Hardware we would have killed for 10 years ago

[zanzabar]

what i would have lover 10 years ago was an athlon MP setup, i had wanted a 2p barton setup so bad but could never afford one.

[paulbagz]

Penti 4 + 9600XT, those were the days...

-PB

[DTU_XaVier]

Ten years ago, I hadn't even gotten my own first PC yet. Would not get it for almost another 2 years, but my family was rocking an AMD Thunderbird 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, GeForce 3 64MB, 40gig HDD and that's about it. It was still doing pretty well at this point in time too

[RADCOM]

I was sporting the amazing Soyo Dragon plus motherboard with some sort of Athlon processor, it was water cooled with innovatek kit
in a chieftec case that I had put an oval window in. The geforce 5900 was the GPU of choice :-)

[breakfromyou]

Lol. 10 years ago I was rocking one of the first jumper-free boards, I believe it was the ASUS P4T-E or something. It had DIP switches instead lol. Ah... Pentium 4 1.5GHZ with 384 mb of RD RAM, which was the best lol.

I have a P4T-E rev1.0 hanging out here, balanced on top of a bag full of laptop parts and a hyper212+ box next to it, with a boombox on top.

I should've kept that old Thunderbird 900 I built in 2001 or 2002. Cheap power supplies ftl.

[UrbanSmooth]

Heh, back in 2002, I was still in high school and rocking OEM PCs.

Compaq's Pentium III 800MHz was my last OEM PC. I spent countless hours on the MSN Gaming Zone running an Age of Empires II: The Conquerors deathmatch clan. Fun times.

I thank God that I saw the light and moved on to custom-building my own PCs/HTPCs/Workstations/Gaming Powerhouses.

[KoHaN69]

The scary part is not the drastic hardware improvements, but that it has already been 10 years.

[Spectrobozo]

exactly 10 years ago I was using:
P3 800
Asus p3v133
256mb PC133
Geforce 2 MX400
17" CRT (Samsung 750s)
the HD was probably a 40GB quantum fireball

looking at some games I used to play in 2002, it doesn't look to bad, Max Payne and GTA 3... titles re-released for the tables/smart phones recently, but yes... things have improved quite a bit, but it just doesn't feel so long ago...

[Aleki]

27" 2560x1600 MONITOR

OH WAIT WE'D STILL KILL FOR THAT BECAUSE LCD MONITORS SUCKED FOR 10 YEARS

Pfff. If you can't adapt to LCD then you're just a noob :p The first few days have been hard, but once you've grown accustomed to the drawbacks of LCD you can game fine. Well, maybe not Q3, but CoD worked and still works fine

LCD's were still pretty bad 10 years ago. I remember one of my early-adopting friends bought a $1200 15" LCD back ~1998, it had lousy viewing angles and it would ghost badly; yet it was the thing to have because of its profile. Meanwhile, I was rocking the flatpanel Samsung CRT's until 07. Even to todays consumer standards the picture was still superior to TFT LCDs

[AbortRetryFail?]

2P P!!!s at 1GHz
2GB RAMs
Elsa Gloria II AGP Pro
(Replaced with a 128MB FireGL - can't recall which one)
Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI Controller
A big-ice ViewSonic
Win2k

I wanted more SCSI - anything. That sheet was high, and for your average working guy, nearly out of reach.

I scrapped together a Yamaha burner, HP flatbed scanner, a couple of small SCSI HDDs (one maybe 18MB - 9MB for the other). One heck of a ride on that bus.

That stuff was gold at the time.