148 points

wow that rig’s specs are aggressively mid.

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59 points

It would have been a decent machine during the Bush administration.

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14 points

🤣

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13 points

Actually pretty great for the late 00s!

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13 points

The specs are old enough to be one of those eMachines. Didn’t they have the “Gamer” ones too with the shit specs and a mid GPU too?

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3 points

eMachines were Gateway’s budget models. They didn’t have any models with video cards. These are actually pretty solid specs for a late 00s laptop, certainly out of eMachine range! At that time, eMachines would have a Pentium or more likely a Celeron and 2GB RAM.

Source: Sold computers around that time!

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119 points
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Fourth of May… 2007?

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63 points

2006, 2017 or 2023. And since grindr started in 2009 we can discount the first one

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25 points

Definitely 2023, they’ve changed the UI various times since 2017, that looks about the same as it does now

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34 points

Then I weep for this poor soul. A spinning disk in 2023, that’s cruel and unusual punishment.

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90 points

So those specs are like 20 years out of date, and then I checked when was the last time May 4 was on a Thursday, and it was 2023.

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34 points

Good, it would be concerning if they were a minor

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16 points

I mean there’s a chance that machine is still running Windows Vista.

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2 points

I definitely ran xp sp3 on my duo, Ubuntu was brand new back then

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7 points

The last times May 4 was on a Thursday were 2006, 2017 and 2023. The Core 2 wasn’t released until July of 2006 so I’d guess the correct year is 2017, but even then the hardware was already pretty dated. For reference, in 2017 the first generation Ryzen prozessors and Intel Kaby Lake (7th generation Core i) were around.

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66 points

not gonna be gaming with that one

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10 points

Or posting. Since ddr3 doesn’t work with Core 2 duo

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There are many 775 socket boards that support ddr3 and core 2 duo/quad supported ddr2 and 3.

There are even motherboard that support both ddr2 and ddr3 like this gigabyte g41m combo

Edit: damn at least some core 2 duo’s support also ddr1. So core duo supports ddr1, 2 and 3

There are almost no lga 775 boards that have ddr1 support and have core 2 duo as supported cpu. But this ASRock motherboard does support the core 2 duo and ddr1 and ddr2

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13 points

Shit in all my years never used a ddr3 core 2. I even googled to make sure lol. I am error

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38 points

What the hell is up with that computer? You got the fastest core 2 duo paired with the slowest DDR3 ram?

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30 points

That 5400 HDD was a bad place to try and cut the budget.

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1 point

I guess they should have cut the processor, or RAM, or the graphics instead?

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1 point

They could have gone with a smaller 7200RPM drive.

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10 points

Bro… Core 2 Duo is ddr2 💀💀💀

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Dude… Core 2 duo is ddr1, ddr2 and ddr3 🦄🦄🦄

Edit: just checked out the core 2 duo e8400. Not only does it support ddr3 and 2, but also ddr1. So added ddr1

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4 points

Dang! Didnt know that! I have an old pc with a core 2 quad and since it is ddr2 i assumed all core 2 processors were ddr2. Thank you for correcting me!

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3 points

1066 MHz = 2132 MT/s, which is fairly average by DDR3 standards

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3 points

I think they mean 1066MT/s, 2133MT/s is in overclocking territory and iirc the fastest jedec standard is ddr3-1600

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