back in time

[u/Fantastic-Gain-5627]

[u/Disastrous_Use4447]

watching all 2 of my CPU's cores reaching 100% like:

"Its ok buddy, you can do it! Just take your time."

[u/randomApeToucher → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

It’s like telling a disable person to walk faster, we both know it can’t be done so we cheer them on

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/randomApeToucher]

It's more like asking a retired bodybuilder to lift some heavy weight. They do manage to lift it, but they've been out of the game for a long time, and it takes them time and a great deal of effort.

Using a dual-core CPU in 2025 is really just a test of patience. It can't always be a race.

I think it was the Buddhist monk Kuya who said, "The man who overclocks loses their CPU early, but the man who waits for his CPU will load webpages into the next era and beyond that," or something like that.

[u/Robdul → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Never OCed my rig. It's been over 5 years and it still runs 4k ultra settings pretty smoothly. Given the hardware crisis I'm glad to have gone easy on my daily driver

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/Robdul]

Exactly, if you had been overclocking, your CPU would have died yesterday.

Kuya was spitting fr, despite never saying that or seeing a computer.

[u/Chris56855865 → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Depends on what you use it for. I literally SSD-ified my mother's pc that has a similar CPU to yours, and for everyday tasks I dare to say it got snappy.

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/Chris56855865]

They are remarkably fast CPUs. I had an AM2 i think an Athlon 4200+, it's 3ghz but my E2160, which is 1.8Ghz ran objectively smoother.

Even running an HDD as my main hard drive, I'm only waiting maybe a second or 2 longer for most things.

If the dual cores are kicking this much ass, the quad cores gotta be absolute monsters.

[u/Chris56855865 → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

My own pc is an i5 3450 based rig, also ex dell optiplex. Had some problems circumventing proprietary dell shit, but managed to make ot work, put a better psu and a 1070 in it, and I honestly don't think it would be worth it to build a current gen PC. I didn't buy Cyberpunk for myself, because I thought it wouldn't run, and then a friend of mine got it for me as a xmas present last year. Fuck me, it runs on my mad max patchwork of a rig in full hd, and does so well enough that I played through like four times now.

I don't know exactly when the core2duos and the third gen i5s released, but man, I didn't expect it to have this much life still.

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/Chris56855865]

I was really surprised to see videos of the 750 Ti running newer games like Cyberpunk and RDR2 at playable frame rates. Especially since I don't plan on working my system nearly that hard.

I got really lucky getting an Inspiron 530, because it uses a standard ATX PSU. I still have to replace it, though, since I accidentally got an OCed 750 that needs the 6-pin connector the original one didn't have. (This means I really can't use 2/3s of the parts in my flair right now.)

My PC is actually 3 PCs fused into 1. I took the RAM and HDDs from my 2 other systems so I could have 320gb + 80gb

I honestly think legacy builds are the way to go right now, with how cheap the parts are. The PSU was more expensive than anything else I bought for it. I've been considering building a really overkill legacy PC rather than building a modern PC.

Although I wanna finish the 530 and see how that runs, I wanna put the Kingston HyperX Blu DDR2s in it for 8 GB of ram, and maybe see if I can run HDDs in RAID 0 with BIOS mods. I wanna see the full extent of what the 530 can do.

[u/-t-h-e---g- → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Honestly though unless you need to run games from after 2013 core 2 duos kick ass.

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/-t-h-e---g-]

Shit, it gets by for games AFTER 2013 even.

[u/Rude-Implement3550 → u/randomApeToucher]

lol, At least we're all rooting for our old machines, even if they take their sweet time!!

[u/Icy-Swordfish7784 → u/randomApeToucher]

That's the back in the day computers where you had one cpu core and it locked down the desktop while the hard drive audibly chugged 20 minutes to start up Wing Commander with no sound because you don't have enough ram.

[u/-t-h-e---g- → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Yo I had your exact same setup (e8600, 750ti, 6gb ddr2) until a few weeks ago, super funny seeing 14 cores now lol.

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/-t-h-e---g-]

Holy based LGA 775 enjoyer. What were you running on it? My machine is an Inspiron 530 stickered for XP/Vista running 7.

I'm actually running the weaker E2160 Pentium, cuz the E6850 hasn't arrived in the mail yet. I'm limited by my board's compatibility since it's an OEM one, but I wanna max it out to 8 GB of RAM, so I'll probably also try and get an E8600 when I do, even if the performance difference is seemingly negligible between the 2.

Although I'm writing this comment on my modern computer, it's an 8th-gen i7.

[u/-t-h-e---g- → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Holy crap same here, Inspiron 530 with a vista sticker. But I put all my new parts in the 530 case and am giving all the old parts in an old cooler master to a friend of mine. LGA 775 is kinda insane, like yeah, pentium 4, core 2 quad, who gives a shit same platform, even xeons with a sticker. Funny thing about my upgrade is the boost clock is the same, basically just 7 C2Ds

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/-t-h-e---g-]

LMAO, my man.

