First spec and last spec of your system while an NBR member.

What specs did you have when you joined the forum and what are you finishing on?

I had:

• Intel Pentium M 760 2.0GHz, Intel 915PM chipset motherboard
• 512MB DDR1 2700
• ATI Mobility Radeon X600 128MB
• 15.4″ WXGA screen with Crystal Brite
• 100GB 5400RPM Seagate momentus
• QSI DVD dual layer RW
• Wireless (54G) + Bluetooth
• Windows XP Home

I ended on:

• Intel core i9 9900ks 5GHz, Intel z370 chipset
• 16GB DDR4 3000Mhz (CL14)
• RTX 3070 8GB
• 17.3" 1440P 120Hz display
• 1TB SM961 SSD
• Intel AX210 WiFi + BT5.0
• Windows 11 Pro

 

First
M6400 Precision
8GB ram
upgraded to quadcore
upgraded to FX 3800 Quadro
It did the job for a long while and was my entrance into the mobile workstation laptops.

Current
HP Zbook 17 G5
8th gen I7
32GB ram
P5200
512GB primary
1TB secondary nvme
It is MXM, so hopefully I can eventually upgrade it to a better GPU but for now, it is fantastic. And it was only $950 usd.

 

Both flexible machines

 

M6600
i7 2860qm
m8900
16GB
256GB SSD
1TB HDD
Win7

P751ZM
P750DM-G Motherboard
i7 9700F
32GB 2666Mhz Timing Tune
GTX 1080
256GB SSD Win10
2TB SSD
1TB SSD
1080p144hz

 

First: Asus GL502VT

• Intel Core i7 6700hq @ 3.1ghz
• 16gb DDR4 2133mhz
• GTX 970m 3gb
• 15.6" 1920x1080 (PWM )
• 1tb 7200RPM Hitachi
• Windows 10 Home

Last: Clevo P870DM-G

• Intel Core i7 6700k @ 4.0ghz
• 16gb DDR4 2133mhz
• GTX 1070 Mobile
• 17.3" 1920x1080 75hz G-Sync Display
• 2x Samsung 850 EVO, 1tb Samsung 870 QVO, 2tb 5400RPM Seagate
• Windows 10 Home

May not seem like too much of a jump to some, but I'm still working on the Clevo and the CPU doesn't completely suck anymore. I also don't have any more headaches when using the laptop's screen

 

I still have my M6600, it has an M6100 FirePro in it! Used that machine for quite a while.

 

Mined weighed about 16-17 pounds before I retired it lol doublesided tape, USB hubs and 5TB drives weighed it down considerably

 

I remember the reason for me joining NBR way back was that I had an opportunity to visit the US and had been dreaming of buying an Alienware laptop. Long story short, I ended up moving here for good and the Alienware story was never meant to be. I've been on ASUS ROG machines since I arrived stateside.

 

I hopped here in 2011 because there was good Dell Precision chatter and I was looking to get the 2012 Dell Precision model, M6700, for my personal system. ...I got it at launch and it is still my primary personal system nearly 10 years later. I'm finally replacing it this year but NBR will never live to see that, it seems.

 

First:

Alienware MALX Aurora 19" laptop
19" 1680 x 1050 display
AMD Turion 64 mobile
2GB DDR SDRAM
2x Nvidia 7900 SLI GPUs
2x 7200RPM 100GB HD Raid 0

Best memory of this behemoth? When we got trapped in Florida during Tropical Storm Fay, I basically camped out in EQII for 5 days straight to pass the time.

Last:

Ztec Prema X170SM-G
17.3" 1080p 144hz
Silicon Lottery 10900k
16GB (Corsair Vengeance 2x8 3800 sticks @ 3200 14-14-14)
Nvidia RTX 2080 Super
2x 256GB NVME Raid 0

 

I came here with upgrade questions for my Compaq 2199US. The specs were:

2.1GHz Amd Athlon 2800+ CPU
512GB Memory
40GB 4200RPM IDE Hard Drive
15" 1024x768 LCD
Windows XP OS

I preferred Windows 2000, so I downgraded it to Windows 2000. I eventually got 1GB of memory installed and bumped up to a 7200RPM hard drive. It seemed pretty cool at the time. The reason I stopped at NBR was to find out whether I could replace the standard CDRW/DVD drive with a DVD burner. With some trial and error, I finally managed to do it. I've been hanging out, helping where I can, ever since. I'll end with the notebook in my signature.

