> In just a few years we saw the Intel Pentium II and Celeron (insane overclock), the AMD K6/K6-2, along with discrete 2D/3D GPUs like 3dfx Voodoo3 and Nvidia G

> In just a few years we saw the Intel Pentium II and Celeron (insane overclock), the AMD K6/K6-2, along with discrete 2D/3D GPUs like 3dfx Voodoo3 and Nvidia GeForce. Don't forget the race to 1Ghz. Intel and AMD spent those years doubling core clock speeds every year. If you bought a system in 1996 and replaced it in 2000 the CPU might be four or more times faster. For some things that was a real geometric increase in computing power.