Were you impressed by dual-core processors back in 2006?
>>108717767Half the people on this board were not born yet. The worst part is that they aren't even underage.
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It was pretty cool seeing them in the new MacBook Pros just after switching to x86.
i guess. my first build was an athlon 64 x2 6000+. before that i had a 2ghz pentium 4 in a dell laptop. before that an 800mhz duron.
>>108717767when I was a kid people talked about their quad core gaming CPU and that sounded really cool to me.
>>108717779They will always be mentally underage in our minds.
>>108717767I was extremely salty having purchased an expensive Socket 939 motherboard and CPU just a few months prior.
>>108717812man I remember seeing dual core and thinking like>whoa this is cooland then there were these black edition quad cores and that was like some alien tech to me
I was still on a amd sempron in 2006. Did get a c2d E8400 later on and it lasted me until the 2500k.I kinda miss the era of getting excited for pc hardware.
>>108717862me too anon, I've had a sempron in 2005, then was stuck on single core intel fucking celeron for years. All I wanted was pic related because of the price
>>108717767for some reason I totally skipped the core 2 duo and quad era, I upgrade from my (2002) pentium 4 to a (2009) core i7 920.the p4 was enough to play warcraft III, WoW and cs which represented basically 99% of my gaming of this era. I upgraded because wotlk was a bit too much for the p4.pic related, I still have them and they're still working.
>>108717767I was more impressed with pentium. You could not run quake on 486 very well. Same with 386, couldn't play shit on a 286 except deluxe paint.
>>108717767damn i should do a c2d or c2q build, do chinks make modern boards for them like witth old xeons?
>>108717975there wasn't that many multithreaded games back theneven crysis in 2008 was still running everything on one corei always felt bad for the people that got Q6600 lol
>>108717983oddly enough when I think Intel I still think Pentium, even though it been what? 30+ fucking years?I think the name been phased out only recently
>>108718000>>108717767the only thing that used a q6600 at the time was pcsx2 and lost planet 1 and even then they ran just fine on dual cores.
>>108717862>>108717925Did anyone say Sempron?
>>108718012I still got the sticker somewhere
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>>108717767I remember having a quad core meant you were the king of the pack
Had I got this in 2005, would I be able to run GTA4 when it released?
>>108718094Yes, I played it on an Athlon 64 X2 and it ran "fine" i.e. 30 fps average. Actually for some reason GTA IV ran better and smoother on Athlons than on the otherwise faster C2D, maybe because of the integrated memory controller, who knows.
>>108717767I was early in my career and bought a core2duo laptop from Dell as a company laptop. It ran hot, the fans were loud, and it was chunky. I hated it so much. This is when I learned Dell releases ok stuff and complete shit as well and you have to really research.
>>108717767Nope. Just like Crytek, I thought single cores with higher clock speeds would be faster. Three years later I found out I was wrong and upgraded a system with one of these >>108717925 and it did pretty well long enough to last until a generation after the poorfag cope gen.
>>108717975dang bro, are you literally me?I pretty much did the exact same, went from a 2.56, to a 3.2GHz P4 and then to a first gen i7 920.I later got a 975 and now im running a x5690 overlocked to 3.84GhzI was able to run WoW, CC and Overwatch at ultramax settings the entire time.its still my current rig, i have not, and will not upgrade.I still got my P4 running XP with a pair of Raptors in RAID0 and a 6800 Ultra. I use it for vintage gaming. NFS, Diablo, StarCraft, WCIII, Driver, SimCIty3000, etc
>>108717767best overclocking chips ever made, you could buy a cheap ~2ghz pentium-dualcore , which were cache cut core 2 duos, and easily get a >50% overclock. because the low end skus had high multipliers to run on a 200mhz bus speed, and virtually every single board released for lga775 can do a tleast 333fsb, and that those chips scaled really well with voltage, meant you could get a 3.33-3.6ghz out of almost any chip. those were truly godly days.
>>108717975I went from a Pentium D with a 6600 GT to a 2500K and 570 Superclocked. Everything was so much faster. It was wild.
>>108717767Yes we were. We were like multicore processors are the future, computers are gonna be so much faster! But alas, parallelism doesn't help with everything
>>108718275>its still my current rig, i have not, and will not upgrade.kek, how it is still alive, it's almost 15yoI kept the i7 for years, I upgraded in 2017 to a first-gen ryzen 7 1700, that was a big mistake, perfs were abysmal, dark souls 3 was stuttering a lot and I had the random segfault hardware issue while compiling heavy software, kept it way too long and upgraded to a r9 5950X that I still have.>I still got my P4 running XP with a pair of Raptors in RAID0 and a 6800 Ultra. I use it for vintage gaming. NFS, Diablo, StarCraft, WCIII, Driver, SimCIty3000, etcdamn the raptor, that was some crazy hard drive, I had a WD740 (I regret getting rid of it), I still have one 600GB velociraptor working, it was making noise it was insane, it was the reason I invested in ssd in 2010 (2 30GB kingston that I got for 59€ each)>>108718391I don't remember the gpu I bought when I built the p4-based system but I "upgraded" to a ati 9200se, big mistake, it was low-range gpu and ran wow like shit in raid so I upgrade to a real ati gpu which I also ditched and can't remember the name, kept it until the gtx470 in 2010.
