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Back in the early to mid 2010's I gamed on 2x2gb ddr3 1333mhz sticks. Wasn't until I got my newer i5-8400 machine that I got 1x8gb ddr4 in it. So my rec would be depending on what you are trying to do 4-8gb ddr3 should do well
Of course it is. The RX 480 was a good mid range-card capable of running most mid 2010s games at 1080p 60fps+ with good settings. The FX-8350 wasn't great when compared to what Intel had to offer but it was still one of the best CPUs AMD had until 2017 when the first Ryzen's were released. I assume you meant 16GB RAM instead of 1.6GB. Even just running Windows 10 64bit wouldn't be that great on 2GB RAM
If you can, and choose to do a bit of digging, you ought to find what the best gamer hardware was before the turn of the century. Hard limit for release dates, aside from the CPU, would be 12/31/2000. December 31st, 2000.
This was at the time, when Intel chips made no sense to use. I'm sure that even the slowest Athlon 64 2800+ from AMD would smash this hot and slow chip.
In fact, they performed similarly, with Pentium showing slightly better performance. We implied the idea of going with Athlon 64 3000 at the end of the video.
@@attictiertech Athlon 64s are also more versatile, when it comes to GPUs. Both PCIe and AGP boards were common, unlike the socket 478, where PCIe boards are quite rare.
Nostalgia as its brightest Could ve gone with the pantume 4 3.4 ghz it may ve improved gamplay and over all performance Also i guess the platform would run fine on windows 7
Are you telling me that high end CPU would perform much better than mid range CPU? :D Yes, but not that much better, and additional cost would be more than questionable. Point of the video is a Mid-Range build, so we went with such a CPU.
2004 is when I started learning about PC hardware on a deeper level. It was truly a special time in the PC industry, and I'm glad I was there to experience it
I'd be surprised if you could have 1t ram timings with 6 sticks. Ive had it default to 2t. It was always better to get 3 higher capacity sticks. They made 8gb ddr3 sticks than ran quite fast
the 9800 pro was not top of the line released the same day even. That'd be the XT. Also the 5900xt can't be used with unmodified graphics drivers in a head to head. It specifically substitutes code and degrades image quality because of unsupported features :) It's why your results for somethign like F.E.A.R. were wildly at odds with other games. Minimum doesn't use the features missing, but everything else does.
If video game suggestions are still open: 1999's Unreal Tournament is in my personal opinion one of the best games of all time. A fast and frenetic action game, very demanding for 90's systems and can run under a large number of graphic APIs
Specs of my Ultimate 1999 Gaming PC that I just recently got up and running of which most if not all of the parts are from 1999. I even have not just a LITE ON 52x CD-RW Drive installed but also a Creative PC-DVD ROM Dxr2 installed. I even have a HP CD Writer Plus 8200e External USB CD-RW Drive plugged into the system. Looks simillar to the HP CD Writter 9200 Plus that was on my dad’s AMD K6-2 build which was clocked at 450 Mhz with a ATI 3D Rage 128. Motherboard: Abit BE6-II Revision 1.0 Processor: Intel Pentium III clocked at 650 Mhz (Originally I wanted to either go with a Pentium 3 clocked at 550 Mhz in order to have something that was close to what I had with a Dell Optiplex GX1 or a Pentium 2 clocked at 266 Mhz so that I could slow the system down significantly) RAM: 256 MB Hard Drive (had): 60 GB QUANTUM FIREBALL PLUS AS (Extremely loud) Video Card: 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 (AGP Varient) Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Value CT4520 (Used this in a Gateway Essential ESS 450 SE from 2015 to 2017 that I used to have and even though I have Yamaha OPL3-SA as well as ESS AudioDrive this card being the only Sound Blaster 16 compliant card around makes it a really good choice) Network Interface Card (NIC): Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card Version 2.0 (I use this primarily for playing online video games) Re-enabled the HighPoint (LowPoint) HPT 366 Ultra DMA 66 controller that is onboard and hooked up a 2 TB Western Digital hard drive as the replacement for the Quantum drive. I am using a StarTech IDE to SATA Hard Drive or Optical Drive Adapter Converter that was not playing nice with the Intel i440BX chipset. I recommend at least a minimum of Ultra66 in order for this adapter to work properly. I used the Highpoint drivers on the Abit BX-1.67M Motherboard CD. Instead of using the Highpoint UDMA66 controller instead best thing to do is install a UDMA100 IDE controller such as the Promise FastTrack TX2000 or even a SCSI controller card like this Adaptec AHA-2940UW. This particular SCSI card does 50-Pin as well as 68-Pin SCSI. Just remember to not use that fourth PCI slot.
In 2002 the flagship card was ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, which outperformed everything on the market. It's also cheaper these days than the Geforce 4 Ti 4600 from Nvidia.
It's on our channel info, but you can also write down your questions here. So if we, or someone else in the comments can help you perhaps someone else can benefit from that as well :)
SO out there in developed lands you actually buy those powerful motherboards even in budget builds? here in the slum jungle, where a 2014 build still sells premium, it's usually a high-end cpu, like i7 4770 with a crappy h81 motherboard, the good motherboards are more expensive than the processors (you can find a i7 4770 for 550 bananas but a motherboard like that h97m-e sells for 600 bananas)
In developed lands Pentium G3258 + Z97 board + GTX 750 (Ti) was pretty much the standard budget build in 2014. Cheaper end Z97 boards like Asus Z97-P and Z97-C were around 100-135€. The H97M-E looks to have been around 90€ in 2014. Nowadays 4690K/4790K + Z97 board + 16GB DDR3 bundles can be found for 50-100€
My father worked for intel during this time, I was in my senior year of high school. Computers where the one thing my parents splurged on, me and my brother both had our own, my pc had a Intel Q6600, 8gb ram(I think..), GTX 260 and some horrible HDD because I always cheaped out on that and put the money elsewhere lol.
We have noticed too late that the Talos Principle chart is missing. We've messed up, and there's no going back and fixing it now. Anyway, here are the results that were supposed to be in this chart: Lowest: 160 FPS Medium: 81 FPS Ultra: 29 FPS
