best gaming pc of 2004

What is the best pc you could build in 2004, I need this for a youtube video, I already know the graphics card I just need the name of the best motherboard, cpu,ram,hard drive,heat sink, power supply of that year.

 

Why 2004?

 

Oh, okay. That makes sense. I'll google a bit. RAM will probably be some 2 GB sticks of 800Mhz DDR2, as I was using. Not too bad, actually. They're better than they sound.

 

I started building computers back in September 2006!

Also please dont think about trying for 1991 there wasnt anything going on back then that could be deemed "gaming" pc it was work stations back then with the dinosaurs and cavemen....

 

So, what was your first build then?

Also: Found this RAM stick. Don't know if it's from 2004 yet. Probably not. http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-origin...F8&qid=1454277523&sr=8-132&keywords=ddr2+16gb
EDIT: Nope, that's from 2009. I think you won't get more than 2GB 800 sticks in 2004.

 

DDR3 wasn't around back then...

 

Dual Core Intel Processor 2.4Ghz (I think it was the E6600), 2GB DDR2 ram and a ATI Radeon X1900XTX all on a Gigabyte motherboard

and now look at my own computer now...how far we have come in 10 years!

Heres the graphics comparison!

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=378&card2=691

 

I'm an idiot, you know that? I haven't noticed that it said DDR3...

Well then... Cheers to OPing the hell out of the world. By the way, have you heard of the Intel S4600H? Prebuilt server with 48-channel DDR3-RAM and four Xeons. (There are really good prebuilds, just incredibly expensive.
EDIT: The Intel Celeron 500 seems to be okay. And from 2004.
EDIT #2: Or the Intel Pentium 4 EE.
EDIT #3(!): AMD Athlon 64 FX-55, should be as old as '04 too.

 

Thats life I had more money to spend now than I did 10 years ago, the pc 10 years ago cost my dad £2000 and my current computer was only £300 more expensive than that, he claimed £500 back via his company so yeah, shows you what the same money you spent 10 years ago can get you now...

 

Yup. Also, my double-edit shows that Celerons and Pentiums were really good once. The second one was one of the first at 3.7Ghz apparently (Quite a lot actually, for 2004).

 

I was talking about mid range performance I never went above that till my brothers computer was moderate to high end and then I built my PC which I believe is on the top end of i7 performance...

 

Yeah, the only thing that can top the 5960X are Xeons, and most of them have a worse single thread performance. Unless you spend three to four times as much money on them.

 

They were still beat by AMD CPUs @2.4 GHz. NetBust was crap.

OT: Radeon X850 XT Crossfire or GeForce 6800 Ultra SLI, AMD Athlon FX-55, any Socket 939 board with two PCI-E slots and SLI/CF support, 4GB DDR RAM (AMD didn't support DDR2 for a while).

 

Ah, okay. I only found LGA775-sockets, looked for Intels at first. But if you say that AMDs were more powerful then, so be it.
But what was the maximum bus speed back then?

 

No point having them, they are crap but in terms of sheer data processing throughput nothing comes close, my dad works with 2 IBM Power8 S824 and 2 IBM Power8 S814 servers the through put on them is insane...the total value of just 1 of the S824 is £205,000

 

Oh. My. God. I think there's someone trying to get noticed by Cray...
(What was the best server CPU of '04, btw?)

 

yep and my dad has 2 of them at work...with another 8 on order...its some serious processing sh*t there...it makes my computer look pathetic in comparison....

 

Probably Xeon MP 3.0. 3GHz hyperthreaded single core. AMD had only single core CPUs.

 

Like you just said, they're terrible at gaming and such.

While today they are the ones who have decent multi thread performance and semi-poor single thread performance on cheap octacores.

 

But for sheer data processing which they are designed for its perfect and each HDD attached to those things have Optical lines to the Mobo

and I think we need to look around the 90 nanometer scale for the pc build back in 2004

 

130 actually. 90 was early 2005.

Yeah, it used to be the opposite of what it is now. Pentium 4 CPU's had very high clocks but crap IPC.