An Idea For A Video Tom

[Excalabur50]

G'day Tom as I started to watch your latest video showing your office it gave me an idea for a video to run past you, And that is to do a video showcasing the changes that have happened with Cpu's and their Motherboards over the years.
So just grab the oldest cpu's that you have with their motherboard and Not all the diff manu, just pick one board and do it for both camps and just highlight the changes from one gen to the next.
Might be interesting for the younger viewers who might not have seen the older gen stuff the progression thats been made and also a bit of nostalgia for the older viewers.
Just a thought what do you think?

 

[MadShadow]

I suppose I would be interested in watching that.

 

[maniac]

hmm not a bad idea at all, maybe highlighting DDR differences, socket differences and maybe how we lost the north bridge altogether after X58. The obsolete AGP slots, those weird power connections over pentium II boards which I don't even know the name of. It would be a nice and something different than what someone else is doing.

 

[tinytomlogan]

LOL this has been on the cards for ages - when the video pops up youll remember me buying stuff earlier this year and go OOOOOHHHHHH thats what he was up too!

 

[Feronix]

I was cleaning out my bedroom earlier and found an old GPU box "With 128MB DDR2 RAM" and a "Jumper Free!" motherboard :lol:

Videos about old hardware would certainly be interesting to watch.

 

[shadow]

Setting the irq's so the various things didn't interfere with each other.

Thats a great idea for a vid.

 

[QuietOne]

Configuring hardware in the config.sys and Autoexec.bat and running them in himem to free up conventional memory for those DOS games that requires a certain amount of conventional memory.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Kids these days. Don't know how easy they have it!

 

[Remmy]

Kids these days. Don't know how easy they have it!

I hear that (as one of the kids myself). I came into the game when things like overclocking on SB was a case of increasing multiplier, and voltage accordingly. I look back at overclocking when it was on older platforms and all the different settings makes my head spin, it makes me glad I came into it when it was very easy :L At the same time though, it would have been nice having to learn all the additional things too so you have all that experience and knowledge

 

[QuietOne]

Those were the days

Norton Change Directory or in DOS you would just type "NCD"

And playing games like this.

This is when my PC days began.

EDIT: I might create a VM for Ye Olde DOS. If it's possible these days.

 

[Zoot]

I might create a VM for Ye Olde DOS. If it's possible these days.

You don't need a full blown VM, Dosbox ie. a DOS emulator is all you need.

I still run games like Raptor: Call of the Shadows from like 1995 in Dosbox sometimes. That was the 1st ever PC game I played. ^_^

 

[QuietOne]

Too late

Now I need to install Windows 3.1 once I've sorted the CDROM driver in DOS

 

[ShaunB-91]

You don't need a full blown VM, Dosbox ie. a DOS emulator is all you need.

I still run games like Raptor: Call of the Shadows from like 1995 in Dosbox sometimes. That was the 1st ever PC game I played. ^_^

OMG what be this crap? Lol only kidding.

 

[Dicehunter]

I played around with my old ATI Radeon X1900XT a few days ago which has a whole 512MB memory, Ran Star Wars Galaxies pretty well though
I remember years ago also trying to "Unlock" cores on my Nvidia 7600GS with Rivatuner, I think it eventually gave me an extra 1 fps lol

 

[Excalabur50]

LOL this has been on the cards for ages - when the video pops up youll remember me buying stuff earlier this year and go OOOOOHHHHHH thats what he was up too!

As a matter of fact I DO remember you looking for stuff AAAAHHHHH that's what he was up to!!!!!!

 

[tinytomlogan]

As a matter of fact I DO remember you looking for stuff AAAAHHHHH that's what he was up to!!!!!!

Ive got no excuse now though I do need to get on with it

 

[Excalabur50]

Will look forward to seeing it when you do it and good luck with the office change first

 

[Zoot]

Now I need to install Windows 3.1 once I've sorted the CDROM driver in DOS

Props to you for still having a legit copy of Windows 3.1.

I played around with my old ATI Radeon X1900XT a few days ago which has a whole 512MB memory, Ran Star Wars Galaxies pretty well though
I remember years ago also trying to "Unlock" cores on my Nvidia 7600GS with Rivatuner, I think it eventually gave me an extra 1 fps lol

My claim to fame around that time, which was when I began to migrate over from the console world was running my AMD Sempron 2600+ (1.6GHz) @ 2.2GHz for a while.

This was back in the days when the AMD Athlon was fastest CPU around, sadly I couldn't afford an Athlon at the time.

OMG what be this crap? Lol only kidding. :tongue:

Only one of the best shooters back in the day! I actually still play it from time to time. ^_^

 

[Meladath]

Props to you for still having a legit copy of Windows 3.1.


My claim to fame around that time, which was when I began to migrate over from the console world was running my AMD Sempron 2600+ (1.6GHz) @ 2.2GHz for a while.

This was back in the days when the AMD Athlon was fastest CPU around, sadly I couldn't afford an Athlon at the time.


Only one of the best shooters back in the day! I actually still play it from time to time. ^_^

Good times. Back when having an intel CPU meant you were a businessman or a soccer mum who didn't know any better since AMD crushed intel. I had me an Athlon 2800+. GOOD STUFF.

 

[QuietOne]

My first AMD chip was the the K6-2 400mhz