[Kane]

My first pooter:
486 33DX
4Mb Ram
S3 Virge
Trust Multimedia SB Pro2 compatible
500Mb Hdd
Msdos 5.22/Win 3.11
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First Upgd
P90
16Mb Ram
S3 Virge
Sb Awe 32 (8Meg)
500Mb Hdd
Win 95
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3 years ago
AMD K6-350
32Mb EDO Ram
S3 Savage (Quickly changed to a Voodoo 3 3000)
Sb AWE 32
8 Gig HDD
Win 98SE
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1 Year ago
AMD K7 550@650
256-384Mb PC 100 RAM
Voodoo 5 5000 AGP
Sb Live! Player 5.1
20+10Gb Hdd
Win98SE/2K
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Today
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
512Mb 266MHz DDR Ram
GeForce 3
Sb Audigy! Platinum
40+40Gb Hdd
WinXP

The only thing remaining from the old machine is the floppy drive, and that's going soon.

 

[Beaux]

I'm pretty sure MY first computer was the most useless out of any of these.

Apple IIgs
no hard drive (had to do everything with floppies)
256 KB ram

 

[Kane]

If you aint talkin IBM pc's I've got an Amstrad CPC 464 (64Kb RAM, Tape Loading), and an Atari 2600

 

[Beaux]

OK, if you're only looking at IBM PCs, my first was very similar to Ninja's except 386 instead of 286, 9" monitor instead of 10", and dos 3.0 instead of dos 6.22:

386
1MB DRAM
Hercules graphics card (monochrome)
PC speaker
40MB ATA Hard Drive
MSDOS 3.0
9" Monochrome monitor
No mouse.

 

[Guest]

My First PC...

Cyrix 586 120 Mhz
16 Megs of Ram
S3 1 meg Video card
512 megs of hard drive space.

Man I was just happy to be browsing the internet on something other than my net link


Second PC was a

Cyrix M 2 Pr300 (233 mhz)
128 megs of Ram
Voodoo3
Maxtor 8 Gig hard drive (YES i still use it :*)~)

And yes.. I also tried to emulate with it..

3rd PC was (and still use as a secondary system

Amd 900 Mhz Duron
128 megs of PC100 Ram
Geforce 2 MX
and a new 20 gig on it.

 

[Zerthr]

ok now we're getting a little bit off topic..

I'm too young to have old comps

 

[Demigod]

Originally posted by Ninja
Anyone here ever try playing anything with an S3 Virge/DX? That card still haunts my dreams. It supported maybe 5% of Direct3D features, and had no OpenGL support. I considered it to be a video decellerator.

God that card sucked. 2D performance was lousy too.

I have a S3 Virge/MX for my labtop. The only admirable feature of it is the dual-display (which still isn't very good) but it sucks in everything else. I tried running Unreal w/ Direct3D on it and I got something like 0.2 FPS!! (It would update the screen every 5 seconds or so) I can get a lot more frames using software rendering (around 20-25). It was truly a 3D de-celerator.

My first system was also a 286. Here are the specs:

Intel 80286 @ 25 Mhz
640 KB base RAM
512 KB Trident videocard (VGA)
Internal Speakers
5.25" Floppy disk drive
3.5" Floppy disk drive
80 MB IDE hard drive
13" COLOR monitor (it broke though, replaced with a monochrome one)
MS DOS 6.22 (manually upgraded from 5.0)

 

[Guest]

If anyone's interested, I used to own
a real XT which ran at 4.7 Mhz (8 with turbo!)
I remember being quite impressed with the turbo function

Mortu

 

[Ryos]

Mentioning what old computers you have or had isn't going to help the original poster's question about why he's getting slowdowns.

 

[Prafull]

Sorry Beaux.
Threads really go offtopic here sometimes.

As far as your problem is concerned I personally have noticed this that celerons with integrated cards work very well for epsxe.In fact I have celeron 500 with 64 mb ram and 810 chipset and beats much better computers in performance.