What was YOUR biggest system performance jump ever?

[noxipoo]

i went from

486 16mhz SX with 4 megs of ram, 80 meg HD, 512k VID to

p1-233MX 64 meg ram, 4.3 gig HD, 4 meg video card.

i thought i'd never fill up the hardrive, then i discovered video and mp3... which i was never able to run

 

[b1029384756]

12 MHz 286 w/ 1MB RAM, basic VGA, 120MB HD to
450MHz P2 w/ 128MB RAM, 32MB TNT2 Ultra, 27GB HD.

 

[Precision]

AMD 2100+
512 crucial RAM
9800 pro 256
come with case 400W PSU

to that down there V

 

[||Console||]

hmm i went from a p1 200mmx @ 233 (running win xp ) to a abit n7s v2 /2400+m @2.7 with a 9800 pro it was a big jump

 

[Tebore]

My jump was from a

AMD K6-2 500 Oc'ed to 550
192mb of PC100 SDRAM
32Meg ATI Rage Fury Pro
30Gig 7200RPM Maxtor
SBLive!
No name motherboard
Windows ME

to a
AMD AXP 1800+
512 PC2100 DDR
32Meg GF2 MX200
30Gig 7200RPM Maxtor
Gigabyte GA-7DXR+.
SBLive.
Windows XP

It was a night at day difference. The performance increases since have only been in benchmarks.

 

[DvBoard]

3.75 years ago: 350mHZ PII w/64MB's Ram and onboard video to sig rig.

before that went from a 486 running @ 33mHZ(?) to the 350mHZ PII. No idea of RAM on the 486, but it definattly wasn't much!

 

[rtscaptain]

Before:
3.2ghz P4 775
512mb ram
All-in-wonder 9600 128mb

After:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ AM2
1gb
eVGA 7950GT 512mb

 

[goog`]

don't know, I've allways done incremal upgrades but probably the biggest was from my 3.2 pent d with x850xt and 1.5 gig to the comp in my sig. However it has less ram so in certian things it seems slower

 

[XxNightfirexX]

Before: (custom built for me at a computer show)
AMD Athlon 550(?) maybe it was 750, I can't remember now, its been long since junked
256 meg generic value ram
el'cheapo 3d card (can't remember make/model)
SB Live! 5.1 card (added myself)

After: (my first build and OC)
AMD XP2500+ (which I OC'ed to a 3200) on an Abit NF7S rev.2 mobo
Ti4200
Went with onboard sound (sounded better than my SB card)
512 megs Corsaire TwinX


Night and Day would be a good way to describe the difference in performance.

 

[Max0r]

By the way, when we moved from DOS to Windows (as in 3.1) there was a performance drop.

Yeah, but I bet you just couldn't resist Rattler Race

 

[Stedeman]

The biggest jumps for me was
1) compac cel 400 64mb 6GB win98 to a home built K6-2 500 256mb 20GB on win98se
2) first time I set up RAID 0
3) SCSI U320
4) my first SMP configuration (the biggest jump)

 

[Seven]

Ah, the good ol' days of Cyrix computers.

If I could remember the first computer I owned (I was 3), I would state it, but if it's any help I remember it to be a red and a black/grey kind of color. 5.5" floppys, etc. Reader Rabbit never looked better.

 

[HarlanC]

Well the biggest definatly would of had to been back when my mom paid $500 for a total POS. Intel 300 mhz, 256mb ram, ON BOARD video.

To my 1.9ghz AMD Athlon, with 512mb ram, ATI Radeon 9600 PRO vid card.

THEN

I got what my current system is

ASUS A8n SLi, AMD Athlon 3700+, 2gb G.skill ram, Ati Radeon X300se.

 

[Gig-O-Ram]

I remember back in '94 when I was going to DeVry Tech for a little while, I was taking this computer course that basically was a lesson in Windows and Word/Spreadsheets and some CAD (which I don't recall anything about), and also a little bit about some of the tech aspects, like looking at a spec sheet and knowing what it all meant.

I don't know if this was necessarily current tech or not at the time, but if I had wanted to buy a PC, I would have looked for Windows 3.1, an Intel Pentium 333 - or something like that, 128MB of RAM and a 500MB HDD. A card for video or on board didn't seem to be an issue one way or the other.

By the time we bought our first PC in '99, things had changed so much that I was sort of back to square one as far as the tech stuff. They were on Win98SE, and P3's, RAM capacity had gone way up and we thought we'd never ever fill a 20GB HDD. They asked me if I wanted to play games, and I was like "I dunno" - so I then got a game and my first lesson in why what we got couldn't handle it.

 

[JimmyG]

Yeah, but I bet you just couldn't resist Rattler Race

I liked Pac Man better.

 

[Max0r]

I liked Pac Man better.

Heathen.

 

[frenzy20]

I went from a P3 500mhz, 64MB RAM, 16MB Voodoo 3 2000, 12GB HDD to a P4 3.0ghz Northwood, 512MB RAM, 128MB ATi Radeon 9600Pro, 80GB HDD.

I built a computer for someone that went from a AMD K6 system to a P4 2.8

 

[schnikies79]

trs-80 CoCo to a 486 dx2 66mhz

 

[CordialSpam]

Pentium 3 500mhz with 128mb ram to Pentium 4 2ghz with 512ram I think

 

[~(o)-(0)~]

I had an AMD k6-2 500 @ 600 with about 256 mb of RAM and a 40 gig hd with a radeon 7000, I jumped to an Athlon Xp Barton 2500 with 512 and kept the rest, oh man I had never seen nething that fast