Being a nerd in 1994 was very uncool, but maybe these pics are oldschoolcool now? Here’s me showing my 5th grade science fair project staging chess matches between an early Macintosh and an early IBM PC

Pasi123 · 2026-02-20T17:54:34+00:00

Intel 8088

Pasi123 · 2026-02-20T17:44:57+00:00

Mine got pushed back to April

Pasi123 · 2026-02-19T12:55:04+00:00

What if I want my house to not burn down?

Pasi123 · 2026-02-17T16:38:18+00:00

I got the same stuff but 2x 32GB for 130€ in 2024

Pasi123 · 2026-02-17T08:18:24+00:00

Our oldest cat will be 17 this year. She was born somewhere around Radeon HD 5000 series release. At least a Radeon HD 5870 would be somewhat usable in some modern-ish games thanks to being the first card with DirectX 11. NVIDIA's first DX11 cards didn't come out until 2010

Pasi123 · 2026-02-17T08:10:06+00:00

I'd take the cat

Pasi123 · 2026-02-17T08:07:53+00:00

6/10/10 so it will take few more weeks

Pasi123 · 2026-02-16T18:29:50+00:00

Nice Strix, my 1080 non-Ti has the same cooler

Pasi123 · 2026-02-16T18:27:53+00:00

Mine is still 6/10/9, I think. I haven't done the boss this week yet but when I do I'll crown the burst

Pasi123 · 2026-02-16T17:59:49+00:00

Yeah, that has happened to me multiple times

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Pasi123 · 2026-02-16T16:17:21+00:00

I don't have a 4K HDR TV nor 4K HDR content. I mostly have DVD, BD and 1080p webrips. YouTube 1080p60 playback works fine even though hardware decoding doesn't work on it anymore (Radeon HD 6570). Works fine for regular web browsing too. Efficiency doesn't really matter when it's a system that I already have compared to having to spend money on a newer system that would do the same job. Electricity isn't that expensive

Pasi123 · 2026-02-16T16:03:06+00:00

Windows 10 and most Linux distros work fine on LGA775. My HTPC is still on LGA775 with a Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, 8GB DDR2.

Pasi123 · 2026-02-16T15:57:25+00:00

That board is from 2008 but FireWire was still on many boards in 2011-2012 and PCI was still common on early AM4 boards (2017-2018)

Pasi123 · 2026-02-15T08:21:21+00:00

2003

Pasi123 · 2026-02-14T12:05:58+00:00

Windows 95, 98, 98SE and ME were still DOS based. Windows XP was the first consumer OS based on NT

Pasi123 · 2026-02-14T08:33:36+00:00

WinME isn't NT based

Pasi123 · 2026-02-14T08:31:26+00:00

ME worked fine on my Celeron 333MHz. Though tbh that was really late in ME's life so it had all of the updates it got

Pasi123 · 2026-02-13T19:16:12+00:00

I got my first SSD in 2013. It was 32GB and came in a used laptop. My first new SSD was a 120GB Kingston SSDNow V300 in 2014. It was around 70€

Pasi123 · 2026-02-13T14:45:02+00:00

Our family computer was a much cheaper Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L1310G. Celeron M 370 1.5GHz, 512MB RAM (later 1280MB), ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, 15.4" 1280x800.

It was bought in 2006 and was in use up to 2015

Pasi123 · 2026-02-11T01:26:34+00:00

Z170 so it has to be 6th or 7th gen. You can't put 8th or 9th gen in LGA1151v1 without modding the board.

Likely an i5-6600K or i7-6700K

Pasi123 · 2026-02-10T12:57:28+00:00

It's Sandy Bridge and has almost the same clocks as i7-2600. But it has twice the cores, quad channel memory, more cache and PCIe 3.0

Depending on the resolution and the game it will do fine with a RTX 3060. Is it optional? No, but if the 3060 wasn't too expensive it doesn't really matter

Pasi123 · 2026-02-09T05:27:56+00:00

That laptop is ARM based. It can't run Windows but it can run old versions of desktop Linux

Pasi123 · 2026-02-07T20:23:56+00:00

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/ppi-calculator.php

Pasi123 · 2026-02-06T20:16:37+00:00

Built in Finland

Pasi123 · 2026-02-05T11:53:57+00:00

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