αC Interests: Aero + Thermal ----------------------- I still remember PCs with 5.25" floppies. CPUs I vaguely remember: 486, Pentium MMX, PII, PIII, CPUs I remember: AMD K6 in IBM? prebuilt, K6-2 in Compaq prebuilt, AMD Athlon 1.3GHz (K7) in HP prebuilt, P4 in Dell prebuilt (Intel bribed & lied about Netburst), P4-M in HP laptop (disaster), Athlon XP 1800+ in HP Compaq prebuilt, Athlon 64 3200+ in HP prebuilt, CoreDuo T2500 (Thinkpad), Core2Quad Q6600, Phenom II x4 920 , Phenom II 810, i3-330m , i7-4700MQ ... avoided Bulldozer but still dealt with P4 GPUs I vaguely remember: ATI Rage Pro, Diamond Stealth, S3 Savage4 GPUs I remember: Geforce 4 MX440, ATI 9600 XT, EVGA 8600gt (G84 Nvidia lied about), EVGA 9800gtx+ , Firepro V4800 (HD5600 series , wasn't amazing) ----------------------------- AoTS is a benchmark but not many people play it unlike Anno series, Total Annihilation , Supreme Commander , Company of Heroes, Command&Conquer series, Earth 2150 (pretty obscure), Homeworld, Starcraft, etc.