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by tomaytotomato 4 days ago
What a time to be alive, I remember 10 years ago as a poor student waiting to buy a ATI Radeon X1600 Pro with 256mb, yes 256mb of RAM.

It cost about £190 in 2006.

Now we have GPUs that are in tens of thousands of pounds with insane performance, but what would their price be without the AI and Datacentre squeeze?

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2006 is 20 years ago
It feels like 10 years ago for me :D

Thanks for making me feel older now

I remember buying the Radeon PCI with 32MB RAM for $650AUD…
I remember buying 128mb that was added on top of 64mb what brought me to the unbalanced 192 mb setup.

Diablo 2 stopped lagging when a necromancer joined the game and summoned all the skeletons...

On an unrelated note Path of exile 1 still lags even on a 5090

> On an unrelated note Path of exile 1 still lags even on a 5090

Bunch of games lag on a RTX Pro 6000, at one point (most points?) it's less about the hardware :)

we all seem to hace our own timeline! XFX 6600GT