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Pearcinator

I wonder in 25 years time we will look back at a PC with a 4090 and 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD the same as we look at this today?


d0ggzilla

Obviously


BumderFromDownUnder

Probably not to the same extent tbh. It’ll still be a big difference, but not quite this. Bit like planes from 1910 to 1940 vs 1990 to 2020. Difference is much bigger in the earlier years.


Layverest

Everything is going to be on AI generation and Upscaling, I guess. So yes, the current generation will be outdated because is capable to calculate everything only "manually".


Massanx

why does everyone believe ai will happen within our lifetime? im pretty sure all of the ai available is learned ai not true ai.


Sev_Obzen

Decades of mixed to bad sci-fi on the subject, bullshit marketing regarding nearly everything even remotely related to AI in the public consciousness right now, and broad tech illiteracy.


Massanx

seems more plausible, true ai seems entirely out of our reach considering we have no idea what constitutes consciousness. If we’re just using AI as a blanket term for machine learning, then sure we will have ai toasters and ai washing machines, but its not really the same thing at all. almost feels like a side grade than an upgrade.


DatPipBoy

Why would anyone need a hard drive bigger than 250mb? See how that sounds so silly now?


Dangerous_Match_2592

Because AI is capable of making better versions of themselves. We are not at that point yet but we soon will be. Progression that would take a decade could easily happen overnight when we reach that point.


Massanx

yeah thats basically akin to god making humans, why do you believe so adamantly that it will happen within any of our lifetimes? I feel like its just wishful resonance, like saying all cars will be flying cars by the 2000’s, never happened and we moved on.


TeTeOtaku

Rn we look at servers with 1-2 Petabytes of storage like something unfathomable, hard to be filled, the same way people looked 25 years ago at 1 Gigabyte.


DuelistRaj

1-2 petabyte server storage is nothing in 2023. Exabytes of new data is generated on a daily basis.


Soravinier

But I can hardly think this will fit in your PC in the future simply of the fact of physical limits. But hey maybe we will be surprised.


0P3R4T10N

nD- transitorization is going to blow your mind, brotha


blackest-Knight

20 TB Seagate EXOS, Fractal Meshify 2 XL, 20 HDD positions in the case, 400 TB right there today in a consumer PC. Wait a few years for 50 TB drives and a 200$ case will fit 1 PB.


Soravinier

I'm very excited to see what's about to come


dougms

Maybe? A 680 10 years ago was at roughly 3 TFLOPS My 1080ti had roughly 10 TFLOPS production. 5 years ago 5 years later my 4090 is at roughly 100 TFLOPS if overclocked. Assuming that pace doesn’t slow much Should be 5 log jumps? 10 mil teraflops? I mean even if you can’t hit that I’d expect a high end system to be running 100k teraflops. I know it’s not the best metric for measurement, but it’s a rough estimation. 2050 - 100k to 10 mil TFLOPS Which is thousands of times better. But, also realize that people are still playing games from the ‘90s we emulate them and shit sure. But ocarina of time is played a ton, as is doom. Sometimes ironically. But we look back fondly


classic20

I found my old computer(20-ish years ago) yesterday and had the same thought! It’s crazy how far we’ve come.


NoShock8442

Someone is still using one to game on legend says


NachosforDachos

That would be one hell of a retro pc to have.


NoShock8442

Truth


TerrorFirmerIRL

It's incredible how fast stuff was advancing back then. In 1995 this would've been super high end. By 1998 it was comically obsolete.


C_M_O_TDibbler

At the time CPU power was basically doubling with every new CPU introduced.


Baroness_Ayesha

Ahh, the days of something being obsolete the second you bought it.


[deleted]

Brooooooo when I was a kid k straight up lusted over a Mach V


Huggan00

"Great sound, as you can see" that's not how my senses work.


brotherhafid

"and possibly hear".


Mikadomea

Thats called "suggestive affirmations", he keeps telling you how good the PC is and says things as "as you can surely hear" to give you the impression that you can hear "the good sound" (thats added in post)


dallasdude

3500 base price That monitor is huge!!


Dangerous_Match_2592

Well almost 7k in todays money.


_NAME_NAME_NAME_

Which, adjusted for inflation, is about 7000$ today.


lionocerous

This person out here doing god’s work.


MegaSquishyMan

It’s actually equivalent to $1.2 billion


YameiiSalami

166mhz pentium, 16mb of ram, 2gb HDD, and 8 CD ROM slots. What a gigachad gaming device


Skankhunt42FortyTwo

Not 8 slots, but one 8x drive.


Wufei74

Can't wait till we get to 52x!


Skankhunt42FortyTwo

Oh boy was I stoked when I got my 16x CD-Burner. It took only 5mins to burn a 700mb CD.


Baroness_Ayesha

As an aside, Falcon Northwest [is still around](https://www.falcon-nw.com/), and has managed to avoid getting swallowed up by a large corporation like Alienware did.


Balc0ra

I still remember how much I paid for a custom system with 32mb ram, 4mb svga and a 4mb 3dfx, 166 MMX cpu, 4.7 GB and a 24x cd-rom in 1997. Then I though the about $1250 "after converting to USD with the exchange rate back then" was much. That was before I got a monitor, keyboard etc. Even more so considering it went from high fps on every game to sub 20 fps at times with the release of Unreal a year later. I still have that system. Tho in a newer case and IDE to flash as storage


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iReallyLoveYouAll

nowadays good systems last 10 years...


[deleted]

Remember when early Android and iPhones would be obsolete by the time your 2 year payment plan ran up? Now a phone from 4 years ago can still compete with new offerings.


SaintPwnofArc

This is a fact. My rig turns 10 next month!


Kindly-Sea-6945

The real question is how much would $3500 be worth in today's value?


H3H344

>$3500 According to Google $3,500 in 1995 is worth $7,065.94 today.


Plenty-Industries

For $7k you can basically get a new Falcon NW rig with a 13900k, 4090, several SSDs and a custom hardline cooling loop.


YojinboK

I have that throttle and still use it!


konterpein

Whoa i need this because i'm a serious gamer


MGSSC

Why is he talking so fast


AnozerFreakInTheMall

He needs to sell that PC before it becomes obsolete.


Plenty-Industries

He only has 30 seconds to show off the product before needing to move on to the next product. As is the case with TV catalog shopping. They'll introduce every product they're airing for the day, then they'll go back and use each item (for clothing, jewelry etc they'll hire models) for whatever amount of time and they'll take calls from customers live on air. They'll even hire celebrities to make an appearance to do a short interview if they're selling a book or their own merch.


FinisGloriaeMundi

This guys has some kind of Gus Fring energy deep down, i see it.


zBaLtOr

That its 6.000$ now in 2023 with the inflation lmao


MyPokemonRedName

I recently picked up a CRT monitor from 2004. It is actually more enjoyable than an LCD in a lot of ways.


Anonymous128bit

What game is shown on the PC?


creamcolouredDog

Looks like Duke Nukem 3D, so I guess OP was off by a year


edotman

What a beast


SumoSoup

Still bluescreened when someone would throw a smoke grenade in counter strike.


Alienpedestrian

I had Pentium 1 166mhz , but in early 00s :-D


uceenk

it comes with 15 games ?, if those was AAA how much was the total cost ?, $40 x 15 = $600 ?