Biggest Computer Upgrade?

[screwballl]

600MHz Celeron
256 PC133 (originally had 32MB)
10GB hd (upgraded to 40GB)
32MB PCI MX400 (originally had 8MB onboard)

to

XP3000+ (in sig)
1GB PC3200
160GB hd
128MB 9600XT

to

(soon to be built)
E6300 or 6400
2GB DDR2-667
320GB SATA3 HD
X1950Pro

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by 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.

Well jeez Lon......Didn't know we were talking about a life long upgrade

I personally had a 8088 system that had no hard drive what so ever. Had to boot everything from the 5 1/4" floppy drive. After some time, I bought a 10mb hard drive and then had to park the drive in a DOS command. Wow, now that was some serious technology

After that point, I went a couple of years without a system (way to expensive) but then had a pentium 133 with a 2.1gig hard drive and 64mb of ram, I named it hotrod!!!!!!!!! It was a serious monster fast machine at the time

[fps justin]

haha you guys are so old. Even my first computer wasn't that old.

Before my ibm celeron desktop, i had:

P2 400mhz
craptastic graphics
128mb of ram.
6 + 8 gig of HDD space.

[WhiteEagle]

My biggest upgrade?

Easy!

Acer TravelMate 2100 laptop

to

HP Pavilion Media Center TV PC
(this baby folds 3x faster than the laptop, and plays games way smoother!)

[Bigedmond]

Actually i went from the pencil, to a type writer, to an apple 2e, then a first gen mac that was 4 years old, then the craptastic dell.

[Hitman]

Hmm My biggest jump in Performance was probably when I went from a
AMD K6 450MHZ
256mb RAM
16mb ATI AIW
14GB HD
to a
Intel P4 2.0GHZ
512 mb RAM
1 40 GB IBM DeathStar for Data and 4X40 GB IBM DeathStars in RAID 5
64mb GeForce 3

In 2001, I have upgraded at at steady pace since then. That Rig actually lasted me just shy of 3 years, with a few upgrades and a massive nightmare of failing Hard Drives.

[Dread]

Most of my upgrades have been incremental, a part here, a part there. Nothing really momentus. My biggest step however was back when I was still buying OEM stuff. Went from a:

Pentium 100
8 MB RAM
2 MB VGU
850 MB HDD

to a:

Pentium II 400
128 MB RAM
8 MB VGU
3.2 GB HDD

My most recent upgrade was on an old AMD XP 2200+ to a C2D 4300.
Significant performance leap, but only changed the motherboard and CPU.
This was a less than double in the CPU clock speed (until I oc'd the beast).

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Bigedmond

Actually i went from the pencil, to a type writer, to an apple 2e, then a first gen mac that was 4 years old, then the craptastic dell.

Thats pretty much how I started out, except throw in the Mac Classic after the Apple IIe and then I started building my own computers right out of HS, in the early 90s.

[Gig-O-Ram]

There was a thread like this at OC Forums, and I think it's still going too.

Well, let's see - I'm gonna say that my biggest performance jump was from the Gateway computer we bought in late 1999 which had - let me see if I remember this right...

Intel Pentium 3 @ 1.6ghz (don't quote me on that clock speed - might've a bit been higher. And overclocking? What was that?)
Windows 98SE
512 MB RAM (couldn't tell you what speed it was - I didn't know stuff like that then)
Some 64MB video card (didn't know I was gonna get into gaming, but that card stood up like a trooper though, LOL! Later went to a 128MB card.)
10GB Hdd (we thought that was a lot at the time)
CDRW
Dial up internet on AOL 5 or 6
Who knows what motherboard?

...to what you see in my sig. But I did have another system in between the two which had:

P4 3ghz | WinXP SP1 | Generic Intel D856PERL mobo | 1GB Ram (speed unknown) | 256MB GF5500FX (which my wife uses now) | 120GB Maxtor (which I still use) | CDRW | DVD ROM | Generic case

The next jump - whenever it happens - will likely consist of some multi-core CPU and at least 2GB DDR2 of some decent speed. Haven't decided yet if I'll go AMD again or give Intel another go. It'll have high end video, maybe 512MB worth (not sure about SLI) and possibly a nice sound card (never used one before) and Christ knows how many GB of storage over at least two drives. PSU? It'll depend on what I use. Maybe by then I'll even go Vista.
Here's to the future... :pepsi:

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Gig-O-Ram

Intel Pentium 3 @ 1.6ghz (don't quote me on that clock speed - might've a bit been higher. And overclocking? What was that?)
Windows 98SE
512 MB RAM (couldn't tell you what speed it was - I didn't know stuff like that then)
Some 64MB video card (didn't know I was gonna get into gaming, but that card stood up like a trooper though, LOL! Later went to a 128MB card.)
10GB Hdd (we thought that was a lot at the time)
CDRW
Dial up internet on AOL 5 or 6
Who knows what motherboard?

Might want to check your dates. AMD didn't release the Tbird 1ghz CPU until Summer 2000, beating Intel to the 1GHZ mark. Intel never release a P3 1.6ghz CPU, they switched to P4 at the 1.4ghz CPU.

Also 64MB cards weren’t available in 99 either. Nvidia didn't release their Geforce 2 GTS 64mb card until 2000.