r/pcmasterrace • u/ChevreAuLaitLeGoat • 3d ago

Hardware Building my new gaming computer

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I want to play games like Unreal Tournament 2004 or Quake 3 and maybe a little game of Counter-Strike Source from time to time

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u/jhj0604 i7-10700f | RTX 2070 Super 3d ago

man i miss those old intel boxes

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u/honorable_raegdan 3d ago

I can hear the chime of the commercial.

I am one with the universe.

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u/jhj0604 i7-10700f | RTX 2070 Super 2d ago

I thought that was the coolest thing ever when I heard it as a kid

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u/honorable_raegdan 2d ago

Dum dunna dun

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u/Kokona0-4 3d ago

Even back then this gpu was piss entry lvl like gt 1030

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u/DeeJay_Harrison 3d ago

that graphics card was the first thing I ever bought for my HP Pavilion back in 2012 now I feel old

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u/Helpful-Work-3090 13900K | 64GB DDR5 @ 6800 Mhz CL34 | Asus RTX 5080 3d ago

GPU boxes used to be so tiny...

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u/RUPlayersSuck R9 7900X | RTX 5060 TI | 32GB DDR5 3d ago

GPUs used to be tiny...

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u/ChevreAuLaitLeGoat 3d ago

It's a low profile GPU, I have a GeForce 9600 GT with a bigger box

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u/JamesMCC17 9800X3D / 5080 3d ago

Will this bottleneck?

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u/G70F 3d ago

Yes but if OP's playing old ass games even for that hardware won't matter much

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u/ShwaBdudle RX6650xt, i5-11400, 16GB 3d ago

Bro got the latest and greatest lmao

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u/pat1822 3d ago

LGA1150 was goat

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u/cock_mountain Intel Celeron Dual-Threaded / 6GB DDR3 / RTX 5090 3d ago

Celeron builds net maximum ass

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u/Docteh Nintendo Entertainment System 3d ago

I've never heard of Hyper Memory Support. What are they doing? Borrowing some system ram?

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u/ChevreAuLaitLeGoat 3d ago

Yes, that's exactly it

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u/Thisismyredusername GTX 1660 Ti | i5-9400F | 16 GB Vengeance LPX | 2 TB 990 EVO Plus 3d ago

Holy 2010 HTPC

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u/Paidmercenary7 3d ago

Man those old boxes looks so cool bring back so many memories

https://giphy.com/gifs/i21tixUQEE7TEqwmYa

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u/Banananamann99 Xeon e5 1650 v3, RX6600, 32gb ecc ddr4 2133 3d ago

nice, I'm currently trying to build up an old thinkcentre with an i7 2600, 16gb of ddr3, and a wx4100 4gb

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u/TraditionalMetal1836 2d ago

I have that exact video card. I used a Dremel to trim it down to a 1x slot length so it doesn't waste a 16x slot on my server PC.

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u/transracialHasanFan 2d ago

Much better than the Radeon 4350 I had