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Can't remember the date but the system was a 386sx-25, 1MB ram, 40GB hard drive. £700.
Cost/spec of your first PC
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April 2001 - £1640 (paid off in Apr 05 
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Athlon 1.2GHz
256MB SDRAM
40GB WD HDD
GeForce 2 64MB
Creative SB Live 5.1 +DTT2200
17" Mitsubishi 730 Diamond Pro
)Athlon 1.2GHz
256MB SDRAM
40GB WD HDD
GeForce 2 64MB
Creative SB Live 5.1 +DTT2200
17" Mitsubishi 730 Diamond Pro
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xb8browney said:
Same... rip off.
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First proper PC not including Atari ST, Commodore 64 etc
1999 Gateway PC
17" monitor
PIII 450 100 FSB Slot 1 440BX intel MB
8 GB Quantum HD
3DFx VooDoo 3 3000 16 MB
64 MB RAM
DVD drive
Creative SB Live!
All for just over £1000. Was a decent buy at the time. The GFX alone was about £200. Shame Gateway stopped building PCs the best system builders and didnt use crap components.
1999 Gateway PC
17" monitor
PIII 450 100 FSB Slot 1 440BX intel MB
8 GB Quantum HD
3DFx VooDoo 3 3000 16 MB
64 MB RAM
DVD drive
Creative SB Live!
All for just over £1000. Was a decent buy at the time. The GFX alone was about £200. Shame Gateway stopped building PCs the best system builders and didnt use crap components.
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My pc back in SA in 1999:
Celeron 400mhz
192MB RAM
Nvidia Vanta PCI gfx
10GB Western Digital
For free, as my dad was a pc technician and would just bring parts home from time to time
Celeron 400mhz
192MB RAM
Nvidia Vanta PCI gfx
10GB Western Digital
For free, as my dad was a pc technician and would just bring parts home from time to time
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BubbySoup said:I was clearing out some junk the other day when I came across the invoice for my first PC. It was a DAN PC, 486DX33, a 6GB HD, 256Mb RAM and a Cirrus Logic graphics card. 14" montior, keyboard etc Obviously no CD drive, just a 3.5" floppy
Cost .... just under 2K !!!
Snap - That was about the same as my first system and cost!
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lol 2k for a 486, but what u gotta remember is that the pc's then were still "taking off" and werent that mainstream, so the cost was high, but the performance then was mega ^^
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2002 oct
amd athlon 2000
512 ddr ram
80gb
geforce 4 440mx 64mb card
crappy case
and my trusty 15" lg flatron lcd which cost £350
so in total £1100
amd athlon 2000
512 ddr ram
80gb
geforce 4 440mx 64mb card
crappy case
and my trusty 15" lg flatron lcd which cost £350
so in total £1100
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first pc was in 2003 i think though not entirely sure
duron 1600
256mb sdr ram
20gb hard drive
asrock mobo
15" crt
vile beige matx case
totel price £400
a far cry from todays machine but i thaught it was the best thing since sliced bread (if i only had half a clu back then)
duron 1600
256mb sdr ram
20gb hard drive
asrock mobo
15" crt
vile beige matx case
totel price £400
a far cry from todays machine but i thaught it was the best thing since sliced bread (if i only had half a clu back then)
Christ knows, was a long time ago.
Um, 98/99 I think
K6 processor of some form, 64mb ram, 4gig hdd, some 32mb graphics card (cause the first 5 or so builds died within weeks, free upgrade) windows 98, 15" crt monitor
was about £600 from a company called megabytes ltd, who got sued, cahnged to gigabytes, got sued, changed to terabytes, got sued a few more times and is now like manor computers or something I think
Um, 98/99 I think
K6 processor of some form, 64mb ram, 4gig hdd, some 32mb graphics card (cause the first 5 or so builds died within weeks, free upgrade) windows 98, 15" crt monitor
was about £600 from a company called megabytes ltd, who got sued, cahnged to gigabytes, got sued, changed to terabytes, got sued a few more times and is now like manor computers or something I think
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First PC that was mine cost £1600 - i still got the invoice
P166 - non MMX - was £200 cheaper the the P200
48Mb RAM
Diamond 4Mb GFX card
Awe32 sound
8x CDROM
2Gb hard drive
Jumbo 250Mb Tape backup drive
Floppy drive
A4 parallell scanner
14 inch CRT
Windows 95 OSR2
P166 - non MMX - was £200 cheaper the the P200
48Mb RAM
Diamond 4Mb GFX card
Awe32 sound
8x CDROM
2Gb hard drive
Jumbo 250Mb Tape backup drive
Floppy drive
A4 parallell scanner
14 inch CRT
Windows 95 OSR2
Cant remember exact specs, but i remember it being the dogs danglies of the time.
