BOOM.

"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36) 09/26/2016 at 14:43 • Filed to: Overkill Much, Supercomputers, Computers, Computer, Computerlopnik

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I also had a bit of a chuckle when I found out what they (3DMark) had considered for a 4K gaming PC (2 980s...)

jimz > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/26/2016 at 14:59

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I remember back when the GHz race was on. 3DMark 2000 was the benchmark of the day, and countless hours were spent overclocking the piss out of Thunderbird Athlons and GeForce 2s just so we could see the shiny marble tile and shimmering water in the “Temple” scene.

“Man, it looks so real!!”

Snuze: Needs another Swede > jimz 09/26/2016 at 15:00

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Ahh... those were the days...

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > jimz 09/26/2016 at 15:01

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Ah, the early 00s.

I wonder how 3DMark ‘00 would fare on today’s cards and specs...

jimz > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/26/2016 at 15:04

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you have to go through some contortions to get it to run on Windows Vista/7/8/10, but I think with anything reasonably modern it just maxes out the counters and hits a ceiling.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > jimz 09/26/2016 at 15:11

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3dMark06 pissing contests were always a highlight of lan parties. Especially when I had my gateway P-7811FX. 9800MGTS video card power meant I smashed a fair number of people with 68xx and 79xx cards. Especially when I dropped a core 2 extreme in the mix aong with twin 500GB drives in Raid0 and 16GB of ram.

Man.....back when 16GB was like “HOLY RAGING BADGERFUCK!!!!”