On the 0RY007 motherboard, you're limited by the BIOS to what CPUs you can put in it, and I intended to build around the motherboard. The fastest CPU you can get in it is the E8600.

But imagine putting like a QX9770 in a 530. Would be insane.

[u/-t-h-e---g- → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Well lga 775 was great if you paid top dollar for a high end motherboard. Which neither of us did….  Goddamn it 13 year old me.

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/-t-h-e---g-]

You can pay bottom dollar for those motherboards now, and I didn't even know what a CPU socket was in 2007. I was like 2 years old.

For a high-end 775 build, the CPU would be the most expensive part.

[u/-t-h-e---g- → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Well okay it was a higher dollar than the $50 I paid for the whole system minus the 750ti.

[u/PudPullerAlways → u/Disastrous_Use4447]

Mister fancy pants over here decoding 1080 video on his shiny dual-core. Must be nice having all that luxury while we out here struggling on a single core praying the video was properly encoded so DXVA can kick on the GPU.

[u/Disastrous_Use4447 → u/PudPullerAlways]

You gotta make the jump, old timer! It's not my fault you can't get with the times.

[u/Staz_211]

Downvote the newly created karma bot.

[u/Dynastcunt → u/Staz_211]

I swear I saw this last week

[u/Sett_86]

On that note, I just bought a used enterprise HDD, and it takes like 30 seconds just to spin up, and then I'm staring at a black screen for another two minutes. Yay.

[u/Simple_Project4605 → u/Sett_86]

But you get those unforgettable screech scritch noises all the way through!

[u/Sett_86 → u/Simple_Project4605]

Oh yeah, having it installed in the vertical mount of the O11 Mini V2, I can hear the vibrations all the way to the wooden floor. Good thing it's just for backups.

[u/THE_KILLER_4 → u/Sett_86]

Tbh I’ve seen a lot of HDD based systems being pretty acceptable, I think something is on with that HDD especially since it’s used

[u/Flagge33]

Windows Fast Startup is a bane on IT device management. People think they are rebooting their machines when in reality they are just putting the machine in a modified sleep mode, which then means items like patching don't get processed.

[u/JUSTIN102201 → u/Flagge33]

I found that out recently. I was troubleshooting issues and found out my OS had been running for 22 days straight. Disabled fast startup, and guess what? It still starts up pretty damn fast. Setting is unnecessary

[u/Hate_Manifestation → u/Flagge33]

is there a time when this is not the case? even after power cycling my PSU it still starts up in maybe 10 seconds instead of 5.

[u/Flagge33 → u/Hate_Manifestation]

The largest change was when people switched their drives from HDD to SSDs. Startup times were cut from minutes to seconds. MS was already working on their the Fast Startup solution in vista but turned it on by default for everyone in Windows 10. But now that everything has a SSD boot drive fastboot isn't really worth it.

[u/Hate_Manifestation → u/Flagge33]

yeah I just mean is there any way through power cycling or resetting your CMOS that it's wiped, or is it strictly an OS thing?

[u/DrHitman27 → u/Flagge33]

You either turn it off or use reboot option.

[u/Obvious_wombat]

My older PC took a few seconds to boot to screen.

My new one 5080 with ATX 870E and Ryzen 7. 9800X3D 128gb ram takes 5 damn minutes to boot up due to memory checking apparently. You can disable this feature in bios but it destabilizes your pc. So I have adapted. Turn on PC, then go and make a nice cup of tea.

[u/Evening-Brief7620]

Even our monitors took a minute to warm up back in the day.

[u/CaptchaVerifiedHuman]

I swear I see this shitty meme posted once a week and I don’t even spend much time on this sub.

[u/Substantial_Lemon329]

3 seconds is an absolute wonder

[u/majoralita → u/Substantial_Lemon329]

I dont think, any pc can turn on in 3 sec

[u/Substantial_Lemon329 → u/majoralita]

Yeah mine takes about 2 minutes

[u/Salem13978]

Leaves his AM-5 machine in training mode, cleans desk and carefully places coffee and snacks about ... checks monitor for cleanliness ... where's my coffee ... mmmmm mmmm ... oops there's my PC

[u/Chris56855865]

So my mom's Dell Optiplex 755 has been running like utter shit ever since we bought it (used from a secondhand PC shop, ex office fleet machine), because it came with an HDD, and it runs W10. She really doesn't use it beyond email, browsing, and work related learning courses, so she always said it's fiiiine, but was obviously fed up with waiting for shit to load. I'd do some maintenance about once a year, because updates were not getting installed, disk needed defrag, you know how it is (you're lucky if you don't).

