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What was YOUR biggest system performance jump ever?
- Thread starter Max0r
- Start date
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2005
- Location
- Christchurch, New Zealand
Before
AMD K6-2 450
16mb ram
Voodoo 3 3000 16mb ram
After
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
512mb ram
Leadtek MX440 64mb ram
Edit: Going from a ZX81 to a Spectrum was all so kind of cool.......Color!!!!!!! well kind of
AMD K6-2 450
16mb ram
Voodoo 3 3000 16mb ram
After
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
512mb ram
Leadtek MX440 64mb ram
Edit: Going from a ZX81 to a Spectrum was all so kind of cool.......Color!!!!!!! well kind of
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- Joined
- Sep 24, 2005
- Location
- Indianapolis
Before:
PIII 500mhz gateway, prolly some crappy video card, 64MB RAM, a lot of stuff I don't remember
After:
AXP 2000+, 512MB DDR266 RAM, Radeon 9000Pro 128MB AGP, 80GB ATA100 HDD
After that broke (downgrade):
Celeron D 2.93Ghz, 512MB DDR333, Onboard video
, 80GB ATA100 HDD
After that got replaced:
System in sig + 7900GT (which has since been sold)
PIII 500mhz gateway, prolly some crappy video card, 64MB RAM, a lot of stuff I don't remember
After:
AXP 2000+, 512MB DDR266 RAM, Radeon 9000Pro 128MB AGP, 80GB ATA100 HDD
After that broke (downgrade):
Celeron D 2.93Ghz, 512MB DDR333, Onboard video
, 80GB ATA100 HDDAfter that got replaced:
System in sig + 7900GT (which has since been sold)
- Joined
- Aug 31, 2005
- Location
- Sanford, NC
Before I had what I have in my sig, I had a 400MHz P2 with a 8GB harddrive, 256MB RAM (was 64MB) and a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP video card and running Win 98.
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2006
- Location
- Barnegat, NJ
My biggest jump? I think i win.
p233
64mb ram
8gb hard drive
to
rig in my sig (except i had a 4000+ in there for about 2 weeks)
the p233 was mine, but i used the family 2.93ghz celeron D for alot of stuff. I got my current rig as payment for an e-store.
p233
64mb ram
8gb hard drive
to
rig in my sig (except i had a 4000+ in there for about 2 weeks)
the p233 was mine, but i used the family 2.93ghz celeron D for alot of stuff. I got my current rig as payment for an e-store.
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2006
integrated graphics to 6800gs
- Joined
- Jul 5, 2003
- Location
- Frederick, MD
266mhz Cyrix -> 1.33ghz T-bird
and on the laptop side:
133mhz P1 -> 1.33ghz P3 celly
and on the laptop side:
133mhz P1 -> 1.33ghz P3 celly
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2005
- Location
- Massachusetts
200Mhz Pentium II Aptiva w/ 128Mb of RAM, 40Gb HDD, Intergrated Video, and Chernobyl to my sig.
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- Joined
- Feb 20, 2001
My dad went from a 486DX2-66/8MB/560MB/1MB VGA system to a K6-2-350/64MB/6.4GB/8MB VGA system. Massive jump.
My own rigs I'd take ages to list, they all tend to get upgraded every so often. My current desktop rig has had 7 different hard disks in it at one time or another.
My own rigs I'd take ages to list, they all tend to get upgraded every so often. My current desktop rig has had 7 different hard disks in it at one time or another.
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2006
oh, i have another one...
