I want to go back to 2008
>>108414831Man, tech used to be fun and interesting.
>>108414865mentally, I'm still there
>>108414872> going to your happy place to escape the horrorsFair, what else is there to do?
>tfw ywn experience owning first ever GPU
>let me guess you need a fan? too bad
>>108414928Kek reminds me of when I bought a 6800 with passive cooling because it was the cheapest option I could upgrade to as a minimum requirement to play Battlefield 2.
>COOL ASUS 3D VR GLASSES
>>108414961how long that geforce lasted?
>20 years agoI swear I still remember everything from that timeFUCK
>>108415009Surprisingly it did not break. It did cause a few shutdowns/crashes due to overheating though.But I did not own it all that long before I upgraded to a full new build 2 years or so later. But I can't remember what I had in that.
>>108414831I had an anus HD 7750 with a similar coolerIt would constantly alternate between stopping the fan then screaming like a banshee. Hated that shit.
>>108414831>2008
>>108415090yes
>>108414831same, 90s and early 2000s were fucking great for technology.huge leaps were made and things just kept improving and it seemed this would go on forever.
80s had cooler tech before everything became black and silver boxes that were as small as possibleits all about tactile switches, large ports and indicators
>>108414831
>>108415183>>108415188I was on freaking Celeron D back then
>>108415200there it is, the motherfucker that made everything else obsolete
>>108414831750, 970/80 and 1080 are the sweetspots tho' I'm into my retro bits but there's no point in putting that in an xp box when you can do a 750 or 970 instead,
>>108415196you poor soul. i was 15 back in 2006 and i had a an amd athlon 64 3500+. then in 2007 i picked up a intel e6600.
>>108415202it really did. it was a massive upgrade of everything in existence at the time and it lasted for so long. it overclocked retarded easily too. i had mine running at 3.2ghz from 2007 till i replaced it in 2010.
>>108414881dust off and set up XP machine!!!That is good start...
>>108414903imagine 64 MB That was beast...
>>108415211It was truly torture, I think I was on in until like 2014,and I've got it in 2006 orginally, I missed out on the whole Core2Duo era
>>108415021I feel old.
>>108414831>>to 2008>technology that was being discussed on /g/ as quite new when /g/ was young is now retro
>>108414831So true. Remember when discrete GPUs were a thing?
I want to go back so bad bros>early internet>forums>buying gaming magazines>tech improving yearly
>>108414831Why did red boards pretty much die out, yet black and blue are still used?
>>108415882Black and blue scream woah futureWhile red screams retro
>>108414831ebay existsnothing is stopping you
>>108415971I never threw out my 2009 PC
once (((they))) figure it out everything turns to shit like clockwork every time
>>108414865I was upgrading every year back then. My 2012 build was practically untouched until a couple years ago.
>>108414831> 2008 is now considered retroMan, that's fucking depressing.
Comfy thread <3
