What are your old computers?

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adaeon

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I have a bunch of old computers and decided to see what they would do. They performed quite surprisingly.

Computer 1:

Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
640 MB 133 MHz SDRAM
64 MB Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 500
This computer ran Doom 3 completely maxed, 1280x1024 resolution. How I have no idea, considering I had problems with Computer 4 running this game.

Computer 2:

Intel Celeron Dual Core @ 1.6 GHz
1 GB DDR2 667 MHz RAM
256 MB ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
This computer ran Oblivion completely maxed, 1920x1080 resolution.

Computer 3:

Intel Pentium 4 HT CPU @ 2.4 GHz
2 GB DDR2 667 MHz RAM
512 MB Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT
This computer ran Starcraft II on medium settings, 1024x768 resolution. Average framerates around 15-18, intense scenes dropped it below 10.

Computer 4:

Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz (No HT)
1 GB DDR 333 MHz RAM (PC2700)
256 MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra (Bloodymonster 3)
This computer ran Crysis on medium-high settings, 1024x768 resolution, with 15-20 fps, but had problems running Doom 3 maxed (1280x1024) at over 20 fps.

Just randomly interested in hearing some of the weird things your old machines can do.
 
Still on my Inspiron 2650. 1.4ghz P4, 512mb of RAM.

Last build that I bought from my brother a couple years ago had a P4 at 3.33ghz, but it had hyperthreading, I think, so basically a dual core, 2GB of ram, and a ATI x1950 pro. Then I upgraded to a dualcore e6800 at 3.33ghz, and a ATI 4670.

My Inspiron can run vice city and san andreas, surprisingly. And my P4/e6800 could run COD with no problems.
 
Actually, Pentium 4 1.4 GHz and 512 MB RAM are the minimum requirements for San Andreas. Vice City, however, you should be able to run maxed fairly well, depending on the video card you have in that machine.

Where did you find an ATI X1950? They still sell new-in-box X1950s for $200+. I've been trying to get my hands on one for a long time for my old AGP machine I have running a P4 3.2 HT and 4 GB DDR-400 RAM. Currently it's got a 256 MB GeForce 6800 XT in it.

The E6800 and ATI 4670 would be an awesome combo, especially paired with 4 GB of 1333 MHz RAM or more.
 
The two oldest computers in my house:

Gateway E-Series desktop
3.2Ghz P4
1.5GB RAM
250GB HDD
Radeon 9550
Still runs perfectly fine. Reloaded it two or three times, but never had any bad hardware.

Dell Latitude D600
1.6Ghz Pentium M
1GB RAM
Runs pretty slow but it's not used a whole ton.
 
adaeon said:
Actually, Pentium 4 1.4 GHz and 512 MB RAM are the minimum requirements for San Andreas. Vice City, however, you should be able to run maxed fairly well, depending on the video card you have in that machine.

Where did you find an ATI X1950? They still sell new-in-box X1950s for $200+. I've been trying to get my hands on one for a long time for my old AGP machine I have running a P4 3.2 HT and 4 GB DDR-400 RAM. Currently it's got a 256 MB GeForce 6800 XT in it.

The E6800 and ATI 4670 would be an awesome combo, especially paired with 4 GB of 1333 MHz RAM or more.
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Like I said, its from an old build so my brother bought it when he built it. Must've been a pretty good GPU back then. I still have it. I thought it was artifacting but I did just boot it up a little bit ago and it was going good. Only artifacted on the boot screen. It really only did that because it was overheating. If you slap a better cooler on it, it should run fine. I'd sell it to you for cheap but you don't have enough posts to do so.

And unfortunately, it only had 2GB of DDR2 667 RAM. That was the bottleneck.

A quick check of ebay showed lots of x1950 pros for sale under $100.
 
