Your Rig ...

[Monster]

AMD Athlon 4800 dual core
black aspire gaming case with 3 blue light up TEMP, VU, and Fan Speed gauges
geforce 7950 gx2 1gb memory
80 GB WD RAPTOR, 160 GB RAPTOR
onboard sound
2GB RAM (duno what kind)
Floppy Drive
Lightscribe CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RW 48x/16x
21" LCD Acer monitor
2 altec lansing speakrs with woofer
black chicony multimedia keyboard
razer krait mouse
'gamma pad' gamers mouse pad (lights up in 10 diff collors)
some crappy dell printer

[Solecord]

First played quake on

- Compaq Presario Pentium 120MHz
- 32 megs RAM
- don't remember any other stats on it. It's currently sitting in my basement still.

Now:

- Dell Dimension 8200
- Pentium 4 2.26GHz
- 512 MB PC800 RDRAM
- 64MB NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200
- 80 GIG drive, 250 GIG drive
- one DVD-ROM drive and a DVD-RW drive
- Floppy drive that I've never used lol
- Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP sound card
- Altec Lansing THX 5.1 surround sound speakers
- 19in Dell CRT FlatScreen
- Canon PIXMA MP780 multifunction printer/scanner/fax

That printer is the best I've ever used. Prints great quality and the ink is very cheap compared to a Lexmark or other brand.

Also unless I'm wrong here, you must upgrade this RDRAM memory in pairs right? So in order to upgrade to a GIG of mem I'd have to get 2x 512MB chips right? The price of a 512MB chip at Dell.com is $388 It's not much cheaper on NewEgg either I guess I'll just wait a while and buy a new PC.

[getogamer]

I like the whole idea of 'What I started playing Quake with versus what I have now' topic better. It's funny that we still play the same game yet on a system that is 100x as good as the ones that were out when the game first hit the shelves.

I started on a:

Compaq Presario Pentium 100
16megs Memory
Diamond Stealth 3d video card
1.6Gb Hdd (No really!)
28.8bps Dial-up connect
Soundblaster 16bit Sound card
Generic desktop speakers
15" Monitor that had a HUGE curve to it! Was like a bubble.
A few other generic things here and there such as mouse/keyboard.

Those were the days!

--
geto

[Zop]

I'm the least oldschool so far... I don't recall if I played Quake first on my Pentium 2 233mhz 32MB RAM or my dad's Apple G3 (400mhz), but I definately first played online on the Mac. My dad bought me a voodoo3, but I didn't know I needed something besides q95.bat to run it!

Now I use a P4 1.8Ghz (266Mhz bus type) with 512MB Ram with an ATI All-in-Wonder 9600 with two regular 17" monitors. I have another card with another monitor, but it's never on.

[-=Scorch=-]

- AMD Athlon 1800+ CPU
- 1 gig of DDR 400 Ram
- 80 gig Seagate baracuda HD
- Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4400
- KDS 19" extreme flat CRT monitor
- LG 16x Dual layer burner
- Logitech MX500 mouse


Do I get a prize now?

[golden_boy]

black aspire gaming case with 3 blue light up TEMP, VU, and Fan Speed gauges
'gamma pad' gamers mouse pad (lights up in 10 diff collors)
some crappy dell printer
Floppy Drive

ROTFL

[InvincibleDrone]

"joao93
Who the fuck sold you that!?"

I posted on local punk fourms here if anyone was selling 21" crts since retailers do not carry them anymore and some dude repiled and said that he worked at a christian computer refurbishing place.. well it looked like a 'hole in the wall' computer grave yard with towers pilled along the walls to the roof and monitors all over the floor

It was used but i've had it for a better part of a year and its still working great.

[Spirit]

Phenom, I was refering to 386 without FPU. Quake won't run without FPU.

I remember when I switched from P75 to a P166MMX. That was incredible.

[Phenom]

Spirit, I know that Quake won't run without a "FPU" but I did manage to get it installed and load up the starting demo

The installation (Where you see the little dots going across your screen while it installed) took roughly 30mins hour I would say. Then loading it up it would take another 30 minutes...

Come to think of it... It never really did load the game up.. I sat their for 30 minutes waiting for it to load and I would get an error message saying "Quake requires a PC with a floating point processor".

I must be thinking of my 486 then the 386 was my grandma's PC and my 486 OWNED her 386 all thru the town! My 486 had the turbo button for the "Ultimate Gaming Experience" What a croc.