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

[JAKEBAB]

Wow this is quite hard, I was only 10 so i wasn't that into tech then.

 

PS3: Note this was unveiled at e3 2005 not released but still hype.

Ipod Video: First ipod ever to play video.

PSP: This doesn't need explanation it was awesome.

[Coaxialgamer]

Well , the xbox 360 is coming out soon ! It will be an awesome successor to the xbox ! WE will be able to play in HD ! That's 1280*720 ! *mind blown*

[Kevin_Walter]

7 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

Well , the xbox 360 is coming out soon ! It will be an awesome successor to the xbox ! WE will be able to play in HD ! That's 1280*720 ! *mind blown*

I remember when I thought Kameo had good graphics...

 

 

[ericlee30]

In 2005  I believe  if  I can remember correctly I was rocking,

 

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz north wood CPU w/HT

 

GPU: ATI 9800 pro ( all in wonder ) I still have that card somewhere in a closet lol. It was the first $300+ GPU I had ever bought

 

Motherboard: Foxconn Micro ATX motherboard ( cant remember the model)

 

HDD/s: 60Gb WD HDD boot drive and a 40Gb WD storage drive

 

Ram: 1Gb of DDR memory 2 X 512 MB sticks

 

Case: Lian Li case I slightly modded

 

 

 

 

My, my how my sleeving has such improved over the past 12 years lol, that was like my third sleeving job I had done, I started sleeving PC's in 2000 ( that crap sleeving is all we modders could get our hands on at the time)  and I got into computers in 1996.

 

P.S. I just looked at the dates I took those pics and they are dated 5/1/2004, so about a half year before 2005.

[HrutkayMods]

1 hour ago, porina said:

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?

The AMD Athlon X2 came out in May 2005 also, I don't know which was first, but I think I remember Intel announcing first?... I just looked it up, they beat AMD by a few days on the release, rumors was it was rushed. Also it didn't perform as well and lacked Hyper Threading (AKA P4 HT performed about the same) but I've been an Intel fan boy all my life soo yeah. The interesting thing is the Pentium D died in 2008, and AMD is still making the X2 for low end PCs I believe

 

Also yeah AMD beat Intel I think in late 2003?(maybe 2004? I know the IBM G5 was the first 64 bit in 2003). Intel didn't get 64 bit until early 2005 I think

[Paragon_X]

WoW in Europe!

[porina]

1 hour ago, HrutkayMods said:

Also yeah AMD beat Intel I think in late 2003?(maybe 2004? I know the IBM G5 was the first 64 bit in 2003). Intel didn't get 64 bit until early 2005 I think

I just looked up Itanium which was around since 2001-ish, but AMD drove consumer 64-bit. I'm still not sure I want to thank them for that. For sure, 64 bit extension on x86 helps a lot, but I wonder how things might have ended up if we had Intel's way for a true 64-bit processor designed from the ground up. Yes, it would mean poor x86-32 performance, which is arguably what killed it in the end, but in a near parallel universe we might have better 64-bit mainstream processing now.

 

 

Anyway, back to this thread, I found some pics of my dual Xeon rig. It turned out I built it in August 2004 as show with waterblocks being fitted. 2nd pic is the same system in April 2006 with air cooling. I had so much trouble with that watercooling kit I sold it on and went back to air. I lost count of the number of times I found coolant leaked out of the CPU sockets, dripping onto the back to the 6800Ultra which was numerically priced like a 980 (non-Ti) today without allowing for inflation. I had to pull it apart and wash the GPU... that got boring rapidly.

 

I wonder what case I had in 2006, note it is "upside down" mobo layout. I think it was a high end alu case but I can't remember who did it.

[HrutkayMods]

2 hours ago, ericlee30 said:

In 2005  I believe  if  I can remember correctly I was rocking,

 

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz north wood CPU w/HT

 

GPU: ATI 9800 pro ( all in wonder ) I still have that card somewhere in a closet lol. It was the first $300+ GPU I had ever bought

 

Motherboard: Foxconn Micro ATX motherboard ( cant remember the model)

 

HDD/s: 60Gb WD HDD boot drive and a 40Gb WD storage drive

 

Ram: 1Gb of DDR memory 2 X 512 MB sticks

 

Case: Lian Li case I slightly modded

 

My, my how my sleeving has such improved over the past 12 years lol, that was like my third sleeving job I had done, I started sleeving PC's in 2000 ( that crap sleeving is all we modders could get our hands on at the time)  and I got into computers in 1996.

 

P.S. I just looked at the dates I took those pics and they are dated 5/1/2004, so about a half year before 2005.

