2009: Probably an A64 Venice at 2.2GHz, running WinXP and an AGP card 🤣
2019: Phenom II 3.2GHz 4 cores

I'm kinda surprised to see so many people having superior rigs to me back then 🤣

Tetrium wrote:

2009: Probably an A64 Venice at 2.2GHz, running WinXP and an AGP card 🤣
2019: Phenom II 3.2GHz 4 cores

I'm kinda surprised to see so many people having superior rigs to me back then 🤣

The only reason I got the x4 620 when I did was a combination of student loan money being available, the 620 being 99$ at launch in Sept 2009 (which I remember being a Big Deal), and the old P4/1GB RAM/HD 2400 Pro combo was getting pretty slow. People I went to uni with built i5-750's with dual 5770's in Crossfire that year at significant cost (1,500+), I went x4 620/4 GB RAM/Radeon 4670 for about 600$ all in.

In 2009 i was running a Dual Athlon XP1800 and Tyan Tiger MP combo. I bought that setup in ~2001, and while the ram and drives got upgraded throughout the years, the board and CPU's remained the same. It started off with IDE and ~256mb, ran U160 SCSI for a while, and then eventually upgraded to a SATA controller and one of the WD Raptors with the ram maxed out at 3 or 4gb

I finally ditched that machine in around 2010/2011, when i picked up a free C2Q Q9400 CPU out of a dead PC at work, and got it going with a cheap motherboard from ebay.

Currently i'm running a i5-4570S chip in an Asus B85M board, which i picked up in early 2014.

I've been feeling the urge for an upgrade recently as it happens, but what i want doesnt seem to exist (8 core Ryzen APU). I fancy a nice ITX build, but i would like an 8 core Ryzen, and that means a discreet GPU is needed, which really bulks up the whole build...

*1997: Pentium 90 Mhz (first computer)
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1999: Pentium III 500 Mhz (bought in 1999)
2009: Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66 GHz (built in 2007)
2019: Core i7 2600K OC@ 4.5 GHz (built in 2011)

Looking at 10 year gaps really shows how much the need to upgrade has slowed down. I've had the i7 2600K for 8 years now and I still don't feel a big need to upgrade. A Ryzen 3000 build is appealing, but not necessary. I've added bigger SSDs, more RAM, and a faster GPU to the computer, but the CPU is still surprisingly capable after all these years. Holding onto a Pentium III for 8 years would have been nowhere near as easy.

Tetrium wrote:

2009: Probably an A64 Venice at 2.2GHz, running WinXP and an AGP card 🤣
2019: Phenom II 3.2GHz 4 cores

I'm kinda surprised to see so many people having superior rigs to me back then 🤣

At the begining of 2009, I had an Athlon 64, too (2.2GHz 3200+). I upgraded to a Q9550 in mid 2009 😊

Back in '09 I had a Dimension 5150 (was my parents, not mine) with a Pentium D, which honestly sucked compared to the Core 2 quad Q6600 machines I had at school. Nowadays I rock a Ryzen 2700 mainly because of my own personal preferences.

Ironically I just put together a 775-based system which kicks the arse of that s**tty Dell to hell and back (Xeon X5450 sticker-modded OC'd to 3.5ghz on an nforce 780i board and a Radeon HD 6850) 🤣

1999: Celeron 400MHz (Mendocino) on a VIA 693 pcchips mobo
2009: Core 2 Duo E6550 on ASUS P5KC
2019: Intel i5-4440 on ASRock H97 Anniversary

1999: Pentium 120, "overclocked" to 133 Mhz;
2009: Pentium IV Northwood 2.4 Ghz;
2019: i7 2600S engineering sample without an iGPU.

Registered just to post this...

2009: Core i7 860
2019: Core i7 860

Maybe Ryzen3 will finally tempt me to upgrade.

1989: Zx Spectrum Clone (Z80 @ 3.5Mhz)
1999: AMD 486 DX4 100Mhz
2009: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5600+ Windsor
2019: AMD Ryzen 3 1200

2009: q6600 (built 2008)
2019: i7 980x (added 2014 in my 2010 x58 system)

In between : i7 950 (built 2010).

1999: pII 333.

In between: PII 400, PIII 600, tualeron 1200, pIII-S 1266, A64 3400+, c2d 2.0ghz.

