So a colleague and I were talking about our first pc's way back. Mine was a old 486 with 4MB memory, 400MB HDD. Running Windows 3.1. Note, there were no CD-ROM and no GFX card and the salesman told my dad that we will never run out of space on the HDD and will never need more ram.
So I did a bit of digging on the PCF forum under the hardware section and scrolled right back to the first posts and came across these gems:
From the same thread above:No budget... other than thoughts below. Could cost between R15,000 & R 30,000 ( ).
Vague specs:
1) DVD CDR Writer Combo. Min 512 DDR Ram (should be FSB 400 MHz? )
2) Already have monitor/s (20" Cornerstone + cmw 17" TFT)
3) Have Microsoft wireless Keyboard & Optical Mouse (might go for Logitech as well tho')
4) What case?
5) What motherboard?
6) Intel 3.2 GHz best for Graphic manipulation (CORELdraw Photopaint etc)?
7) What Graphics Card (is the ATI Radeon 9800 XT really neccessary... see below )
Want it to last at least 2 years before becoming old tech
9) Not all that into gaming... mainly because I get REALLY pissed off when half the games I try and run on my 1 GHz / NVIDIA Riva TNT 64 just won't! So must be able to run EVERYTHING that's available now (and will be in the next 6 months or so)
10) Oh, and it must all be Black!
The most expensive one I could build below 30k was a R29504 monster with P4 3.2ghz, 3GB RAM, 2xDVD-CDR-COMBO, 250GB HDD, 17"CRT (even thought you don't need a screen), XP Pro.
Another one:
And the last one:Best price I can get is R3340.00 exl. Grahpics card...
Asus mobo with AGP 8x with 400/533/800 FSB+ob grahpics/lan/sound
256Mb DDR400
Cdrom
Stiffy
Seagate 40 Gig
330W ATX case
1.8GHZ P4 400 FSB
Keyboard& mouse
Speakers
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that things have moved along ALOT and these days even our cellphones has higher speed cpu's than some of us had in our very first pc's!Hi all
i will finaly get my computer monday rondom 2:00 pm
here is his specs:
Athlon 64bit 3000+
K8T800 neo mothertboard (2x sata,4xusb,6 chanel audio,1000mb/s Lan card on board)
256mb ram 400mhz kingmax (going 2 buy more memory later)
Nvidia Geforce FX 5700 128 mb DDR
40GB Maxtor HDD (going 2 buy a 80GB sata)
17" Monitor
52x32x52 writer
and a lot of fans!!!
Cheers