My computer's name is Elegia. She's gone through numerous re-builds, countless cards, and enough parts to build a room full of machines. I usually upgrade her every 6 months but I haven't done this in about a year and a half. |
Processor | 19. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ *Middle finger to intel 18. AMD Athlon 2000+ *middle finger to intel* 17. AMD Athlon Thunderbird 900 *middle finger to intel* I gave this to my sis. 16. AMD Athlon 700 *middle finger to intel* 15. Intel Celeron 300A overclocked to 450. *middle finger to intel* 14. AMD K6-2/300 This got sold to Jeff. 13. AMD K6-166 I actually had this chip for a year. It ran nice. 12. AMD K5-166 My damn video card wouldn't fit into #11's motherboard properly, so I sold it less than a week after I bought it and got #13. 11. AMD K5-166 I found a buyer for #10, so I sold it and bought this in May 1997. 10. AMD K5-133 I bought because I wanted to save some money, and later I found out that this chip kicked major ass. 9. Pentium 133 I bought in August of 1996. Later sold to Jeff in January 1997. 8. 486dx4/100 I broke down and bought it late 1995. 7. 486sx/33 Sold #6, Then traded Ed an Icy Manipulator for the board, got the chip from Isaac. 6. 486sx/33 I ended up exchanging #5 for a new one with a better motherboard. 5. 486sx/33 I bought just as I got into college in 1994. 4. 386dx/25 I borrowed from Ed after I sold #3. 3. 386dx/40 I traded the 386sx/16 board for. 2. 386sx/16 That I bought from a user from my old BBS. 1. 286/12 that Isaac had spare. |
Motherboard | Chaintech VNF4-Ultra Past motherboards include : Asus A7N8X, Asus A7V333, Asus K7V, Abit KT7, Abit BH-6, EPOX EP-51MVP3E-M, Shuttle HOT-603 AMD 640 Chipset, Shuttle HOT-565 and some other brands, namely J-Mark. |
Memory | 2GB - PC3200 DDR |
Hard Drives | WD 320GB SATA II, Maxtor 160GB, 300GB Past Drives include : IBM 80GB Maxtor 80GB, 40GB, 30.7GB, 8.4GB, 6.8GB Western Digital 80, 3.1GB, 1.2GB Maxtor 540MB, 2 Seagate 120MB, and countless Seagate 20 and 40 Meg MFM drives. |
DVD Burners | NEC 3520a, NEC 3550a Old DVD-ROM Drive : Pioneer 16x Slot-Load, Acer 10x Old CD-ROM drives include: a Kenwood 52TrueX, Toshiba 32x IDE, an Acer 40x IDE, Sanyo 4x SCSI, a Sanyo 6x IDE and a Creative 8x IDE which just plain sucked. Old CD-Burners : TDK VeloCD 32x Smart and Friendly 8x Rocket Acer 6xRead/2xWrite/2xReWrite IDE Mitsumi 8xRead/2xWrite IDE |
Video Card | MSI NX7900GTX 512MB Past cards include : MSI Geforce 6600GT 128MB, MSI Geforce 4200 128MB, Hercules 3D Prophet II MX, Diamond Viper 770 AGP, Diamond Stealth II G460 - 8mb with a Diamond Monster 2 8MB, Diamond Stealth 3D 3000, and many Tridents. |
Monitor | Samsung 955 DF, Samsung 753 DF RIC 19" .22dp Shamrock 14" thing, Arcus 14" .28 NI, CTX 14", a CGA monochrome, and a Hercules monochrome |
Modem | US Robotics 56k PCI that isn't installed anymore. Who needs a modem when you have broadband? Which replaced an ISA US Robotics Sportster 33.6, Which replaced my aging Supra 14.4, which replaced my Compudyne 9600. |
Network Card | Linksys 10/100 |
Sound Card | Sound Blaster Audigy 2zs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Diamond Monster Sound MX300 with the MX25 Yamaha Waveforce XG Diamond Sonic Impact Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE 32. But I still think my Pro Audio Spectrum 16 rocked. |
Mouse | Logitech MX518 |
Joystick | Thrustmaster X-Fighter Thrustmaster FCS Mark ][. |
Speakers | Logitech X-230 |