Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
by foliveira on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:17AM
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Biggest differentiator being that back then most CPU's were single core - one of the first dual core CPUs was the Pentium D that only came out in 2005 iirc.
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Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
by _fat_santa on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:56AM
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Back then having a "Dual Core" of "Quad Core" processor was such a selling point, I remember getting my first Macbook (white plastic one) thinking it was a beast for having a Core2 Duo. Then like a year later, my Android phone had a quad core processor inside.
Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)
by neogodless on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:58AM
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May 25, 2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D
May 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64_X2
What a race! Looks like the era of 90nm processing, and Intel just beating AMD to the punch, with both of them moving to 65nm in 2006!
Anandtech preview of Pentium D in April 2005.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1657
Anandtech preview of Athlon 64 X2 in April 2005.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1665
Review of Athlon 64 X2 May 2005!
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1676
> Both AMD and Intel appear to be playing release date games with their latest dual core processors.
> Intel's affordable dual core desktop solution, the new Pentium D, officially launched in the middle of last month, but has yet to be seen in the channel.