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[Guest]

I have no idea of the dates, it's been too long.

 

Probably around 1988 I build a 8088 PC with scraps from my Dad's work.

 

Then somewhere in the early 90s my Dad bought me a 386 processor and motherboard.

 

I sold that and got a 486.

 

I sold that and got a faster 486.

 

I sold that and got a Pentium.

 

I sold that and got a faster Pentium

 

I sold that and got a Pentium with MMX

 

I sold that and got an Athlon.

 

I sold that right away and got a Pentium II

 

I sold that and got a faster Pentium II

 

I sold that and got a Pentium III, Slot 1

 

I sold that and got a Pentium III, socket 370 and 750 MHz.

 

I sold that and got a Pentium III, of 1.1 GHz.

 

I sold that and got a Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz.

 

I sold that and got a Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz with HT.

 

I sold that and got a Pentium Dual Core.

 

I sold that and got another Pentium Dual Core.

 

I sold that and got a first gen i3 processor.

 

I sold that and got a 2nd gen i5, can't remember which model.

 

I sold that and got a 3570, that I am using right now.

 

Pretty sure I am missing a bunch though.

 

For laptops I had a Pentium Dual core, a first gen i3, a 2nd gen i3, and currently a 3rd gen i5.

So your dad really got something you didn't need to pay for, then you sold it, next year something came out and bought that but sold that again and it goes to a infinite circle without losing your money? how many people did you rob son?

[Jumper118]

Why are you so obssesed with overclocking?

its like gaming but more fun. i don't like things to go so. i always want to make them faster, more powerful and louder.   i have the same problem with everything, if its still working, it ain't fast enough.

[Sors]

So your dad really got something you didn't need to pay for, then you sold it, next year something came out and bought that but sold that again and it goes to a infinite circle without losing your money? how many people did you rob son?

 

Probably less people than you have. :lol:

 

Windows 3.1 did not run in a 8088, so the 386 WAS necessary.

[Shakaza]

199X-200X- My parents both had first generation iMacs that my brother, sister and I played on A LOT. We mostly played on my mother's, because Dad used his for work.

Late 2004-late 2012- I had this Dell computer that came with a Celeron D 2.53 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, a 70 GB hard drive, Windows XP, and probably integrated graphics. I did another gig of RAM to it a while back as well. Oh, how I loved you...

Late 2012-Now-iBuyPower 687i that came with an FX-6100, 8 GB of RAM, a 1 TB HDD, a Powercolor Radeon HD 6670, and Windows 8.1. (The 6670 is now upgraded to an ASUS R9 270).

I won't go into detail about all the different computers my Mom, Dad, brother, sister, and grandparents have owned, because it's something in the realm of 10-15. Maybe more.

[Guest]

its like gaming but more fun. i don't like things to go so. i always want to make them faster, more powerful and louder.   i have the same problem with everything, if its still working, it ain't fast enough.

That's why everything breaks for you, calm down

[Guest]

Probably less people than you have. :lol:

 

Windows 3.1 did not run in a 8088, so the 386 WAS necessary.

I'm planning to do the same thing, the cheapest model of the laptop, that is EXACTLY THE SAME then the most expensive model here in croatia has a differential value of 1700 kuna! (300 dollars) So i sell this laptop for 360 dollars, buy a laptop for 360 dollars, and sell that laptop for 460 dollars, lol, way to earn a money, R9 270X, IM COMING FOR YOU.

[Jumper118]

That's why everything breaks for you, calm down

I havent broken anything by overclocking it yet 98% of things that break are doa.

My 660 was folding at stock for 25 hours. I came home to start ocing it and it was already dead.

My first msi mpower board was doa, it never posted

My first be quiet psu was doa.

My first lightning was oced on a stock bios without extra voltage. Then i put it back a bit to start testing it for memory speed vs clock speed in heaven 4.0 it started artifacting really badly on the first stage which was 50mhz on the core when i had previously had it at over 100mhz perfectly fine. Its a very common problem with the last batch of lightnings to have a faulty memory controller.

Second lightning did not display anything.

I thought the fx6200 was dead but Priller got it running again.

[GzeroD]

I'm planning to do the same thing, the cheapest model of the laptop, that is EXACTLY THE SAME then the most expensive model here in croatia has a differential value of 1700 kuna! (300 dollars) So i sell this laptop for 360 dollars, buy a laptop for 360 dollars, and sell that laptop for 460 dollars, lol, way to earn a money, R9 270X, IM COMING FOR YOU.

 

 

That's why everything breaks for you, calm down

 

 

What's the thing you guys call: "upgrade" ?

 

 

Why are you so obssesed with overclocking?

 

 

So your dad really got something you didn't need to pay for, then you sold it, next year something came out and bought that but sold that again and it goes to a infinite circle without losing your money? how many people did you rob son?

 

The multiquote box is there for a reason, no need to spam posts to quote and reply.

[old reece frost]

200x - 2009 Some P4 thingy

2009 - 2010 - Some Samsung laptop

2010 - 2012 - Some HP laptop [stil have it :3]

2012 - 2013 - First built PC [Pentium E5700, HIS Radeon 7850, 8GB cheapo ram which I STILL haven't upgraded.]

