Favorite hardware of all time

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

P2 233 Slot 1 and Voodoo 2. That was awesome!
Tas.

 

[Oyeve]

My first computer (actually my second as my sister broke my Atari 400):

Atari 800XL (still works and I still turn it on every now and then)
Have the Enhanced floppy drive model 1050 (a whole 170k per side)
Have the 4 color plotter/printer
Have the tape drive (back in the day, before floppies, we used cassette drives for storage)

Total cost at the time: $1200

I remember waiting 60 mins for Jumpman to load from cassette only to fail loading at the end. The good old days. Floppies were 10 bucks a pop.

 

[epsilon9090]

Definitely AMD Athlon 64, that processor is awesome.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Voodoo 5 6000.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Voodoo 5 6000.

Oooh, I always wanted one of those! I miss 3dfx.

 

[JDCentral]

yeah.. wtf, nVidia.

Buying 3dfx and then totally canning all their schweet ideas.... bringing back SLI ages after it should have been here!

 

[Varun]

Originally posted by: Kensai
Voodoo 5 6000.

That was one HUGE card for its day. I think if they would have got it out on time they might not have went belly up.

I'm going to add my Diamond Monster MX300 sound card - Aureal Vortex 2 chipset. A3D blew me away in games like Unread Tournament.

nVidia bought 3dfx and never implemented their ideas, but at least nVidia had a great product already. Creative bought Aureal and burried A3D as far as they could. A3D was simply amazing compared to crappy EAX.

 

[Leros]

ATI 7200 32mb

I still use that card. Bought it 5-6 years ago.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Abit BH6 & Celeron 300a@464 combo by a longshot.

 

[KayKay]

NES powerglove. never had it, but i had a poster of it on my wall

 

[AndrewZorn]

western digital raptor 74gb

too bad the insurance company collected my old computer as salvage, and too bad i cant afford another one

 

[dheffer]

GeForce 2 Ultra
Multi Unlocked 1.4ghz T Bird, cant remember the stepping

 

[ROcHE]

Originally posted by: pg22
Diamond Monster 3D, with 3D accelerated versions of MechWarrior 2, Tomb Raider, and the ability to play GLQuake.

Talking about ushering in 3D with a bang. There was nothing ever like it on the PC.

Same here. I miss 3dfx

Also, Abit NF7-S rev.2

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Remember Forsaken with Glide?
Tas.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Abit BH6 & Celeron 300a@464 combo by a longshot.

Oh yeah baby! I still have that setup! Best combo ever! I will never get rid of that baby!

 

[Markfw]

The original soundblaster. I remember Wing Commander, and the first real sound other than beeps was so exciting ! Made games so much more fun !

 

[Budmantom]

9800pro

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Athlon XP 1700+ Throughbred B DLT3C.

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Originally posted by: Varun
ABIT NF7-S v2.0

 

[cptCuervo]

Dell 2005FPW....


"Once you go wide, you never go back!"

 

[PremiumG]

nobody's mentioned the Abit BP6 or VP6 yet???

first cheap SMP for the everyday people!
i jumped in on the VP6 with 2 P3's. That was awesome.... should've kept it.. dont see much of a difference when i upgraded to an Athlon XP 2400.