I bought a second-hand computer last September. It's been fine. I'd like to know how old it is. In fact, my question is probably flawed as it's probably composed of various bits of differing ages. How can I find out? The hard drive has the description ST313620A. The case is of a Fujitsu C3/50L.
2007-05-21 02:32:06 · 7 answers · asked by bogmonster 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The CPU is indeed a P III. How did you guys know that?
2007-05-21 03:21:54 · update #1
P3, 500Mhz, 128MB Ram, 13GB UDMA33 HDD.
Pretty old. At least 7-8 years.
2007-05-21 02:43:23 · answer #1 · answered by It's Kippah, Kippah the dawg 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They know by the size of your 13GB Seagate hard drive - because Pentium2 never had a hard drive that big and Pentium 4 never had one that small.
A computer - especially an older second hand one - can be made up of many different parts, upgrades, and replacements. Several of my family members have computers this old and I have helped upgrade them.
If you really want to learn about your computer, find a free copy of SiSoft "Sandra" on the web (google for it - may be free at overclockers cafe) and run this on your computer. It will tell you the type of motherboard, the CPU, what socket the CPU uses, the type of RAM, etc. Then you can research that motherboard and see what the max speeds are to upgrade. All these old parts are available on eBay.
The best thing you could do for this computer is to put a faster hard drive in. You can get PCI controller card very cheap and then get a cheap hard drive (say 80GB IDE or SATA drive for about $50). You would be amazed at how much faster it will run. Programs will load faster, etc.
I have an old PIII machine that I upgraded from a 800MHz Celeron to a 1.0GHz PIII which has more cache (I have a bunch of these CPUs) and it runs great. Unfortunately, your 500MHz probably uses the "Slot 1" processor and they are MUCH harder to find cheap upgrades.
Good Luck
2007-05-21 12:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by TahoeT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beings that it is second hand it is gong to be pretty hard to tell how old it is without going in and taking a look see. My guess your hard drive in from late 1990's early 2000, maybe 1999. And the Fujitsu C3/50L is just the update that has been applied to the hard drive. The actual computer itself I would assume without any other information to go by is maybe 7 years old.
2007-05-21 09:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the fastest way to hone in on a target age is to find out what the processor is. If it's a P III, the computer is likely 7 or 8 years old.
Another way to guesstimate its age is to see what type of RAM it has. RAM is always under improvement so the type it is (pin configuration, and speed are good indicators) will help narrow it down further.
2007-05-21 09:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most easily and correctly, is to see your windows files, but those stationary, not those that run processes, and check when are they modified (created) .
2007-05-21 09:39:57 · answer #5 · answered by Nitro 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try everest home edition.It will show what is in your computer and how old it is.
2007-05-21 11:27:35 · answer #6 · answered by BuddyGuy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its its 40th on tuesday next millenuim.go on, spoil it.
2007-05-21 09:36:27 · answer #7 · answered by diamondchichan 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