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Hardware that OWNED

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Pyrolistical

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Throughout the year in the computer industry, there were components that were ahead of their time in term of price/performance. Anybody who knows something about computer hardware will recognize these parts as they probably own a few of them! I certainly do not know them all, but I shall start a list here. Please add to my list. :)


3dfx Voodoo2
NVIDIA TNT
NVIDIA GeForce 4 TI4200 (oc to TI4400)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (mod to 9700 Pro)
NVIDIA GeForce FX 6800 GT (oc to Ultra)

Intel Celeron 300a (oc to 500)
AMD Duron 600Mhz (pencil trick to 1Ghz!)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (oc to more than 3000+)
AMD Athlon64 3000+ (oc to 3200+)

19" Mitsubishi DP-930SB (Sharp 1600x1200@85Hz)
 
Voodoo2 12MB: circa 98' (or 97' ?) Fast and beautiful.
Celeron 300A: cost me $80 clams back then but was better than paying about $200 for a Pentium II 450. Only managed 464Mhz out of it but I couldn't complain.

Abit BX6-2.0: badass board, in matter of fact I still have it.
 
Intel socket 7 P55C 166mhz capable of oc'ing to 233mhz with ease :)
 
Back when I had my 32mb TNT2 ultra, it wasn't that expensive (can't remember the actual price) and it lasted me years. I'm talking...I just upgraded to a 9600 pro like a year ago. It actually could almost handle some pretty hefty games (GTA3 and whatnot, seeing as the TNT2 is...umm...old) and its still in the computer it was originally bought for and running like a charm.

Oh those were the days, where a top of the line video card could play everything for longer then a month or two :eek:
 
Jeigh said:
Back when I had my 32mb TNT2 ultra, it wasn't that expensive (can't remember the actual price) and it lasted me years. I'm talking...I just upgraded to a 9600 pro like a year ago. It actually could almost handle some pretty hefty games (GTA3 and whatnot, seeing as the TNT2 is...umm...old) and its still in the computer it was originally bought for and running like a charm.

Oh those were the days, where a top of the line video card could play everything for longer then a month or two :eek:
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I actually haggled for that TNT2U card. Microcenter misprinted an ad to say that the Ultra was $179 instead of $250, when they really meant the non-Ultra version. I talked with the manager for a while to honor it, he said he could match it halfway, but not honor the ad price, so I left. Then I realized I was an idiot, and a TNT2U at the time for $220 was a steal, so I walked back in -- by that time, he felt bad, and gave it to me for $179. Recently I got. . . $20 for it?

This was my first 3D card, excluding the VooDoo 1 with the dongle to your 2D card :D
 
Intel Celeron 300A, overclocked to 500+mhz
Intel Celeron II 533, 566, 600's. overclocked to 1000+ mhz
Intel Pentium 4 1.6a & 2.4c, overclocks of 50% common
Abit BE6-II, legendary overclocking 440bx board
Abit BP6 and later the VP6, legendary smp overclocking boards
Nvidia TNT2Ultra, first kick ass 3d card
Nvidia Geforce DDR, totally blew away the competition
Nvidia Geforce 4 TI4200, overclocked to over ti4600 speeds, bang for teh buck
Ati 9800's. modable to pro's and xt's, bang for teh buck
Golden Orb HSF, revolutionary hsf design imo
Any BH-5 ram...1:1 with 2-2-2 timings at high fsb's cant argue with that.
 
I can't believe no one has mentioned the Celeron 366 or the PIII 700 (100 mhz FSB). Those were great chips to overclock with as well. I had two 366's that hit 550 in a BP6 and two 700's that hit 933 in a VP6. Those were some pretty good overclocks, there.

Also, the 440BX chipset. That was one bad assed chipset, and if it weren't for the fact that the feature set is WAY outdated, I'd probably still have one. Heck, I would still have one running if I had faster slot 1 PIII chips laying around.

The Athlons. These babies are the reason that we have clockspeeds as high as we do. If not, Intel would still be controlling processor release schedules, and we wouldn't be anywhere near the performance levels we are at today.

The GeForce. This card revolutionized 3D graphics acceleration. It helped put a death nail into 3dfx as well.
 
Acascianelli mentioned the Golden Orb and I have to agree because I think it was the first good aftermarket HSF available through retail channels, enabling people, like myself, to OC their PCs like never before. Sure, Delta and Globalwin had better performing products on the market before it, but their big and noisy HSFs were really niche products and targeted to a relatively small demographic at the time. I think more cooling products (air/water/etc) should be on the list; they are more significant than some of the video cards mentioned.

-TFR
 
i had a celeron 600 @ 1035 on gorb :D how many 72% overclocks do you see nowadays on air cooling ;)
 
Pyrolistical said:
That's it? Has to be more than that!
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The Pentium M, but that still owns, so I don't know if that counts or not.
 
Thermaltake SK6 for being one of the first copper heatsinks, ahead of its time when it came to heatsinks.....

And Klipsch 4.1 speakers. These badboys made other companies like logitech produce good speakers.... When they came out they were like the only 400 watt computer speakers produce mainstream for the PC....
 
What ever company produced the first mouse with the scroll wheel in the middle. Think I saw those on MS first.

