1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

And I even have an NES with a bunch of games in the closet inside the room you stayed in

 

The fuck

 

AND I STILL never built another PC around my E8400 and practically new in box 9600 card

@theesotericone

 

I'll just need an AOL or Net Zero free internet disc from @Speedytech7

 

I know a couple people in the vintage computer community that started their own dial-up ISP. It's free but for obvious reasons there aren't that many lines to call into.

 

@Wulf

Did you get your Radeon from Circuit City or something?

 

My first dedicated card I ever got was the famous scam card, the GeForce FX 5200

 

The good old 150NM architecture days. lol

 

You know as shitty as that card was for basically lying about it specs to the public... It did what I wanted to do pretty well. Which was mostly just play flight simulator 2004. When I finally built a dedicated PC for gaming out of all brand new parts for the first time I did spring for it GeForce 9800 GT, basically blew my whole Budget on that and then got a AMD quad-core processor but it was the original phenom which had terrible bus speeds and basically bottlenecked my card.

 

Damn, what was it about those cards? I never knew the whole story around it.

I was into the ATI Radeon cards until we got away from AGP, then I went Nvidia.

 

Techs been a fun ride the last 40 years. My first comp was an Apple IIGS. That bad boy was leaps ahead of it's time. 16bit and a whopping 2.8MHz clock speed. lol

 

Nevermind, 9800 I don't know why I thought it was a 9600



But I guess the Thinkpad would satisfy the desire to build an old school rig

 

https://youtu.be/qVsBdU3gog0?si=NfvYmRAhYx8t5Vq1

The whole FX line was terrible and barely a step up from the much older MX line with a larger pricetag. nVidia had good drivers though, AMD was killing it technology wise vs nVIdia but their drivers were dogshit and they had no money to bribe game devs for optimization so they needed their superior performance just to brute force compatibility and it never materialized as extra performance.

 

Interesting, I gotta watch this

 

Ok so that makes sense cause I had an ATI 9000 series

But damn, that's shittty cause like he mentioned...people weren't just 'upgrading' often

 

At first I thought you had French nails done lol

 

I can see how it looks like that

 

Microcenter!

as a kid that was the most exciting thing about going to Denver for me lol

 

Dang, that must've been fun AF

I only had Circuit City to look forward to nearby; the trips to San Jose were awesome though cause Fry's was my go-to

 

The pyramid frys!