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by unethical_ban 516 days ago
My first-ever custom intel build was a Smithfield Pentium D in 2006. It was the budget dual-core option (dual core!). Overclocked it from 2.66 GHz to 3.6 GHz with 512MB of DDR-600 RAM.

It was 64 bit. The AMD Opteron was out of my budget at the time.