Biggest Computer Upgrade?

[Dr. V]

Originally Posted by sbohdan

from:

AMD K2-6 450Mhz
no name MB
on board graphics
64MB RAM
200W PS
10GB HD

to:

P4 2.53Mhz
asus MB
MSI GF4200Ti
512MB RAM
350W PS
80GB HD

nice LoL

[pc_guy]

Pleeese...that's nothing!


Pentium 133Mhz
64MB RAM
1.3GB + 600MB HDDs
AT Case/PSU 150W?
on-board graphics
28.8k modem

To:

1.7Ghz Celeron
128MB RAM
40GB HDD
on-board graphics

+later upgrades =
768MB RAM
old HDD + new 80GB HDD
ATI 7500 Video Card

There was a slight performance increase when moving to the new system.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by pc_guy

Pleeese...that's nothing!


Pentium 133Mhz
64MB RAM
1.3GB + 600MB HDDs
AT Case/PSU 150W?
on-board graphics
28.8k modem

To:

1.7Ghz Celeron
128MB RAM
40GB HDD
on-board graphics

+later upgrades =
768MB RAM
old HDD + new 80GB HDD
ATI 7500 Video Card

There was a slight performance increase when moving to the new system.

P1 to a 1.7 Celeron? Are you sure there was an increase at all?:-P

[gvblake22]

WOOO! Nice one Bigedmond! I think he takes the cake so far...

I went from a Dell Inspiron laptop:
900MHz PIII
284MB RAM
16MB video
10GB HDD

to

AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500
2x256MB Kingston HyperX DDR-400
Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB
80GB Seagate 7200.7 (which soon gave way to a 74GB Raptor)

Then I moved on to a Mobile 2600 (socket A), then s939 3200 Venice with 6600GT, then AM2 3800 X2 and X1950Pro...

[pc_guy]

Originally Posted by Lead Head

P1 to a 1.7 Celeron? Are you sure there was an increase at all?:-P

I did say there was a slight increase. lol

Measuring pure CPU speed, I did it with 3d rendering which gives equal result for P4 or Celeron, the increase was 10x + more over the P1, for example, I had a test scene that would take 30 minutes to render on the 133mhz, would now take 3 minutes on the 1.7g.

[Mithosphere]

Apple Performa 550 Color
unknown hdd size
floppy
ancient cdrom drive type thing
Mac OS

Sony Vaio
P4 2.0GHz
768MB
80gb hdd
ATi 9600 AGP
XP home

[onebxr]

typewriter

P3
8g
64m ram
cdrom

This was the biggest upgrade for me

[Cyberlon]

8088 (I believe 8MHz) with 10MB HDD flash drive, 768kb RAM, low density 5.25" floppy & low density 3.5" floppy to:
P2 266MHZ, 5GB HDD, 256MB RAM, no 3D acceleration, but able to run UT then:
P3 733MHZ, 10GB HDD, 512MB RAM, unremarkable Nvidia 3D accelerator then:
AMD 1800+, Nvidia GeForce 4 TI4600, 768MB RAM, 40GB HDD and finally:
AMD 2700+, just under 1TB of HDD space total, ATI 9600XT

Whew! a few jumps in technology there.

[Jafo]

IBM Aptiva
266mhz celeron (think it was a celeron)
64mb ram
onboard graphics (don't remember what kind)
4gb hdd

to:

HP Pavilion
900mhz amd thunderbird
128mb ram
geforce 2 64mb (upgraded myself from the 16mb card)
45gb hdd

to:

Self Built
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 4000+
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
2 GB DDR SDRAM
2 eVGA GeForce 7800 GT 256 MB
2 Seagate Barracuda 7200 (200GB each)

[Panda Man]

P2 400MHz
96MB RAM (salvaged another 64MB from an older PC, had 160MB when I trashed it)
STB nVidia ZX 8MB
10GB 5400RPM HDD
(2) 32X CD-ROM
U.S. Robotics 56K modem
Soundblaster Sound card
Dell motherboard

Intel P4 3.0e 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache
ECS 865PE-A ATX Intel Motherboard
Antec P180 Case
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256MB AGP 8x/4x
Kingston ValueRAM PC3200 512MB x2
Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD
Sony CD/DVD-RW 48x/12x combo drive
Lite-on 52x CD-RW drive (Can't read DVD-ROMs even though its supposed to. Won't ever buy lite-on again.)
RAIDMAX RX-530 ATX12V/ EPS12V 530W PSU
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1
Creative inspire 5400 5.1 74 Watt speakers
Linksys 802.11g wireless network adapter
Samsung 997mb Syncmaster 19" CRT
Dell 17" CRT
Wireless Logitech keyboard and a cheap USB M$ mouse.

Only jump I really ever made other than that old 486 we used to have, that was upgraded to the first comp listed.