- Joined
- Oct 18, 2005
- Location
- Chicago Burbs
This was mine... (you will see the format, before/after)
BEFORE
Several years ago I was using a 200 MHz Pentium 2 Dell with a 20GB 5400 RPM hdd (quantums rock!) and 32 megs of PC-66 RAM... using Windows 98 SE... the video card didn't even support OpenGL... I played Starcraft on it, as well as Quake 1 and Quake 2 at like 320x200 and 320x240 respectively (ran pretty well, hehe). Diablo 1 ran awesome on it, Diablo 2... well... I tolerated the extreme lag because I loved the game so much. And this was the system I played with at LAN parties.. my friend's system, an HP 450 MHz P3 with 256MB RAM (or 128) and a voodoo 5 PCI, totally smoked mine.
This system was so bad that 80% of my time spent outside of games was waiting for the pagefile swap to clear up.
AFTER
750 MHz Duron (underclocked to 500 due to horrible cooling), ABIT KT7-A, 768MB PC-133 RAM @ 100 (the clincher!), Voodoo 5 5500 AGP, 80 GB seagate 5400 rpm, Windows 2000!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Completely smoked my old system... most likely it was the RAM. No more virtual memory swap lag, everything was so SMOOTH... and I could finally run the hottest new games I had to try out... Half Life, Q3A... Counter-Strike, UT!!!!!!! w000t!!!!!!! It was great having 20-30 things open and not lagging
Since then I've never exprienced such an insane performance jump, but I have nonetheless experienced big ones (but nothin close to this)... but I'll save those for another time
BEFORE
Several years ago I was using a 200 MHz Pentium 2 Dell with a 20GB 5400 RPM hdd (quantums rock!) and 32 megs of PC-66 RAM... using Windows 98 SE... the video card didn't even support OpenGL... I played Starcraft on it, as well as Quake 1 and Quake 2 at like 320x200 and 320x240 respectively (ran pretty well, hehe). Diablo 1 ran awesome on it, Diablo 2... well... I tolerated the extreme lag because I loved the game so much. And this was the system I played with at LAN parties.. my friend's system, an HP 450 MHz P3 with 256MB RAM (or 128) and a voodoo 5 PCI, totally smoked mine.
This system was so bad that 80% of my time spent outside of games was waiting for the pagefile swap to clear up.
AFTER
750 MHz Duron (underclocked to 500 due to horrible cooling), ABIT KT7-A, 768MB PC-133 RAM @ 100 (the clincher!), Voodoo 5 5500 AGP, 80 GB seagate 5400 rpm, Windows 2000!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! Completely smoked my old system... most likely it was the RAM. No more virtual memory swap lag, everything was so SMOOTH... and I could finally run the hottest new games I had to try out... Half Life, Q3A... Counter-Strike, UT!!!!!!! w000t!!!!!!! It was great having 20-30 things open and not lagging
Since then I've never exprienced such an insane performance jump, but I have nonetheless experienced big ones (but nothin close to this)... but I'll save those for another time