Got a sudden call from an old computer client from way back. He asked me to build a PC for his kid who wanted to play PC games and not just console games. So here I am back at it. Hehehe. No, I didn't exactly take the request. I passed it to one of my mates who is still actively in the computer business.
My observations during this process?
- The global chip shortage has really made graphics cards super expensive! Practically the price of a system unit already! I can't wait for the foundries to recover and bring down prices back to pre-crisis levels!
- The mobo we used had all the bells and whistles - gigabit lan, wifi, bluetooth, and multi-screen display support! Back in the day, we would already be jumping for joy if we got our hands on a Creative Sound Blaster sound card! Even more so when we got our hands on a 14.4kbps fax modem! Boy things have really changed!
- We also installed a 128gb NVME SSD card for the boot drive. The resulting PC has been a monster compared to my dinosaur of a computer at home!
- Ram was a single stick 16gb. A far cry from the 4mb fast page memories that we used back in the day! And the programs that these computers run are still complaining for more RAM modules!
I guess for young people who grew up to the current generation of computer hardware, they would find all this hardware ordinary. But for people like me who saw how big and chunky old computers were back in the day, I can't help but marvel at how far technology has come! Humans are truly amazing! Now if only we can put all that creativity to make all this technology work towards saving our planet as well, maybe we as a species would have a shot at survival.
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