remember the good old days. ( 2005 gaming pc build page $500)

[bob345]

Oh boy, and to think i was gaming on a Toshiba laptop in 2005 haha. Ahh the days of low framerate halo trial.

[Aniallation]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/The-500-Gaming-Machine,1147-8.html

 

At least ten years ago Seasonic was still a boss.

[BurgerBum]

512mb of ram, that's laughable by today's standards

most peole laugh at 4 gigs... while you can actually get away with that for most thigns nowadays there are a fe games and alot of work programs that utilize/rewuire 8 ore more gigz....

[Dabombinable]

Oh boy, and to think i was gaming on a Toshiba laptop in 2005 haha. Ahh the days of low framerate halo trial.

Not much changed a year later either-the Tecra M5 struggled to stay above 30FPS at 640x480.

[chilicheeseburger]

They forgot the case in the guide

[CommanderRykerHaunSolo]

"The best bargain we could consistently find was a model from eVGA, the 256-A8-N340-TX GeForce 6600 with 256 MB of graphics memory and based on AGP, all for under $120."

More like 224 MB of Vram! Anyone? Okay...

# beating a dead horse

[NumLock21]

The biggest game during that time was Doom 3.

[Lanciferp]

My personal favorite is at page 5 where it states " games are becoming more ram Hungary. Games such as battlefield 2 are seeing the benefit of 2GB of ram. 2gb.. 

Theres a home video we have tha I always laugh at, because its my dad talking to my uncle about a game he just bought, one of the old style 200,000 disc games, and my uncle was jealous because my dad had the "screamer" computer needed to run it, because the game needed 8 mbs of ram. 8 mb. 

[Buildmeasystem]

I should dig out my old Maximum PC magazines and do some scans of the ads from way back when.