Computer go booom!

[Mattias Westlund]

So how's the Ryzen working out for you bigcat? This talk of AMD got me thinking and I think my history with the brand goes something like this: I built my first AMD-based PC in 2005 using an Athlon 64 3200+. After that I've had an Athlon 64 X2 (don't recall the exact model), an Athlon II X4 630, and a Phenom II X4 955 that I'm actually still using. On top of that, I have an AMD K6-266 and an original Athlon (1GHz or so) in my retro collection as well as an Athlon XP 2400+ that served for some time as my Win XP retrogaming platform until the mobo it was on died just a month ago, taking the CPU with it.

All in all I've always been very happy with my AMD systems and I wouldn't hesitate to get another one when the time comes for an upgrade.

[bigcat1969]

Well that is encouraging as I haven't done much with AMD for a long while, not sure why. Motherboard, CPU and DDR4 memory are all jostling their way across the country in large trucks atm. Hopefully to arrive safe and sound midweek. Probably the weekend or next week to get them put in. My laptop with it celeron or whatever is in this thing will make me appreciate a computer made in this decade even more!

[Mattias Westlund]

Oh, I thought you had them already.

A Celeron will give you that feeling, for sure A couple of years ago my PSU died and I spent a couple of weeks on a cheap-as-crap ASUS notebook. While several years newer than my main system it was still so vastly underpowered that even something as basic as browsing the web was a trial of patience.

[bigcat1969]

Yup that is why I like this place, fast and clean even on this old Dell. I can play text and basic graphics games on it. Sadly I just broke down and got the Sims 4 before the computer broke. They don't even know they are frozen it time... Oh well King of Dragon Pass here I come.

[bigcat1969]

Yes, I finally seem to have a functioning computer with internal harddrives and am hopefully set up for a while. It seems every bit as poweful as the old one and has a m2 ssd or some such with which to boot and for office and other type programs which come up speedily.

[Mattias Westlund]

That's great, congrats on the new machine!

[Nayrb]

(02-12-2019, 05:23 PM)bigcat1969 Wrote: l King of Dragon Pass here I come.

I've been eyeballing that game for a while. How is it?

Also glad to hear you're back up and running.

[bigcat1969]

I never quite got to KoDP I'm afraid. I intended to... I remember it being a fun text / run your kingdom game though.

Oddly someone has been trying to hack my Microsoft account. Weird.

[Samulis]

Fun fact: King of Dragon Pass' soundtrack was done by Stan LePard, the guy who did orchestration/score prep for Age of Mythology and Age of Empires III. KoDP's score features some really cool 90's modelling synth played via breath controller.