Soldato
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haha well i was 60gb was top notch back then 
* about 5 years ago?*
* about 5 years ago?*-
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Computers of today versus those of the past
- Thread starter AdamSee
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Modern computers wipe the floor with old ones, even in 'real' terms.
The demand/need for lots of memory and storage has increased over the years, but the cost of achieving that has dropped. You can pickup a 1.5TB drive and 4GB RAM for what, less than £150 these days? Adequate for most people's needs. Whereas in the past you'd really be struggling with that budget.
Generic spec for an OK modern base system, comes to £500
-Mobo: £85
-CPU: £150
-RAM: £70
-HD: £70
-Case: £30
-PSU: £70
-Video card: £125
A lot of people have rose-tinted spectacles when it comes to gaming, they never realised how slow old games used to run. The recommended (not min!) spec for Quake 2 is a P133 with 24MB RAM. Quake is a P60 with 8MB RAM. The fact is, by modern standards, even systems twice as fast would still be regarded as shockingly slow. You think back and say "nah, I ran it on a P90, it was fine!!" but believe me, you'd be pretty shocked to know exactly how low the framerates such systems provide
The demand/need for lots of memory and storage has increased over the years, but the cost of achieving that has dropped. You can pickup a 1.5TB drive and 4GB RAM for what, less than £150 these days? Adequate for most people's needs. Whereas in the past you'd really be struggling with that budget.
Generic spec for an OK modern base system, comes to £500
-Mobo: £85
-CPU: £150
-RAM: £70
-HD: £70
-Case: £30
-PSU: £70
-Video card: £125
A lot of people have rose-tinted spectacles when it comes to gaming, they never realised how slow old games used to run. The recommended (not min!) spec for Quake 2 is a P133 with 24MB RAM. Quake is a P60 with 8MB RAM. The fact is, by modern standards, even systems twice as fast would still be regarded as shockingly slow. You think back and say "nah, I ran it on a P90, it was fine!!" but believe me, you'd be pretty shocked to know exactly how low the framerates such systems provide
I'm another old git who remembers the marvels of the zx80 i built from a kit, the upgrade to the spectrum and an Atari ST and amiga's.
I also remember that i choose to do electronics at school instead of computer science, because nobody in the future (this was in 1974) would need PC's, unless they were going to work in the banking or for science reasearch. The people who did computer science used to go on a day trip to ICI at teesside to look at their computer.
So from just 1974 to around 1980 there was huge developments.
When Sinclair brought out his LED digital watch and calculators, well the human race had reached its technological heights and no human further advancements would be possible
I have somewhere the original price list of my home PC. If i find it i'll update this with some component costs, it'll make you laugh if nothing else.
If you go to www.cpubenchmark.net they have some graphs there comparing CPU's some only from a few years ago, but even then the difference in CPU power is pretty staggering.
I also remember that i choose to do electronics at school instead of computer science, because nobody in the future (this was in 1974) would need PC's, unless they were going to work in the banking or for science reasearch. The people who did computer science used to go on a day trip to ICI at teesside to look at their computer.
So from just 1974 to around 1980 there was huge developments.
When Sinclair brought out his LED digital watch and calculators, well the human race had reached its technological heights and no human further advancements would be possible
I have somewhere the original price list of my home PC. If i find it i'll update this with some component costs, it'll make you laugh if nothing else.
If you go to www.cpubenchmark.net they have some graphs there comparing CPU's some only from a few years ago, but even then the difference in CPU power is pretty staggering.