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My first personal desktop computer was old enough to start high school before I upgraded, though in its final years it was little more than a minecraft, youtube
by xerox13ster 3y ago
My first personal desktop computer was old enough to start high school before I upgraded, though in its final years it was little more than a minecraft, youtube, and web browsing machine (a typical 14 year old). It was an old machine from our church in 2004, it had a Core2Quad and a 512MB Radeon graphics card, with 4GB of DDR2.
- Delk 3y agoCore 2 was launched in 2006, so the computer probably was either a few years newer or had an older-generation CPU. Impressive lifespan nevertheless.
- xerox13ster 3y agoThey said they purchased it in 2004, and it was given to me as a graduation present in 2011, so someone at our church must have upgraded it somewhere along the line. Doing a little searching, the Quad came out even later, in 2008 so it must have been around then. Presumably for the upgrade to Windows 7. Now that I think about it, pastor's son was a gamer that spent all his time at the church, and I always thought it weird that a church had a discrete graphics card with DVI output in a back office machine...
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> My first personal desktop computer was old enough to start high school before I upgraded, though in its final years it was little more than a minecraft... I hosted a minecraft server on a last gen P4 because the single threaded performance was that good (headless ubuntu). Intel hits these high spots were some hot chip keeps up with the next 7 years of CPUs.