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My old build,

Athlon 64 3700+ 2.8GHz Socket 754 CPU
1GB DDR RAM
80GB Western Digital IDE HDD
2x DVD-RW drives (IDE)
1x floppy disk drive
1x multimedia card reader (nicked from an old HP)
GeForce 6600 GT 128MB AGP
Antec 450W PSU
Adaptec SCSI card (got no SCSI disks at the moment though)
Windows XP Pro SP3

I play Flight Simulator 2004 on this machine and on medium-ghigh settings (default) at 800x600 I gwt about 60 FPS! :)

I did used to have a Radeon X800 XT Platinum (see my sig) but this card died a death at the end of October...
 
#1 (currently down)
Socket 7 AMD K6-2
Integrated of some sort. Dont remember exactly what version though.
128 MB RAM
250 GB IDE drive
Windows 98SE

Used to just type on at the moment. Dont really have a logical use for it to do much else.

#2 (on a mount in me truck)
P4m 2,53 GHz
Raedon IGP340m
768 MB DDR
120 GB HDD
Windows 2Kpro

Runs a GPS system for business (agricultural) as well as printing work orders and running estimates. Does it fine, but could use some cooling to aide it. May rig that up soon, since im on downtime.

#3 (test bed)
Pentium 3 800
Gigabyte motherboard
Geforce 2 PCI.
768 MB RAM
250 GB HDD x 2
Windows 2kpro, Linux distro that changes frequently.

I use it when I'm not on my Latitude laptop. It is used as file storage most of the time, and for testing Linux distros. Might try to OC it to 1000 MHz soon.
 
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wolfe, I'm feeling like you should make that K6 a dos rig!

oldest working computer I have is a dell laptop

486 66 or 100 mhz?
24 mb ram running windows 98.
just sits there... gunna sell it eventually

pretty sure I have a 386 in my attic.

I have another laptop that is a P1 133 with 32mb ram, running windows 95 for dos games.

Oldest desktop i'm working on is a P2 233mhz with 384 mb ram, fx5200, 10 gb hd... windows 98 - for dos games.
 
The oldest working computer I have is an IBM PC from 1981.

4.77Mhz NEC V20 Processor
CGA display card (capable of 4 colors!)
640K memory (64K on MB, 576K on expansion card)
2 360K floppy drives
DOS 2.1


Can't really use it for anything much today but it's very nostalgic for me since it's just like my first computer. However, I have software for word processing, spreadsheet, assembler, compilers, games, etc... that run on it.

I actually have 2 of these plus an IBM XT which is very similar but has a huge 10MB hard drive and 8 expansion slots instead of 5.
 
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My only 2 old computers..I refuse to call my other 4 old yet :P

iMac G3 (blue, whatever the hell they called that color)
233mhz
196mb ram
4gb hdd
Installed OSX 10.3 from OS9. It was 5 bucks, I figured I could mess around with it. I had my fun with it, learning what a G3 was capable of. In Short, not much in todays world :P

iMac G4 (flower pot thingamajigger)
700mhz
512mb ram
some sort of hard drive
Running OSX 10.5
had to hack install Leopard on there since the req is 800mhz. Runs fine, well, at least as the digital photo frame I use it for :P
 
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Actually i thought we were talking about old computers. But agree, they are not old.
How about TRS-80 and built and soldered all parts with 4k of mem and a 9" green screen. 4k of mem. cassette interface and no hard drive out yet. No internet either.
Z80 processor with 8 bit data buss.

Imsai i think 8080 processor in a kit also.

Comadore Pet 6502 processor i believe.

Sol terminal. 8008 processor.

No such thing as a printer. Disc drives was 8" drives.
2 or 4k of memory was a lot.

Only thing left i have now is original disc like windows 2000, 98SE, 95 0sr2 and all dos 4, 5 and 6 on orginal cd's.

Still have 4 computers left in garage, two laptops, two computer rooms, one in basement. Don't have one in the bathroom yet.
 
I forgot to say that my Athlon box is not my oldest, we have a bunch of old machines in the loft, stuff like ZX Spectrums and Dragon32s and Orics. I think there's even a BBC Micro up there too.
 
I don't really have any. I didn't really get into computer games until well after XP was released. Games like Global Operations (best ever), Medal of Honour: European Assault, Counter Strike, and the like. Had a few other various games around like jeapordy, but they all need 95+ to run, so DOS isn't really an option.
 
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