedia 8738 or ALC 650 sound

Soon enough, Intel will make the i845s...imagine dual channel Sdram...*shudder*

It would probably take a month for me to list my upgrade history.

<font color=blue>You're posting in a forum with class. It may be third class, but it's still class!</font color=blue>

my upgrade history is stored in the longest tomb ever written, I just cant type it all here but I will say the number of parts I have destroyed:
6 cpu's
5 video cards
2 sound cards
12 hard drives
4 power supplies
5 motherboards
3 cd roms
God knows how many fans and other misc things. My computer is a war zone and I suffer heavy losses

Dungeons and Dragons Famous Last Words:
"C'mon DM,let's see some REAL monsters!" And then you turn the corner as the Dungeon Master chuckles... DM: "It hits and... Oh hold on... I need more dice"

WOW

You are one destructive bugger!

The best ive done to date is:
1 stick of 256Mb PC150 kingmax sdram
1 gigasuck TNT2Pro
1 asus a7v133
1 iwill KK266-Rplus
1 Tbird 1200C (1500Mhz @ 2.05v was just a bit too much)
and my trusty *caughs* IBM 60GXP "deathstar"

<font color=purple><i>An angel is someone who helps you believe in miracles again.</i></font color=purple>

You build and OC'ed that system yourself?

My CPU runs so hot the arctic silver undergoes nuclear fusion .

You two are some of the most unconscious people I've ever known if you don't even notice the username posting!

Seriously though, I thought for a minute that you were a techie...

--
*You can do anything you set your mind to man. -Eminem

Kick lou in the pants and see if she wakes up.

"I can't promise perfection but I'll give it a fair shot and hope that it doesn't take away from the sponteneity and good humour of the forum, which I really enjoy." - <b>WingDing</b>

PooBaa keeps using her account 'by accidenct'.

My CPU runs so hot the arctic silver undergoes nuclear fusion .

Yeh, I am studying computers. I just don't know as much as PooBaa does

<font color=purple><i>An angel is someone who helps you believe in miracles again.</i></font color=purple>

Cool... can you tell me what you can do and what kind of study it is?

My CPU runs so hot the arctic silver undergoes nuclear fusion .

Awwww crap. My Divx encoder aint working anymore. *sniffle* Just wont accept the sound codec's or something. Damn stragne.

My extent of programming is divx creation, disabling crap in the windows startup or making Infinity engine games harder with editors LOL

<b>The Intel Celleron 2.1 & 2.2Ghz processors provide consumers with a great way to get on the Internet. Which one of the 478 pins plug into the phone socket? - <i>Intel & The Inquirer</i></b>

Do you not have a CPU in your current machine?

<font color=green>My other personality is schitzofrenic.</font color=green>