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Title: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Supertoaster on August 04, 2011, 12:58:10 PM

When I was around 7-10 I used this http://auctions.overstock.com/Compaq-5000-Series/Computers-Networking/item/45888465 (http://auctions.overstock.com/Compaq-5000-Series/Computers-Networking/item/45888465)

It ran Ultimate Ride Coaster Deluxe, Sim City 3000, and (with lots of lag) Sim City 4. It broke (I was still to young to understand computers) then we got

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://www.techwench.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Compaq-Presario-Review3.jpg)

which lasted me 7 years. It originally had very poor intergrated which I got fixed with some gpu (I still don't know what GPU i had installed, but I only had it installed so I could run Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, then I got The Sims 2 and had a 6500gt installed, and then the fan on it failed so I replaced it with a 6800XT (WHICH IS AN EVIL MOTHERFUCKER) I could have saved it but I broke something trying to take out it's video card (GeForce 6800xt which was upgraded from a 6500gt that had its fan fail). And then that lead to

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(http://images.bizrate.com/resize?sq=220&uid=2246442455)

which has been the best computer I've ever owned and hope it lasts as long as my second one.

And if your computer had a themesong what would it be?

Trololo Sing Along! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY#)

Why trololo? Because my computer has scared me many times and I thought I broke something but then it magically fixes itself while I'm in the middle of sobbing. So my computer is a troll.

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Goat on August 04, 2011, 01:29:21 PM

I startedwith a super shitty Gateway that had a 1.1Ghz processor and a 256kb RAM stick, this was all when I was like 10, for my birthday that year I got upgraded to a new graphics card and 1GB of RAM,  I was able to run the Dawn of War series on that, iv'e had that computer since August of 2010, now I bought my own Dell Inspiron Labtop and a custom desktop with a Quad Core processor and everything I need to play Crysis on all high settings.

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: » Magic « on August 04, 2011, 01:30:53 PM

PC1
Novatech 1998(idk exact model etc, have the HDD here)
AMD Duron is about all I remember
I have some 32MB sdram sticks lying around downstairs from it
Seagate U-Series 30GB(cloned from old, dying drive)
oh and an MX440(most likely all upgraded parts through the years)

PC2
Hewlett Packard[2003]
AMD Athlon 64 (2.1GHz, single core, 95nm)
current 512mb(max) ram (ddr)
80GB Seagate U-Series 9
this too, runs an MX440 o_o

PC3
Novatech Isys[2006]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
250GB Maxtor
current 3GB ram(max)original 2gb[ddr2 667]
NVidia 6150[IGP]
Foxconn WM2A6150

PC4[custom]
Athlon II X4 640
6GB DDr3 1333
500GB Samsung SP-F1
NVidia GTS450 SLI
ASUS M4N75TD

theme song?

Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs&feature=player_detailpage#)

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: cogsandspigots on August 04, 2011, 01:36:51 PM

My first computer ran FUCKING WINDOWS 98.
I don't remember much about it, except that it was painfully slow.

Then, my second one.
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll62/eShop-USAcom/PC%20case/eMachines/emachinesT2080leftside.jpg)
(not that exact one, but a similar model)
I got a discount eMachines with a terrible GPU, geforce 4
Then I upgraded it with 1 GB ram and a Geforce 6400.
I knew I needed a new computer for quite a while as my old one could only run Half-life 2 at mid-low settings.
Then, I got a trojan, somehow.
This is my computer's song at that point.
Sonic 1 Music: Drowning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yw5jkAHgME#)



Finally, my newest one.
I built it, and I'm too lazy to take a photo so no pic for you.
3 GB ram, geforce 9600, and plenty of potential upgrading.
It's song:
How it's Made - Full theme song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c_TljgFyBg#)

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: ·UηİŦ·· on August 04, 2011, 03:59:30 PM

Ahhh dicks. Well. I just got this one. It wouldn't be much of a story.

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:trollface:

Besides, the other two are boring and FAAARRRR to long. Well, the first one's story is simple. I'm 5. And I'm lrn2computerREALLYFAST. And this is a Dell from like 1999 or something. Then somehow while using MsPaint I break the CRT monitor by pressing a combination of buttons. God knows how.