I still have my PC from 2004/2005

It has been highly upgraded since then (the motherboard, case, and sound card are the only original parts left)

 

Gateway 710x

in 2004/2005

the specs were

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT Northwood 3.2 GHz

GPU: ATI 9600XT 128MB vid ram...

a few months later I went to an EVGA FX5700LE 256MB vid ram (still have it on my shelf)

Motherboard: Intel full ATX board, I think it has a 865 chipset?

HDD: 160GB SATA 150 Maxtor

Ram: 1GB DDR400 (2x512MB)

Case was stock

 

we had very similar specs

 

of course I upgraded the hell of that system about 10Xs since then but still that was my specs in 2005

[beach_boy98]

Apparently it was Pentium 4's that cost over 500 CAD. http://web.archive.org/web/20050419011337/http://www.ncix.com/

[minibois]

Dude, I can't wait for the XBox 360!! so hyped right now!
And next year we will have the Wii too !  

[harrynowl]

Conroe, Vista and DX10. And the new consoles.

[s3ns3]

GTA San andreas ofc

[AyeJayKay]

probably the PS3

[deVIZtation]

2 hours ago, AyeJayKay said:

probably the PS3

This. I was in college and was saving up to buy a fat PS3 with a 40gb hdd.

[RahulR]

REALLY looking forward to that Core 2 Duo . Getting sick and tired of my old Pentium 4

[themctipers]

I had a Pentium D and a gs 8400!

Also a semptron.

 

 

I used internet explorer..

i'm talking out of my ass c:

 

[iHardware Shelden]

[Kyol]

AMD quadcores!!!! Phenom I.

[raystriker98]

I was 7 in 2005. I was hyped for getting my Nintendo DS

[Guest]

On 4/19/2016 at 0:59 PM, porina said:

I just looked up Itanium which was around since 2001-ish, but AMD drove consumer 64-bit. I'm still not sure I want to thank them for that. For sure, 64 bit extension on x86 helps a lot, but I wonder how things might have ended up if we had Intel's way for a true 64-bit processor designed from the ground up. Yes, it would mean poor x86-32 performance, which is arguably what killed it in the end, but in a near parallel universe we might have better 64-bit mainstream processing now.

 

 

Anyway, back to this thread, I found some pics of my dual Xeon rig. It turned out I built it in August 2004 as show with waterblocks being fitted. 2nd pic is the same system in April 2006 with air cooling. I had so much trouble with that watercooling kit I sold it on and went back to air. I lost count of the number of times I found coolant leaked out of the CPU sockets, dripping onto the back to the 6800Ultra which was numerically priced like a 980 (non-Ti) today without allowing for inflation. I had to pull it apart and wash the GPU... that got boring rapidly.

 

I wonder what case I had in 2006, note it is "upside down" mobo layout. I think it was a high end alu case but I can't remember who did it.

ahhh, i can't wait til i get a job and build more crazy stuff just for the lols, and have power too.

that water cooling looked pretty dope too  

[Guest]

On 4/19/2016 at 1:25 PM, beach_boy98 said:

Apparently it was Pentium 4's that cost over 500 CAD. http://web.archive.org/web/20050419011337/http://www.ncix.com/

HEY MAN YOU GET A FREE GIFT #WORTH

[NumLock21]

2005?

My P3 system has died and I was in the process of upgrading to Intel's very first dual core, the Pentium D.

During that time AMD has a much superior CPU, and Doom 3 was the game I was looking forward to, while I waited for both my CPU and XFX 6600GT. It only has 128MB of vram, compare to today's gpus, it's extremely low, but during that time, it was a lot.

SATA and PCI Express might not seem that amazing right now, but that time was something brand new, much like how we just got M.2 and SATA Express. Not many buy things from online as the e-retailer just started out. We had ZipZoomFly, Newegg, and Tiger Direct.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

2005?

My P3 system has died and I was in the process of upgrading to Intel's very first dual core, the Pentium D.

During that time AMD has a much superior CPU, and Doom 3 was the game I was looking forward to, while I waited for both my CPU and XFX 6600GT. It only has 128MB of vram, compare to today's gpus, it's extremely low, but during that time, it was a lot.

SATA and PCI Express might not seem that amazing right now, but that time was something brand new, much like how we just got M.2 and SATA Express. Not many buy things from online as the e-retailer just started out. We had ZipZoomFly, Newegg, and Tiger Direct.

Sounds fun tbh 

[NumLock21]

38 minutes ago, PeloyGeek said:

Sounds fun tbh 

Yep it was fun. None of the motherboards during that time has a specific color scheme. It has many colors, It was all about who has the most fancy heat sink design, so it's always exciting to see what the board makers can come up with. Imo, MSI, gets top points for their roller coaster heat sink. ATi and Nvidia both just started introducing their dual gpu setup, CrossFire and SLI. Want LED light strips? Nope they don't exist. Want Light in your PC, then you'll have to get a cold cathode tube.