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<Taps playing> Last night I booted up for the last time the first PC I ever built (shortly after joining Anandtech), and it booted into Windows XP flawlessly. It was born 5/17/2001 and the parts consisted of:
1) EPOX 8K7A motherboard,
2) AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHZ CPU (then updated in 2004 with an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred 2.0 GHz CPU) ,
3) 1GB of Crucial DDR SDRAM (upgraded to 2GB),
4) 3DFX VooDoo 3 Video card (Upgraded to an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder Video card),
5) 30GB Western Digital 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Upgraded to a 120GB WD HD),
6) Pioneer 16X DVD Burner,
7) 3 1/2" floppy disk reader,
8) 3COM 10/100 NIC PCI Card,
9) a Sound Blaster Live PCI Sound Card
10) a generic ATX case with power supply bought at Fry's
11) a PS2 Keyboard and mouse.
I pulled the hard drive this morning and took it to Goodwill for recycling. It was preceeded in life by a Commador 64, a Tandy TRS-80, an IBM PS2 model 50Z, and a generic 486 PC bought from Computer Warehouse.
12/6/2017 will be marked by me as a sad morning. May it rest in pieces </Taps Playing>
1) EPOX 8K7A motherboard,
2) AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHZ CPU (then updated in 2004 with an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred 2.0 GHz CPU) ,
3) 1GB of Crucial DDR SDRAM (upgraded to 2GB),
4) 3DFX VooDoo 3 Video card (Upgraded to an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder Video card),
5) 30GB Western Digital 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Upgraded to a 120GB WD HD),
6) Pioneer 16X DVD Burner,
7) 3 1/2" floppy disk reader,
8) 3COM 10/100 NIC PCI Card,
9) a Sound Blaster Live PCI Sound Card
10) a generic ATX case with power supply bought at Fry's
11) a PS2 Keyboard and mouse.
I pulled the hard drive this morning and took it to Goodwill for recycling. It was preceeded in life by a Commador 64, a Tandy TRS-80, an IBM PS2 model 50Z, and a generic 486 PC bought from Computer Warehouse.
12/6/2017 will be marked by me as a sad morning. May it rest in pieces </Taps Playing>
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