So I took action, got a basic 250 gig SSD, cloned the system over, and now the PC boots in seconds, is immediately usable, and shuts down in seconds, and mom is overjoyed, because she prefers a desktop over pretty much anything.

Yeah, sure, Ryzen this, RTX that, but fucking solid state drives man, these are magic.

[u/Alldaddzy]

The good old days of kicking the button and then going to start coffee

[u/Telikasan]

First and best pc: 486 DX2 33mhz/66mhz (w/turbo) and scuzzy hd that sounded like popping popcorn *chefs kiss.

[u/maxtrix7]

You need to do the same meme but with TVs. Now they will take up to 1 minute to start due to all the smart crap that they have included.

My top-of-the-line Samsung S90F is extremely slow when I call the home to change input!

[u/Diligent_Appeal_3305]

3 seconds lol ? Maybe with laptops, not with desktop boards where cold boot ddr5 training takes forever

[u/cjandstuff]

I don’t care how fast it boots up, I’m still turning my work PC on and then going make a cup of coffee. 

[u/Deep-Procrastinor → u/cjandstuff]

This is the way.

[u/Hrmerder]

[u/Obvious_wombat]

.

[u/MotherPotential]

Weren’t people doing speed runs of power on to Windows cursor moving? Why don’t people do that anymore?

[u/RevolutionarySite578]

In a weird way the fans reaching jet engine noise level gave me comfort that "she's working!"

[u/xVEEx3]

bro my pc is an am5 build, if it turns on any game in under ten minutes I'm praising it like god

[u/Thetaarray → u/xVEEx3]

This got to be hyperbole. My am5 is going in a minute maybe 2

[u/Mrbusiness_2433]

Played on a HDD on my old PC and whenever i wanted to play modded Skyrim i had to load 5 minutes each time, and since my modlist wasn't the most stable one, I had to relaunch 5 minutes each time it crashed🥲

[u/verdawg]

Memories

[u/Paddlesons]

Hokay, ten minute.

[u/CaptainPrower]

It took less time to have a pizza delivered than it took for my old HP shitbox to load Sims 2.

[u/StrobbScream]

Total War loading time pre SSD era. The time you drank shitton of tea/coffee.

[u/MoeDelawnToo]

Hehe the hard drive is thinking clicky clicky noises

[u/-ben151010-]

I realize how spoiled I am with my new pc. I forgot some files from my super old one, cleaned it and booted it up. That thing could barely run Roblox at 480p at 1 graphics back in 2013.

My super old 2010 dell laptop. Jesus it was a malware ad riddled mess.

[u/TyrKiyote]

I remember when pentium came out. Pentium 4 was where it got good.

Played a lot of 1998 era pc games <3

[u/my_cars_on_fire]

I never noticed boot times back in the day, but maybe that’s just me.

[u/dishmanw62]

Someone has never played games on the Commodore 64.

[u/Monsta_Owl]

The old days lol. Turn on and go prepare snacks while it boot up.

[u/Better-Interview-793]

Oh man I missed these simple things

[u/RUPlayersSuck]

Saw a post on X recently. It was a video of some guy allegedly wating 6 minutes or so for his Windows 11 notebook to boot up (basically a post about how crap Win 11 is).

I replied it was either a faked video or the notebook was fucked, pointing out my new laptop takes about 20 seconds to go from powered down to desktop, while my "lightly upgraded" 7-year-old PC can still do it in under a minute.

Still, it was kind of handy when you could switch your PC on, go get a drink and/or go to the bathroom and be back just in time to start working. 😄 Do I really miss it? Nah...

[u/wakek3k3]

I don't miss that at all. That said, I love my sub 10s pc boot time.

[u/vtGaem]

I remember when my minecraft server pc took 15 mins to boot up. And I'd still take that over realms. Running your own server just has a different feel to it.

[u/Specialist_Web7115]

Update time. Coffee break.

[u/Warcraft_Fan]

C64: LOAD"*",8,1

You'll have time to take a shower, prepare 17 course feast, build a house for Habitat for Humanity, and help the poor at soup kitchen before the game is finished loading.

[u/Cheap_Collar2419]

humans are so fucking weird, you are using the exact same meme but just changed a word or two.

[u/SnowTitan77]

My old computer used to take 40 minutes from start to launching Google, oh how I don’t miss it

[u/tricolorX]

Strange ive changed to new hardware and updated to win 11 and it takes forever to starup, sometimes even crashes at the windows loading screen. Very very inferior to win 10.

[u/Boomy_Beatle]

I'm so fucking tired of this same meme over and over.

The top one is completely made up. Nobody actually thinks like this.

[u/violetyetagain → u/Boomy_Beatle]

You are getting downvoted for telling the truth lmao. This crap meme gets reposted here almost every month