from pentium (R) to p4 2.4B
it seemed like a miracle back then
from pentium (R) to p4 2.4B
it seemed like a miracle back then
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2005
i dont no if this counts, but i was using the one in my sig with a abit fatal1ty an8 sli, and the chipset died (somehow the the heatsink managed to fall off and it asploded due to heat damage) so, when i was saving up for a new mobo, i used an ibm t40 laptop with an extra 512 megs of ram. so basically:
Before:
1.5 GHz pentium M
1gb RAM PC2100/ddr266 (Some people like the ddr#, others like the pc#, this makes everyone happy)
ATI radeon 7500 Mobile
60gb 4200 rpm hdd
After:
see sig
Before:
1.5 GHz pentium M
1gb RAM PC2100/ddr266 (Some people like the ddr#, others like the pc#, this makes everyone happy)
ATI radeon 7500 Mobile
60gb 4200 rpm hdd
After:
see sig
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2004
- Location
- Madison, WI
I can't decide what the biggest jump was for me-
1)Apple IIC
2)386
3)486 dx4 100
4)PII 300
5)Athlon t-bird 1.1ghz
6)athlon xp3200
7)current sig comp
I think the PII->Athlon would probably be the most, but I'm not sure....
1)Apple IIC
2)386
3)486 dx4 100
4)PII 300
5)Athlon t-bird 1.1ghz
6)athlon xp3200
7)current sig comp
I think the PII->Athlon would probably be the most, but I'm not sure....
- Joined
- Sep 2, 2005
- Location
- Vancouver, B.C.
Before:
Sempron 3000+
512 MB RAM
FX5200
After:
comp in sig.
Sempron 3000+
512 MB RAM
FX5200
After:
comp in sig.
- Joined
- Jan 3, 2006
This goes WAAYYY back to the summer between my freshmen and sophomore years in highschool
BEFORE!!
-My Gateway "beige beastie"
Pentium 133Mhz w/ a "turbo" button to pop that sucker to 200Mhz
32Mb Ram
8Mb graphics card
28.8k dial up!! FTW
AFTER!!
-Alienware Area-51 Aurora
Intel P4 1.7Ghz *(according to the sales rep, one of the first 100 they sold!!)
384Mb RAM woot
ATI Radeon 8500LE
Soundblaster Live! XGamer
DSL upgrade (thank you santa!!)
That was the GREATEST performance pop I ever saw. ill get around to listing my current rig later.
BEFORE!!
-My Gateway "beige beastie"
Pentium 133Mhz w/ a "turbo" button to pop that sucker to 200Mhz
32Mb Ram
8Mb graphics card
28.8k dial up!! FTW
AFTER!!
-Alienware Area-51 Aurora
Intel P4 1.7Ghz *(according to the sales rep, one of the first 100 they sold!!)
384Mb RAM woot
ATI Radeon 8500LE
Soundblaster Live! XGamer
DSL upgrade (thank you santa!!)
That was the GREATEST performance pop I ever saw. ill get around to listing my current rig later.
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2005
The first computer we ever owned was built by Gateway, and it had a P3 @2.4ghz, with 512MB of RAM, a 20GB HDD and a 64MB video card, which I later changed to 128MB card.
The first computer I had built for me by a small computer sales/service company had a P4 2.6ghz with 512MB/RAM, 60 or 80GB(?) HDD, and 128MB of video, which I later bumped to a 256MB card. Later, I had the same guy build me another system with a P4 3.2ghz, 1GB/RAM, 120GB HDD(which I still use), and 256MB video.
My current rig (see sig) is the first one I built myself, plus my wife's setup (which was put together by the guy I mentioned), and now our laptop which has Dual Core going on. I'd say we've moved up from what we started with...
The first computer I had built for me by a small computer sales/service company had a P4 2.6ghz with 512MB/RAM, 60 or 80GB(?) HDD, and 128MB of video, which I later bumped to a 256MB card. Later, I had the same guy build me another system with a P4 3.2ghz, 1GB/RAM, 120GB HDD(which I still use), and 256MB video.
My current rig (see sig) is the first one I built myself, plus my wife's setup (which was put together by the guy I mentioned), and now our laptop which has Dual Core going on. I'd say we've moved up from what we started with...
My biggest performance jump was from a TRS-80 model III with no hard drive to a Tandy 1200 (IBM XT clone). There was two orders of magnitude improvement. After that I upgraded quite frequently and never saw a huge performance jump.
By the way, when we moved from DOS to Windows (as in 3.1) there was a performance drop.
By the way, when we moved from DOS to Windows (as in 3.1) there was a performance drop.
