This was a $2,000 computer in 2005.

1GB was a lot of WAM in 2005. My PC back in those days had 256MB.

>>105749151
I ended up sticking another 1GB kit into it... Since I had switched to Gentoo Linux... Also had upgraded it to a 4800+ Athlon X2.

>>105749151
I'm pretty sure I was still using 512 megs on Windows XP in 2012. I put in a 2nd stick so I could run 32-bit Windows 8. If that computer had survived long enough for SSDs to be cheap I'd probably still be using it for something.

>>105749123 (OP)
2005 was the perfect year. i want to go back. everything seemed so much better then

>>105749123 (OP)
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>>105749467
what do you need 1024mb of ram for?

my closest pc to that year was an athlon x2 and a radeon 1650x pro
I can't remember how much ram it had.
It was only 700 dollars, probably because I built it myself

>>105749481
so battlefield 2 doesn't run like shit

>>105749450
We were fresh into the "War on Terror", spending trillions on two illegal wars and TSA was patting and x-raying everyone down.

>>105749774
and yet it was still a better time to be alive. really puts things into perspective

>>105749123 (OP)
I built a computer some time around then, I spent like $400 though cause I'm cheap. Had 512Gb RAM later upgraded to 1Gb, Athlon 64 2700+ IIRC, and a fucking fx5200 (absolute dogshit card) later upgraded to an 8600GT or whatever.
Also bought a nice 19" a Samsung S-PVA panel I think, very nice to the 17" CRT I'd been using previously.
It did the needful.

>>105749123 (OP)

>>105749123 (OP)
was 120G of storage a lot in 2005?
also, were there no SSDs yet?

t. didn't get Internet until 2018

>>105750535

I had a 20GB external hard drive that was powered over USB. That was sheer insanity during those years. And made me a LAN party invite receiver.

>>105750535
No ssd's yet. Back then the fastest drive would have been a western digital raptor because it spun at 10,000 rpm.

120gb back then was middle of the road. a lot of people had 40-80gb drives. 250gb was considered massive.

>>105749123 (OP)
Profit margins for buildings PC's were still huge then. I had deals with multiple family members, if I could build a computer equivalent to a prebuilt for cheaper, they'd pay me half the savings. Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure a 6800 GT and an Athlon 3500+ were roughly $300 each and the biggest single items there. All of that together is probably more like a $1400 computer.

>>105749450
You miss being a stupid child
>>105750227
Things only a stupid child would say
You don’t need to go back you need a lobotomy
I’d suggest lots of alcohol

>>105750651
Sun Microsystems was spending a few dozen dollars on off the shelf components for a few dozen thousand
That’s why you thought this was relevant at all
It sounded like a good margin
You were getting fleeced by your supplier

>>105749774
>wars on the other side of the world

My budget for every computer build for the past 25 years has not been more than $700. My last build from last year was probably $400-500. Inflation has no power over me.

>>105749123 (OP)
Why's the text so small? They couldn't afford ink in 2005?

>>105750656
Stay butt hurt, you dumb boy! :3

>Glendale Arizona
That's how I know you're in the ghetto

>>105749151
Mine had 64mb.

cpu 272
gpu 399
board 175
ram 84
psu 150
hdd 150
sound card 100
cpu heatsink standard lump of aluminum 10
case cooler master centurion 5 90
cd drive $30
dvd drive $70
=$1530
add mouse and keyboard, windows xp
Didn't get ripped off too bad.

>>105750910
I didn't pull the numbers out of my ass by the way, for example the enermax noisetaker 600W power supply on the invoice was available for $151 in July that year, I don't know how dramatically the price could have changed in 3 months

Mine was a 3200+ and 512 megs, 128 of which was for the onboard gpu. The machine swapped a lot until I got some more ram.

>>105749123 (OP)
I built a very similar machine in late 2007 (main difference being it was 5000+) for $550.

>>105750987
2 years was a long time back then
he was buying a single core, the q6600 3.4GHz was $270 in mid 2007

>>105751007
It's why I don't miss those days. You either built a performance box for $2,000 that turned into a hot, power-hungry stutterfest in 3 years, or you built a ecoshed for $500 that turned into a stutterfest in 18 months. Neither ran Windows n+1 without kernel patches and taking five minutes to boot up.
Now, we have people bitching that Windows 11 won't let them install on their $400 netbook from 2014 without typing a simple command first. Now THAT'S progress.

>>105751030
stagnation isn't progress.

this looks awfully overpriced for those parts, were prebuilts worse back then