Other Your rig(s) - 2000 vs. 2010

Yup, Williamette was crap. I had a 1.6 Williamette in early 2002.

The Northwood A was a short-lived chip, but the Northwood B and Northwood C smacked around the Palomino, which led to the Thoroughbred and Barton cores from AMD to compete. Northwood C 3.06 was the first hyperthreading, too.

Then it was Prescott, and the first x64 Clawhammer and Sledgehammer chips came from AMD, soon followed by the first dual core.

I lol'ed when there was a discussion about how AMD was crap compared to Intel. The T-Bird and Athlon XP walked all over the Coppermine and Tualatin P3s and Williamette P4s. The Northwood B was the first offering from Intel that could hold its own against them, but then there was the Prescott and its associated issues and then the Athlon 64 just owned. For a couple years, the much slower clocked but cooler and with a higher IPC and multiple core Athlon 64s were walking all over the hot P4s running well upwards of 3GHz. It wasn't until the Core 2 processors came out that Intel was able to take the lead again, which is a lead they've held on to through the past 3-4 years of Core 2 and now Core i processors.

Everyone has had their fair share of odd sockets. AMD is pretty solid on AM3 right now, but for a long time they were selling high end chips on 939 and low-end chips on 754, just like how Intel is selling i7 on 1366 and everything else on 1156.

Intel went 370 > 478 > 775 > 1156 > 1366
AMD went 462 > 754 > 939 > AM2 > AM2+ > AM3

Can't really call one any more confusing than the other. Frankly, I am more confused between AM2, AM2+, and AM3 than I am between 775, 1156, and 1366.

 

To this day I still believe the PIII Tualatin was better than the Thunderbird (excluding the price, obviously). It was slightly faster at equal frequency, it overclocked better, it ran cooler (the T-bird was a real joke) and it was more reliable. T-Birds all over the place were dieing because they weren't cool properly.


it's not like it matters today in 2010 anyway ...




btw, believe it or not but I have a PIII 800Mhz Slot1 that uses rambus.... !

 

Fair point. As you can see by my join date, I got involved when T-Birds were what most people had, and everyone was in the process of moving over to Palominos, so all of the reviews I read were about Palominos.

 

The first few XPs were average. They were good, but definitely not much of a performance upgrade over Thunderbirds. It took a while before they got interesting at all. They benefited from DDR and 133Mhz Bus, which came later

 

Late to the party but here goes;

2000

Pentium II 233MHz
96Mb RAM
2x4Gb HD
3dFX Voodoo 2
Windows 98 SE

2010

See sig.
X3 720 @ 3.6Ghz

Amusingly enough I've gone from a PII to a PII.
The main game I played back then was Trespasser - I got it out a month or so back and played it for a few hours. It still makes me jump, and the physics are still hilarious. There are few things more satisfying than accidentally killing a velociraptor with a door while fumbling to pick up a gun. Also, some of the object textures in the game are silly; if you force the resolution to 1680x1050 the "STOP" signs are still sharp.

 

CPU: Pentium S 200MHz (I was very young but it didn't say anything other than S)
RAM: I imagine 32-64MB? Couldn't tell you
GPU: TNT2 Pro!
HDD: Some 2GB HDD.....
Networking: I haven't a clue
OS: Win 95 or 98, hard to remember.

 

2000: Piece of ****.

2010: Nice rig.

 

2000 (in fact this was born in 1996 top of the line at the time)

Dell Dimension XPS Pro200n
200MHz Intel Pentium Pro (256KB L2 cache)
Intel VS440FX Natoma Chipset
96MB EDO RAM
Quantum Fireball 2110A Disk
Fujitsu MPD3064AT Disk
NEC 282 CD Drive
ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo (8MB SGRAM) (PCI)
ATI TV Wonder (PCI)
Soundblaster AWE32 (ISA)
HP RealTek 10/100 TX Ethernet (PCI)
Dell VS1528 LS Display Monitor
Standard AT/PS2 Inputs
Windows 2000 (SP2)


2010

Invisible PC, moved to Cloud.