- Intel Celeron 1.7ghz
- 256MB RAM DDR1
- CD-RW drive
- 80GB hard drive
- 3.5" floppy drive
- AsRock Motherboard
- External 56kbps serial modem
- 16MB graphics card or onboard graphics
- 15" CRT monitor
- Beige case from Maplin - ATX with cheap power supply
- Beige keyboard and ball mouse
- Suse Linux 9.2, Windows XP
The First PC I Built
Used for: HTML 4 XHTML CSS 2 Perl 5 and BASH scripts. Compiled some programs from C source code using make. Printed out C source code for Linux kernel 2.4 to read using an ancient Canon printer. Used Kate or Gedit for programming.
Sister's Silver PC
- Silver case and ATX psu from Visage computers
- 512MB RAM
- Slightly faster Intel processor
- DVD reader drive
- CD-RW drive
- 160GB hard drive
- Floppy drive
- 32MB graphics card
- 15" CRT monitor
- Broadband modem in 2005
- Beige keyboard and mouse
- Windows XP
This was used by my sister for college work. The original broadband modems would only work with Windows XP.
My 2006 PC
- Intel core 2 duo 3GHZ
- 1GB RAM (DDR2/3)
- AsRock Motherboard
- 320GB hard drive
- Old hard drive
- DVD-RW drive
- Epson printer/scanner multi function device
- Acer TFT monitor 19"
- Black keyboard and mouse
- Black case from Visage computers
- OpenSuse 10.3, later on Windows 7 (dual boot)
- Cheap graphics card
- Slightly better power supply unit
- Got broadband that would work with Linux
Used for: XHTML HTML 5 CSS 3 PHP 5 MySQL BASH and C programming. Windows 7 was used for playing games.
My 2012 PC Build
- AMD 2 core/4 thread semperon processor
- Gigabyte Motherboard (with only 2 RAM slots)
- 4GB RAM
- 500GB hard drive
- 32GB SSD SATA 3 (not 6)
- onboard graphics or old graphics card
- DVD-RW drive
- Fractal Design r5 case
- OpenSuse 12, Linux Mint/Ubuntu
- Used Windows 7 on a laptop
Used for: HTML 5 SCSS CSS 3 PHP 7 MariaDB Postgresql BASH Python 2/3 C++ programming with QT 4 and JavaScript/JQuery programming. Used many distros on this machine including Gentoo and Arch, settled with OpenSuse or Linux Mint. I used Kate/Vim and BASH scripts/Git as programming tools.
Sister's 2017 PC
- Fractal design case from before
- AMD Ryzen 1700 processor
- MSI B350 Motherboard
- 8GB DDR4 1 stick
- 1TB hard drive
- 160GB SSD SATA 6gbps
- AMD radeon RX460 graphics card
- Cheap 17" TFT monitor
- Cheap Logitech keyboard/mouse
Used by my sister for playing Tomb Raider games and office work.
My Current PC
- Corsair TX650M 650W Semi-Modular 80+ Gold PSU
- XFX AMD RX570 graphics card (second hand)
- AMD Ryzen 2600 CPU
- Western Digital Black SN750 500GB M.2-2280 SSD
- ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING AM4 Motherboard
- Hyper-X 2x8GB rainbow 3600Mhz RAM kit DDR4
- 2TB hard drive
- 240GB SSD SATA 6gbps
- external DVD-RW drive
- little WIFI adapter USB
- AOC monitor 21" TFT
- 2.1 speakers
- Brown switch 10 keyless mechanical keyboard (Tecware phantom RGB)
- MSI ATX mesh case with window, 2 fans
My current PC, used for: HTML 5 SCSS 3 JavaScript/Node.js MariaDB Postgresql Docker BASH Python 3 Java PHP 7/8 AWS React and online learning on Coursera. I also edit photos in Krita and use Inkscape on this machine. I use VSCode, Vim and Atom as editors and Git for version control. Instead of BASH scripts for tidying up CSS I use Grunt.
Sister's Current PC
- Lian Li Lancool 2 RGB/mesh ATX case (larger than MSI one)
- MSI Mag B560 torpedo motherboard
- PSU - BitFenix Formula 750W 80+ Gold PSU
- Intel i5 11400 with graphics, 6 cores and 12 threads
- 32GB (two sticks) DDR4 RAM, 2666mhz
- 1TB NVMe pcix3 Western Digital
- 2TB SSD Samsung
- old AMD RX550
- 19" TN panel VGA monitor with speakers
- Brother HLL2350dw laser mono printer
- External DVD-rw drive
- Be Quiet! Pure Rock 2 Air Tower CPU Cooler
My sister's current PC, used for playing older games on Linux and for office work.
