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First Owned Computer

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pramudit
pramudit Original post #1
Jan 2, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Post your first own computer specs and date here...... :razz:
Mine was an Pentium 933 MHz CPU on a Vesta motherboard, 24bit color IGP, 20gb hdd, 128mb ram with CD-R drive.......
What was yours....? :p
sygeek
sygeek #2
Jan 2, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Mine is a Pentium 4, 384mb RAM and 80GB HDD.
Tenida
Tenida #3
Jan 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM
My first computer purchased during May, 2001 :)
Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHZ
Vesta Intel 845G chipset based motherboard
256 MB sd ram+Matrix 128Mb ram later
Nvidia Riva TNT 32MB graphics card:p
Seagate 40 GB PATA HD
Samsung CD Rom 52X
Samsung 52x24x52x CD Writer
Samsung DVD Rom(2007)
IBM Floppy drive
Frontech Internal TV Tuner Card
Samsung 15 inch crt moniter
Microtek 500VA ups
HP 656C Deskjet
Total costed me about Rs 55K/-

Here some pics of my old PC :p
*i.imgur.com/0Uito.jpg
*i.imgur.com/yPyYp.jpg
*i.imgur.com/khnSJ.jpg
Vyom
Vyom #4
Jan 2, 2012 at 8:36 PM
First owned was Pen 4, 256 DDR 1 RAM and 80 GB HDD. And 15" CRT monitor.
Currently using Same Pen 4, 80 GB HDD, but with 1 GB RAM and 19" LCD :p
A
AmpleNM #5
Jan 2, 2012 at 8:38 PM
Pentium 4 x.x GHz , dunno the mobo, 256mb RAM, 40gb HDD, floppy+CD-Drive, 15" CRT,TV Tuner Card,Win 98
back in 2001
Cost--> 51K
sold in 2008, 7K
lordirecto
lordirecto #6
Jan 2, 2012 at 9:10 PM
I had a Pentium 2, no idea what motherboard it was. And RAM was 256 mb. No dedicated graphic card. A CD reader. Floppy disk reader. A 15" CRT monitor. A very basic keyboard and mouse.
Windows 95 was the very first OS that I learnt to use.
And the cost of the entire setup was around 53k.
skeletor
skeletor #7
Jan 2, 2012 at 9:20 PM
AMD K6-2 500 Mhz on Super Socket 7. ;)
coderunknown
coderunknown #8
Jan 2, 2012 at 9:55 PM
purchased: 2005

Pentium 4 @ 3Ghz
Asus P5RD1-VM
256Mb DDR ram
80Gb hitachi HDD
17" LG CRT
iinfi
iinfi #9
Jan 2, 2012 at 9:55 PM
Pentium 1 - 100Mhz, 8MB RAM (yes its MB). later upgraded to 16MB. 1.1 GB HDD..
OS was DOS (Win 3.1)
saswat23
saswat23 #10
Jan 2, 2012 at 9:58 PM
Mine was a Compaq Pressario SG2080IL branded PC.
Specs:
* Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz
* Foxconn-Compaq OEM mobo
* WD OEM 80 GB PATA HDD
* Hynix OEM 256MB DDR RAM
* Lite-On OEM DVD Combo Drive
* 350W PSU
* Compaq Cabinet
* Compaq 17inch CRT
* Compaq normal black KB and Mouse
* JBL Stereo Speakers
+
* PowerMax 600VA UPS
+
* HP DeskJet D1360 Printer

All these total cost me Rs.26,000 + Rs.300 for OS installation.

That was back in April 13th of 2007.
skeletor
skeletor #11
Jan 2, 2012 at 9:58 PM
I wonder how you guys and me managed on Pentium 4 and D. It was slow as hell, used to eat so much of power and heating issues.

saswat23 said:
Mine was a Compaq Pressario SG2080IL branded PC.
Specs:
* Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz
* Foxconn-Compaq OEM mobo
* WD OEM 80 GB PATA HDD
* Hynix OEM 256MB DDR RAM
* Lite-On OEM DVD Combo Drive
* 350W PSU
* Compaq Cabinet
* Compaq 17inch CRT
* Compaq normal black KB and Mouse
* JBL Stereo Speakers
+
* PowerMax 600VA UPS
+
* HP DeskJet D1360 Printer
All these total cost me Rs.26,000 + Rs.300 for OS installation.

