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Family PC probably rotting in a garbage fill being sorted through by underpaid laborers. Despite being lower end, you probably saw a world of difference going from that 4350 to the R7 240?
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If set everything high (except antialiasing off), 12 FPS stable still can be achieved. But, just don't "drive" the "truck" at night, it's dangerous to drive with 5 FPS. It's like drunk driving, hahaha..
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1983
Second-hand Sinclair ZX81 with memory pack.
1986
Acorn Electron with Slogger Plus 1 and 5 1/4" external disk drive! I managed to run a fair few pirated BBC games on this thing as well :-)
Late 1990
Olivetti PCS 286 with VGA adaptor and both 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" drives. The actual CPU was an NEC V30 running at 12MHz. Served me well for a couple of years.
Also used my brother's 486 on-and-off.
1993
Purchased a Pentium 60, built by Time Computers. Can't remember the full specs of this machine.
1994
Upgraded to a Pentium 90.
c.1996
Upgraded to a Pentium Pro. These were quite awesome but underrated CPUs.
At some point I invested in a Supermicro tower case (twice!). It really was quite imposing.
1996 - 2006
My system by this time was handbuilt and I just kept swapping out components as I needed to, so I really cannot remember much about what I had. I do remember getting a 3dfx Voodoo3 during 1999, though. Quake looked awesome :-)
The OS progressed from Win95, Win98, WinME (briefly) and WinXP until mid-2006 when I recklessly backed up all of my data and switched to OpenSUSE 10.2 in one day!
During this period I was also using SCSI hard disks. Much more expensive but *very* fast. Sadly I couldn't keep it up and now use slow old SATA ;-)
2007 - 2016
At some point I switched to AMD CPUs but I really cannot remember what my various systems were!
2016 onwards
My current system is an AMD FX-9370 with 16Gb RAM, Nvidia GTX 970 graphics card, Roccat keyboard and mouse, 7Tb HD space, Logitech F710, Steam Controller and both a tv and monitor connected. OS is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
I couldn't be happier!
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Pentium166/200 at my father's shop.
Amd K6-350/ K6-2+-550 <3 (I even installed windows vista on it, granted it was unusable, but hey it could be installed!!:D ) I remember it had a sis530 onboard vid card (worst video card ever)
https://www.ebay.com/p/PC-Chips-M598LMR-Socket-7-Motherboard-SIS-530-Chipset-With-ISA-System-Board/659494155
Duron 800mhz then Athlon-XP Thunderbird, then Athlon-XP mobile I had maybe two or three mobos, I remember having a VIA KM266 chipset, but I can't remember which mobos. (that's when I started using linux with opensuse 9.2). Athlon XP's Mobile were really good for overclocking. It was the golden era of AMD when socket A was the king. Socket A started with 100mhz FSB and at it final days it had 333mhz FSB, so going from an old socket A mobo to a 266mhz was quite and upgrade, more than twice FSB speed.
Athlon64 <3 that's when I started using 64 bit os. I had socket 754 and socket 939.
I had a Asus K8NSE, and a MSI K8-Neo Platinum (best mother I had) https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/K8N_Neo4F_PCB_1.0.html
AthlonII (socket AM2) first I had this mobo https://www.asrock.com/mb/NVIDIA/N68-S/index.es.asp , then this mobo https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-970A-D3-rev-10-11#ov
AMD Fx6300
AMD Ryzen 1600 AB350-Gaming
(Never had a commodore, I hate apple )
First time I assembled an Intel was three years ago, and I thought what d heck! how can u have the pins soldered to the mobo, Intel you sick bastards!!
To be fair the first thing I had at my home was a second hand 8bit Nintendo.
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1983 Commodore 64 (wish I'd never got rid of it as the games & music made for it were brilliant.
1993 SEGA Mega Drive (Genesis) with the Mega-CD attachment, Sonic the Hedgehog got a lot of abuse from my & my kids.
1995 Packard Bell 486 DX (quickly upgraded to the SX) running DOS & Windows 3.1, DOOOOOOOOOOOM, my first taste of FPS gaming.
1998 - present a series of self built machines running everything from Windows 3.1, XP, 7, 8, 8.1 & since 2006 dual booting Ubuntu.