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Geforce 3 and Unreal Tournament (UT99).
Last piece of Tech that made you go "WOW!!"?
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Pc related:
Voodoo 2 (SLI'd)
ISDN
Broadband
Iiyama VM Pro 452/454
None PC related:
Pioneer KURO 60inch 9th Gen Plasma (Can't even explain how much this TV owns, and still to this day, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside each time that I use it).
Voodoo 2 (SLI'd)
ISDN
Broadband
Iiyama VM Pro 452/454
None PC related:
Pioneer KURO 60inch 9th Gen Plasma (Can't even explain how much this TV owns, and still to this day, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside each time that I use it).
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Stereoscopic 3D gaming definitely! I didn't see an improvement in the gaming experience since I first installed a 3DFX Voodoo card and saw the Tekken-like demo showing a fighting Anubi (!).
Can't go back to flatland now. I hope S3D will continue to be improved.
Can't go back to flatland now. I hope S3D will continue to be improved.
Actually made me go "wow"?
Broadband - to jump from 56Kbps and barely usable, to 2Mbps was astounding.
My Uni's network: Similarly, jumping from 5Mbps to 100Mbps was incredible. It still surprises me how fast it is when I go back and use it occasionally.
Smartphone (Motorola Dext, even though I came to hate it later, was still mindblowing to start with)
Raspberry Pi - that price, for that machine, is incredible.
Broadband - to jump from 56Kbps and barely usable, to 2Mbps was astounding.
My Uni's network: Similarly, jumping from 5Mbps to 100Mbps was incredible. It still surprises me how fast it is when I go back and use it occasionally.
Smartphone (Motorola Dext, even though I came to hate it later, was still mindblowing to start with)
Raspberry Pi - that price, for that machine, is incredible.
The ones that made me go WOW, (and I mean "jump in technology" wow, not "I haven't upgraded my PC in so long its a jump" wow):
(1) Creative Soundblaster
The jump from PC speaker effects/music to sound cards was bigger imo than any jump in the CPU/GPU market, bigger even than the performance HDD to SSD transition, and the Soundblaster was the Geforce of audio.
(2) Nvidia Geforce
Bigger imo than any other GPU jump including Voodoo, mainly because it brought about the beginning of the end for 3DFX, and mainly because it was such a big leap that ATi/3DFX didn't even respond with their next gen, they had to respond with multi GPU versions of their current cards and try to catch up in time to battle the Geforce 2.
(3) 3DFX Voodoo
The first 3D accelerator, boom.
(4) Compact Disc
CD > 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, that is all.
(5) ADSL
56k modem to 256k ADSL was a 5x jump but the biggest difference between dial up and ADSL was the latency drop. For the first time UK clans could compete with Euro/US clans on a level field (and compete with each other lag free).
(1) Creative Soundblaster
The jump from PC speaker effects/music to sound cards was bigger imo than any jump in the CPU/GPU market, bigger even than the performance HDD to SSD transition, and the Soundblaster was the Geforce of audio.
(2) Nvidia Geforce
Bigger imo than any other GPU jump including Voodoo, mainly because it brought about the beginning of the end for 3DFX, and mainly because it was such a big leap that ATi/3DFX didn't even respond with their next gen, they had to respond with multi GPU versions of their current cards and try to catch up in time to battle the Geforce 2.
(3) 3DFX Voodoo
The first 3D accelerator, boom.
(4) Compact Disc
CD > 3.5" 1.44MB floppy, that is all.
(5) ADSL
56k modem to 256k ADSL was a 5x jump but the biggest difference between dial up and ADSL was the latency drop. For the first time UK clans could compete with Euro/US clans on a level field (and compete with each other lag free).
Playing the first Resident Evil, i couldn't believe a video game could actually make me jump.
Getting my first real PC and UT99 on the same day (pure heaven)
My first stand alone dvd player, it was a Pioneer chipped up for multi region and cost me about £400. I was totally gobsmacked by the quality on my 36" Philips CRT
Getting my first real PC and UT99 on the same day (pure heaven)
My first stand alone dvd player, it was a Pioneer chipped up for multi region and cost me about £400. I was totally gobsmacked by the quality on my 36" Philips CRT
Battlefield 3's Frostbite & Crysis 3. Graphics are stunning. Gave me goosebumps.
Hardware wise, I was browsing Currys & spotted a 3D TV. Tried the glasses and WOW, I was stunned at how impressive & immersive the experience was.
Hardware wise, I was browsing Currys & spotted a 3D TV. Tried the glasses and WOW, I was stunned at how impressive & immersive the experience was.
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Intel X25-M 80GB then the 9800 pro