Yeah, I've slowed down.

Next CPU: Ryzen 3X00 I guess.

2009:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
4GB DDR2 800
64GB G.Skill SSD
Windows XP Pro 64-bit

2019:
2 x Intel Xeon X5680 (6-core 3.3 GHz each)
40GB DDR3 1333 ECC RAM (it was super cheap so why not)
GTX 1070 Ti
250GB Samsung EVO SSD
32GB Crucial SSD (for OS only)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

looking4awayout wrote:

2019: DEX desktop computer with an Intel Pentium III Tualatin-S overclocked at 1.5GHz 1.5GB of PC133 SDRAM Windows XP Profession […]
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2019:
DEX desktop computer with an Intel Pentium III Tualatin-S overclocked at 1.5GHz
1.5GB of PC133 SDRAM
Windows XP Professional SP3

Quite a downgrade for some, but not to me! Not trolling, I'm doing much more things with my current computer than what I did with my old Core2 Duo laptop. I guess I don't use the computer intensively enough to need a more powerful setup, and I'm pretty content with what I have, since it plays the retro games I want fine enough and lets me load a web page without falling asleep. 🤣

About a year ago I did a similar thing. I used the 2 x Pentium III Tualatin system listed in my signature as my main system. It was somewhat of an experiment to see if I could make due with such old hardware. I stayed on it for about 6 months. The main reason I had to quit using it was the lack of SSE2. A lot of programs would crash for that reason alone. Speed wise, it was actually pretty decent. It was a bit laggy on youtube, but it worked. It played most 3D games pretty well too given that it was equipped with a Radeon HD 4650.

Skyrim was a game I was playing a lot back then and the EXE was compiled with SSE2, so I couldn't use it. Strangely enough, the SSE2 instructions were only used in a couple places in the EXE. I used Ollydbg to remove them and it actually worked. It would crash every couple hours though probably because I removed it, but before that, it didn't even start the game.

I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system..

appiah4 wrote:

I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system..

Probably not a lot different than using an early dual core AMD APU... which, strangely isn't much different than the CPU cores used in current generation consoles. 😀

Ozzuneoj wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system..

Probably not a lot different than using an early dual core AMD APU... which, strangely isn't much different than the CPU cores used in current generation consoles. 😀

That would be amazing considering how much slower it is on clockspeed terms and how lower its IPC generally is.. I mean, an AMD APU has about the same amount of Cache as a dual core Tualatin build would have RAM.. I'm just very very curious. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's about as amazing as someone claiming to have hacked Windows Vista to run on a Pentium..

appiah4 wrote:

Ozzuneoj wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system..

Probably not a lot different than using an early dual core AMD APU... which, strangely isn't much different than the CPU cores used in current generation consoles. 😀

That would be amazing considering how much slower it is on clockspeed terms and how lower its IPC generally is.. I mean, an AMD APU has about the same amount of Cache as a dual core Tualatin build would have RAM.. I'm just very very curious. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's about as amazing as someone claiming to have hacked Windows Vista to run on a Pentium..

I don't think we're thinking of the same APU.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-E-30 … 1400S/248vs1146

An AMD E300 has 1MB of L2 cache (running at half speed) and a 1.3GHz clock. It was very common in cheap laptops at about the time Skyrim was popular so there's probably videos out there of people torturing themselves by trying to play the game on one.

I only mentioned consoles because they are still running on Jaguar cores which are just improved versions of the same Bobcat cores that powered the e300. Obviously having 8 if them in a custom built console gaming APU is a totally different thing, I just thought it was interesting to mention 😀

That was definitely not the APU I was thinking of. At all. 🤣

Hmmm a slight change:

2019: X5650 to 6600K

appiah4 wrote:

I need to see a video of Skyrim actually running on a dual Tualatin system..

you will be forced to run an old version, I think after a certain patch (1.4?) they started using SSE2 which increased performance greatly for newer CPUs but broke compatibility with Athlon XP and older...

in any case, I've tested a little Skyrim on a p4 3ghz (cedar mill) with the 4670 and it was not horrible, like 15-20FPS if I remember correctly, so maybe dual tualatin can also play, not very well, but...

I wondering about this. How is telling what kind of cpu you had 10 years ago and what kind of cpu you have now a challenge?