Around 1994-1995, was a Dell. Pentium 90mhz, 8mb RAM, 800mb HDD and a QUAD SPEED cd drive. Remember playing a very old flight sim on it, and being amazed by microsoft encarta! Was slightly before Rise Of The Robots came out, on about 25 billion floppy discs. Still have that actually! 13" CRT i think?
God knows how much it was, was my fathers i would imagine it was a few grand!
Around 1994-1995, was a Dell. Pentium 90mhz, 8mb RAM, 800mb HDD and a QUAD SPEED cd drive. Remember playing a very old flight sim on it, and being amazed by microsoft encarta! Was slightly before Rise Of The Robots came out, on about 25 billion floppy discs. Still have that actually! 13" CRT i think?
God knows how much it was, was my fathers i would imagine it was a few grand!
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pitchfork said:
Exact same happened to a friend, very similar spec from same supplier! who are now called Manor Solutions ?
First PC i had was a 486, though 1st PC i've purchased is in my sig, November 2006!... £1000 ~
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Really can't remember too much about it, but it was a 286
1990-91 it was, spent about £1300 on it, i remember it CPU was 16hz!! It also had a turbo button but i can't remember if the 16hz was with the turbo in or out, i think that was it running at its fastest.
I also think it had 8mb of ram.
The rest of the spec i seriously cannot remember, 14" non-interlaced CRT, which was impressive for its time!
It was bought from a place in the back of a PC mag, they are still around (which surprises me) so i wont mention who built it.
After that it was upgraded time and time again, and thats when i was 1st bitten by the PC building bug.
1990-91 it was, spent about £1300 on it, i remember it CPU was 16hz!! It also had a turbo button but i can't remember if the 16hz was with the turbo in or out, i think that was it running at its fastest.
I also think it had 8mb of ram.
The rest of the spec i seriously cannot remember, 14" non-interlaced CRT, which was impressive for its time!
It was bought from a place in the back of a PC mag, they are still around (which surprises me) so i wont mention who built it.
After that it was upgraded time and time again, and thats when i was 1st bitten by the PC building bug.
ive had a lower spec pc but this was the first one i bought with my own money
p2 233
64mb dimm ram
8gb harddrive
voodoo 3000 pci
soundblaster
16x cd rw < still working still working aswell
15'' crt
windows 98
the strange thing is i still use the odd part from this system when something breaks.
p2 233
64mb dimm ram
8gb harddrive
voodoo 3000 pci
soundblaster
16x cd rw < still working still working aswell
15'' crt
windows 98
the strange thing is i still use the odd part from this system when something breaks.
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i already posted the first pc that was ever in my house (my familys old pc), but here is my first pc which belonged to me:
duron 1800mhz
some msi motherboard
74gb no name hard drive (died like 2 weeks after i got my new pc... or possibly the ide controller too
)
aopen micro atx case w/ 200w power supply
no name "52x32x52" i think it is cd-rw which was a pain to burn to because it just about died just b4 i got my new pc (when trying to make disks to transfer my data to my new pc it made tonnes of coasters so ended up just transfering to my dads laptop and back using the network)
windows xp
256mb ram which was later upgraded to 512mb
intergrated graphics and lan and sound
was like £250 from this pc shop across the road from me for the monitor used a 17 inch crt my dad got for free from work. its a pain to low profile pci/pci-e/agp cards but might even upgrade the mobo, cpu, hard drive, memory and optical drive and "bring it back to life" in the future.
duron 1800mhz
some msi motherboard
74gb no name hard drive (died like 2 weeks after i got my new pc... or possibly the ide controller too
)aopen micro atx case w/ 200w power supply
no name "52x32x52" i think it is cd-rw which was a pain to burn to because it just about died just b4 i got my new pc (when trying to make disks to transfer my data to my new pc it made tonnes of coasters so ended up just transfering to my dads laptop and back using the network)
windows xp
256mb ram which was later upgraded to 512mb
intergrated graphics and lan and sound
was like £250 from this pc shop across the road from me
for the monitor used a 17 inch crt my dad got for free from work. its a pain to low profile pci/pci-e/agp cards but might even upgrade the mobo, cpu, hard drive, memory and optical drive and "bring it back to life" in the future.