R.I.P.: 9 Year Old Dell Dimension 8100

A few weeks ago, our (nearly) nine-year-old home PC died. It froze up and wouldn’t even show the bios. Nine years ain’t bad for a PC… I had only ever upgraded memory, the graphics card, and a hard drive. I think we paid $2K for it back in the day. Luckily, everything important is hosted on network drives, so nothing lost.

We now have a new Dell Inspiron 530. I bought it with just integrated graphics and purchased separately an XFX GeForce 8800 GT graphics card. That required a power supply upgrade, so I got the Dell-compatible PCPower Silencer 500 power supply.

For the first time ever, my expectations of a computer’s performance are easy to meet. It’s just a computer. Our lives haven’t changed as a result of the new PC… previous ones did change how we did things. It’s a good computer, but it’s just a computer. This time, everything was only $600.

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3 Responses to R.I.P.: 9 Year Old Dell Dimension 8100

  1. Amar says:

    Dead PC gone to the big bios in the sky.

  2. Nine years up and running, i say it served you well!! Not bad for a computer.

  3. blacky says:

    I have 1 st version of dell 8100 pent4
    bought dec 1999 now has xp 1 GB ram &
    besides 60 GB original drive still
    works i installed a 250 GB but This computer is slow by todays standards
    and my HD camcorder can not be up load
    ed. I may have to get a new pc.

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