⏱️Overview
On this page I describe my long history with 🖥️PCs through years. I got my first PC XT in 1992 and I bought my latest new in 2023. I write my observations and few recommendations from my experience.
I will briefly mention other alternatives to PC, their pros and cons (advantages and fails). Lastly I include many links to useful and interesting websites with more info.
⚠️Warning: work in progress 🚧
📜All my PCs, history table
I list all my PCs and parts so far. Yeah, it’s over 30 years since my first PC.
This chapter is very optional, since it has quite nostalgic value for me, but otherwise it’s just mostly (ancient) history.
Legend for the below table:
? – I’m not sure about exact amount or date
💀 – Dead, it broke by itself. Obviously very undesired.
🔨 – I killed it, so my fault. By bad overclocking @, or by accident otherwise.
♻️ – Sold it, eventually.
🗑️ – It became electronic garbage.
☑️ – Still using it.
| Year-month | my age | CPU, MB | CPU Freq. @OC | RAM | HDD, SSD | GPU | Monitor | Audio, PSU | Software, games |
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| 1992-05 | 10 | PC XT | 8 MHz | 640 kB | 20 MB 💀 | 14″ CRT EGA 640×350 | PC Speaker | PC-DOS 3.2 Turbo Pascal 6.0 CK4, TIM, Xenon2 |
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| 1994? | 12 | 386 | 33 MHz | 1 MB? | 260 MB 💀 | 14″ CRT VGA 💀 Daewoo CMC-1418AD | MS-DOS 5.0? Turbo Pascal 7.0 Stunts, Dune2 |
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| ? | 486 Hippo VL+ | ? | 4 MB? | Raptor, Vikings | |||||
| 1996/7? | 14/15 | Pentium 1 MB500N🔨@ PCChips M575 | 120 MHz | 16 MB? | 1 GB 💀💀 | S3 Trio64v2 2MB | Quake 1, MK3 | ||
| 1998? | borrow Voodoo1 4MB | Colin McRae Rally 1 Windows 95? |
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| 1999 | 17 | AMD K6-2 | 300 @366 MHz | 32 MB? | 4 GB | bt848 TV tuner | Windows 98 Delphi 5 StarCraft |
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| 2000? | 18 | borrow Voodoo3 2000 16MB | SB 128 PCI? | Quake 3 Arena Carm2, Re-Volt, Diablo2 |
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| 2002-05 | 20 | Duron ECS K7VTA3 📷 | 1.0 GHz | 128 MB DDR PC2100 | 40 GB ATA100 | GF2 MX400 64MB | 17″ CRT Samsung 753dfx ♻️ 1024×768 | 300W PSU SB Live! 24-bit | Windows XP |
| 2004-09 | 22 | Pentium 4 MSI 865PE Neo2 | 3.0 GHz ♻️ | 512 MB PC3200 | 80 GB SATA | ATI 9600 128MB | 19″ CRT Samsung 959NF ♻️ 1152×864 | NeoTec 420W PSU SB Audigy 2 | RBR, Jets’n’Guns UT 2004 |
| 2005 | 23 | ATI X800 256MB 💀 | Yesico FL-550ATX PSU🔨 | CMR 2005 VS 2005 |
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| 2007-01 | 24 | 21″ CRT Dell P1130 used 🗑️ | Titan Quest IT, SpellForce 2 | ||||||
| 2008-02 | 25 | Quad Q6600 Asus P5E X38 Deluxe | 2x 2.4 @3.0 GHz | 4 GB? DDR2 1066 🔨@ | 320 GB | GTX 8800 512MB 💀 | 24″ LCD TN Iiyama ♻️ | Crysis 1 VS 2008 |
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| 2010-04 | 27 | Stunt Rally | |||||||
| 2011-08 | 29 | 2012-06 – 2nd | Antec CP-850 PSU ☑️☑️ | ||||||
| 2011-09 | 29 | 1TB? 💀 | GTX 560 Ti 1GB💀♻️ | SB X-Fi PCIe Xtreme 💀 | Windows 7 | ||||
| 2012-05 | 30 | i7 2600K P8Z68-V GEN3 | 4x 3.4 @4.4 GHz ☑️ | 8 GB DDR3 1333? | 2TB 120 GB SSD | Trine 2, Magicka | |||
| 2014-08 | 32 | 24″ LCD IPS Eizo EV2436W ☑️ | |||||||
| 2015 | 33 | 4TB | |||||||
| 2020 | 38 | 16 GB DDR3 2133 | 1TB | RX 570 4GB ☑️ | DAC AIYIMA A5 PRO ☑️ | Debian 12 VSCodium |
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| 2023-09 | 41 | Ryzen 5 7600X B650M DS3H | 6x 4.7 GHz ☑️ | 32 GB DDR5 6000 | 1TB M.2 Gen4 NVMe SSD | RX 6600XT 8GB ☑️ | Stunt Rally 3 |
⚖️Alternatives
🖥️PC
💻Laptop
🎮Console
📱Smartphone
Tablet