Other Your rig(s) - 2000 vs. 2010

Yesteryear:

A piece of crap

Current:

Not a piece of crap

 

2000:
AMD Athlon 1600+, running at 1.4GHz I think
32Mb geForce 2 MX (4x AGP baby!)
2*128Mb DDR PC2700 ( I think...I get confused by RAM specifications.)
39Gb IDE HDD (I think.)
15" Dell CRT
120 Watt no-brand PSU

2010:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 running at 2*3.04GHz
1Gb ATI HD4870
2*2Gb DDR2 PC6400 (with unecessary, gay little DHX heatsinks)
6*1Tb SATAII HDDs
22" TFT Dell 2209WA (Brand loyalty!)
550 Watt BeQ Dark Power Pro PSU

God, progress feels good. I can't wait to see computers in another ten years' time; it genuinely gives me shivers to think how fast they'll progress from hereon. World War III permitting.

 

You sure? The 1600+ wasn't released until 2001.
DDR2700 was the same way, actually. Perhaps it was PC133 instead?

Not trying to be mean, just pointing it out.
Either way, your machine certainly blew mine outta the water.

 

I must be thinking of a 2003-2004 machine then, it wasn't good when we got it

God knows what I had in 2000, then. Possibly our old Windows ME machine...but I forget what spec that was. The CPU exploded and fried every component a year out of warranty, I think I've repressed all memory of it.

 

As far as I remember...

2000:
CPU: Pentium 4 2.53Ghz
RAM: 1GB RAM
HDD: 200GB HDD
Monitor: 19" Sony Trinitron
Case: Lian-Li PC65B
GPU: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
OS: Windows XP

edit! - Dug this up from a forum I visited ages ago
2002:
Pentium IV 2.8Ghz B oc/ed to 3Ghz
512MB PC1066 RDRAM
Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro
SB Audigy 2
WD 1200JB
Zalman HP-80A heatpipe cooling
Zalman CNPS-7000AlCu P IV cooling
Pioneer 106-Z DVD Rom Drive
431 Watt Enermax PSU

2010:
CPU: Core i7 920
RAM: 6GB RAM
HDD: 1TB HDD
Monitor: 22" Widescreen HP w2207h
Case: Coolermaster Cosmos
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX275
OS: Windows 7 64 Bit

I might have incorrectly remembered the RAM and GPU in 2000.. either 1GB or 2GB, and maybe a Geforce 3 Ti500 or something.. it's been a while

 

Just had a brain fizzle and remembered the motherboard i had

A motherboard so awesome that pcchips did not put their name ANYWHERE on the manual or the board itself. I eventually found out by searching the internet with the FCC ID (i think).

Behold the PC CHIPS M590


Actually turned out well in the end. It being an utterly terrible mobo and also my first PC, it provided a serious hands-on crash-course into PC repair

also was a damn strange board:
DIN keyboard not PS2
both AT and ATX PSU connections
both SIMM and DIMM memory slots (which you could use together)

 

2000:
I didn't even have a computer and was probably too young to use one.

2010:
PSU: Corsair CX400W
Motherboard: MSI P43 Neo
CPU: E5200
Cooler: Arctic freezer 7 pro
RAM: 2GB DDR2
GPU: 9600GSO
HDD: 1TB F3
Other Drives: DVD-RW
OS: Windows XP and Backtrack

 

2000 (This was bought in '98, replaced in 2002 with my first ever "custom" build):

From memory, may be slightly off with some details here:

Manufacturer: Gateway
CPU: Intel P3 350MHZ
PSU: F**k knows
Motherboard: " "
RAM: 128MB SD
GPU: ATI Rage 128 (think that was an upgrade from onboard)
HDD: 6GB Seagate (Upgraded from a 4... ooh)
OS: Windows 98 (Not even SE!)
DVD drive
17" CRT Monitor
Stereo PC speakers

2010:

Manufacturer: Unicorn Systems (my how times change )
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.85GHz
PSU: Corsair HX620
Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe
RAM: 6GB Corsair Dominator GT @ 1800MHz
GPU: 1GB Geforce GTX 260
HDD: 300GB Western Digital Velociraptor, 3TB storage space in the server
OS: Windows Seven Professional
Blu ray burner
28" LCD Primary, 19" LCD Secondary
Sennheiser HD485 headphones, JVC Hi-fi W/ Oblique cone speakers
and all the trimmings that aren't worth including in the main spec

 

O rly...?

 

October! Where are you?

