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