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2000s Family PC Thread
Landon Cook
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Ayden Stewart
CLEAN YOU SHIZ SENPAI
that bottom hp is filthy
Juan Jones
i threw out that shit
Carson Stewart
check out those specs
Julian White
the one and only family pc we had (did not come with a zip drive)
Pentium III 667MHz, 128M SDRAM, Windows 98SE, 10GB HDD, CD-ROM (not a writer), 3.5" FDD, no AGP slot, integrated i810 graphics (16MiB iirc)
Levi Watson
nice looking machines. oem manufactuers made nice cases
Jaxon Hall
yea, it () wasn't a bad case
comfy power button with a green LED in the center, felt nice and sturdy
the button at the bottom left is the case latch release, there's also a spot on the back where you can padlock the case shut
the pci slots were vertical, mounted on a slotted daughterboard, making it easy to swap out cards without needing to tip the whole machine over
the main limitation with that machine was the fact it had no AGP slot, i did get a GeForce 2MX-200 PCI for it, but that only went so far
Bentley Roberts
das neat
Joshua Anderson
When is it from? It looks like it's 90s.
Wyatt Flores
2000 (at least that's when we got it), it's a DELL GX110, there's also a desktop (horizontal) version of it
Angel Russell
Packard Bell 822CDT
We got it in 1997 for my parents' business. In our rural town we were one of the first to get internet at home.
Blake Ross
DELL Optiplex GX110*
we also got an internet connection at the same time (just dialup, the machine had a 56k V.90 modem)
iirc the whole setup (with 17", 1280x1024 CRT monitor, Quietkey keyboard, ball mouse with no scroll-wheel, and a Lexmark Z31 parallel printer) cost about NZ$2,000
I used the monitor right up to 2009, it could do 1280x1024 at 75Hz, 1024x768 at 85Hz, 800x600@100Hz, and 640x480@120Hz, the lower res modes were great for fast-paced games
Cameron Barnes
Christopher Kelly
My brother has an eMachine, a lot newer than the one in your picture though. Maybe from 2006
Noah Mitchell
I have an Optiplex GX270 lying around. It doesn't work, unfortunately. I opened it up and there was a piece of metal with the date "19 / MAY / 04" engraved on it, so it's from 2004 if my calculations are correct
Owen King
Yeah the one in the picture got replaced by the Dell below it in 2004 I think
Lincoln Fisher
I have that exact bottom computer, got it from a thrift store for $10.
Charles Thomas
I wasn't going to post this originally since it is from the 90s, but here's the IBM Aptiva (model 2162 I believe).
Cameron Robinson
Of fucking course when Jow Forums starts working it posts the damn picture sideways.
Julian Ward
Specs
Luis Hall
I removed the CD and Floppy drives, CPU, heatsink, and fan since the machine didn't work
Dylan Myers
CPU
Gabriel Evans
>SmartMedia XDD
Cooper Carter
I have that fucking PC right behind me right now
Henry Cooper
>fifth grade
>whole school uses Optiplexes like in your pic
>talking to teacher about it since I was tech support bitch and every teacher knew it
>her: "yeah it's really old and slow, it from the 80s"
>the 80s
>mfw
even my dumb fifth grade ass knew that she didn't know shit
Cooper Rodriguez
Lates 90's. Ranged from P2 to P3 some had Celerons.
Dominic King
compaq tower, idk the model, but I know it had a modem and a 60 gb hdd and a pentium
Zachary Murphy
I'm still using my GX200 for retro/console games
Pentium III 933MHz, 512MB RDRAM, 10GB HD + 13GB HD, old HP CDRW, PCI Radeon 32 (aka Radeon 7200), AOpen 744 sound card.
Brody Nelson
One like this? This one's manufacturing date is March 2002. I took it from an old Compaq after the PSU exploded when I plugged it in
Daniel Morales
Nevermind, mine's not HP but it still looks similar. Am I the only one who likes that old CD drives had volume control and headphone jacks built into them?
Jayden Myers
HP Pavilion p6130y from 2009, but the motherboard went bad so I replaced it
Elijah Wright
Always wondered..
These kind of machines are useless (unless its still being used), what is done to the cases and the like? The old motherboards? Are they all recycled or sent to the 3rd world? It seems like a huge market too if all that stuff on the pcb's are harvested and reused (precious metals)
Samuel Mitchell
nah, it's the one in the picture ('cause that's my machine).
pic related, a better shot.
Camden Turner
I've always felt like I was the only person that has ever used those. I used to have several CDROM drives that had full transport controls on them back in the late '90s and I wound up using them on more than a few occasions with headphones plugged in.
Hunter Torres
Well I've seen videos of places where Chinese kids harvest precious metals from CRT monitors that are sent in from the West, so I am willing to bet that the same thing goes on with old recycled computers too. All of my old machines still work though, even though they are slow and more or less unusable in today's world. I'm keeping them anyway
Gavin Robinson
The capacitors on that motherboard are due to blow literally any minute
Cooper Cook
Nice. Do you have any idea why old CD drives like that have all those little slits in the plastic?
Landon Hill
That's why those two are sitting in the corner of my closet, not plugged in. I booted them a few times a few months ago and they worked fine
Chase Wright
I downloaded CrystalDiskInfo on the HP too to see how the HDD was doing, and the status was Caution and it had over 52000 hours
Kayden Turner
I have no idea why HP did that.
Oliver Thompson
Wow that monitor is vivid
Angel Young
In 2000 I had an Athlon xp 700, 256gb of ram, 20 gigs hdd, sound blaster, geforce 256
and a fugly beige case
Juan Murphy
It's an old Gateway EV700 CRT monitor
Evan Reyes
tfw went from a 2003 home computer to a 2011 gayman rig,.
Charles Williams
Have a similar one but it was with an AMD ATI combo and its motherboard, gpu, and ram died. I ended up replaced the insides with an Intel Nvidia combo. Hasn't broke down since then.
Zachary Jackson
I replaced it with an i5-6500 I don't have a graphics card though. Any suggestions for a cheap one that is worth it? I don't want one that is really expensive and over the top for what I'm going to be using the PC for: video editing and a few games i.e. Minecraft (no, I'm not editing Minecraft videos)