What CPU/system was everyone running in 2000 or before?

[996GT2]

Ah, the good old days of computer nostalgia . I'll start...In 2000 our family got a brand new Dell Dimension 4100 and it packed quite a punch for its day.

1 GHz Pentium III Coppermine
512mb 133 MHz SDRAM
60GB, 7200RPM HDD (Maxtor, but it still runs like new)
32MB nVidia TNT2 AGP
CD-RW drive

So, what were you guys running on right at the turn of the millenium?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Man, hard to remember late '99 for system, but iirc- K6-2 500@570mhz (golden orb cooler) on Epox MVP3?- 192mb PC100? SDRAM- 8gb Maxtor UDMA 33- 8mb ATI@play PCI vid card- win98 S.E. I do remember my bud set me up with a Duron 700 and KT7 shortly after they were available, and the performance jump from my last setup was huge after overclocking to 950mhz and upgrading vid card and HDD to ATA66.

 

[broly8877]

IBM Aptiva
500MHz P3
256MB PC100
20GB HDD
Some sort of ATI card with tv tuner
DVD Reader
CD-RW

 

[Ionizer86]

AMD Thunderbird 1.0b
256MB PC133 SDRAM on KT133 (MSI 6330 board)
40GB Maxtor 5400 RPM
Geforce 2 GTS
PCI based 10/100 card (boards didn't have integrated LAN then)
Sound Blaster 128
Some CD-RW (12x?)

 

[Solema]

1GHz PIII
1GB PC133
60GB 7200RPM HDD
32MB GeForce2 GTS
SB Live

I built it for my work.

 

[dexvx]

P3-700 @ 933
Asus CUBX
512MB PC133
32MB GeForce DDR

 

[aka1nas]

early 2000

350Mhz K6-2 @ 380Mhz
crappy Aladdin V -based mobo
196MB PC 100
6GB Hard Drive
Guillemot MaxiGamer Xentor (16MB TNT2)
Sound Blaster Live


Late 2000
Athlon K7 700Mhz
crappy KX133 mobo
256MB PC100
30GB HD
Guillemot MaxiGamer Xentor (16MB TNT2)
Sound Blaster Live

 

[cjsketchy]

I had a Dell... I think it had
P3 500
128mb memory
6x CD-RW
Voodoo3 3000

Not sure how big the hard drive was. Played Starcraft, Diablo 2 and Half-Life/CS nicely

 

[Bobthelost]

450mhz DVD imac, or was that 2001, i forget.

 

[StrangerGuy]

K6-2 500MHz
PC133 128MB SDRAM
Geforce2 Ti

 

[acegazda]

I had a dell in the mid 90's right up to 2001 when it died:
xps3200 it was called
200mhz pentium
128 RAM
2x2gb hd
voodoo3 3000 pci gfx
Kick ass pc untill half life came out. It couldn't run it for it's life (no pun intended as it dies shortly upon the release)

 

[Ika]

At that point we were still running our old Pentium rig.

Let's see if I can remember...

Pentium 166mhz
64mb ram? or was it 128...
1x 1.36gb hd
1x 1.01gb hd
Diamond 3DStealth (??? no idea... something like that)
8x CD-ROM
Sound Blaster Live!

 

[videoclone]

Athlon T-bird 700Mhz
Nvidia TNT2 32Mb
196MB ram
20GB hard drive

Twas My first AMD ...I upgraded from a Intel Celeron 433Mhz and have never gone back .. ^_^ Good thing i got a Kawasaki ZXR Ninja otherwise i would be looking at the Intel Core 2 very closely ... but the My PC upgrade has taken second place over a bike upgrade

 

[stevty2889]

P3 600mhz Katami
256mb PC100
diamond stealth 3d 32mb
13gb hard drive

 

[classy]

I had Athlon 700 with MSI K7Pro and Gainward GTS2 Pro 450 golden sample, I still have the video card.

 

[Griswold]

A 1.1GHz T-Bird on some Asus mobo with like 512MB RAM and ... dont remember the rest.
Before that, it was a dual P2-400, also on some whacky asus mobo. Was a cheapo deal for the dualie mobo and 2 processors and I was curious about SMP. Not much later, I bought the same mobo with a single socket and ran 2 seperate rigs instead.

 

[evilbix]

p3 450@600
128mb sd100 kingston
8 gig hd
tnt2 later replaced by a free geforce 256 (sadly the tnt2 overclocked to over double stock speed, but eventually burned out)
17 inch crt

 

[TuxDave]

I believe I was running a P3 500MHz and playing the original Unreal Tournament daily.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I had a borrowed K62-350 running on some crappy VIA board. I alternated between an ATI Rage Fury II (32 meg) and a Voodoo3 as I recall.

The rest of the system was something like . . . 128 megs of RAM plus my old Adaptec AHA-2940UW with a 4-gig WD UWSCSI HDD, my trusty Toshiba 12x SCSI CD-Rom, a spare 2-gig IDE drive, an Ensoniq AudioPCI, and uh . . . probably my Diamond IDE 33.6 modem.

I kicked that to the curb in Jan. of 2001 for my 1.4 ghz T-bird.

 

[RallyMaster]

K6-2 350MHz on my old Compaq.

Father still using his P3 600MHz w/ SpeedStep in his laptop.

 

[ruijorge]

PIII 1 Ghz
384MB pc133
30 GB 5400 rpm
geforce 2 gts 32 mb

 

[Billyzeke]

Plll 550mhz
128 MB PC133
20 GB HD
32MB nvidia TNT2
Soundblaster Live
Windows 98
Samsung DVD

And its all still kicking except the dvd drive that crapped out last year.
My dad still uses it everyday, memory and graphics have been upgraded.
Im giving him my current rig once I get my Conroe build up and running,
then we'll both be flyin'!

 

[nemesismk2]

I think I was still using my AMD K6 II 550mhz (ran hot as hell), 32mb Palit Geforce2 MX and Gigabyte GA5AA (ALI Aladdin V). When the AMD Duron 750Mhz was released I quickly upgraded my motherboard and the speed increase was HUGE!

I've been using AMD processors since I upgraded from a intel 386 dx 40mhz to intel 486 dx4 100mhz to intel pentium 75mhz and then to the fancy AMD K6 200mhz.

 

[wolfman11]

Let's see:

AMD Thunderbird 900mhz
512 meg of crucial RAM
20 gig maxtor hard disk
3dfx VooDoo3 3000 PCI graphics with 16meg of RAM
Tyan trinity 2390KT motherboard (I believe this was the model...)
Enlight case w/stock 340 watt power supply

Was a nice rig in its day...

 

[avi85]

733MHz coppermine
128MB PC133
15GB Hard Disk
Diamond Speedstar GFX card
POS mobo

I still have this computer running till this day, it is now used as an IPcop box.