Also the MX700, show that a cordless mouse can be good in gaming and general use....
 
darktiger said:
What ever company produced the first mouse with the scroll wheel in the middle. Think I saw those on MS first.

Also the MX700, show that a cordless mouse can be good in gaming and general use....
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Yes, how can you forget about the scroll wheel. I don't know who put them on mice first, but MS's implementation was the best. I liked the fact that it had stops designed into it. Some of the knockoffs I used were free rolling wheels, which I hated.
 
The orignal zip drives back in 1994 changed my life about portable storage, especially on the naval ships....
 
How about Aureal and Creative for pioneering the PC sound industry.....I remember buying my SB Live OEM and thinking this was a "real" soundcard.

Cambridge Soundworks also got the first decent PC speakers started with their microworks series - first 4.1's even before Klipsch. I ended up with the FPS2000 (4.1) speakers and thought WOW!! SURROUND SOUND!! And then I moved onto the DTT2500's and thought WOW - 5.1 in movies.

Mad props to the Hollywood Magic and Creative Dxr3 DVD decoder cards....the only way to play dvd movies on my 466 celeron. Started my DVD on the PC obsession. Anyone who watched DVD's in college did it on the PC cuz it was cheaper than a stand alone player.....

And how about the Disc T@ttoo thing? Pretty cool....I never had one though.

Edit: Abit motherboards were the ones to have back in the day because of the SoftBios. To OC, just change a bios setting - no jumpers or diagrams to look up. Something I take for granted today... :D
 
Oh another thing, I am going to say Napster. I know you all are going to say napster is software, not hardware. Thanks to napster, the CD burner market boomed, which created a need for 2x,4x,8x,12x and so forth burners........

If you all do not buy that, then I think who ever created the first commerical cd burner.....

Nick Holonyak Jr. creation, the LED.......
 
Thanks also to Shuttle, for my current rig - and bringing SFF cases mainstream.
Compact, quiet, and powerful. no more towers for me.
 
celeron 300a that did 700 with some work.

Orig p2's that where not clock locked where fun also, speaking of which, I have a p2 here, I wonder if it is clocked locked...

Some radeon 8500le's would do reg 8500 speeds also, I had 2 that did that...(and then some)

Oh, and the classic amd tbirds, the socket a variants, that you could do the pencil trick on...
 
ThE OG Macintosh - flame away - but they had a mouse with point and click first - My family had a 512k. I laughed at all those IBM Dos people who could only use the keyboard and shorcut commands........I thought Apple would someday rule the world...

Then Microsoft came out with Windows.......Apple lost the following lawsuit.....and the rest is history.

I still have a working Atari 2600 in the closet....does that count as computer hardware?
 
I really liked the Voodoo 2 1000 that added 3d to computers.

US Robotics(not the one from I,Robot), but you all remember, well some of you, your first 14.4 or 28.8 modem......and Prodigy in my case....
 
440BX
SMP enabled Celerons.
Voodoo 2's (prefferably SLI'ed)
1.6As, 2.4Cs, 2400+ 35Ws,
WD 'Special edition' drives.
Sound Blaster 16.
BH5 memory chips.
 
darktiger said:
I really liked the Voodoo 2 1000 that added 3d to computers.

US Robotics(not the one from I,Robot), but you all remember, well some of you, your first 14.4 or 28.8 modem......and Prodigy in my case....
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Or the old skool 28.8 external modems, I still got that beast!

AOL for some of us....and a long distance bill out of this world:eek:
 
AOL for some of us....and a long distance bill out of this world
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Yeah, my long distance bill was not that much. Since I could never connect. Had this problem of getting busy signals....... Hated that time in history where I had to keep trying to login for 2-3 hours..... :D
 
i got you all beat, Original 75mhz pentum pro processor, 8mb EDO ram 1gb Western digital hard drive (one of the first WD harddrives to ever come out) Matrox Mystique 2d Graphics card (POOONED!!!!) later, Monster 3D 4mb graphics card, ( predisisor of Nvidia's Orginal 4mb voodoo 1 card) I still have all of these parts laying around under my bed :D POONED!!!! (pooned will be the new word for owned or pwned since its just uber)
 
XeRo_Dark said:
i got you all beat, Original 75mhz pentum pro processor, 8mb EDO ram 1gb Western digital hard drive (one of the first WD harddrives to ever come out) Matrox Mystique 2d Graphics card (POOONED!!!!) later, Monster 3D 4mb graphics card, ( predisisor of Nvidia's Orginal 4mb voodoo 1 card) I still have all of these parts laying around under my bed :D POONED!!!! (pooned will be the new word for owned or pwned since its just uber)
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:confused: :confused: :confused:
I do not think we are competing, pulling my Tandy 1000 from the closet....
 
dood! u got a tandy 1000?! FUKIN POONED! did it have the old greyscale monitor attached to the keyboard/mouse like the apple lucy systems (i found 1 in my basement about a mounth ago)
 
acascianelli said:
Intel Celeron II 533, 566, 600's. overclocked to 1000+ mhz
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Yea only with the best motherboards... :rolleyes:

5 ES Pentiums ranging from 75mhz ~ 166mhz

the 75 will do 200...... ;)
 
I must say whoever made that generic 8mb stick of ram I put into my old 486 just so I could play One Must Fall...they OWNED :D
 
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