Around 2008-2010, I previously had an HP Compaq Presario that was no longer cutting it, so it was time to upgrade! I ended up using the case itself for quite a while, but gutted the motherboard for some Gigabyte board of the time, a Pentium 4 (1.X Ghz), a whooping 4 GB of RAM (32-bit systems woohoo), ~100Gb HDD, and an nVidia 9600GT. Give it a few years, and I’d upgraded it to a GTX 560 and i5-2500k which ended up blowing in a power surge in college dorms around 2015.
It’s been long enough that timelines are fuzzy, but the turn of specs have been wild. I was pretty shocked to learn that a lot of CPUs have turned from over-clocking to under-volting due to how generally powerful (and power consuming) they are nowadays!
Around 2008-2010, I previously had an HP Compaq Presario that was no longer cutting it, so it was time to upgrade! I ended up using the case itself for quite a while, but gutted the motherboard for some Gigabyte board of the time, a Pentium 4 (1.X Ghz), a whooping 4 GB of RAM (32-bit systems woohoo), ~100Gb HDD, and an nVidia 9600GT. Give it a few years, and I’d upgraded it to a GTX 560 and i5-2500k which ended up blowing in a power surge in college dorms around 2015.
It’s been long enough that timelines are fuzzy, but the turn of specs have been wild. I was pretty shocked to learn that a lot of CPUs have turned from over-clocking to under-volting due to how generally powerful (and power consuming) they are nowadays!