Thread: Can you name every PC you've ever owned?

The AMD/Intel thread made me think of this. Let's see how well I can do...

1993 (? - I was probably about 12) Acer Intel Pentium 90MHz (returned to Best Buy one week later because it overheated)
1993 (?) Compaq Intel 486 dx2 66MHz
1996 Intel Pentium 200MHz "MMX" built by local computer store
1999 First self build with the help of a friend - Intel Celeron 200MHz overclocked to 533MHz (only O/C build I've ever done, these days I just run stock)
2001 Self built AMD Athlon 1.4GHz
2003 Self built Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (stupidly, a SFF in a Shuttle case, what a bad idea and waste of money)
2006 Self built Intel Core 2 Duo E6400

Looking at the timeline I'm due for an upgrade and usually when I upgrade I start from scratch, new case/mobo and all... but honestly socket 775 has survived longer than the old formats and my current mobo can still handle the newest processors, so I might just do it that way.

Commodore Vic 20
Commodore 64
Commodore 16
Commodore 128
Amiga 500
386DX40
486DX2-66 (Both custom builds)
486DX4-100 (overdrive if I remember right)
Pentium 60 (custom with the floating point bug)
Acer P100
Pentium 200 (custom)
Cyrix 233+ (custom)
P2 400 Xeon (custom from CDW I think)
P3 650 (think it was actually a 666)
P3 1.2Ghz (custom)
P4 2 Ghz (custom)
Athlon 64 don't remember the speed... 2500 might be right (custom)
Athlon FX53 (custom)
Athlon X2 4800+ (custom) current

But that's not all my systems...

Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop
Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop
Dell XPS Laptop
Dell XPS2 Laptop
Alienware M7700 laptop (current)

And that doesn't include ANY of my collection of old machines including a very rare Apple ]I[ that was never recalled. That's an interesting story... And I'm gonna tell you right now... Like it or not. The apple 3 was a TANK... steel construction and weighed a ton. The motherboard would flex when it heated up and the socketed chips would unseat themselves causing the machine to lock up and not boot. Take a guess what apple's pre-recall solution to that was... No... c'mon and guess... Ok fine. They suggested picking up the machine about 6 inches and DROPPING IT onto the desk. Whereupon the chips might reseat themselves. This was an 8000 dollar machine in 1980 and they were instructing people to toss it around like a toy.

The other interesting piece (though I have a number of them) is a brand new, in-the-box, AT&T 8086 machine. Still shrink wrapped. I think it was a many multiple thousand dollar machine at the time, and I bought it for 20 dollars I think 10 or 15 years ago.

I'm sure I missed a few of my systems in the list from the early PC years as I had a bunch... And most of the later ones are a constant stream of gradual upgrades and I just put the motherboard/cpu upgrades in the list. And it's only my primary system. I have had a few secondary systems for such things as home theatre systems.

Just remember... You asked.

TI 99A
Atari 800
Atari ST
286, custom
386dx33, first 2400 modem!, custom
Mac IICI
386dx40, super leetsauce with a SB16 and a 200mb HDD, custom,
Cyrix pentium clone, 200Mhz, custom
Cyrix pentium clone, 166Mhz, custom
PIII Celeron 500, can finally play CS 0.6 on the VooDooI, custom
PIII 600, Custom
PIII 766, Custom
PIII 866, Custom
AMD XP 1800+, killer gaming rig for 2k!, GeForce III Titanium, custom
HP dv4000(?) notebook (Pentium D, 2.6Ghz)
HP (?) notebook (Centrino 1.73Ghz)
AMD XP 2100+ File Server, custom
AMD XP 1900+ Media center, custom
AMD Sempron 2600+ Media Center, custom
AMD 64 3500+, next to last gaming rig, SLI 6600GT
AMD FX-60, last gaming rig, 8800GTS640
AMD 64 5600+ my current gaming rig, SLI 8800GTS640
Asus M51sn Notebook.


Probably a lot more when you count all the miscellaneous in between builds and frankensteins... I will come and update this list probably.

1988 Packard Bell 386, no Math Co-Processor but it did run at a whopping 16 Mhz and I had 4 MB of RAM and a 40 MB HDD. I played mostly flight sims on it.

1995 Gateway 486DX-66 with 32 MB of RAM a 500 MB HDD ran Windows 95. It was provided to me by work, and it totally sucked, even for its time.

1997 Packard Bell Pentium 233MMX with 64 MB of RAM and a 6.4 GB HDD. I also added a Voodoo2 SLI to it for AMAZING performance in QuakeGL and Quake II

2001. My first build that was all my own. Athlon 500 Slot A on an Abit KA-133 (VIA chipset) board. 128 MB of PC-100, my 6.4 GB drive from the pacbell, and an Nvidia TNT AGP card. This machine was upgraded to include a Geforce 2 GTS, an Athlon 800 that I OCed using a GFD to 1.1 GHZ and 256 MB PC-133.

