What pc would you say is retro?

Cyber-Mav · 21 Oct 2020 at 23:10

How far back we talking here? Socket 7 or older? 32 bit only? If its 64bit cpu then not considered to be retro?
Your thoughts?

Cyber-Mav · 22 Oct 2020 at 13:56

775 is deffo not retro some chips on that platform have a fair bit of grunt and can run windows 10 too.
looks like its got to be a 32bit only or less cpu to be classed as retro.
got to set a hard limit on this cuz i got people saying nehalem cpus are retro which is not right.

Cyber-Mav · 22 Oct 2020 at 14:11

and what about gpus? everything AGP and downwards is retro pcie is not retro?

Cyber-Mav · 22 Oct 2020 at 14:19

old stuff like that i binned a long time ago, riva tnt cards, voodoo 3s, ati rages, cirrus logic, nec videologic power vr addon type card all binned. doubt anyone uses them these days other than to just look at?

Cyber-Mav · 22 Oct 2020 at 14:21

ahh yes there were some interesting crossover cards being back ported to agp, both nvidia and ati used to have pcie to agp bridge chips used in the cards. guess those are not gonna be retro?

Cyber-Mav · 19 Dec 2020 at 00:06

Windows 2000. Now your talking. Awsome os and i was on it till xp sp3 came out.

Cyber-Mav · 14 Feb 2021 at 07:50

Was fun trying to emulate arcade and console games on underpowered hardware. Any tweaks done could get you some speed.
These days powerful hardware i find for me takes some of the fun out. I found some enjoyment when my system used to struggle.
This is back in 486 era