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by Sharlin 1382 days ago
Any Pentium would have been considered high end when Quake came out. Most people were still running 486s, and it caused some consternation that Quake practically required a Pentium to run smoothly (as the renderer’s inner loop was written to exploit the P5’s superscalar architecture).
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A friend had a DIY water-cooling system with a bucket and some ice to play quake on an over clocked 486