That was back in April 13th of 2007.
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You got ripped off.
sujoyp
sujoyp #12
Jan 2, 2012 at 9:59 PM
I had bought this in 1999
Pentium 3 550MHZ
64MB RAM
CD-ROM
15" Monitor
Windows 98
Floppy Disc
Cost 45k

ICO I am still on P4 2.8ghz 1 GB RAM and 865 Motherboard :D
skeletor
skeletor #13
Jan 2, 2012 at 10:02 PM
sujoyp said:
I had bought this in 1999
Pentium 3 550MHZ
64MB RAM
CD-ROM
15" Monitor
Windows 98
Floppy Disc
Cost 45k
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That's a great one. :p

sujoyp said:
ICO I am still on P4 2.8ghz 1 GB RAM and 865 Motherboard :D
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Wondering which Pentium 4 is that.

Early Pentium 4 were slower than Pentium 3 clock to clock.
Vyom
Vyom #14
Jan 2, 2012 at 10:39 PM
iinfi said:
Pentium 1 - 100Mhz, 8MB RAM (yes its MB). later upgraded to 16MB. 1.1 GB HDD..
OS was DOS (Win 3.1)
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Never heard someone using Pen 1..
May we know, which year did you own that?
Liverpool_fan
Liverpool_fan #15
Jan 2, 2012 at 10:51 PM
It was a Vintron PC. Bought in 2000 (Aug IIRC).

Pentium III 700Mhz (Coppermine)
Some customized Vintron Motherboard (SiS chipset)
64 MB->128MB->256MB RAM
2-8 MB VRAM (SiS 620)

10GB Hard disk (Quantum Fireball IIRC) (replaced once through warranty) (later replaced by an 80GB Samsung Hard disk)
52x CD-ROM drive (replaced by a Samsung CD reader and then Samsung Combo Drive)
Floppy Drive
Cabinet and SMPS, don't know the models. Branded PCs don't have their model name or I didn't notice.

Vintron 15" monitor
Vintron Multimedia keyboard (replaced by keyboard which later had its PC replaced. I'm typing from that)
Logitech Mouse (replaced the Vintron Mouse through warranty)
HP Deskjet 640C Printer (later replaced by an HP AIO printer which I just use as a scanner these days)
Yamaha Speakers (Stereo) (replaced by a local branded speakers)


Don't remember the UPS model (later replaced by APC BackUPS ES 500 which still works)

All those costed Rs.55k in total IIRC. (The initial purchase I mean).

Came with a winmodem which used the driver "Ambient HaM data Fax Voice", died due to sheer carelessness and replaced with Motorola SM56, still have it.
A USB PCI card and an Ethernet card were added as well later. Still have them. Ethernet card is connected to my second PC.

It had come with Windows 98 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0(pirated, Vintron had the software contracts with some 3rd party called Axis Computers), later replaced by Windows 95 by them, later I replaced ir by genuine Win 98, then pirated Windows XP and Windows 98 dual boot and finally from Nov 2006; Ubuntu 6.06->6.10->7.04 and the PC died on 1 Jan 2008. Well 4 years of its "death". RIP my old PC. Sold the remaining e-waste last year as well. Just have the Processor chip and RAM chip with me now (this RAM chip didn't come with original configuration anyway).
T
Tarun #16
Jan 2, 2012 at 11:00 PM
i was 6 when i got my first home pc i have no idea :p
Skud
Skud #17
Jan 2, 2012 at 11:05 PM
Assembled in 2002 and still kicking:-

P4 Willamette 1.6GHz
Intel D850MV ATX mobo
4x64MB PC600 (300 MHz) RDRAM
40GB HDD
LG 52x CD ROM drive
LG 52x24x52x CD Writer (added on 2003)
RIVA TNT2 32MB AGP
XFX GeForce 4MX-SE 64 MB DDR (added on 2003, died on 2011)
HP 845C Deskjet Printer
Samsung 15" CRT
Dlink 56kbps Modem
Sony FDD
Fiji 500VA UPS
Mercury Cabinet + PSU + Speakers

System cost 55k. CD Writer 4k and GFX card 3.5k. Keyboard and Mouse replaced a couple of times.
GeekyBoy
GeekyBoy #18
Jan 2, 2012 at 11:44 PM
Pentium 1 with MMX 200MHz
32MB SDRAM
Krypton SuperSocket7 Motherboard
4GB, 3600 rpm Seagate HDD
15'' Samsung Samtron Monitor
But sadly had to make do with the shitty SiS 530 onboard graphics.

