t3h ult1mat3 PC - in 1998 • Gaming • Retro • Eurogamer.net

Retroid Moderator 25 Oct 2005 05:00:22 45,464 posts
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My download / torrent server is better specced than this "monster"!

PC tech really does move incredibly fast, doesn't it?

Clive_Dunn 25 Oct 2005 08:00:12 4,862 posts
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"64meg RAM is as much as you'll ever need".

Woohoo.

souljah 25 Oct 2005 09:13:41 4,705 posts
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She needs a punch. A punch back in time.

warlockuk 25 Oct 2005 11:22:01 19,519 posts
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Clive Dunn wrote:
"64meg RAM is as much as you'll ever need".

Woohoo.

Almost as good as "640k is all you'll ever need"

HarryB 25 Oct 2005 11:34:54 7,630 posts
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lol that things is F'in HUUUUGE

Retroid Moderator 25 Oct 2005 11:37:26 45,464 posts
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I was watching that clip and checking it off against the PC I have tucked away behind a table, next to a wall with no mouse or monitor plugged into it, simply because it'd be too slow for anything I want to use it for which can't be controlled over VNC. Size of the hard drives, amount of RAM (up until a few days ago when I scavenged some old cards) was also 64megs... infact, my torrent machine is better since it's a BX and theoretically capable of supporting up to 850MHz

Goes to show, though. 1998 isn't that long ago.

MrWorf 25 Oct 2005 11:40:02 64,187 posts
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I swear I was using a K6-400 back in '98 with 256Mb Ram... :/

MrWorf 25 Oct 2005 11:41:21 64,187 posts
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15GIG! of space! ZOMG!! t4h 7331! LOL!

THIRTY TWO SPEED CD ROM!! WTF?! WOW! O_O

MikeD 25 Oct 2005 11:47:48 10,063 posts
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Hold on,. what was the videocard?

MrWorf 25 Oct 2005 11:48:20 64,187 posts
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32 Meg thingy, they didn't name it iirc.

MikeD 25 Oct 2005 11:49:29 10,063 posts
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Hmm, must be a Tnt2. Or was the geforce 1 already out?

MrWorf 25 Oct 2005 11:51:34 64,187 posts
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Not in 98 mate more like end of 99/ early 00

Syrette 25 Oct 2005 12:18:36 51,181 posts
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those presenters are idiots.

Retroid Moderator 25 Oct 2005 12:39:01 45,464 posts
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foreverafternothing wrote:
those presenters are idiots.

The more things change, the more they stay the same

laur 25 Oct 2005 12:55:28 1,213 posts
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Pratcically VIRTUAL REALITY.

jellyhead 25 Oct 2005 13:10:32 24,355 posts
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Retroid wrote:

foreverafternothing wrote:
those presenters are idiots.
The more things change, the more they stay the same

Can anyone confirm that the couple who present the MS Flight Sim videos are funnier in a "so cringingly crap they're funny" kind of way?

WoodenSpoon 25 Oct 2005 13:15:33 12,360 posts
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Rod Machado = legend

mal 25 Oct 2005 13:25:46 29,326 posts
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I bought my current PC in 1997. It's since been upgraded to have a massive 4 and a bit gigs of hard disc space, and 68MB of RAM (a 64 and a 4). Feel the power!

Foregone-Reality 25 Oct 2005 13:34:59 2,216 posts
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mal wrote:
... and a 4)

Are you sure the machine could handle that much 3x7r3m3 power?

Retroid Moderator 25 Oct 2005 13:51:16 45,464 posts
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mal wrote:
I bought my current PC in 1997. It's since been upgraded to have a massive 4 and a bit gigs of hard disc space, and 68MB of RAM (a 64 and a 4). Feel the power!

/Lightly warms a marshmallow on mal's CPU's heatsink

Xerx3s 28 Oct 2005 16:43:40 23,970 posts
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I remember having a P1 166mmx with some really ace stuff in it, then me mate got the state of the art P2 300 and i was so jealous..... This vid sounds like 97'98ish But before unreal obviously.

Anyway, nothing suprises me anymore these days. 4 gigs of ram and such a pretty much standard/avarage.

Perhaps im the only one, but i always feel like the games back then where far better than they are now, because they opend up a world that i had never seen before. When i first saw unreal, i just dropped out of me chair. But even if i would see fotorealistic images today, i wouldnt be really impressed. Seems that you get used to that kind of stuff.

ps: 10k rpm? wtf? I have that now, back then i had like 5.2k rpm....

Edited by Xerx3s at 16:49:34 28-10-2005