gameing rigs?

[Sephiroth]

hey what gameing rigs did u have before your current. We got our first good computer in 1993, before that we had a tandy. the computer was a 486 88mhz with 8 megs ram, good computer till 1997. then we got a new computer at my dads house, he still uses it. It is a Pentium 133mhz 32megs ram and it was my rig untill 2000 on christmas when i got this computer a pentium3 450, soon to be 650 mhz and 320 megs ram. Besides computers i first had an atari, then a sega and 32x,got doom for it too, then a playstation.

[fodders]

Ahhh a 386sx with 4 meg mem, a 40 meg hard drive (to be informed by salesperson, "if you run doublespace on that you will NEVER need another drive") :)

[Peter Heinemann]

current: Apple Power Macintosh G4 (bought 3 weeks ago). UuuH !


1999: (got used) Apple Power Macintosh 6100, upgraded to G3 250MHz (Sonnet technologies), easy to open, like a pizza box (looks a bid like a Sun workstation - but much cheaper). Still a fast machine, love it (except graphics card)

1998: (bought used) Apple Macintosh Quadra 840av Motorola 68040/40MHz (came with a 66 (66,76) Mhz digital signal processor = "DSP" by AT&T), outpaces every 486 on earth :) KICKASS CULT machine, but if you want to upgrade RAM, you have to fiddle around min. half an hour with a screwdriver and should have lots of bandage handy.

1997: (got used) Apple Macintosh Quadra 610/25Mhz/250MB, upgraded to Motorola 68040/48MHz (can be compared with a 486/DX4/100Mz). Same flat housing as PowerMac 6100.

1992: (bought NEW, I worked hard during my holidays) Apple Macintosh LC 10/16mHz/40MB upgraded to Motorola 68030/32mHz/160MB. Today worth a bar of chocolate (both Mac and PC). I swear that I was able to run Photoshop 3.0 on that machine! (slow - but it run)

1986: Apple Macintosh Plus (got as a gift, you may laugh reading it specs: Motorola 68000, 8MHz, first SCSI Mac)

+ I bought a NeXT cube (black hardware) some time ago on ebay (Doom´s development platform). Looks really SEXY! Grayscale monitor! This was the FIRST cube Steve Jobs made. Motorola 68040/25MHz + 25MHz DSP. The man who would stuff this beauty under a desk should be fed to the cyb.

All machines still in working condition (except the magneto-optical drive in the NeXT which sufferd by the fan)

(plus I bought a Pentium 133 in January 2001 on ebay (cheap) to be able to run ZDoom, because that port cannot be run in a PC emulation (freeeeze), so am I a true Doomer? A loyal MacUser bought the "enemy-machine" only for his beloved Doom)
The P133 performs well in ZDoom, it is a full SCSI system. PCs are not that bad, I learned! Peace!

BTW: The IBM system I love the most is PC DOS 7.0 :), it also runs on the PC emulations on my newest Mac.

(I have to admit that when I wrote about comparisions between Mac and PC, it is hard to say, because similar apps have to be available and often programms are ported so badly to the opposite platform)

[Espi]

P90 (overclocked to 120Mhz)/8Mb/850Mb/ATI mach 64/OPTI SB compatible/15" (I still have that monitor) this was a monster machine back at '96. Now I have a PIII 800(133Mhz FSB)/256Mb/13Gt/Voodoo3/AWE 64

[Guest Nuno Correia]

Peter Heinemann said:

I have a NeXT Cube... 17" color monitor, CD Caddy drive... very cool machine!

[geekmarine]

fodders said:

Ahhh a 386sx with 4 meg mem, a 40 meg hard drive (to be informed by salesperson, "if you run doublespace on that you will NEVER need another drive") :)

LOL reminds me of a quote by Bill Gates, "640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone." Boy, have times changed. I miss the good old days where you were really smoking with a 66 Mhz 486 DX computer with VGA graphics. That was the first computer I had when I got Doom, and even though I didn't have a sound card, it was awesome (I miss those old PC speaker sounds).

[Katarhyne]

I really just don't have any right to respond to this.

My current rig is an AMD Athlon 1.33Ghz @ 1425Mhz, on a 150Mhz double-pumped frontside bus, with 1.5GB of PC2100 DDR SDRAM, a 3dfx Voodoo5 @ 201Mhz (soon-to-be-replaced with a PowerVR Kyro II and then a Geforce3), and a Linksys (I think) 1000Base-TX ethernet card, all stacked onto an Asus A7A266 mounted in a double-wide, black, full-tower case with two 450W power supplies, a 12X DVD-ROM, two 16x12x48 SCSI CD-burners, and eight 30GB Ultra/160 SCSI hard drives.

Whew.

My previous rigs have been, in reverse chronological order, an Athlon 1.2Ghz, Athlon 1Ghz, Athlon 800Mhz, Athlon 600Mhz, K6-III 450Mhz, K6/300Mhz, K6/233, PPro 200Mhz (single, two, four, and recently, six-way SMP - still have that system, runs great!), Pentium 166Mhz, 486/133Mhz, 486/66Mhz, 386/40Mhz, 386/33Mhz, 286/16Mhz...before that...I barely knew that computers (or much of anything) existed.

I've always been on the leading edge. Guess it's just a thing for me. Dunno.