well i thought the first PC i built was the ultimate with its 486 DX 2/66 8Mb ram a 4mb upgrade cost me £420 and i belive i had a matrox graphics card but i am not sure thought it was awsome games looked better than my mates amstrad look how far pc's have come cant wait to see what its like in 10 years.
Yeah, it really is amazing. I'm only 16 and i vividly remember when components were only 1/10 of what they are today. I predict 3 terahertz processors and gigabytes of ram in ten years time. How we'll look back on such fads as sli and crossfire and laugh.
i remember playing tennis with a square white brick hitting a white square on a black background thought it was fantastic......................
DX 66, i remember those days long time ago. First games i ever played i think were wing commander privateer and Alone in the dark dam good games. Hell i even got wing commander priv on this pc i use Dos Box very good prog.
Gigabytes of RAM are already used quite often today...you mean terabytes of RAM? Well ya think Terabytes of RAM and Processors, just think the sorta games that's gonna run them, are they going to be virtual projections or something? Rofl.
I had a 90mhz P1 back in 1994 that ran Final Fantasy 7 which I bought in 1997. I ran it on high too. Too bad high end rigs don't last for 3 yrs now
When I was very young, we had an old IBM XT. 20MB hard drive (it was awsome at the time), and 4MHz IBM 8088 if I remember correctly. Not only this, but a monitor that displayed in Amber... no more green or white for us <(^_^( >)^_^)> Played Wheel of Fortune on it all the time
well, first comp i used was some 90mhz pentium but first comp i owned was PII 400mhz(cost about 3000e in 1998 >_<) so i never had to play those ****ty dos games and NHL 99 is da BEST game ever.
Yeah sorry i did mean terabytes of ram. Just a typo, i do actually know the differences between terabytes and gigabytes lol. Yeah, i also think we will be freely able to add extra ram modules to graphics cards at will. There will be no such thing as hard drives, with everyone using flash memory as a standard Yeah the games will be powerful allright. Probably have a higher resolution than life. There wont just be sound and graphics cards either, we'll have a card for everysense. Smell cards, touch cards, taste cards ect. All of which are designed for "realistic" gaming.
my first pc was a 433Mhz celeron with 128mb pc133 system memory and a 16mb riva tnt m64 video card, 8gb hard drive it was quite a beast that day later spent some money on new video card, then oc'ed everything to max...throwed out it some time later...
oh the sweet 'ol days. i still remember my Amiga with dune on 5 floppydisk and fade 2 black and stuff like that. but i dont know about the future right now, intel droped there netburst and use the somewhat the same performance rate as the AMD. so i dont know if we someday can talk about a "real" terrabyte CPU.
whats wrong with PC2700? i know people running SD 133mhz? on p3 machines (which are real bang for buck??) and dont bash cellies theyre darn cheap!
My first comp was a Pentium 133mhz with 32MBs of RAM, and some kind of ATI Rage videochip. It played Total Annihilation and MechWarrio2: Mercenaries just fine though. Real fun
Lol, I had my first computer back when I was 6, I thought it was awesome. I only knew it was a pentium 133, and it had the TURBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO button that did nothing but turn a light on lol. My first game was Age of Empires, so much fun I still play it to this day. I just get all speechless when I begin talking about the processing power of business servers... My dad was talking about his I-Series at work with the cabibility of 10 terabytes of HDD storage and like 10GB of ram and the it had like card slots that had two dual core 64-bit processors running @ 2 ghz... He had 5 of those card slots in there $400,000
I predict that in 10 years time, your predictions will be wrong. If multicore cpus and integrated motherboard features don't make the need for add in components useless, then components will change to superior architecture with new scales of measurements rather than sticking to the old scale (4ghz pentium --> 2ghz conroe, sdram-->ddr2 ram). We can look at sli and crossfire today and laugh(2x the price for 30-50%[under unlikely circumstances] more performance and sometimes even less performance).
