I'm just curious what people where running when games such as Half-life 2 and GTA san Andreas was coming out.
Here is my dream 2004 build.
Athlon 64 FX-55
SLI NVIDIA 6800 Ultras
2GB Corsair XMS DDR Ram
Two Western Digital 320GB HDD's in Raid 0
Two 19" 1280x1024 LCD's
[b]Here was my actual 2005 build.[/b]
Athlon 64 4800+ X2
Nvidia 7800GTX
2GB Corsair XMS DDR ram
250GB Wester Digital HDD
Thermaltake Tsunami Case
Antec 550w Power Supply
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
Viewsonic VX926 19" 3ms LCD
Logitech G7 (Blue)
Logitech G15v1
Logitech Z-2300 2.1 THX speakers
It was banging.
Pentium 4/Pentium 4 Extreme CPU's, Nvidia 6 series, DDR RAM (When 2 gigs was considered high end). A High end gaming PC in 2004 would have most likely looked like this:
Pentium 4 Extreme OC'd @3.5GHz, Nvidia 6800 Ultra, 2GB DDR, 500GB HDD.
[QUOTE=BURG;23405038]Pentium 4/Pentium 4 Extreme CPU's, Nvidia 6 series, DDR RAM (When 2 gigs was considered high end). A High end gaming PC in 2004 would have most likely looked like this:
Pentium 4 Extreme OC'd @3.5GHz, Nvidia 6800 Ultra, 2GB DDR, 500GB HDD.[/QUOTE]
They didn't have 500GB HDD's in 04.
I had
AMD Sempron 1.8GHZ
512MB DDR RAM (Later upgraded to a whopping 1GB)
ATI Radeon 9600
[QUOTE=Ajacks;23405051]They didn't have 500GB HDD's in 04.[/QUOTE]
Ok, sorry. perhaps a 250? IDR i was 13 in 2004, I can't remember much from then.
[QUOTE=BURG;23405086]Ok, sorry. perhaps a 250? IDR i was 13 in 2004, I can't remember much from then.[/QUOTE]
250GB would be the 1TB of now, and the top end was the 320GB, which would be equivalent of the 2TB today as far as rarity.
Wow, we have come a long way in 6 years. That's amazing.
Nvidia - would of had the 6800's
ATI - would of followed closely with the X300/X800/etc. series.
AMD - had the single core Athlon 64's.
Intel - would of had the 3.8GHz Pentium 4 prescott.
This information is from my own quick revision of wikipedia for hardware at the end of 2004, so some of it may not be correct.
Well, in mid-2005, I bought a top-of-the-line machine. Here are the specs of it (it has long since fallen apart):
Pentium 4 Processor (can't remember the GHz)
1.5GB RAM
NVidia GeForce FX 5200
1x 80GB Hard Drive
1x 400GB Hard Drive
[QUOTE=Elgar;23405491]Well, in mid-2005, I bought a [B]top-of-the-line[/B] machine. Here are the specs of it (it has long since fallen apart):
Pentium 4 Processor (can't remember the GHz)
1.5GB RAM
[B]NVidia GeForce FX 5200[/B]
1x 80GB Hard Drive
1x 400GB Hard Drive[/QUOTE]
Does not compute.
A family friend of ours gave us his old "gaming" PC about 4 years ago. According to the manufacturing date, its a Gateway from March 2003.
It sports a Pentium 4 @ 2.53 Ghz.
1 GB DDR RAM
Nvidia GeForce 5700 LX
He took out the hard drive when he gave it to us so I have no clue. We have a 500 GB hard drive in it now.
Using this to type. Since 2004.
Pentium 4 3.06Ghz s478 processor
1GB Kingston RAM
512MB Corsair XMS TwinX RAM
160GB ATA IDE Seagate harddrive (Used to be a Maxtor 80GB)
Asus Geforce 7600GS AGP4x video card (Used to be an MX440 fuck)
Asus P4S533-X motherboard (Can support SDRAM wth. Doesn't support AGP8x!)
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS Gamer sound card
Thermaltake Noisetaker 600w PSU (Meant for my SLI build but never finished)
Horribly outdated tech. Still can manage Source games on high.
My own personal rig was an AMD Athlon 64 3500+, with a Geforce 6800GT, 1 gig of random DDR2 (Fairly low speed, 533Mhz or so I think it was) RAM, some sort of ASUS motherboard, and two IDE HDDs 120GB + 160GB.
Something like that - I made it to play Age of Empires 3, and later on used it to play Source games pretty decently. Call of Duty 2 and Half Life 2 played fine on it at high settings, for example.
[QUOTE=liquid_phase;23405511]Does not compute.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure if I want to rate you box or bad reading.
He's talking about the highest end available 5 years ago, not today.
[QUOTE=robmaister12;23411302]I'm not sure if I want to rate you box or bad reading.
He's talking about the highest end available 5 years ago, not today.[/QUOTE]
I don't know whether to rate you a box or bad reading.
The 5200 was shit even when it was first introduced, one of those terrible cards that exist to be stuck in by OEMs and sworn at by infuriated gamers for years. Trust me, I had one. At least it was better than my Geforce 2.
2004 I had a Pentium 4 @ 2.66 GHz, 1 GB RAM, and a 5700 Ultra. Was rocking a 40 GB hard drive and a 120 GB hard drive.
Buttsex, when do you get gold member?
end of this month
Fucking lucky.
In '04 I just had an Athlon 2000+ @ 1.8ghz, a 6600 GT (Hell yeah AGP!) and 1gb of ddr 400 ram.
In '05 I had an Athlon 2000+ @ 1.8ghz, a 7600gs (512mb ftw!) and 1gb ddr 400 of ram. Almost always had an 80gb hdd.
then only recently in '07 I finally got away from that shit heap when I got a new mobo, q6600 (Fuck I love this thing), 2gb ddr2 800 of ram and finally got away from agp with a HD4830. Next $50 I get I'm getting another 2gb stick.
2004
P4 1.6Ghz
768MB of DDR ram
ATI 9250 64-MB PCI
30GB HD
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS - still use it, great sound card even now
It was probably in 2005, but I had this machine:
AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.0 Ghz
2 Gb DDR2 Ram
7900GT 256 Mb
200 Gb Seagate Barracuda @ 7,200 rpm
Using it right now, has since been upgraded to have an AMD X2 5000+ and a Radeon HD 4650.
I wonder if I have my old gaming PC magazines...
[QUOTE=robmaister12;23411302]I'm not sure if I want to rate you box or bad reading.
He's talking about the highest end available 5 years ago, not today.[/QUOTE]
Check your facts before posting next time eh? 5200 was at the budget end of the fx range.
I'm pretty sure I had a 3100+, and about 1gb of 768mb of ram? And an 80gb HDD?
And I had a 5200fx for a video card I think, or it could have been some other shit.
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But the real Dream 2004 PC would be:
4 120gb HDD's 10000rpm in Raid 0
8gb of DDR.
Pentium 4 Extreme 3.8ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra 2 way SLI.
Running at 1600x1200.
[QUOTE=Kel|oggs;23418345]
8gb of DDR.[/QUOTE]
what
[QUOTE=liquid_phase;23417729]Check your facts before posting next time eh? 5200 was at the budget end of the fx range.[/QUOTE]
crap, I just realized that...
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