So, I'll start by saying I used to be a console gamer.
I actually got into PC gaming (like many did) when the last generation of consoles came out so under powered. I have heard that the PS3 was much more formidable when it was released. Since I wasn't involved in PC's at all at the time, could anyone tell me what a mid-high range PC had in it at the time the PS3 was released?
Just curious.
High end would be an 8800gtx, a high clocked intel dual core or quad core (in the 3-4ghz range) and like 4-8gb of ram.
Actually I got my first PC at that time. It was AMD Athlon X2 4800+ 2x2,4GHz, 2x1 GB DDR2 800, 160GB HDD WD, 7900GT XFX and Deluxe 350W PSU made by FSP... It was a beautiful machine. It died 2 years ago. The hard drive is still in use...
My parents had a Q6600 and an ATI Radeon X1300 at the time, the ATI card makes my Intel HD 4400 look like a GTX 1080 by comparison, that much I can say. Good times...
For the CPU, Athlon 64 X2 4200+ or 4400+, AM2 not 939, or the Core 2 Duo E6600. 4GB PC2-6400, usually a 160GB or 250GB 7200RPM hard drive. Graphics in the mid range would have been either something last gen, (Radeon X800/X850 or GeForce 7800 GT) or in the current gen; GeForce 7900 GT or Radeon X1900 XT. (GeForce 8000 series was out, but only at the ultra-high end of price scale.)
16:10 monitors were pretty popular. 1680x1050 was common and easy to get for under $200, more uncommon (and considered "too big") were the 1920x1200 panels.
That's for the mid-high end, not the absolute maximum.
My system at the time was a pentium q6600 2gb ram Asus Lifestyle P5N32 - E sli plus and an 8800GTS a 500gb hdd running windows xp and a 720p screen.
i suppose i should have specified that an intel quad core (qx6700) and a 8800gtx around the launch of the ps3 would more or less be the max high end one could get. pretty much new tech. Builds like psycho_666's were much more common.
Thanks for all the replies! I didn't realize how quickly PC's have been advancing. When I bought my PS3 I hadn't really heard anything about gaming PC's and all my favorite titles came out for ps3 anyway. That's definitely changed, a lot of devs and consumers are switching over now. For myself, I actually bought the PS4 and then sold it when 900p games started coming out. What a joke.
Yeah if you had a high end workstation. It was DDR2 dude, 4 was max for consumer hardware.
I had a dual cpu xeon with 4 cores per cpu and 16gb of ram and an 8800 gtx with all of 768mb of vram!!
...what can I say, I had a lot of cash at the time :D
Jesus Christ...
November 11 2006
Nvidia 8800 series
8 November 2006
Intel Q6600 - first consumer grade quad core cpu
November 24, 2006
So basically PS3 came out the same time as the first ever quad core for non enterprise use and 8000 series GPU from Nvidia and 2000 series from ATi...
At the time, 1GB DDR2 of ram was considered mainstream. 4GB was considered HUGE amounts. So whoever says it had 8GB DDR2 ram was either multi billionaire, or remember things wrong...
i think hes talking in the whole system, some of the older systems ive recycled came stock with or more.
uhhhh
Well I will say that my 2006 Dual Xeon box I rebuilt can have 16 GB PC2-4200R :D
So if somebody ask what is mid-high end PC today, you will say dual Xeon with 12 cores each and 2TB of ram? I get it...
yup yup. most common was 2 GB for gaming beasts
During those years I had an Athlon LE-1620 and 1GB of DDR2-667 RAM. With onboard graphics, GeForce 7000 built into the motherboard. Played a lot of CS 1.6 and Condition Zero at the time.
Heh, Counter Strike is one PC game I did play in school. That game could run on anything! We turned the computer lab at our school into a Counter Strike LAN party at lunch time. They had Celeron 100 Mhz CPU's.
doubtful
first celerons were 266 / 300 mhz I think
In RE: The ram debate -> Can confirm I was running 2x1GB of OCZ Platinum purchased on NewEgg 05/06/2006 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227225
Early 2006, slightly before PS3, my system looked like...
ASUS A8V Pro motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ SINGLE core 2.2Ghz socket 939
Thermalright XP-90 CPU cooler with a Panasonic Panaflo 90mm fan
nVidia 6800GT w/ 256mb VRAM (brand unknown)
2x1GB OCZ Platinum DDR2 ram
74GB WD Raptor 10000RPM HDD
160GB Samsung SpinPoint 7200RPM HDD
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS GAMER Limited Edition
CD burner (brand unknown)
NEC 3.5" floppy drive
Hiper Type-R Modular 580W PSU (Used barrel connectors, not common these days)
Chieftec Dragon black case (Same Alienware used back then)
Other peices were...
19" Philips LCD monitor (190S5FB) @ 1280x1024 with a 12MS response time.
Logitech Z-5500 surround speakers
Logitech MX-1000 wireless laser mouse
The original build was from late 2004. The only reason I know such exact details of the build is because most of it was bought from NewEgg and is in my old account history.
My bad, probably was 266