Hardware we would have killed for 10 years ago

[thegoatman]

Notably missing from the list is cheap, high-density RAM and multi-core CPUs, but this is pretty cool to think about. What were you doing in the world of computer enthusiasts 10 years ago?

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/201...e-killed-for/1

[Kallenator]

10 years ago eh... :/

Don't remember much how the hardware at the time, but it was AMD's K7 probably 1700 or around there, and an ATI 9200. ^^

Other than that, Battlefield 1942 and Warcraft III

Max Payne was not dead yet either

[Sailindawg]

Hmmm, 10 years ago, I was kickin' an ABIT NF7, clocking a mobile 2600 CPU & loving every minute of MOH:AA, in it's modded glory & starting BF42.

I had 4G ram & vid cards had about 256.

[Kallenator]

Ohh, yeah you're right MOH: AA (Both shotguns and bazookas banned! :p)
Played that online a lot, we were blessed early with 1Mbit Internet ^^

[labs23]

Exactly 10 years ago, my first PC hasn't even aged a month. It was powered by an AMD Spitfire Duron - 600Mhz iirc.
At that point of time, I don't even have an idea of what internet is - no kidding.

I have to say am very impressed on the storage size that we can have right now, and yes ofc. how fast internet connections are today.

[Warboy]

Argonathlon.jpg

I had one of these and still have the CPU itself laying around, Also a 9700 PRO.

My first nvidia wasn't till a 6800 GS.


Playing No Lives Forever.

[Nugz]

CS 1.6 running my own server using DSL ( about the same speed as of today, yay crappy Centurylink/Qwest )

K6 350 mhz 256mb ram
Then Athlon 1000mhz with 512mb Geforce 2 Ultra and then Geforce 3 then ATI 9700 pro around 2004 tho

I had the same CPU above and still have it and the MB.. But the socket was proven slow so I think I went with Celron 600 mhz..

[bamtan2]

27" 2560x1600 MONITOR

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

[R101]

10 years ago = Northwood 2.0@2.7. Later in the year I replaced it with 2.4 that did 3.0 rock solid, 3.4 for benching.. Abit mobo, don't remember which one. Those were the days..

[SkItZo]

I wouldnt have killed for an ssd 10 years ago unless it means cheaper/more reliable drives now.

[SoF]

10 years ago eh... :/

Other than that, Battlefield 1942

Max Payne was not dead yet either

just sended me away with that for some minutes, thinking about good times

These Max Payne slides have been so cool - quite different from what "he" is now...

[RPGWiZaRD]

10 years ago I was using an XP 1900+ (Palomino core, damnit! the hottest AMD chip ever at 1.85v stock, good luck with overclocking this, uninformed I was still at that time!) and GF4 Ti 4200 (nice card!) and don't remember the amount RAM, maybe 256MB or 512MB "generic" No-name ram? ^^

[Kain665]

Athlon XP 3200+, 2x1GB Mushkin Redline DDR-500 (This was so expensive at the time...), Asus A7N8X-E, Raptor 36GB, 5700 Pro 128mb (6800 Ultra shortly after).

Far Cry! Yeah!

[AliG]

27" 2560x1600 MONITOR

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

We have those options now, it's just they're too expensive for the average customer. Your best bet is to get one of the Koren IPS panels and pay extra for perfect pixels

[masterg]

10 years ago i was rocking an intel celeron 800mhz with a 400fsb and 256mb of ram and 64mb pci video card >_>

[zanzabar]

about 10 years (maybe it was 9)ago i was rocking an athlon 2000 palomino(i got it from 1660mhz to 2.2ghz), an albatron with a via kt400 pro, 2x1GB of ecc ram that was 400mhz(boss back then), i picked up a SBA plat pro zs when they launched (and still use it) then in 03 i got a 9600xt. i had a beast back then.

also looking back i would have loved to have no jumpers, and no linked pci and fsb.

[thegoatman]

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.

[Fatal Error]

In nowdays you can safely make an article with title "Hardware we would have killed for 6 months ago"

[thegoatman]

In nowdays you can safely make an article with title "Hardware we would have killed for 6 months ago"

Indeed. You think we're rapidly approaching the technological singularity?

[M.Beier]

10 years ago?

Pentium 4 Northwood A 2.2 @ 3ghz, cooled by singlestage compressor, Prometeia Mach I
GeForce4 Ti4400
2x 512MB PC3200
WD 80GB Caviar
19" Samsung Syncmaster 959NF

And my games were;
Counter Strike
3Dmark2001SE

[Dainas]

Great Great thread! Ten years ago I had a Athlon thoroughbred 2000XP on an SiS board, and then Nforce 2 shortly after. 1GB of ram and a Geforce 4 4200 Ti. It was all about Medal of Honor, No one Lives Forever 2, Hitman 2, GTA 3, UT2003 and then Morrowind, then the 9700pro ofcourse! Thats what got me into PC gaming. Looking back I think what I would have killed for most is affordable IPS/MVA monitors. Yeah he has the 23" Apple Cinema Displays which are still pretty usable to this day, almost gameable, but they were over two grand back then, so it was all about finding the best CRT we could, and enjoying it till it fuzzed out.

[endlesszeal]

My older brother and I just got into computing. We built our first computer with amd palomino 1700+, Asus with via chip set, 2x512mb Kingston ddr266 ram and geforce mx420. I still have this machine

[FischOderAal]

Where was I 10 years ago? I was 15 years old and I think I was running a P3 900 MHz and a GeForce 2 GTS. A long shot from the person I was maybe 2 years later.

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

[Bobsama]

10 years ago, I don't know what my PC was like--it was old and everything. But 9 years ago, I had a Celeron 2GHz with 256MB RAM & a GeForce FX 5200-128MB (AGP 4x). A generic beige chassis & power supply sufficed, a WD Caviar 80GB IDE drive, and a beige 50x CD-ROM drive. I was also rocking Windows XP Home. For years, that was sufficient--I could run BF2 (on low settings) and a bunch of other games. I remember "owning" in Delta Force BHD mulitplayer--spawning at a control point and running into the mountains, spawn-camping the hell out of the other team. I also had a Viewsonic 17" CRT monitor--a big old beast of a monitor. I ran 1024x768@75hz for a long time--towards the end, I was dissatisfied with 1024x768 & started running 1280x1024@60hz. It was a big trade-off--since CRTS of course have a refresh flicker. 60hz was easily visible, but 75hz was tougher to see.

[kjeldoran]

I had a tbird 1.1GHz, 640mb pc133, 32mb geforce 2 mx400, 20GB Seagate. gateway prebuilt. My phone is faster than it lol. Built my first computer the next year. P4 2.66, 1GB ram, radeon 9700 pro, dual wd 80GB he's. Can't remember the mobo.

I miss crts.

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