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What was YOUR biggest system performance jump ever?

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1.8ghz celeron 256mb of ram, windows 98, craptastic grphics 30gb of space

to

AMD 3000+ s939 venice @ 2.7ghz
DFI ultra-d
1gig of ram
120gig seagate
6600gt
 
Amd K6-2 350@400 tnt 2 256 MB ram WD 15 gig HD--->
-->AMD XP 1700 512 MB ram GF 2mx400 WD 40 gig HD

I have had a couple of A64 rigs plus the rig I'm on now came after the 1700 but they were not near the jump coming from the k6-2.
 
p3 600mhz/ati rage 128 xpert/ 256mb ram / win98
to
AXP 3000+/256mb fx5900ultra/1gb ddr/ win xp :D

Massive upgrades ftw :D
 
Take a pick:

A 1997 P1 200Mhz, 48MB RAM (upgraded from 24MB), and some other stuff (HP Pavilion something or another, don't remember much) running Win95
to
A 2001 P3 866Mhz, 128MB RAM, 16MB ATI Rage Pro (one of the white-tower Dells) running WinME, with me dropping in 2000 eventually.

OR

An early-mid 90s Power Macintosh 6200 running OS7 (not sure, since I'm at college right now and due to memory) with unknown specs
to
The above-mentioned P1

I don't know which one to pick, since I can't exactly remember old performance that well (mainly an issue with the Mac going to the P1). I do remember catching Carmen Sandiego on that old Mac and making ink-wasting picture printouts in whatever passed for Paint on the old Macs - ahh, childhood.
 
ehh...a few years back...

From:
AMD Duron 950
MSI K7tturbo2 mobo
768mb PC133
10GB hdd
32MB nVidia TNT2

Pic of the Duron
100_3822.jpg

To:
2.4c Northwood P4 o/c @ 2.9Ghz
ASUS P4P800S
100GB HDD
1GB PC3200
128MB ATi Radeon 9100

Pic of the P4
100_3784.jpg

Both together now
White Case = Duron
Black Case w/Blue Lighting = P4
100_3859-1.jpg


Haha...and I was so happy to run at 73°F w/ the P4... on air cooling.
73F.jpg
 
When I went from a K6-2 350 w/ 64 MB RAM to an Athlon T-bird 1200 w/ 256 MB RAM and a Geforce 2 GTS. That was biggest in terms of percentage.

Unless you count going from a Texas Instruments TI99-4A or whatever that thing was that connected to the TV to an IBM PC clone.
 
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