History of the past
I will try to keep an history of all my previous machine on this page…yes it is just a nerd/geek behavior…
In 15 years…
- Cost in euro are in green, are similar in amount, you just get more size, disk, speed for your buck
- 1208 times more IPS and my PC is still sometimes hanging (In order Vista, XP, #Linux I look at you) 🙁
- 81 times more disk space!
- Power consumption 360 watts today 🙁
- PC are still slower than what I expect…
Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer’s processor speed. Many reported IPS
values have represented “peak” execution rates on artificial instruction sequences with few branches,
whereas realistic workloads consist of a mix of instructions and even applications, some of which take
longer to execute than others. The performance of the memory hierarchy also greatly affects processor
performance, an issue barely considered in MIPS calculations. Because of these problems, researchers
created standardized tests such as SPECint to (maybe) measure the real effective performance in
commonly used applications, and raw IPS has fallen into disuse. [WikiPedia]
| From | CPU | MHz / IPS | Socket | RAM | O.S | Main board | Video Card | Sound | Disks | Notes |
| 1993 | Intel i486DX | 50 / 41 IPS | 1 | 4MB 612€ | Win95 | ??? | ??? | ???? | 40MB | Total cost was 1700€ |
| 1997 | Dual Core Intel Celeron | 450×2 / 990 IPS x 2 | 128MB 150€ | BEOS WINNT4 | DFI dual processor | ATI Rage 128 | ??? | 540MB | ||
| 2000 | AMD Duron | 700 / 2076 IPS | A | 1024MB (PC133) | SuSE WIN2000 | ASUS AN8VX | NVIDIA TNT Ultra 2 NVIDIA Geforce GTS2 64MB | OnBoard NVIDIA | 80GB | |
| 2003 | AMD Athlon XP | 1800 / 5340 IPS | A | 1536MB (PC133) | SuSE WINXP | ASUS AN8VX | NVIDIA Geforce FX1200 256MB | OnBoard NVIDIA | 160GB | cheap upgrade from previous |
| 2005 | AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 94€ | 2000 / 7707 IPS | 939 | 1536MB (PC133) | OpenSuSE WINXP | ASUS A8N-VM CSM, mATX, NVIDIA 6150/430 66€ | OnBoard NVIDIA 6130 | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum, 24/96 158€ | 3.2TB
4 x Maxtor 7L300R0 MaxLine III, 7200rpm, 16MB, 300GB | Promise SuperTrak EX8350, SATA2, 8 Channel. SATA RAID 0,1,5,6 339€ |
| 2008 2011 | Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2x6MB 220€ | 2660 / 49534 IPS | LG775 | 4 GB Mushkin XP2-8800 2x2GB (DDR2-1100) 104€ | OpenSuSE WINXP | ASUS P5Q-E, Intel P45,
118€ | ASUS EAH4850, HTDI/512M/A, PCI-E 2.0, 512MB GDDR3 152€ | same as before | 3.2TB | same as before |
| 2017 | 40TB |