2003. New build. Athlon XP Skt A. 1.4 Ghz Barton core on Nforce2 MSI board. 256 MB of RAM and an 80GB WD JB series. It started out with a Geforce III TI-500, but It ended up with an ATI Radeon 9800XT. Onboard sound has never been as good since the NF2 days. Nvidia would do well to bring back SoundStorm. This one was also my first case mod project, I painted it and put a window in what was just a plain old beige Enlight Case

2004 New Build (Mostly) Athlon 64 3200 on an MSI Nforce III chipset. 512 MB of RAM, same 80GB drive as before. Same 9800XT vidcard as before. I did not have this one long, I used the guts to build my mom a new computer when the Nforce 4 boards came out shortly later
I built this one in a Chieftec Dragon case that I modded to include a window, custom fan holes, custom fan grills, a pre-amp for the audio, and some custom cable runs. I still use this case to this day.

2005-present. Opteron 165 Skt 939 on Asus Nforce4 SLI board. 2 GB of RAM, 120 GB Seagate Barracuda. Started out with a Geforce 7900GT, but now I have an 8800GTS. It will play all DirectX 9 games at max res and details for my monitor. When a DX10 game catches my interest, then I will either find an FX60 CPU to put in it or do a major upgrade depending on my budget at the time.

yep, all of them were POS

This is tough...

1992 Home built x286 made from parts from garage sale PCs

1996 AST x486 100MHz, 8mb RAM upgraded to 24mb (2x4mb and 2x8mb), 4x CD Rom, 400mb Hard Drive, Stealth II for 2D Graphics, 8mb Voodoo for 3D Graphics

1998 Home Built Cyrix x686 150MHz, 32mb RAM, 16x CD Rom, 400mb Hard Drive + 700mb Hard Drive, Stealth II for 2D Graphics, Voodoo 2 12mb for 3D Graphics

1999 Home Built AMD K6 266MHz (upgraded to AMD K62 450MHz months later), 32mb RAM upgraded to 64mb, 4.7GB Hard Drive, Pioneer Slot Loaded CD Burner, Stealth II for 2D Graphics, 2x Voodoo 2 12mb in SLI for 3D Graphics. - This PC was built to play Unreal Tournament (had to upgrade to the 450MHz and run SLI to get smooth framerates.

2001 Home Built AMD Duron 900MHz (upgraded to AMD Thunderbird 1200), 256mb RAM, 4.7GB Hard Drive + new 20GB Hard Drive, Pioneer Slot Loaded CD Burner + Plextor Plexwriter CD Burner, ATI Radeon 32MB Graphics card - This PC was built just to play Max Payne.

2002 Home Built AMD Athalon XP 1700+ (upgraded to AMD Barton 2500+), 512mb RAM (upgraded to 1GB), 2 x 20 GB Hard Drives, upgraded to 40GB and 120GB Hard Drives, Plextor Plexwriter CD Burner, Sony DVD Rom, ATI Radeon 64MB Graphics (upgraded to nVidia ti4200 and then ATI 9600XT) - The Half Life 2 PC

2004 Home Built Intel P4 3.4GHz Prescott, 2GB DDR400 RAM, Plextor Plexwriter CD Burner, Sony DVD Burner, 40GB and 120GB Hard Drives, ATI X850XT Platinum Edition Graphics

2006 Fujitsu N6220 Lifebook, 1.86GHz, 200GB Hard Drive, 17" wide screen, 2GB RAM, ATI X600 Graphics

2007 Home Built Intel E6850 3.0GHz (overclocked to 3.8GHz), 2GB DDR2 800MHz (overclocked to 1.16GHz), Plextor Plexwriter CD Burner, Sony DVD Burner, 320GB Hard Drive, ATI HD2900XT Graphics

2007 Media PC Home Built AMD Athalon X2 3600+, 2GB DDR, 750GB + 500GB + 120GB Hard Drives, Lite-On DVD Burner, ATI 8400XT graphics (fanless), 600w PSU (fanless) - Super quiet!

Commodore 64
Amiga 500
IBM 386 - with a sweet Turbo button
Compaq 486 (Presario maybe?)
Apple IIe
Dell desktop with 733 MHZ
Self Built AMD Athlon 1.0 Ghz
Self Built AMD Athlon 1.7 (maybe?)
Self Built AMD Athlon 3200
Self Built Intel Core2 Duo


My favorite?

The Amiga.