 

Editing at Neils! I'll be out Tuesday night for the rest of the week

 

Ah right, that's cool. Hf editing - see you Tuesday

 

Manufacturer: Apple
CPU: 400 Mhz G3
RAM: 256MB RAM
GPU: Unsure
HDD: 13GB HD
Other Drives: DVD(!!!) drive
Networking: ethernet 10/100
OS: OS 9



Manufacturer: self
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo e6700
RAM: 4Gb (4x1gb) DDR2-800
GPU: Nvidia 8800 GTX EVGA
HDD: 320GB Seagate, 160 GB Seagate
Other Drives: 2 Asus DVD-RAM and DVD-RW
Networking: Integrated
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Pro/Vista Ultimate dual boot


and that compaq deskpro brings me back a ways, same ones we use in our computer classes in high school when meddling with hardware/software, great times...

 

Really?
The first Pentium 4's were released in November 2000 and clocked at laround 1.6Ghz.
Windows XP wasn't released until 2001, I'm pretty certain that 200GB drives didn't arrive until 2002/3 and The Radeon 9700 cards weren't around until 2002.
If I were to hazard a guess...I'd say you've got your year wrong...by about 2-3 years.

 

2000:
Some office unit that was part of a bunch being thrown out at my dads work that him and his workmates rescued in 98.
CPU: Pentium P54C 90 MHz
Ram: 8MB
Hard disk: 512MB
Monitor 21" 1280x1024 CRT
GPU: None
16x Cd rom drive
3.25" FDD
Os: Win 95

2010
CPU: E6850 @ 3.5GHz
Cooler: AkasaAk-965
Motherboard: ASUS P5K-SE
Ram: 4GB DDR-2 @ 1066MHz
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB + Western Digital Caviar 400GB
Monitor: HP LP2475w 1920x1200 H-IPS LCD
GPU: Sapphire Vapour X 4890
PSU: Collermaster Greenpower 600W
OS: Win 7 x64

 

2000:
CPU: Pentium Pentium MMX 166MHz
Ram: 32MB
Hard disk: 2,1MB Quantum Bigfoot
Monitor 15" 1152x864 CRT
GPU: Trident "dk the name" 2MB
32x LiteOn CD-ROM
3.25" FDD
Win 98, and upgraded after to 98SE
Ball mouse... it had to be cleaned every month...

2010
CPU: Q6600 @3.6GHz
Cooler: CoolerMaster HyperTX2
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q-Deluxe
Ram: 2x2GB DDR2 @ 1066MHz
HDD: Samsungs 7,2krpm, all of them: 2x 750Gig, 1Teb, 3x320Gig
Monitor: Soyo generic alike 1680x1050
GPU: Radeon HD 4770
PSU: Satellite 600waats? SL8600EPS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
and a multi card reader to replace the floppy drive...

 

2000:
Packard Bell
486 33Mhz with an overdrive chip installed to bump it to 66Mhz
4 Mb RAM
1.6 Gig HDD.
15" Packard Bell Monitor
Some SoundBlaster sound card.
Win 95

2010
Dell
P4 2.66 Ghz (just bought the proc for $7 US a few months ago, I had a 1.8 Ghz)
1.5 Gb Ram (3200)
Power color 6200 (AGP 8x)
19" Hanns Spree Monitor (1440 x 900)
Windows XP

the comp I had in 2000 I had bought in '91
The dell I bought in 2002.

Im coming up on needing a new rig.

 

2000:
Dell Optiplex G1
350MHz Pentium 2MMX
64Mb PC133
4 Gb hard drive
15 inch 1024x768
Integrated ATI video
Windows 98 SE

2010:
Custom Built
Core 2 Extreme QX9770 @4.0GHz
8GB Patriot Viper at 1033MHz
Dual GTX 285's
6 TB hard drive
Dual Dell 2207's
Windows 7 Ultimate/Ubuntu 9.10

 

2000 (given to me Christmas 99):

Pentium III @450MHz
64MB RAM
8.4 GB HDD (+ 6.4 GB HDD, split into 4x 1.5GB partitions thanks to coming from previous/1st PC - 486 CPUs apparently couldn't support HDD partitions bigger than 1.6GB)
no GPU
17" CRT
Trust 2.0 speakers
Stock Intel Cooler
Floppy drive
1x CD writer

2010:
Q9650 @3.00GHz
4x 1GB DDR3 OCZ Platinum @1,333MHz
2x 1TB Seagate HDDs (also have 1.5TB Seagate and 500GB Samsung no longer in use)
Sapphire HD5770 Vapor-X
17" Acer AL 1714 TFT (bought May 2004)
Trust 2.0 Speakers (as my brother nabbed my 2.1 JBL Creature IIs)
Scythe Kama Angle
Compro E700 PCI-E x1 + Compro T750F PCI TV tuners
2x slimline Slot-loading DVD-RAM burners (Plextor PX-DB608AL chassis and drive + Pioneer DVR-K06)
Scan own brand Floppy drive + card reader combo
Catweasel Mk.4 PCI card (to image Amiga floppy disks - USB floppy drives don't work)
Coolermaster Realpower M620 PSU
Soundgraph iMon Ultra Bay

 

after my edit I think I realised that quite a few parts were way off! Shows how poor my memory is! :/