Back in 1996, this cost my parents, a thousand pounds, or about Rs.70,000.
sujoyp
sujoyp #19
Jan 2, 2012 at 11:45 PM
@Ico mine is Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ with HT
Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz - RK80532PG072512 (BX80532PG2800D)
reniarahim1
reniarahim1 #20
Jan 2, 2012 at 11:55 PM
Pentium 4 machine.
Bought it around 2002 i guess. Its still up and running :)

Proccy : Intel Pentium 4 1.7Ghz
Mother Board : Mercury 845GL NDSMX
RAM : 256MB SD RAM (Upgraded to 1GB DDR1 later)
HDD : 40GB (Forced Upgrade to 160 GB later)
Floppy Drive (Removed it now)
Samsung CD drive (Upgraded to Sony DVD RW)
Samsung 14" CRT (Upgraded to Dell 19" WideScreen LCD later)
pramudit
pramudit #21
Jan 2, 2012 at 11:59 PM
i bought my first cpu in nov 2001 and its still with me....... :)
10yrs have passed and it still worxx..... :p
S
Siddhartha_t69 #22
Jan 3, 2012 at 2:19 PM
80486- IBM Compatible. 66 Mhz., 4mb RAM, 500 MB HDD. Used to run win 3.1, and later win95.
d6bmg
d6bmg #23
Jan 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM
iinfi said:
Pentium 1 - 100Mhz, 8MB RAM (yes its MB). later upgraded to 16MB. 1.1 GB HDD..
OS was DOS (Win 3.1)
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Almost same. Just couldn't remember the exact config. :oops: But there was no later upgradation. It wasn't my PC, but was my mom's PC.
Neuron
Neuron #24
Jan 3, 2012 at 4:57 PM
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.47GHz OCed to 1.83
384 MB RAM
40GB HDD
and an Asus mobo
abhidev
abhidev #25
Jan 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM
My first computer was purchased around Jan 2001
Intel Pentium 4 1.6gHz
Mercury motherboard
128MB sd ram + 256mb sd ram added later
32MB graphics on board + Nvidia geforce 64mb added later from pocket money just to play POP-WW :D
Seagate 40 GB HDD
Samsung CD Rom 52X
Floppy drive
Samsung Samtron 15 inch crt monitor
Spike guard
Total costed me about Rs 35K/-
iinfi
iinfi #26
Jan 3, 2012 at 11:48 PM
pramudit said:
i bought my first cpu in nov 2001 and its still with me....... :)
10yrs have passed and it still worxx..... :p
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amazing ... :)
abhidev
abhidev #27
Jan 4, 2012 at 11:32 AM
pramudit said:
i bought my first cpu in nov 2001 and its still with me....... :)
10yrs have passed and it still worxx..... :p
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mine works too...though m not using it now :)
devx
devx #28
Jan 4, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Purchased:- 2006
Price:- 34 K

-Pentium D 2.66Ghz
-Intel D102ggc2
-LG 17" Flatron
-Seagate 80gb
-512mb DDR2 RAM
-Logitech Internet pro(K/M)
-Floppy Drive
-LG dvd writer
-Intex 450w PSU :-D
-Umax Cabinet
-Frontech 4.1 JIL-1867
-Frontech 600va UPS

Updated on 2008:-
-XFX HD 4350 512 Mb (Played tons of games in 1280*1024-low/very low/medium)
-2gb DDR 2 RAM

AND this is my present machine., soon i'm going to update :)., but never going to throw the old one beacuse it's my best pal ever., would help me as a host in my LAN., :) :)
RCuber
RCuber #29
Jan 4, 2012 at 12:44 PM
My dad bought me a second hand 386 Machine for 12K in 1997 (IIRC)

config
AMD 386 soldered on board.
4 MB RAM
TVSE keyboard.
serial port mouse.
14" Monochrome monitor
500MB HDD.
MS DOS 6.22
Floppy drive :D

I still have that comp :)
devx
devx #30
Jan 4, 2012 at 1:06 PM
@ Charan >> oh great still alive., ;-)
$$Lionking$$
$$Lionking$$ #32
Jan 7, 2012 at 2:53 AM
ico said:
i wonder how you guys and me managed on pentium 4 and d. It was slow as hell, used to eat so much of power and heating issues.


You got ripped off.
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lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :d
mitraark
mitraark #33
Jan 7, 2012 at 9:48 AM
September 2005.

Pentium 4 531 3 Ghz
Intel D915GAV
512 MB DDR RAM
120 GB SATA
Sony DVD-RW [ I was the only one in my class then to have a DV-RW Drive :D ]
iBall Cabinet + 400W SMPS
Samsung Syncmaster 793MB [ Still one the the best CRT Monitor imho ]