My first pc I built was with an AMD athlon 64 4000+ and a GeForce 6600GT. Going to that from an e-machines piece of junk was INSANE. It’s so hard to come up with a similar experience shift nowadays. Even websites seemed to load instantly with the same DSL connection. Everything felt soooooo good.
replyYou reminded me that building use to be considerably cheaper than buying.
replyI remember my teen years, doing odd jobs to get some cash, buying a part at a time until the build was complete. Worrying that if you didn't scrap together enough parts soon there may be an architecture change. Finally getting it all together and the feeling of pure bliss installing the OS, troubleshooting drivers, installing this or that. Good times.
They sure were. Building is what got me into this crazy field. Abusing VBscript (and myself in the process) got me into my software developer era later on!
replyI had a similar speed jump, went from a Celeron 233 to the Athlon 1Ghz. Such a huge uplift.
replyThat must've been an even bigger jump since Celerons were notably slower than PIIs.
replyGeForce 3.
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