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In the late 80s, I remember playing a slow ass Golden Axe on my friend's IBM 386 with blips and bleeps.
My first PC wasn't until much later in 1995~. It was Pentium 100Mhz with 8mb of RAM Boy, my friend's 133Mhz made a huge difference. We were playing Diablo and Warcraft II. I remember upgrading my RAM to 16mb and ultimately 64mb (from my summer job). I remember blown away how fast it became by no longer bottlenecked by RAM. AOL was peak back then.
In the year 2000, I was a college freshman. I got AMD K6-2 which was 333Mhz? But I also remember having a Slot A Athlon in my second year in the dorm room. Was it Quake 3 Arena where the K6-2 was performing worse than the competition because of terrible floating point calculations or whatever.
Hey, Anandtech was HUGE back then. You refresh once and the off-topic front page was filled with at least 3 pages of new posts & threads. I don't know if I'm dreaming or I actually bought a Athlon XP1700+ when it was all the rage because they were finally beating up Intel or something.
Mid 2000s I don't remember what I had so much. I think some kind of Athlon64 X2 that could just barely play the newly released Diablo 3. If you OC'd the settings, then it would be smooth sailing. I sold that on CL and I built an i3-2130 rig. It ran so well because, like most of my purchases, they were value-oriented.
I bought a used i7-3770 here in AT FS/FT when Doom 2016 was released. My FPS went up 10-15 fps across the board on the same GPU.
As for the GPUs... I don't know why I have a hard time remembering them so early. I recall spending $300 on a 'budget' ATi or AMD GPU back then. Man that's a lotta money today. I had some kind of a Geforce GT or GTS when the AGP slot was new. It's all a blur... Then AMD Radeon HD4850 512mb. Then AMD Radeon HD6870 with 2GB of memory. Did I then jump to Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB a whopping 6 years later? Then came RTX2070 for 12 months, then a total splurge upgrade of what you see in the sig today.
How about you?
My first PC wasn't until much later in 1995~. It was Pentium 100Mhz with 8mb of RAM Boy, my friend's 133Mhz made a huge difference. We were playing Diablo and Warcraft II. I remember upgrading my RAM to 16mb and ultimately 64mb (from my summer job). I remember blown away how fast it became by no longer bottlenecked by RAM. AOL was peak back then.
In the year 2000, I was a college freshman. I got AMD K6-2 which was 333Mhz? But I also remember having a Slot A Athlon in my second year in the dorm room. Was it Quake 3 Arena where the K6-2 was performing worse than the competition because of terrible floating point calculations or whatever.
Hey, Anandtech was HUGE back then. You refresh once and the off-topic front page was filled with at least 3 pages of new posts & threads. I don't know if I'm dreaming or I actually bought a Athlon XP1700+ when it was all the rage because they were finally beating up Intel or something.
Mid 2000s I don't remember what I had so much. I think some kind of Athlon64 X2 that could just barely play the newly released Diablo 3. If you OC'd the settings, then it would be smooth sailing. I sold that on CL and I built an i3-2130 rig. It ran so well because, like most of my purchases, they were value-oriented.
I bought a used i7-3770 here in AT FS/FT when Doom 2016 was released. My FPS went up 10-15 fps across the board on the same GPU.
As for the GPUs... I don't know why I have a hard time remembering them so early. I recall spending $300 on a 'budget' ATi or AMD GPU back then. Man that's a lotta money today. I had some kind of a Geforce GT or GTS when the AGP slot was new. It's all a blur... Then AMD Radeon HD4850 512mb. Then AMD Radeon HD6870 with 2GB of memory. Did I then jump to Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB a whopping 6 years later? Then came RTX2070 for 12 months, then a total splurge upgrade of what you see in the sig today.
How about you?
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