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This was my first new PC and was purchased in September 2004 while in high school (6th form). It replaced a fleet of various second-hand cobbled together PCs I'd spread my computing work over up until that time. After nearly five years of service it was retired and placed into storage in November 2009, replaced with a new Core i7-860 PC.
While in use it traveled to a number of LAN parties, the last of my computers to regularly do so. By the time it was replaced LAN parties were a very rare occurrence with its successor only going to maybe two or three over its 13-year lifetime.
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 530 @ 3.0GHz |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | Asus P5GD2 Deluxe |
| RAM | 256MB |
| VGA | ATI Radeon X600 (PCIe x16) |
| Drives | 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM DVD drive ? |
| PSU | ? |
| Case | ? |
| Display | Phillips flat CRT, black |
The GeForce 8600GT was purchased at the same time as the HVR-4000 TV tuner for its H.264 decoding abilities. Both were purchased in May 2008 when DVB-T High-definition TV broadcasts were introduced in New Zealand.
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 530 @ 3.0GHz |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | Asus P5GD2 Deluxe |
| RAM | 2GB |
| VGA | GeForce 8600GT 512MB (PCIe x16) |
| Tuner | Hauppauge HVR-4000 |
| Drives | 2x 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 500GB Seagate Barracuda DVD-RAM drive |
| PSU | Thermaltake 430W (the original PSUs fan died) |
| Case | ? |
| Display | Phillips 107S66 (the CRT died and this was the warranty replacement) |