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Jonny 290 posted:> funy tech poo poo u just remembered v2.0. 56k-safe back in the p4 vs athlon days intel still had the advantage of chipsets that weren't a total dumpster fire, that doesn't seem to be an issue anymore, so yeah the new AMD chips seem like a no brainer last upgrade i wasn't fully sold on the first gen ryzen chips just in case issues started coming up with them, so i bought intel, who then promptly changed the loving socket for the next gen. owned jesus, that was 3 years and change ago. i still think of it as being new 
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:computer lifetimes are a lot longer in 2020 than they were back in 2000 though. 3 years is not old even in a lot of professional contexts. yeah, that's what i was thinking of, 2 years used to be creaky, 3 was obsolete p3 clock speeds tripled in less time than i've had this desktop i still think of as being fast and new my main personal laptop is 7 years old, and it's fine. imagine back then still using a p60 after gigahertz p3s and athlons were out
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I think the thing that blows my mind a bit is how cheap ssd storage got. I have a 64gb ssd on my desk that I used as an os drive in 2007 and I need to get rid of, and a stack of hdds that got rendered completely obsolete. One has a post it not saying "windows vista" on it lol. yeah, ssd in everything for the os, apps and swap has been the biggest improvement to the pc since what? the first 3d video cards? just a real game changer i do kind of miss just buying a new drive twice the size of the old one for less money once it got full. we were pretty spoiled for a while there in cost/capacity improvements until the tsunami in thailand i think i might have posted this in this thread before, but a favourite tech relic of mine is the naive thought 'holy poo poo, this drive's so big i'm never going to fill it', thought of a 30GB deskstar when I still had a loving bigfoot installed in my desktop still worked the last time i gave it power tbf, the deskstar not so much. also, holy poo poo raptors, i wonder how long it's been since i thought of them Agile Vector posted:yeah, if my old cpu didnt fry in may id still be using my i5 2500k, a 9 year old chip, to play 2020 games with only modest slider changes. the longevity of any decent cpu is so much better now an overclocked e4300 c2d hung in there for more than a decade for me. it's nuts.
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Winty posted:i was thinking about that brief period when hardware accelerated window managers were popular... wobbly windows, the rotating 3D cube workspaces, unnecessary transparency, etc i spent loving ages getting compiz working, then i think less than a minute to conclude 'oh, this is actually terrible to use' and disabling it
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klosterdev posted:Pentium D805 being so overclockable it could on air cooling outperform intel's $1000 Pentium Extreme Edition e4300 was also a screamer. stickered at 1.8, mine went to 3.2 and some people got double. heavy 300a vibes.
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Platystemon posted:split to two discs, duh programme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMWEiCdsfc
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:also, the practice of downloading warez through irc bots still a thing for ebooks my current phone came with an fm tuner and wireless earbuds
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the game developer sim that had massive in game piracy on cracked versions
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