>>108717767My Mac mini with that chip in it mogged my G5-based Mac Pro that it replaced
>>108717767Yes. I used one of those until around 2014.
>>108717767wasnt there an overlocking trick lol that let you cover the pin contacts or something to get more speed or something
>>108718479>ati 9200seYeah, giving their gimped display adapters the same kind of model numbers as their actual GPUs was so messed up.
i was happy with my AMD Athlon X2
>>108717767Yes i was born in 93 so this was like peak years for me. I remember back in 06 my dad bought me my first real gaming computer. If i recall correctly it was the Core 2 Duo E6600 with a GeForce 7600G(S?). I mainly played WoW and CS1.6 at that point but day one i installed HL2 and tried all the fucking source mods available. It was probably the happiest day of my life. This mustve been christmas 2006 actually when i check the dates for when the shit was released. Idk why im telling this story at all i just got nostalgic as fuck seeing that picture. I also vaguely remember buying a ViewSonic CRT around that time that was the shit, it was black and sometimes it would get blurry as shit, but im pretty sure it was 19" it had high res and 100hz refresh rate. Cant find the exact model
>>108718812also my second real gaming rig was around 2011 or so, it was a i7-2600k with GTX560ti iirc. Back then the first game i installed was Star Wars the old republic.
>>108718034I still got a sticker that's new but I never had the heart to take its virginity and put it on a case
>>108718479>kek, how it is still alive, it's almost 15yoits doing very well with over 120,000 hours of uptime. all caps are good. original mobo, original ram, original case.
>>108718119>Actually for some reason GTA IV ran better and smoother on Athlons than on the otherwise faster C2D, maybe because of the integrated memory controller, who knows.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p7fOPthd5AThis guy says it feels better on a Phenom than his far more recent i7 rig and there's no i7 without IMC. WHO TF KNOWS why GTA IV is so good on old AMD.Well the best way to play GTA IV will always be Xbox.
sorry ran pentium 4 as best until 2014ish E7200 excellent
>>108719332maybe GTA IV enables some engine optimization for 3DNow!, although unlikely that makes the difference but who knows
>>108717827Goes without saying
>>108717767Yeah, my Opteron 170 was a champ back in the day.
>>108717767dual core, no but the quad cores were cool
>>108718037very cute
>>108717767Yeah, the performance jump was unbelievable by modern standards and coincided with the 8800 coming out and doing the same for the GPUsI have fond memories of being 9 years old and reading maximum PC when the C2D came out
>>108717767E8400... home
>>108717767I was more impressed by the jump from Core2 Duo E7500 to Phenom II X6 1055T, the difference in multitasking was abysmal
My X2 5200+ lasted me a long time.QTGMC deinterlacing Miku concerts took a week each.9600GT was the GOAT.
>>108718040Going from a Athlon single core to a Phenom II X4 was like jumping from Genin to Hokage.
>>108717767Not really. I had a Dual CPU server board with 2x 350MHz Pentium II long before, picrel. So I had already experienced SMP.But I was impressed by the Kentsfield Core 2 Quad, a great overclocker and usable for almost a decade.
>>108721520I remember those. The Pentium II was so goofy, though. For me the absolute apex predator of that era was the dual Coppermine Pentium III 866MHz with 2GB PC133 dual booted to Windows 2000 Professional and Gentoo SMP (-march=pentium3). With one of those 19" Sony Trinitron CRTs and ADSL you were living large. It wasn't until AMD Opteron amd64 that things got even incrementally better. The genius of the PII and PIII were its insanely short pipelines compared to what the P4 became. It just chewed deterministically through even the shittiest code with no fucks given, the true honeybadger of the early 2000s.
>>108717767Windows 7 ran smooth like butter compared to XP on Pentium D CPU.The difference is huge
>>108719342Same, I ran Celeron D until 2015Truly the dark ages of computing for me, I’ve had it since 2006. 9 years of suffering.
>>108717767I was more impressed by hyper threading at the time. A CPU doing two things in one clock cycle? Fucking magic. Multiple cores always made more sense to me. I still have a core2quad in service. Q8400
My first pc was from 2006 but I don't know which cpu it had. It was 1000$ came with 900p 19 inch monitor, x550 256m ddr2 gpu, 512mb ddr2 ram, 320gb hdd.