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Second one? Also a Dell. It was a fairly decent one. Ran everything from Black and White to almost every Maxis Game ever since 1997, that includes that one Sim game where you were driving Cars and gadgets and shit. Best game ever. Then I met the internet in it's full glory (oh god) in 2002. I did everything I know now and ever knew now since then, including Gmod. And Spore. It's also where I developed a taste for God Games and Modding. Making Videos, Torrent-ing things. The works. Of course it will have taken time for me to mature the fuck out. But it was a Looooong time. Loooong time. SOME, if not all, good times. Also used XP forever. I only used 98 and 95 for a FRACTION of the time I used Xp for. Towards the end (Last September until Last March), it got wiped so many times because what we thought was a virus was really the Hard Drive being a fail, and dying on us, until one day (april) where I go to boot the damn thing it stalls at a black screen :>

RIP 2000-2011
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20#)

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I got stuck with a shitty Intel Celeron temporarily between April and July, that had it's drivers last updated in August 7th 2001. And it was made in '97. And the Internet Card was slightly damaged, or just simply downloaded at like 40kb/s.

DIIICKS THAT WAS SLOW. Ugh.

I bought this fancy new one with the money I got in exchange for selling little bits of my soul, I installed some shit for one day, then I installed a NVIDIA GEforce 8600GT from the dieded computer that had been with me since forever, I installed two DiskDrives, I added an extra 2 slawts of RAM from the dead one, thus giving the computer the combined force of 16gb of RAM. I also fucked around wif dat internet card until it was working. I'll be honest, Windows 7 for me at first was like someone from 1959 playing with an Iphone. Plus all the features (Nid administrate at all times, not "Oh do you want to..." every fucking time) I had to disable/enable were tedious.

specs thus den wer:

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Big, blue CPU chip with quantities of Lead inside, Quad-Core thingamajig with a fuckload of RAM and Graphicks. I can't really tell what else I put in there right now because I'm lazy. But it was stuff that you put in there. And all the other stuff I mentioned. Like 3 BLUE INTAKE LED FANS OH GOD TOO MUCH BLUE. I shit you not if I turn off the lights, even the stock LEDs that came with it illuminate the room. It's almost annoying to wake up and see blue everywhere. I had no forethought when buying those fans, I was just like NID FANS NID FANS.

This is also the first time I've had a Hard Drive with TB storage capacity. Hell yeah. I've been stuck with 125gb since 2000andwhat, FINALLY I can bend things with my creativity and not be limited.

Like lose sleep and mod Fallout 3 using Fancy Modders Resources from coolbros and myself, and scripts and codes and god knows what else I can't even remember. I'm so tired.

I messed around with Windows 7 still because I was a newfag to this (Been using XP for, what, ever?), then I started installing things, then I noticed that it was really hot.

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"Hey, it's actually really really hot in here now..."

"Ugh... Hot."

"WHY IS IT SO HOT."

"EEUDDGGGUUUH I'M MELTING."

It took about 3-4 weeks to realize that the problem was not the fans (derpaderp) but the internal Power Supply. It's literally venting hot air. Like... HOT AIR. "I CAN COOK EGGS ON MY TOWER" HOT AIR. But yeah, now that I know/knew about it, I can later replace it and stop opening my window when it becomes 17F outside and feel like it's room temperature.

INTERIOR APPLE PIE NON-SEQUITUR, I GOT A HIGH-TECH, BLU-RAY HEATER.

But that's not the themesong. Though it would fit nicely. Like an Apple-Pie Disk Drive.

The Notorious B.I.G. - "Juicy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGHyutNq-S4#)

Specifically:

Quote

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man I couldn't picture this
50 inch screen, money green leather sofa
Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Cable on August 04, 2011, 05:37:44 PM

My first PC was this really shitty Compact Laptop. No clue what the specs were, That thing died years ago. Good thing I had it though because otherwise I wouldn't have gotten into PC games. That laptop had problems running Runescape sometimes.

My second PC was a prebuild Dell my dad bought so he and I could play world of warcraft.
That thing served me well for 2 years. I used it to play WoW and Crossfire. We still have the PC now,
But it belongs to my sister now.

