PC Zone Ultimate Rig (1995)

Murph

Murph

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Memories...
Found an old PC Zone last night which like NAG, has an ultimate rig.
Wish I could scan the article in, but I'll give you the gist of it.
The pound to rand conversion was about R7.00 at that point


PC (including mother board and case) - 2,240 pounds (R15 680)
- Pentium I 90 Mhz "Super fast, about 4 times faster than a 486! Can run Wing Commander without stuttering"

CD ROM - 429 pounds (R3 003)
- 4x "In order to run the latest games, you need the power of a quad speed CD ROM...flickering will be a thing of the past"

MONITOR - 704 pounds (R4 928)
- 17" CRT "Nothing brings your games to life more than a nice big screen"

SOUND CARD
- AWE32 Soundblaster - 349 pounds (R2 433) "Able to provide the most realistic sound ever....hear games like the programmers wanted you to"

GRAPHICS CARD
- 1 MB - 249 pounds (R1 743) "Has no effect on DOS games so you need windows......one day maybe all games will run through Windows. If you really want to beef it up you can expand it up to 4MB!!"

MODEM
- 28.8k - 399 pounds (R2 793) "This is fast - trust us!"
 
I still got me a P1 120mhz with 16 meg ram :D

Was the ones before SDRam, the ones you had to put in at an angle 1st then clip it in those small bastids
 
Dude please scan that article i wanna print it and take it to PCZone and enquire about it see their faces :D
 
Reminds me of the time I had to add in an extra 4mb RAM to my 486 to play Ultima 8, which was the only upgrade I ever did to that machine. Good times.
 
Dude please scan that article i wanna print it and take it to PCZone and enquire about it see their faces
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Ha thats a good idea - I'll see what I can do.

PS Still have a 386 with Kings Quest 1 - 3 on it :D
 
My first machine that my dad bought for me was a 386 SX 25 with a massive 4 megs of RAM. The hard drive was a 120 meg ESDI drive that weighed about 3kg.
 
My First machine was a 386 with 4mb ram and only had DOS I ran commander keen with a floppy disk and I also had gorillas and Battle Chess 1 installed on there :p
 
If I remember correctly, my first PC was a Pentium 166 with 32MB RAM and a 16GB HD. Of course I also had a bitchin' 15" CRT to go with it.

I remember playing the likes of Red Alert, Theme Hospital, Tomb Raider and Carmagedon on that thing, good times :)

Eventually I needed a graphics card so I saved up for a Riva TNT 2 Ultra. It was about R2500 which was huge cash for a graphics card back then, but the monsterous 32MB onboard RAM made it worthwhile :)

Following that I got a hand-me-down P II 350Mhz upgrade which saw me through high school pretty much.

I suppose in 10 years from now we will be laughing at our current rigs...
 
Aah Battle Chess. How I hated thee :D

I suppose in 10 years from now we will be laughing at our current rigs...
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Hard to believe but totally going to happen
 
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Yup if it is already happening, I mean my rig from 10 years ago was the following.
AMD K6-2 300
128 megs of RAM
40 gig Hard drive
16 meg Voodoo 3 3500
14" CRT monitor max res 1024x768
 
Murph said:
Memories...
Found an old PC Zone last night which like NAG, has an ultimate rig.
Wish I could scan the article in, but I'll give you the gist of it.
The pound to rand conversion was about R7.00 at that point


PC (including mother board and case) - 2,240 pounds (R15 680)
- Pentium I 90 Mhz "Super fast, about 4 times faster than a 486! Can run Wing Commander without stuttering"

CD ROM - 429 pounds (R3 003)
- 4x "In order to run the latest games, you need the power of a quad speed CD ROM...flickering will be a thing of the past"

MONITOR - 704 pounds (R4 928)
- 17" CRT "Nothing brings your games to life more than a nice big screen"

SOUND CARD
- AWE32 Soundblaster - 349 pounds (R2 433) "Able to provide the most realistic sound ever....hear games like the programmers wanted you to"

GRAPHICS CARD
- 1 MB - 249 pounds (R1 743) "Has no effect on DOS games so you need windows......one day maybe all games will run through Windows. If you really want to beef it up you can expand it up to 4MB!!"

MODEM
- 28.8k - 399 pounds (R2 793) "This is fast - trust us!"
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Man it really is incredible how far we have come... It's great!
 
Lydon said:
I'm laughing at mine right now :D
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LOL!

Tinman said:
I suppose in 10 years from now we will be laughing at our current rigs...
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True. Cause take it like this, back in the day, for example a 166MMX, 64MB Ram and a 4MB Vga card was the bomb, it's like our core i7 and 12GIG ram rigs are now.

I suspect the rigs in 10 years might be able to run Crysis above 60FPS.
 
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