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I thought it would be fun to have some people list all the systems they've had and what upgrades they've done. I'll start. I was born in 1983 and I got my first computer in 1990.
1990
Commodore Amiga 500 (prebuilt)
-Added a 1/2MB RAM expansion for a total of 1MB of RAM. This computer had no hard drive!
1998
Pentium II 300MHz (prebuilt)
-I upgraded the 2MB 2D graphics card to first an ATi Rage 3D 4MB card and then to a 16MB Voodoo Banshee which was really great. I also upgraded the low end sound card to a Soundblaster Live! This computer was built by a scammer who tried to slip me a 233Mhz PII overclocked to 300Mhz which was actually an older architecture that had a much larger production process. I had so many problems with this PC. I was told the parts were all new but they were actually all refurbished. A terrible experience.
2001
Athlon 1000MHz (prebuilt)
-I upgraded from 128MB to 256MB of RAM and I upgraded my sub-Radeon ATi card to a Geforce 2 GTS 32MB. This computer was also built by a scammer (a different one. Man I had bad judgement/luck). This guy charged me an extra $250 on top of the cost of the PC for a "warranty". I later found out he was trying to monopolize me when he terminated the warranty because I had installed a "Bogus NIC card" (his words). I had bought a NIC card from another source that was not him and he said that voided the warranty. What a jerk. He's still in business.
2004
Dell 3.2GHz Pentium 4 (prebuilt)
-I upgraded from 512MB of RAM to 1GB of RAM. This computer was great. Sadly it died on me and I had to swap out the motherboard which necessitated a new case as well since at the time Dell used non-standard motherboards and cases. This machine had a Radeon 9800 PRO. Rebuilding this machine into a new case with a new board was my first PC building experience.
2007
Core 2 Duo E6550 (self built)
-This was my first machine where I picked all the parts and built from scratch. I had initially intended this to just be a general use machine but the gaming bug bit me again and I upgraded the Geforce 8600 to a Geforce 8800GTS (g92). The motherboard on this one died on me, so I went from the first board (an ASUS P5K Premium P35) to a second board, an ASUS P5Q P45. This was the last machine I had with a 32 bit OS.
2010
i7 950 (self built)
I built this machine for gaming from the get-go. I upgraded from the initial Radeon 6870 to a Geforce GTX 580 1.5GB. This computer wasn't around long though.
2011
i7 2600K (self built)
Sandybridge launched shortly after I got my 950, and I was surprised by the improvements it offered, so I ditched my RAM, mobo, and CPU from my last build and rebuilt around the 2600K. I upgraded the GPU a few years later from the 580 to a 980 which I still have.
2014
Pentium G3258 (self built)
Not much to say about this one. I built it as an HTPC for the living room. When I was given a Core 2 based machine for free by somebody I built a computer for, I re-purposed it into an HTPC and took my G3258 machine, which had a Z97 board, and bought a 4790K to build a new main machine.
2016
i7 4790K (self built)
This machine used the motherboard and case and power supply from the G3258 build. I also carried my GTX980 over from the sandybridge system. This machine originally had the 8GB of RAM from my 2600K system at 1600MHz but I recently upgraded to 16GB of 2400MHz RAM.
1990
Commodore Amiga 500 (prebuilt)
-Added a 1/2MB RAM expansion for a total of 1MB of RAM. This computer had no hard drive!
1998
Pentium II 300MHz (prebuilt)
-I upgraded the 2MB 2D graphics card to first an ATi Rage 3D 4MB card and then to a 16MB Voodoo Banshee which was really great. I also upgraded the low end sound card to a Soundblaster Live! This computer was built by a scammer who tried to slip me a 233Mhz PII overclocked to 300Mhz which was actually an older architecture that had a much larger production process. I had so many problems with this PC. I was told the parts were all new but they were actually all refurbished. A terrible experience.
2001
Athlon 1000MHz (prebuilt)
-I upgraded from 128MB to 256MB of RAM and I upgraded my sub-Radeon ATi card to a Geforce 2 GTS 32MB. This computer was also built by a scammer (a different one. Man I had bad judgement/luck). This guy charged me an extra $250 on top of the cost of the PC for a "warranty". I later found out he was trying to monopolize me when he terminated the warranty because I had installed a "Bogus NIC card" (his words). I had bought a NIC card from another source that was not him and he said that voided the warranty. What a jerk. He's still in business.
2004
Dell 3.2GHz Pentium 4 (prebuilt)
-I upgraded from 512MB of RAM to 1GB of RAM. This computer was great. Sadly it died on me and I had to swap out the motherboard which necessitated a new case as well since at the time Dell used non-standard motherboards and cases. This machine had a Radeon 9800 PRO. Rebuilding this machine into a new case with a new board was my first PC building experience.
2007
Core 2 Duo E6550 (self built)
-This was my first machine where I picked all the parts and built from scratch. I had initially intended this to just be a general use machine but the gaming bug bit me again and I upgraded the Geforce 8600 to a Geforce 8800GTS (g92). The motherboard on this one died on me, so I went from the first board (an ASUS P5K Premium P35) to a second board, an ASUS P5Q P45. This was the last machine I had with a 32 bit OS.
2010
i7 950 (self built)
I built this machine for gaming from the get-go. I upgraded from the initial Radeon 6870 to a Geforce GTX 580 1.5GB. This computer wasn't around long though.
2011
i7 2600K (self built)
Sandybridge launched shortly after I got my 950, and I was surprised by the improvements it offered, so I ditched my RAM, mobo, and CPU from my last build and rebuilt around the 2600K. I upgraded the GPU a few years later from the 580 to a 980 which I still have.
2014
Pentium G3258 (self built)
Not much to say about this one. I built it as an HTPC for the living room. When I was given a Core 2 based machine for free by somebody I built a computer for, I re-purposed it into an HTPC and took my G3258 machine, which had a Z97 board, and bought a 4790K to build a new main machine.
2016
i7 4790K (self built)
This machine used the motherboard and case and power supply from the G3258 build. I also carried my GTX980 over from the sandybridge system. This machine originally had the 8GB of RAM from my 2600K system at 1600MHz but I recently upgraded to 16GB of 2400MHz RAM.