My third PC is my computer. I got it from my grandmother for free. It was also a 2008 prebuild dell. When I first got it, The parts were so bad inside. My dad and I slowly got the money to start upgrading it. Since this PC was stable for medium games at the time, It had brought me to knowing Steam, Garrys mod, and all of you guys.

My fourth PC is my netbook. I got it for my Bday  a few weeks ago. I use it often. bla bla

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: ursus on August 04, 2011, 05:58:55 PM

My first computer is too old for me to remember

My second one was supertoaster's second one, got it when i was 10 or 11, that exact same model

My third one isn't on newegg anymore .___.

But I have pix.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/31510_1199507487707_1829142863_403488_4554178_n.jpg)

This is a year old though.

And its theme song is this.

When Blu Team Gets Bored (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNjY96sCqZc#ws)

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Deacon on August 04, 2011, 06:34:20 PM

199_: My first computer ran Windows 95. It was a big deal, it was my parents first home computer. They bought it right around the time i went into kindergarten.
It became mine (and my brothers) once they upgraded.

They got us a super nintendo, then an N64. We remained console gamers until last year.

200_: I wasn't allowed to have a computer in my room until I was 17, thanks to a convenient popup of the adult variety right as my dad walked into the room, causing him to kick my chair and break it. for which i was blamed. I think i was 12. So we had a specific place the computer was to be and the door was to remain open.

From then until about 2007, we kept cycling through crap computers my dad bought from salvation army stores because every little time something went wrong (whether it be a virus or not) I was blamed and not allowed to touch the new one. In about 2007 my dad got fed up and bought a Mac. He now swears by them and blahblahblah.

At 17, I had enough and took an old desktop of ours from the garage. No one said a word about it.

early 2010: I saw videos of garrysmod, decided to look into it.
Had just purchased the orange box for xbox and fell in love.
When I saw that gmod used the orange box I bought it on the spot. Played build a few times; quit due to lousy performance.

2010: Summer, a year ago. Bought an HP Pavillion dv6 (because it was the best price for the range i was looking for in costco-lay off me) for college.
Moved to college, my brothers friend has a damn good (don't know the stats but he built it a few years ago- still competitive today. he paid something like 1300 for it at the time). We paid for the internet; he let us use his PC.
Got back on to steam, downloaded my games.
Found RND.

Came home from school due to severe financial troubles.
Got my laptop back and i'm still on it today.

Told you guys, my PC history is very short.

 

as for a song? i don't fucking know, so have some rush. what else would I pick?
Rush - Caravan - Clockwork Angels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btoEgIlhbUc#)

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: blαh2355 on August 05, 2011, 04:40:28 AM

My first computer was a computer that my dad brought home from his work. It had a Pentium 4 and an onboard graphics card 16mb (LOLOLOLOL SUX) but I couldn't play anything really, so I upgraded it to some Nvidia card 128mb. I've used it for like 5 years and runs with XP. It was a nice computer at the time, but then it started getting old and rundowned so...

My parents decided to buy me a new computer at the beginning at this year. So we got a Dell Studio XPS 8100 for about less than 1000 dollars. With a really strong graphics card, cpu, and a massive hard drive space, I'm loving it.

I don't really have a lot of computers :P

Theme song? Eh.. idk but I like this :P

Portal - Credits Song 'Still Alive' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI#)

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Seb on August 05, 2011, 06:54:15 AM

Quote from: Dickon on August 04, 2011, 06:34:20 PM

200_: I wasn't allowed to have a computer in my room until I was 17, thanks to a convenient popup of the adult variety right as my dad walked into the room, causing him to kick my chair and break it. for which i was blamed. I think i was 12. So we had a specific place the computer was to be and the door was to remain open.

From then until about 2007, we kept cycling through crap computers my dad bought from salvation army stores because every little time something went wrong (whether it be a virus or not) I was blamed and not allowed to touch the new one. In about 2007 my dad got fed up and bought a Mac. He now swears by them and blahblahblah.

no offense, but your dad sounds like a potato

ON TOPIC:

COMPUTER ONE:
Some big old white thing that ran Windows 98, dug it out of deep in the garage just five minutes ago for photo purposes. My only memory of it was playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 at like 2AM and then mom walks in. I think we had it for two, three years.

