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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 3254623" data-attributes="member: 29706">LOL, first IBM based computer was a 496 DX2 66Mhz with a whopping 8MB of ram and a 500MB HDD.  It wasn't long before I was upgrading to 16MB of ram and buying an overdrive cpu that was running 100 Mhz.When I started building my own stuff I built a Super Socket 7 that was an AMD based system.  Ended up moving and some stuff happened in the move.  A "friend" picked things up for me and stored it for a few weeks till I could get back.  One of their kids stole stuff out of my system, threw in a crappy cpu and took half the ram.For a long while I was basically getting used computers and fixing them to have something.  I finally built something out in 2004 or 2005 from a new to me board and cpu.  Guy had flashed the bios and killed it so I bought it for a song.  Contacted the OEM and for 5 bucks they sent me a replacement BIOS chip and with some Ram I had it up and running.  Pissed him off something fierce and I have no clue why.  Had bought two boards from him and he said I should ignore the one that had the cpu.  Later on bought a processor for the other board and started using it.  Till around 2007 I had never bought a brand new MoBo, I always picked up used stuff.  I still have the board and cpu as well.  Abit AN78HD and a Phenom 9500 cpu.  Thing still runs and later on I picked up a GTX550TI when I helped a friend pick out a GPU for her system.  I actually often work for parts when doing upgrades.When I head to Tuscon I will probably take my FX 8350 along and end up selling it to my father.  He will have a huge upgrade from his Core2 Quad 9550 with onbaord graphics.</blockquote>

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