>>108717767The first CPU I got to use was a Pentium Dual-Core which was budget variant of picrel. Wasn't bad, lasted me from 2010 to 2018 before I finally decided to upgrade
>>108717862was on Socket A until 2nd gen core-i's
I bought the first dual core white Macbook.
>>108722518How was basic desktop and browsing performance in 2018 ?
>>1087177672006 was still the time of 3GHz Pentium D getting clobbered by a humble 2GHz Athlon64. I was not impressed.
>>108717767Those little fans were crazy, like a turbo engine.
>>108722579Slow but usable, though I didn't take care of that computer at all, and I had only 2gb of ddr2
>>108722587as if this wasn't the same fan used until like 3 or so years ago, and even the "new" one is just the same shit with a different plastic shell
>>108717767Aussie here, I was stuck with dialup internet and a Celeron II windows 98 machine until 2007, when we got ADSL2 and a fucking Core 2 Duo E6300, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, and an nVidia 7800 fucking GT.Then I built my own PC, I think with an E5400 and a 9600 GT, upgraded to an E8600 and Radeon 4850. Good fucking times, when enthusiast cards cost AU$250 and you could build a full on gaming PC for under $1k.
>>108717779>Half the people on this board were not born yet>The worst part is that they aren't even underageThe fuck are you talking about, retard?Core 2 Due was in 2006, that was only->2026 - 2006 = 20
>>108718094>>108718119God I forgot how much of a total pain in the ass it was to run Gta 4 back in the day, I had a 7800gt and it still ran like absolute shit when the same gpu whooped oblivions ass at 1024x768
>>108722726nyooo
>>108722750I'll turn 35 next month
>>108721614I had a couple of PIII laptops in high school, one being a 650 MHz, 192 MB RAM, and the other an 850 MHz, 512 MB RAM, from 2007 to 2011. I forced Vista onto the latter and it took it like a champ, it was also the first laptop I tried linux on.It really was funny how much of a dead end the Pentium 4 was, with the Pentium M line of mobile CPUs being derived from improved PIII architecture, and the Core/Core 2 architecture growing out of the Pentium M.
>>108722582The last 65nm pentium Ds when overclocked to ~4.2Ghz are faster than athlon 64 6000s. Intel never bothered to release chips at that speed because they'd be competing with themselves at the low end of core 2.
>>108722768h-happy birthday>>108722803I can imagine other reasons not to sell a 200W cpu
>>108717779Zoomers ain't using 4chan. It's all depressed, failure-to-launch cringellenials who have been using this site for 15-20 years and have nowhere else to go.
>>108722824closer to 125w, that last cedar mill runs really cool
>>108717767Yeah, I had an e8400 and eventually upgraded to a e5450 when 771 to 775 became a thing. Ran both at 3.6ghz.
>>108717767I was more impressed by dangling toys in my crib. I'm 20 btw.
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>>108717767yes, used one in the first PC i built myself to play TF2. good times.
I wanted this so bad
>>108717767When I was like 14 my parents bought me a $3500 dollar XPS laptop with a dual core processor. It was an awful laptop.
>>108724143>XPS laptopNow that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
>>108718040I fell for this meme when I built my first gaming PC in 2008. the Core 2 Duos had way better performance and people hadn't started tapping parallel processing until that chip became obsolete. I did get a nice 20% OC on it once I started pushing the one I bought. but by then, 4 GHz was the norm and I was still outclassed by higher speeds and core counts in 2014.
>>108723840thanks for the wallpaper
>>108724143you might remember how pro google picasa was as released
>>108722863>Zoomers ain't using 4chan. It's all depressed, failure-to-launch cringellenials who have been using this site for 15-20 years and have nowhere else to go.Don't forget that 80+% of channers in current year are third worlders
>>108727694Fix your bot. It's making absolutely nonsensical replies to unrelated posts.
>>108717767I was impressed with them in 2011. They are objectively fast and all you need, all extra processing power since then has gone into compensating for bloated jeet code and spyware
>>108717767I was a techlet so I was confused why all the core speeds were lower.
>>108728621I was always confused why AMD branded their processors like 6000+, does that mean it has 6GHz?
>>108729171Originally it was to tell you that the processor was equivalent to a pentium 4 running at eg. 3200Mhz but it stopped really meaning anything by the time AM2 CPUs were releasing.
>>108728595This. You literally don't "need" anything more. And programming has become more bloated and lazy BECAUSE processors are fast and memory is huge. Jevons Paradox.
>>108717767Not that much, I already had dual and quad CPU machines before C2D.
