Suppose its 2005. What products/tech are we hyped for?

[Guest]

Soo, i was 6 years old in 2005, i suppose most of you are older than me and probably been into tech for a longer time that i've been.

 

what products/games, processor's are coming out? How does the current generation hold up with games and graphics?  What pages/forums were popular? 

 

Any of you that were using linux by this time? and if so what was better than windows at that ? was it already being a big thing between pc enthusiasts, and was it fighting strong against windows ?

[Aytex]

The next lego starwars set

[Moonzy]

2005? probably the 7000 GT series gpu?

and pentiums, the core 2 starts around 2006~2007-ish

 

and good ol windows XP `-`

[ShadowCaptain]

2005? I barely remember yesterday let alone 11 years ago

 

This list is kinda cool

http://www.pcworld.com/article/120763/article.html?page=12

[Rolling Potatoe]

Dat high tek 64 gb ssd, If only I was rich, then I could afford it....

[comicsansms]

Athlon 64x2, the days when AMD was thrashing Intel in preformance and even outselling them too. 

[mrgooglegeek]

10 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

probably the 7000 GT series gpu

lol I still have one of those

[TheRandomness]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/05/25/preview_zmaxd2/1

That thing? I want that motherboard so bad ;~;

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

lol I still have one of those

i have a core 2 duo and 9600 GT machine gathering dust lol

can still game decently tbh

[Guest]

Just now, Moonzy said:

i have a core 2 duo and 9600 GT machine gathering dust lol

can still game decently tbh

60fps minesweeper ezpz, what else do you need in life?

[Moonzy]

Just now, PeloyGeek said:

60fps minesweeper ezpz, what else do you need in life?

as long as i can cookie clicker and agar.io

my life is complete

[mrgooglegeek]

Just now, Moonzy said:

i have a core 2 duo and 9600 GT machine gathering dust lol

can still game decently tbh

There's a bright red ATI 1900xt on my desk right now... man that thing weighs a ton... I actually had it in a streaming pc until a few days ago

[mikat]

11 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

2005? I barely remember yesterday let alone 11 years ago

 

This list is kinda cool

http://www.pcworld.com/article/120763/article.html?page=12

lol the bottom of the webpage is pooped

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

There's a bright red ATI 1900xt on my desk right now... man that thing weighs a ton... I actually had it in a streaming pc until a few days ago

i have an ATi X550 laying around on my desk, under a ton of paper

i guess it'll still work because tech those days dont break easily as today's `-`

remember nokia 3310?

[TheRandomness]

3 minutes ago, mrgooglegeek said:

There's a bright red ATI 1900xt on my desk right now... man that thing weighs a ton... I actually had it in a streaming pc until a few days ago

I had one. I set it on fire  Well, only the plastic shroud... It did not smell nice...

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

i have an ATi X550 laying around on my desk, under a ton of paper

i guess it'll still work because tech those days dont break easily as today's `-`

remember nokia 3310?

You mean indestructokia 3310?

[mrgooglegeek]

[comicsansms]

1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

There's a bright red ATI 1900xt on my desk right now... man that thing weighs a ton... I actually had it in a streaming pc until a few days ago

I was given a bright red HIS x1950 Pro IceQ3, but the retard I got it off was a die hard nvidia fanboy, so he removed the cooler and "Put 12 Volts through it". When I tested the card,  it was sadly very dead. 

[handymanshandle]

I was 5 in 2005. So idk... 

[HrutkayMods]

Dual core Pentium especially the Extreme... yes it was 2 Pentium 4s fused together, but it was awesome at the time

[porina]

I think 2005 was before dual core came out.

 

Even then I was testing the performance of CPUs for their ability to find prime numbers. The Xeon was P4 architecture, and I ran a dual socket so with HT for 4 threads! I remember the first GPU I put in that Xeon rig was a GF 6800 Ultra. Was that the leaf blower/flamethrower joke one? I can't be sure any more.

 

So at the time I had multiple Shuttle computers. That was before Mini-ITX I think. On AMD side I had Athlon XP and Athlon 64 CPUs.

[HrutkayMods]

27 minutes ago, porina said:

I think 2005 was before dual core came out.

 

Even then I was testing the performance of CPUs for their ability to find prime numbers. The Xeon was P4 architecture, and I ran a dual socket so with HT for 4 threads! I remember the first GPU I put in that Xeon rig was a GF 6800 Ultra. Was that the leaf blower/flamethrower joke one? I can't be sure any more.

 

So at the time I had multiple Shuttle computers. That was before Mini-ITX I think. On AMD side I had Athlon XP and Athlon 64 CPUs.

Pentium D Extreme came out in May 2005... much hype!

 

Oh yeah I wanted the 6800 Ultra too mmm Ultra

I was stuck with EVGA FX5700LE (still have it too)

funny you mention the P4... I that was my dream chip in 2004 and I finally got an 3.46GHz Gallatin P4 Extreme in 2007 for my 478 socket which I still have and have a hacked "no NX bit" install of Windows 8.1 pro on... still runs great (really inefficient but fun) for a 12 year old PC... and yeah the 6800 was a leaf blower lol

 

50 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

2005? I barely remember yesterday let alone 11 years ago

 

This list is kinda cool

http://www.pcworld.com/article/120763/article.html?page=12

I still have my Digital Rebel XT and iPod Photo

[ybriK]

When Intel bribed OEMs to not use AMD hardware and code programs that purposely ran worst on AMD CPU. That's hype!

[porina]

12 minutes ago, HrutkayMods said:

Pentium D Extreme came out in May 2005... much hype!

My memory is struggling to go back that far. Did AMD bring out their duals first? I thought they did and Intel had to copy quick, or that could have been other feature like AMD64 > EM64T?

[ddrkreature]

This was well before I got into PC gaming or whatnot so I'd say it was the launch of the Xbox 360 and ps3