>PC parts costs in late 2000
>AMD Duron 650: $65
>budget motherboard: $120
>128MB SDRAM: $140
>ATI Radeon SDR: $99
>30GB HDD: $125
>CD-ROM drive: $50
>floppy drive: $20
>games: practically free
Total: $669
PC gaming was pretty cheap. Why did people still flock to cucksoles?
>Late 2000 PC parts
>Posts collage of games from ancient history (40+ years ago) like Wolfenstein.
Gee whiz, I wonder why.
Look at those games, look at what sitting at a computer looks like, then look at Super Mario, Halo, and sitting on a couch holding a controller, and think which system would be more attractive to the average normie.
Sure PC was better especially in the 90s but not everything needs to be a war that you win by having the most people being into the thing you're into.
And
>flock to cucksoles
isn't even entirely true, either.
>PC parts costs in late 2000
>Total: $669
>$669 in 2000 had the same buying power as $1,219.33 in 2024
PC parts cost in 2024:
>AMD RYZEN 5 2600: $70
>budget AM4 mobo: $70
>16GB DDR4 RAM: $40
>ATI Radeon RX 550 4GB: $75
>1TB M.2 or SATA 3 SSD: $55
>DVD-ROM drive: $20
Total: $330
PC gaming is a quarter of what it used to cost. You don't even need the video card since the Ryzen's Vega graphics are decent enough for 1080p gaming. What do you mean it WAS cheap?
>ryzen 2600
>am4 board with shitty vrm
>rx 550
>in 2018+6
Bro, a decent PC costs at least $800 nowadays.
>$800 nowadays
Which is still less than $669 in 2000 after accounting for inflation. PC gaming has never been cheaper and more accessible than it is now. Even moreso when you consider the used market, AliExpress, etc.
op specified budget parts and a borderline destitute amount of memory
i'd say the ryzen shitbox is at least on-par within it's generation
Ok, and you've spent 25% of OP's budget, so you have plenty of room to upgrade and still have a decent machine for cheaper than what OP is spending. It's no powerhouse, but it can run most recent games easily at 1080p. I just played through the RE2 remake recently on a PC that doesn't even have a video card. PC gaming is cheaper than ever, unless you NEED to be on the 4K 120fps+ ray-tracing everywhere cutting-edge.
>posts ancient CPU
Not post a built that can actually game current year games
>actually game current year games
gross
for what purpose?
who benefits?
>dont make an accurate price comparison
Fine, remain untruthful
BG3 will run on a AMD FX 8350, a r5 3600 is recommended to run on highest settings, a r5 2600 should have no issues running on lower settings.
Do you get tired of being wrong every time?
>missed entire point
You sure proved me wrong
Try making a point in the first place.
incredibly dishonest posts
>PC parts cost in 2024:
>>AMD RYZEN 5 2600: $70
AM4 mobo: $70
>>16GB DDR4 RAM: $40
>>ATI Radeon RX 550 4GB: $75
>>1TB M.2 or SATA 3 SSD: $55
>>DVD-ROM drive: $20
>Total: $330
>PC gaming is a quarter of what it used to cost.
>>>Ganker pls. that would be fine for emulating MOST retro games. but it won't won't play the latest AAA FPS shit on peesees offtopic anyhow.
>DDR4 RAM
Wew, I didn't realize it was 2013.
>games: practically free
Only if you pirated, which began becoming annoying at the time. Around the mid-00s, games started being released with noticeable bugs. Meaning, if you had a cracked copy, you had to camp gamecopyworld, waiting for somebody to make a cracked exe for the patch as well. And, in some cases, the crack didn't actually remove the copy-protection, it only made it dormant. You still had those shitty StarForce and SecuRom modules lurking on your machine, fricking up your DVD driver (and fricking up any burning software as well, in some cases).
I will admit, however, the mid-00s had one thing going for them. You could hack your hardware. There was the graphite trick for some Semprons (turning them into Athlons), or flashing the BIOS on specific Radeon 9800SEs, turning them into 9700 Pros (though some were indeed faulty, and you got artifacting in games).
Consoles were marketed as toys for kids, PCs weren't. Parents were more ok with buying expensive things for their kids if they were made for them.
A relatively easy way to get a cheapo 3rd hand PC in 98-99 east yuropooria was to tell your parents you wanted to learn "computing".
anon that's over $4800 USD when adjusted for inflation
>PC gaming was pretty cheap. Why did people still flock to cucksoles?
because getting the games to work right and talk to all your new hardware was certainly beyond most kids
and from exp i cant say i really ENJOYED being 12 and wat is this and trying to troubleshoot driver issues
kinda sucked tbh. it was just worth it in the end usually
>"budget" motherboard: $120
>floppy drives in the year 2000
>30 GB of HDD and 128 MB of RAM in the same computer
>games: practically free
None of this even remotely resembles reality, zoomer. Not hating, just know that you're estimations and assumptions are way off.
It's cheaper to make a powerful rig now
I will admit though there was a small era where you could get pretty cheap shit off newegg when it was only really known by nerds and commercial stores I miss when only really nerds were on the net having everyone on it is just a fricking diaster and bad for the planet overall
It's even cheaper to make a shitty one, which can nevertheless play ~70+% of GOG/Steam catalog at 1080p full detail. Integrated graphics have come a super long way from the days of Intel GMA.
>budget motherboard: $120
that's not exactly great? that's what it is now with inflation.
30 gb HDD in late 2000s? do you mean late 90s?
Even a budget PC was expensive as frick compared to consoles
And then there were compatibility problems and the bad old days of Windows 9x instability
I am very nostalgic for everything all the way back to my first experiences with Windows 3.1 but before Windows XP, it was bad. DOS was limited but good enough for its time but the first generation of DirectX games sucked.
besides inflation: by the time you brought your pc home it was already 6 months behind tech and you had to go back and buy a new one
PC games were clearly aimed at older audiences, put a kid who came off hot of SMW and have him play Planescape he'll fall asleep in his chair
>PC gaming was pretty cheap. Why did people still flock to cucksoles?
Because RGB hadn't been invented yet
drive: $20
not need for PC gaming by the time CDROM games became the trend,and the CD drives are cheap.
you really only needed a floppy if you wanted a "rescue" disk for Faildows. and maybe if you wanted to play Ultima 7 in real DOS, but... in 2000s Ultima fans already made Exult which ran Ultima 7 almost perfectly and more.
>wry cucksoles
i don't think they fricked your mom to TRIGGER your shitty console war. but well, nippon almost never ported their games to PC/Windows. exclusives for consoles worked.
You could get a PS2 for $299 or a Dreamcast bundle for $150 at that time.
>$669
Satanic price, also actually kinda expensive for a shitbox that struggles with contemporary titles and can't even launch the games coming just 1-2 years later.
>buy $800 emachine in 1999
>install the sims 2 years later
>it barely runs
guh?
You could upgrade to Athlon 2 GHz. The A Socket mobo lasted pretty long.
socket 4 goes pretty far too, if upgrades are on the table
My dad stole all our early PCs from work so they were $0