(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/Rotedria/photo-3.jpg)



COMPUTER 2 (2004 - 2011)
My old trusty stallion, got as soon as Windows XP came out. I cannot remember how many times to hard-drive has been formatted how many system restores it went through, all the shit that went into and came out of it. I hated this fucking thing. But, I loved it. The specs I think I will always remember by heart.
AMD Athlion 2.43ghz single-core
1.5GB DDR2 RAM
150GB HDD
GeForce FX 5200

(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/Rotedria/photo1.jpg)

Although it breaks my heart to see that I no longer own it (it's going to be my mom's computer now), I can now live with the fact that I have...




THIRD COMPUTER

(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/Rotedria/adadadadad.png)

Oh yeah.

(http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/Rotedria/photo.png)

I'm gonna use this thing for a looooong time.

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Peetah on August 05, 2011, 09:01:50 AM

I remember my first pc...
It ran MS-Dos, and can run Magic School Bus game if you typed in a command.
It was quite magical back then.
I worshiped it.

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Prox on August 05, 2011, 09:23:25 AM

(http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6668/20110805815.jpg)
This was my first computer. It is about 5-7 years old I think, it's still working pretty fine except it looses
connection to the internet after about 20 minutes.
(http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/9213/20110805816.jpg)
This is the computer that I have right now. As you can see it doesn't looks very new, it's about 2 years old.

System:
Microsoft Windows XP version 2002 Service Pack 3

Computer:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU
Q8200 @2.33GHz
2.33 GHz, 3,24 of RAM

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB DDR3

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Cake Faice on August 05, 2011, 09:44:44 PM

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3576/3321108662_2b807babca.jpg)

First computer I had. It had a 300 or 400mhz AMD K6 and 64MB of RAM and ran Windows 98SE. I used it mostly for those flash game/shockwave games, until my parents had it upgraded to Windows XP...which then it ran extremely fucking shit.

(http://amarteck.net/used/compaq_presario.jpg)

2nd one I had...just without all of those extensions, like the front output jacks and sd card stuff. For $200, it had an 1.8ghz AMD Sempron (OC'd to 2.0 later on), onboard geshit 6150LE and 256mb of RAM. I was troll'd, hard when I bought GTA:San Andreas for it and it turns out the computer only had a CD drive, not DVD. So then I bought a DVD Drive, added 512MB of ram, and went through 2 80GB HDD blow outs...to only be replaced with a 150GB Hard drive. Then a couple years later I finally added a graphics card to it (geforce 8400gs) and then passed it onto a sibling.

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs822.snc4/68229_155108124536378_100001115730331_276304_7401339_n.jpg)

Now this is my prized possession. $700, built it myself with PSU frustration, foolishly bought a DDR2 Mobo, Phenom II x4 @3.0, 4GB, Radeon HD5770, 1TB HDD and (for the first time ever) Windows 7. After about a year, I finally got the front gauges on the case to work.

Rocky Theme Tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PtvLTZS4Ik#)

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: Supertoaster on August 05, 2011, 10:08:11 PM

cake face you said you had an older model of my second computer but those specs match up exactly to what I had.

Title: Re: What is your computers timeline? + themesong
Post by: o69snipe69o on August 06, 2011, 06:18:01 AM

Well, my oldest comp I had was extremely SLOW! My god did I freaking hate it. Then I told my dad to build me a gaming computer and he puts in a GeForce 250 and an Intel Core 2 Duo. It ran much faster than my old one plus it had Windows 7. So I told my dad after that, "Dad, it's time for an upgrade." So we upgrade the video card to a GeForce GTS 250. MUCH MUCH BETTER! Now I have the same video card, and the same core processors. The only thing I'm looking to upgrade in the processors and the motherboard. But that can wait.

Anyway, the whole reason I posted this is because I get to choose out my own theme song for my computer :)))

 Bonk! Sparta Remix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6pcrNGmGB0#)