Desktop Computers

It's pretty accurate if you have 30 tabs of RedTube open trying to find the perfect scene while you're also chasing down Muradin

My first computer was a Dell 25 MHz 486 with 4mb ram and a 120mb hard drive. Kings Quest 6 all day erre day.

Within a day of getting the internet hooked up me and my older brother were looking for naked pictures of women. I still remember the first picture we found was a topless pic of the Barbie twins. It took atleast 10 min to download a picture on our 14.4k modem and we rejoiced when it got down to the nipples. Kids today don't know how good they got it.

popsicledeath_sl said:

I think the objection to a standard HD was these days, with all the portable and external options, why put storage on a single drive, in your Desktop? I don't think anyone is saying store everything on an SSD (though it's nice and snappy!). I think it's that if it's already going to be on a relatively slow storage drive, make it external so all your devices can access it without having to leave your computer on?

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They (external drives) are far more prone to failure for a start, but also quite a lot slower transfer rate unless you are using eSATA.

It just depends on what the person is trying to do with it. The argument was about 100% SSD or SSD + spinning HD desktop configuration.

Upgraded the SSD and memory per your recs:

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Any other thoughts? And the DVD drive for $20, I may as well just fucking get it.

Started with HC clones and cassette tapes for loading shit, upgraded to a 286 Olivetti 12 mhz, 1 mb ram, 42 mb hdd with green tint CRT (or whatever they were called) and so on. I remember playing the shit out of civ 1 on that 286.

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Mist_sl said:

Taught myself BASIC on a TRS80 but didn't get my first real computer until my 486 50mhz.

That computer was a Packard Bell piece of fucking shit, and the entire reason I know anything about PCs is because I constantly had to fuck with it just to get it to run any games. I deleted Windows 3.1 to make space, because that shit was useless for faceblasting Cyberdemons.

After that fucking turd, my next PC was a homebrew Pentium 166. The PC was still running until it got ruined in the flood but I kept the CPU; it's right here on my desk. I straighten the pins with a credit card when I'm bored.

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I had a 33MHz Packard Bell, I can confirm they were piles of shit.

Next PC was a 200MHz something or other with a Voodoo3 2000 in it, played Quake 2 like a goddamn boss on that thing.

And thus started the era of me having to fix every single persons goddamn fucking computer, tablet, phone, cellphone, electrical issues, car radios, and everything else.

I definitely had color-coded boot disks for various games, but I didn't learn to code until much later. I was a pleb

First PC was a compaq with a voodoo card i used to play EQ1 and UI, next was a HP a friend at tigerdirect built for me with a Geforce MX or something. I remember when GPUs were no bigger than wallets!

meStevo_sl said:

It's funny how much this reads like a joke but is so, so true, lol.

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I'm so so bad about this. I have three monitors + 55" TV (that's across the room, thanks 20' HDMI cable and wireless mouse/keyboard!) and I use all three monitors quite often. Streaming or other videos on left monitor (27" Korean IPS), games on center (Asus 144 Hz Gsync), browser on right (old piece of shit 24" LCD). When I download a movie or want to stream to the TV I'll turn on the wireless mouse/kb and drag the windows over to the TV and change the sound output so I can do shit from the couch. Such win~

Fadaar_sl said:

...drag the windows over to the TV...

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Windows Button + Shift + Left or Right is your friend for moving windows from one monitor to the next.

Mist_sl said:

Did you have a pile of boot disks for running different games? With different colored labels? I wrote a batch file menuing system for launching all my games and it told you which color boot disk you had to insert and reboot.

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Extended Memory and EMM386 were the bane of my existence as a 12 year old. Some games needed drivers pushed into extended memory to free up enough base memory to run them. Some games needed so much free memory to run that I couldn't load all of my drivers, I'd have to decide if I'd rather be able to use my mouse, or my sweet-ass Soundblaster Pro video card (I'm looking at you, Ultima 7)

Windows 95 was the best thing to ever happen to computer gaming. Sure, it was bloated as shit compared to DOS, but it was just easy, shit worked(mostly).

I don't miss the days of having to fuck with a game for several hours in order to get it to boot after bringing it home from the store. Screw you 640k base memory limit!

Mist how do you have time to keep up with this shit?