[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How old is your computer? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 4/9/2008 1:43:39 AM EDT
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I'm surfing on a Gateway AMD Athlon X2 4200+ with 320 GB HD and 2 GB of RAM. All hooked up to my 24" BenQ monitor. It's old, but it has been reliable and stable. Can't really complain. What's your chariot on the information superhighway? |
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Back home in STL, I have a Commodore 64 with a Genie 1MB HD, a 5.25 floppy, a 300 baud modem, and a lot of 80's software. It still works, and I have Hitchiker's Guide.  All this is from 1984.This one? It's a 2 year old Sony Vaio VGN-N130G. I keep having to download more stuff to keep it functioning. 
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| PowerMac G4/733. Powerhouse in 2001. In 2008, not so much, and that's even with GPU and CPU upgrades that more than doubled the power it originally had. I mean, it still does everything nice and speedily, just doesn't do so hot with games and the like. Doom 3 marked the beginning of games that I could no longer play at an acceptable framerate. |
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My desktop is from 2002, an Athlon 64 1.8Ghz / 1Gb of RAM / WinXP Home with multiple drives. One is a swap drive, so it runs faster than it looks. Also I got out of the habit of buying games a couple years back. Games is really the only thing I do that takes much power, and my newest game is Unreal Tournament 2004. I do have dual screens though, which is GREAT if you're working on a PC much. Of course now I could get two decent 19" LCD's for what the pair of 19" Viewsonic CRT's cost me, but oh well. ----- The laptop is newer, I think perhaps around four years old. I forget the specs; it only cost $600 new tho'. I have no games on it, it's only for internet/email when I'm on the road. Also I ordered it with only 512mb of RAM, so I can run older programs on it. ~ |
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My computer is something like 4 years old. Dual PPC970FX's @ 2.0 gHz, 2.5 GB DDR400, 1x160 and 1x200 GB HDDs. 20.1 inch Samsung 204t. Chews through most anything I can throw at it, which mainly involves World of Warcraft, Photoshop CS1, and Dreamweaver MX 2004. ETA: It'll probably get upgraded to 4.0 GBs of RAM before I replace it. |
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2001 Dell Dimension 4500. 128mb of ram, 2.1ghz processor, 40g Hard drive. It has a 128mb Video card, but only cause my friend was throwing his out and installed a 1gb card. It used to have a 32mb card. Yeah, i look at the $9.99 video games in the bargain barrel, and have to check the hardware requirements. |
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Now, I just have a $500 Acer laptop for email, school, banking and internet that has enough power to run Vista and the $40 version of Office. The motherboard or the power supply just blew out on my tower unit; thankfully I moved everything I had on it to a 500 gig external drive a few months ago. The laptop is at most a month old to me, though the tech maybe six months old at the most, and the newest card in the tower unit is about two to two and a half years old. I can’t see going back to a desktop design now that I have the laptop. |
 Some day I'll get the Series/1 running, and the PDP-11 too... If it doesn't have big mechanical switches and reside in a 19" rack, it's not a real computer  My main PC right now is a MacBook Pro. I have a linux box running a Core 2 Duo to record TV(I blame CompUSA for putting SATA hard drives on sale, I just couldn't sit there with an unused drive), and I have begun to collect parts for a new Windows gaming rig(just a case so far). I have a collection of old Macs(128k, SE, Classic, LC II, etc...) and an Apple IIe, as well as some Commodore gear and an odd variety of other stuff. As for old Intel-CPU PC's, I'd say my favorite is a tossup between an IBM PS/2 Model 50Z(286) and an HP Vectra 386n. For something really odd, how about an Epson HX-20 or PX-8... Not that I've ever done well with CP/M So yeah, I have a collection spanning 1978 or so(before I was born! lol) up to last year. |
I just bought a brand spanking new computer.  Spec CPU: 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800 DRAM: 256 MB DDR DRAM Storage: CompactFlash socket Power: DC jack or passive POE, min. 7V to max. 20V Three front panel LEDs, pushbutton Expansion: 1 miniPCI slot, LPC bus Connectivity: 3 Ethernet channels (Via VT6105M 10/100) I/O: DB9 serial port, dual USB port Board size: 6 x 6" (152.4 x 152.4 mm) - same as WRAP.1E Firmware: tinyBIOS |
I'll let you know when I get done building the new beast.  My two "old" PCs are 5 year old Dell 4500s, both upgraded pretty much as far as they can go. They're at 2.8 GHz and are due for an additional CPU upgrade to 3.06 if not 3.46, depending on processor compatibility. They've got current model video cards (nvidia 7600s) and 2 GB ram. They just don't stop working and take everything I can throw at them. I can play Quake 4 on them at high resolution and detail settings, with a respectable framerate. CJ |
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Home I have a core 2 duo, 2gigs of ram, and 800 gig hd connected to a high def projector and an old school crt moniter. My laptop is a Amd 64, 2 gigs of ram and 200 gigs HD I also have an old dell gx270 P4 with a gig of ram with ubuntu and an old gateway celeron All of them have been outstanding machines and with normal upkeep run just fine |
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I'm posting this with a 333Mhz Sun Ultra 5, probably around 10 years old. OS: Solaris 10 Browser: Firefox System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz) System clock frequency: 83 MHz Memory size: 384 Megabytes ========================= CPUs ========================= Run Ecache CPU CPU Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask --- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ---- 0 0 0 333 2.0 12 9.0 ========================= IO Cards ========================= Bus# Freq Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model --- ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------- ---------------------- 0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus 0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme 0 PCI-1 33 2 SUNW,m64B ATY,GT-C 0 PCI-1 33 3 ide-pci1095,646 No failures found in System =========================== |
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I'm not sure of the age. It was a given to me by my sisters BF when he bought a new one about 2 years ago. It is a Dell 4550 with 2.40GHz cpu and I upgraded it to 1 GB ram. I think it has 60 or 80 GB HD, way more then I need. I'm using my old 17" LCD display with it. I know it is old but it does everything I need it to very well. It replaced my intel 366Mhz system, so it was quite an upgrade. |
Stuff an NVidia 7600 card into it and it'll scream. You'll be able to play Quake 4 on it with that card. And that card can be had for under 100 bucks, easily. Upgrading the processor can be done very cheaply, too. I went from 2.0 GHz to 2.8 GHz for 20 bucks. Just gotta make sure that the mobo can handle it. The upgrade processorneeds to have the same FSB speed and probably the same L2 cache ram size, and of the same technology line (Prescott or Northwood, for example) and of course of the same package style. CJ |
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a nearly 4 year old PC I built that was pretty top of the line at the time. dell 2001fp monitor (bitchin, was nearly 1k retail at the time) abit ic7 max 3 mobo intel p4 3ghz c stepping 1gb matched mem 10k WD raptor main hdd 37gb 250 wd 7200rpm storage 400 wd external 256mb video etc its all dying in a hurry too. I think I'm going to buy a laptop for home... work pc's have all the processing power I need for big stuff now. I'll probably get a decenet laptop with a 24" or better monitor and extra keyboard mouse for at home... |