 

The first laptop I had was a Dell Inspiron 9400 / E1705 which I upgraded, can't remember the last specs, just that the GPU was an Nvidia 7900 GTX and the CPU a Core Duo T2700.

The last laptop is my custom built from parts Clevo P177SM-A
i7 - 4940 MX
32 GB of RAM
3 TB of storage
Nvidia Quadro P4200
The display kind of sucks, it's a FullHD - N173HGE-E11

In between, I had a Clevo M570TU, which still works and an Alienware M17x R2 which sucked.

 

First:
Alienware Mx17 R4
I7 - 3920MX
16 GB of RAM
128 SSD / 1 TB HDD
Nvidia gtx 780M
Windows 7 PRO

Last:
Clevo P870DM-G Moded
I5 9600KF
32 GB of RAM
256 M2 / 1TB M2 / 2TB SSD
Nvidia Gtx 1080
Windows 10 PRO

 

My first and last Alienware laptop at NBR would be Alienware 15R2. I came in to ask the tech specs of SSD but decided to stick along after the dell thermal issues and never ending horrible repair stories.

 

Not been tempted by a 1070 or the like?

 

I didn't have a laptop when I joined NBR; my reason for joining was to ask questions to help figure out which laptop to get. So at the time, I was using:

Pentium 4 2.66 GHz Northwood
1 GB RAM (upgraded from the original 512 MB)
GeForce 4 MX 440
120 GB HDD
XP Home

Thanks to NBR I wound up upgrading to a Dell Inspiron 1520, T7500 2.2 GHz dual-core, 2 GB DDR2, 8600M GT, and a whopping 160 GB HDD, 7200 RPM to boot. I still have that machine, with the CPU, RAM, and HDD all upgraded, and the operating system downgraded from Vista to XP and now dual-booting Mint. It was my only machine for 4.5 years, and my only laptop for 7.5. NBR definitely didn't lead me astray.

Last spec depends on whether you're considering my "main" system or my most recent laptop.

Most recent laptop is MSI GL63, 8750H 2.2 GHz hex-core, GTX 1050, 8 GB DDR4, 1.25 TB SSD, Win10. But I mostly use my desktop nowadays, which has Core i5-2500k, Radeon RX 480, 16 GB DDR4, 1 TB SSD, and 5 TB HDD (plus backup hard drives), Win8.1. They are a bit mismatched spec-wise; the laptop wins on CPU and memory bandwidth, the desktop wins on graphics and storage.

 

I came here having just upgraded my Thinkpad T43 to a T61p. I was soooo happy in 2008 to finally go 64bit!!

Thinkpad T61p
Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5Ghz
nVidia Quadro fx 570m graphics
8GB DDR2 (upgraded from original 2GB!!)
2x100GB 7200rpm hdd
DVD+RW
14.1” 1400x1050 display
Docking station
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Windows XP x64 edition
Fedora Linux 9 (Sulphur)

Windows XP x64 edition along with Windows NT 4.0 Workstation were the last Microsoft OSs that I liked. I pretty much went Mac and Linux later that year.

I ended up here on one of the last intel based macbooks:

Apple MacBook Pro 16
8 core 9880h 2.3Ghz
Radeon 5600m graphics
32GB DDR4
1TB SSD
16” 3072x1920 display
macOS Catalina

Asus ROG Strix B550I
6 core AMD 5600X
EVGA RTX 3060 Ti graphics
16GB DDR4
2TB + 1TB SSD
Motif monument chassis
34” ultrawide + 27” 1440p
Fedora Linux 35

So long and thanks for the fish

 

Ah, before my M6700 I had this system's big brother, Inspiron 1720, which I had purchased in early 2008. I guess that is technically what I was using when I joined NBR. It was a great laptop for the day. I upgraded it to 6 GB RAM (beyond what Dell officially supported) and I think it had 1.5 TB of storage by the end (500GB+1TB HDDs), same 8600M GT GPU.

 

I considered the 1720! In the end, I went with the smaller sibling for portability, trading off not being able to add a second HDD, and the T7500 instead of the T7700 being the top-of-the-line CPU.

Many good memories with that laptop. Playing Trackmania while waiting for flights - a 50W dGPU gives you over an hour of playtime. Overclocking and undervolting it more than any computer I've had since then. I'm hoping to add a second hard drive to it later this year, thanks to some technological progress (including M.2 2242) since 2007.