>>107003070
Not that I need to prove anything to you, but here's my battlestation from 19 years ago.
>>107003118
There was more to get out from it and I do miss that part for sure.
Overclocking has become less and less viable, for both CPUs and GPUs, you can't even unlock pixel pipelines with Riva Tuner nowadays.
I'm not really talking about the speed gains, because those are mostly negated by the bloat of modern software.
But even good components back then were not as well made as the ridiculously overbuilt PSUs, motherboards and GPUs you can get today.
Consuming any kind of media was a pain in the ass, you'd download a shitty 128kbps mp3 for 20-30 minutes over p2p and risk getting CP or malware or both.
It wasn't until the early 2000s that I had a PC that was decent enough to play shitty 700MB RIPs of movies and I had to connect to my CRT TV over composite.
A 20GB HDD and a CD burner cost an arm and a leg, the best audio experience you could reasonably get was hooking up a HiFi system over AUX.
CRT monitors needed 20-30 minutes to warm up, even the Earth's magnetic field affects the geometry, the focus will drift over time etc.
Most peripherals were shit, the mouse in the photo is one of the good ones from the era.
I just try to be objective about the genuine advancements we've made, I'd have killed a man back in the day for the setup I have now, it would have looked to me like something out of science fiction.
>>107003174
I'm European, but yes I know what you mean, there's way too many third worlders online.
