Post Your Oldies!

[Boozad]

So I booted up the rig posted in the first post (my six-year-old first ever PCS purchase) today before it joined the Boozad PC graveyard. It took a good couple of minutes before it was in a state to use and was as noisy as an aeroplane, I can't actually believe I was still using this rig just four months ago, I can really see how old it is compared to my new rigs. I did start booting from my old copy of Windows 7 32 bit to format the main hard drive but it was taking so long to actually do anything I just decided to remove the hard drives before disposing of it. I took a sledge hammer to the HDDs and I couldn't believe how well built they were, it took plenty of blows to do enough damage for me to be satisfied that they were beyond use before lobbing them in the bin.
I then placed the rig outside on the front wall, and it was gone within twenty minutes, God knows who took it. But before it went on its merry way to wherever it's gone I took a couple of photos of the innards, just something nostalgic for me to remember it by. I'll miss you neon bubble cased Athlon, you served me well.

 

[lee50_10]

So I booted up the rig posted in the first post (my six-year-old first ever PCS purchase) today before it joined the Boozad PC graveyard. It took a good couple of minutes before it was in a state to use and was as noisy as an aeroplane, I can't actually believe I was still using this rig just four months ago, I can really see how old it is compared to my new rigs. I did start booting from my old copy of Windows 7 32 bit to format the main hard drive but it was taking so long to actually do anything I just decided to remove the hard drives before disposing of it. I took a sledge hammer to the HDDs and I couldn't believe how well built they were, it took plenty of blows to do enough damage for me to be satisfied that they were beyond use before lobbing them in the bin.
I then placed the rig outside on the front wall, and it was gone within twenty minutes, God knows who took it. But before it went on its merry way to wherever it's gone I took a couple of photos of the innards, just something nostalgic for me to remember it by. I'll miss you neon bubble cased Athlon, you served me well.

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Great stuff what was the spec?

 

[Boozad]

Great stuff what was the spec?

Case
Silver Neon Bubble case + front USB & front Lights
Processor (CPU)
AMD ATHLON™ 64 X2 5000+ (2.6GHz) 2 x 512K L2 Cache (Socket AM2)
Motherboard
ASUS® M2A-VM: DUAL DDR2, SATA II, x16 VGA, 2 x PCI
Memory (RAM)
2GB CORSAIR DDR2 667MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)
Graphics Card
256MB RADEON HD 2400 PRO PCI Express + DVI
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
250GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
20x Dual Layer LightScribe DVD Writer ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
16x DVD-ROM WITH 48x CD-ROM
Power Supply
STANDARD 350W (Peak) Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22 dBA AMD CPU COOLER (£14)
Sound Card
6 Channel Realtek ALC883 High Definition Audio (Onboard)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Warranty
1 Year Return-to-Base incl 1st Month Free Collect & Return

 

[lee50_10]

Nice i will post mine at the end of the week before my new one is dispatched.

 

[Blackdog]

This was my rig before pcs



(taken from r/techsupportgore)

 

[vanthus]

This was my rig before pcs

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(taken from r/techsupportgore)

Lol,bit dusty in there.

 

[lee50_10]

This was my rig before pcs

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(taken from r/techsupportgore)

I hope you take better care of your new one!!

 

[Blackdog]

Lol,bit dusty in there.

Yeah it was running a bit slow

 

[rickne]

wow I thought my old Dell Dimension was bad.

 

[bigben]

This was my rig before pcs

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(taken from r/techsupportgore)

Nice!

 

[Yamikotai]

(taken from r/techsupportgore)

That place is great. Everyone here should be on it.

r/TalesFromTechSupport, too.

 

[OneZeoN]

Here is my PCS order from 2008 :wacko:


Case CoolerMaster CM Stacker 831 Black Aluminium Case

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 (2 X 3.00GHz) 1333MHz FSB/6MB L2 Cache

Motherboard ASUS® P5N-E SLI: Quad-core CPU Ready, NVIDIA® Dual X8 SLI

Memory (RAM) 4GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x2GB)

Graphics Card 768MB GEFORCE 8800GTX PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

Memory - 1st Hard Disk 400GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive 20x Dual Layer LightScribe DVD Writer ±R/±RW/RAM

Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)

Power Supply 600W Quiet Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)

Processor Cooling ASUS SILENT KNIGHT II PURE COPPER ULTRA COOLER (£36)

Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy™ SE
Network Facilities ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD
Firewire 2 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORTS (1 onboard, 1 at back panel)

Operating System 64 BIT WINDOWS® VISTA Home Premium (inc CD & License) (£55)
Anti-Virus NORTON ANTI-VIRUS 2008 (£15)
Monitor LG L226WTQ 22 inch Wide: HDCP/DVI/2MS/1680 x1050 (Special: £179)

 

[Yamikotai]

My first desktop, bought and built by my mum
CPU: AMD Sempron 2600+
RAM: 2x256MB DDR-333
Mobo: *shrug*
GPU: Some ancient ATi card, then Nvidia 6800GT
Case: some crappy ATX tower with a spider on the front
OS: XP Pro
Cooler: Crappy Stock Cooler™

The first PC I bought and built myself, circa 2008:
CPU: Intel E8400 @ 3GHz, OC'd to 4GHz
RAM: 1x2GB DDR2-800, added another 2GB later
Mobo: XFX 780i
GPU: XFX GTX 260 XXX-edition
PSU: Corsair TX750 (used in my current built, and probably my next as well)
Case: the same case as previous
OS: XP Pro then onto 7 as soon as the Beta was out
Cooler: Scythe Ninja II
This machine is now my mum's

My current desktop, built myself:
CPU: Intel 2500K, OC'd to 4GHz
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3-1600
Mobo: Asus P8P67 Deluxe
GPU:GTX 560Ti
PSU: taken from previous build
Case: CoolerMaster HAF932
OS: Windows 7 64-bit, miiight move to Win8 if 8.1 is good
Cooler: Scythe Mugen III

 

[lee50_10]

My soon to be oldie which will be the kids PC.


AMD Phenom 9950 2.6GHZ
8gb DDR2 800
HD6670 which replaces the 4650 it came with in 2008 when i purchased.

 

[Boozad]

Here's another of my 'oldies' which is now the kids' PC. Linky.

 

[lee50_10]

Here's another of my 'oldies' which is now the kids' PC. Linky.

You upgraded quickly or was that always intended for the kids PC?

 

[Boozad]

You upgraded quickly or was that always intended for the kids PC?

I upgraded quickly. I bought that AMD rig without doing any research into parts, I'd fallen out of the loop when it came to hardware and just bought a rig that I knew was better than my old one. To be honest if I hadn't started gaming on it I wouldn't have upgraded but once I did I knew I had to have a top end rig. Plus it helped that the old one I gave the kids was just dying a death so better they have the AMD one and me have a much better one if I was going to buy another PC within three months.

 

[lee50_10]

I upgraded quickly. I bought that AMD rig without doing any research into parts, I'd fallen out of the loop when it came to hardware and just bought a rig that I knew was better than my old one. To be honest if I hadn't started gaming on it I wouldn't have upgraded but once I did I knew I had to have a top end rig. Plus it helped that the old one I gave the kids was just dying a death so better they have the AMD one and me have a much better one if I was going to buy another PC within three months.

Ok i see how much was did your old one set you back?

 

[Boozad]

It was £700 from PCS but I took out the 6670 and put a 7850-DC2T in it which cost £160.