2013 - 2014 - Second built PC [in ma sig]

2014 > Hopefully Maxwell, new PSU w/ sleeved cables, SSD, and some smexy ram :3

[GzeroD]

2003 duron 600 or 800 MHZ with a wopping 64MB of ram and 4MB vga adapter (First Build)

 

2005 Athlon XP 2800 1GB ram radeon 9250SE  (First Solo Build)

 

2005 Sempron 3000+ replaced ""DOA"" 2800 XP

 

2006 Athlon 64 3200 Laptop with 2GB RAM and ATi express 128MB Dedicated memory with hyper memory support (HP Laptop)

 

2007 Resurected a AMD Athlon 4400 1.25GB Ram added VisionTek 512MB ATI radeon 2600XT (

Late 2007 Replaced 2600XT with a 1GB Saphire 3850 AGP (Foolish me thought the 2600 was the problem not the Ancient Processor and AGP bus.

 

2009 Phenom II 720BE unlocked and overclocked to 3.4Ghz 8Gb Ram   ATI Radeon 4890 (First build done with a proper job)

2010 4890 Died replaced with MSI ATI 5770 and 3 monitors

late 2010 Added 2 more XFX 5770's for low-medium setting eyefinity goodness (needed more vram)

 

2012 Intel I5 3570K 16GB Ram 2x 5770

Early 2013 Replaced GPU With 2GB EVGA Ge-force  560TI 

5 weeks 4 customer reps and 2 RMA's later 2x 5770's where back installed.

Late 2013 Added another 16GB ram Totaling 32GB (wanted to put WoW on a Ramdisk it was totaly worth it)

Jan 2014 installed 2GB MSI 7850 Twinfrozr III

Feb 2014 Installed 4GB R9 290 Reference

March RMA R9 290 (Time will tell how this goes) back to the 7850

[Pomfinator]

2000 - 2004 Random desktop my dad built for me with a Pentium 4 and a 32MB Nvidia GPU, it was good enough for Runescape at the time

2004 - 2005 Cheap Compaq laptop because I wanted a computer in my room, the desktop got phased out around this time

2005 - 2006 Really dumb HP laptop with something like a Nvidia 6150 inside of it, jesus it was crappy as hell, could barely play Halo: CE

2006 - 2009 Alienware Area 51 m9750, my first real gaming system.  Core 2 Duo, 8800GT's in SLI, and 3GB of RAM.  And it ran on Vista aw yeah, and man did it run hot.

 

Now we get into desktop territory

 

2009 - 2011 Alienware Aurora R2, yes a prebuilt, blasphemy.  i7 920 and an HD5870.  The case was cool, but largely impractical, it literally had 2 fans, so everything ran hot.  Later replaced the 5870 with a GTX 570.

During this period, the old Alienware laptop fried the motherboard, so good thing I bought the desktop

 

2011 - 2013 My first built rig

Intel i5 2500k, Sabertooth P67, 8GB RAM, and the GTX 570.  All encased in a Coolermaster HAF 922, it got real dusty inside since for some reason, there's no dustfilter on the front fan.  Cooled by CM fans, a Corsair H50, and powered by a Coolermaster Gold 850w PSU

February 2012: upgrade to a GTX 680 SC Signature, I have a fondness for reference cards

 

2013 - present My current rig

Intel i5 4670k, Asus Maximus VI Hero, 16GB RAM, and the GTX 680.  Cooled by bequiet fans, a bequiet Dark Rock Pro 2, and powered by a bequiet Dark Power Pro 850w which was $40 off.

It wasn't much of an upgrade, but I really just wanted to have a new case that was free of any sort of liquid cooling, very quiet, and dust free.

 

Plans for the future: I'm looking to replace my 680, but something just tells me I shouldn't jump the gun on anything Kepler at the moment, I think the rest of my parts will be good for the next few years and the only other computer things I would probably buy would be peripherals.

[Guest]

I havent broken anything by overclocking it yet 98% of things that break are doa.

My 660 was folding at stock for 25 hours. I came home to start ocing it and it was already dead.

My first msi mpower board was doa, it never posted

My first be quiet psu was doa.

My first lightning was oced on a stock bios without extra voltage. Then i put it back a bit to start testing it for memory speed vs clock speed in heaven 4.0 it started artifacting really badly on the first stage which was 50mhz on the core when i had previously had it at over 100mhz perfectly fine. Its a very common problem with the last batch of lightnings to have a faulty memory controller.

Second lightning did not display anything.

I thought the fx6200 was dead but Priller got it running again.

wow, you are in bad luck my man

[Jumper118]

wow, you are in bad luck my man

Init. I would have loved to break them at maximum oc with mad voltages.

[GamerDude]

Iirc....I had the following rigs:

Some whitebox 286

Yet another generic white box 486

Pentium III 933mhz/TNT Riva followed by a GF2 card.

AXP2800+/Abit 4200 Ti -> 2GB -> 9700Pro->Abit FX5900 OTES @ FX5950 speed/->9800Pro

A64 S754 3400+ Clawhammer/GF 6800U

C2Q 6600 G0/Asus P5W DH Deluxe/GF 7950 GX2

C2Q X9650/Asus Maximus II/2x HD2900XT

last two are in my sig....I still have the AXP 2800+ rig, my 5th rig.