• What would be the specs of a 2004 gaming pc?
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Hmm, my 2004 gaming PC? Wasn't even a PC, it was a laptop. A Dell Latitude C600. 14.1" 1024x768 with terrible contrast ratio and response time 10 GB HDD 128 MB RAM Intel Mobile Pentium III 850 MHZ ATi Rage Mobility 128 AGP 2X 8Mb I got really excited when the demo for Half-Life 2 came out, I couldn't wait to play it. I downloaded it, and loaded a new game, it took 20 minutes to load, and when it finally got through, I could hear the G-Mans voice looping for 15 minutes straight. Me being the dumbass I was, didn't realize my laptop was a piece of shit that played it at .01 FPS and when I asked about it on the forums everyone laughed at me and I had no idea what the hell was going on. I sometimes look back on this old memory, it really makes me appreciate what I have for a computer now, instead of just wishing all the time for that 980x @ 4.5Ghz and triple video card configuration on a massive water cooling setup.
My first "gaming" computer was built around 2004-5 (I got it from my father's stepbrother in about 2006) It was something like this: Single core Celeron at 2.8GHz 2Gb DDR RAM Three IDE drives coming up to 600-700Gb Storage. GeForce 5800 (Actually a v9999GT, but the cards is based on the same chip, can't really remember the difference) It ran games like HL2 and Need For Speed: MW Pretty decent on all high. The GPU broke one and a half year ago, when my Father's brother needed a new HDD for his PS3, the GPU broke for some reason (Nobody even fucking touched it!) it got changed with some low-end GeForce 4*** series card.
Radeon 9600 was the shit back in the day, I miss that card :(
I probably had a x850pro agp with unlocked pipelines back then.
Back in 2004 I think we still had the computer running on 98. Dad didn't want to change for some reason.
I don't have a pc by then, but a normal family pc of that time will be Intel Pentium III with 256mb of ram.
In 2004 I had a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 (with HT!) 1GB of DDR RAM and the one let down, the GeForce FX5200. As a matter of fact, I'm still using it as I type.
For the longest time I had a 1.8GHz P4, 512MB RAM and a Radeon 7500 Now imagine trying WoW on that
Pent 4 3.03, 1gig, 9850 PRO, that was my build
[QUOTE=redwinterwol;23441229]Pent 4 3.03, 1gig, [B]9850 PRO[/B], that was my build[/QUOTE] Quite sure such a card never existed.
Pentium 4 with HT OC'd would be best choice for the CPU. NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultras in SLI OC'd a little bit would be best choice for GPU. 2GB DDR OC'd barely a little bit would be the best choice for RAM. And a 500watt PSU
Pentium 4 2.7GHz 256MB of RAM 40GB Hard Drive Nvidia GeForce 5200FX It was swanky.
In 2004 I was running a pre-built Compaq with an AMD Athlon XP @ 1.8GHz, upgraded from 256MB to 512MB of ram, a 40GB ATA hard drive, and the integrated 64 MB ATI video card (don't remember what it was exactly), and I used it until it stopped powering on in 2007.
Dell dimension 4300 :saddowns: p4 1.4GHz 512MB SDRAM 133MHz :crying: ati rage pro 128 :crying: God I was a deprived child
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;23484201]Dell dimension 4300 :saddowns: p4 1.4GHz 512MB SDRAM 133MHz :crying: ati rage pro 128 :crying: God I was a deprived child[/QUOTE] Hey I think I got one of those free before it went into the dumpster.
[QUOTE=4rawrs2;23484598]Hey I think I got one of those free before it went into the dumpster.[/QUOTE] Get rid of it. Immediately. It's worse than pentium 3's.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;23484201]Dell dimension 4300 :saddowns: p4 1.4GHz 512MB SDRAM 133MHz :crying: ati rage pro 128 :crying: God I was a deprived child[/QUOTE] That's pretty craptastic. Though, around that time, I was using a Celeron (that was Pentium III based) @ 1.4 Ghz 256 MB SDRAM intel 82815E Graphics Ran Blockland pretty good, but you had to run Simcity 4 on lowest settings because it kept running out of RAM on large cities (tooks 30 seconds to zoom in and out). The kicker: I somehow acquired a PCI version of a GeForce 8400GS, and it can play Garry's Mod fairly reasonably.
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;23484699]Get rid of it. Immediately. It's worse than pentium 3's.[/QUOTE] I got a Pentium III before it went into the dumpster too... :(
I had this in 2004, an iMac G5 17" matte display, 1440 x 900 1.8 GHz PowerPC 970fx nVidia GeForce FX 5200 64MB 2 GB 400 MHz DDR SDRAM 160 GB hard drive
[QUOTE=Makol V2;23484989]I had this in 2004, an iMac G5 17" matte display, 1440 x 900 1.8 GHz PowerPC 970fx nVidia GeForce FX 5200 64MB 2 GB 400 MHz DDR SDRAM 160 GB hard drive[/QUOTE] :frog:
I played Battlefield 1942 and attempted to play WoW (oh god the horror), it died last year.
I had a HP Pavilion a545c, upgraded it in about 2005. AMD Athlon XP (B) 3200+ 2.20 GHz CPU ASUS A7V8X-LA Motherboard 1 GB DDR1-333 SDRAM (Originally 512 MB) 200 GB Ultra DMA 7200RPM (I still use this HD in my gaming PC today.) nVidia GeForce FX 5500 (Originally integrated)
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;23484699]Get rid of it. Immediately. It's worse than pentium 3's.[/QUOTE] How is a p4 worse than a p3?
[QUOTE=thf;23500572]How is a p4 worse than a p3?[/QUOTE] I'm actually wondering this as well.
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHZ ASUS P4SC-E 1 GB DDR1-333 SDRAM Nvidia Fx5500 At least, that was my specs for my originated desktop computer.
[QUOTE=thf;23500572]How is a p4 worse than a p3?[/QUOTE] P3s have a better core design, but it only applies at the same clock speed. a 1.4 GHz P4 is (marginally) slower than a 1.4 GHz P3.
[QUOTE=Generic_Monk;23411825]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.[/QUOTE] The card isn't as awful as you make it out to be. Before I got my own PC, I was able to play through the orange box with the family's old Dell (2.8 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, Geforce 5200 FX)... I think we got it around 2004 or so. It was smooth enough to play, though in HL2:EP2, the ending and the GMan cutscene were less than 1 FPS for some reason. [editline]08:52PM[/editline] It's a Dimension 4600
[QUOTE=BenJ;23505581][B]The card isn't as awful as you make it out to be.[/B] Before I got my own PC, I was able to play through the orange box with the family's old Dell (2.8 GHz P4, 512 MB RAM, Geforce 5200 FX)... I think we got it around 2004 or so. It was smooth enough to play, though in HL2:EP2, the ending and the GMan cutscene were less than 1 FPS for some reason. [editline]08:52PM[/editline] It's a Dimension 4600[/QUOTE] It's the bottom of the range card for the fx series, on that alone, I would say it's pretty awful. The fact it plays hl2 is a testament to the abilities of valve and getting their games running on bottom of the barrel computers.
[QUOTE=Ajacks;23405016]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[/QUOTE] Wow, that build was an excessively overkilled machine back in 2004.
[QUOTE=OCELOT323;23411554]i7 980x GTX480 6gb of DDR3 ram 1tb HDD 60gb SSD storage 750w corsair PSU[/QUOTE] Please tell me you read the title wrong... somehow..
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