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		piperswe 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: But what if I want a faster horse? Hell, my Windows XP system with a nearly 20 year old processor (Q6600, ~17ish years old) still instantly does almost everything.

DavidPiper 7 months ago [–]

You just gave me a hell of an nostalgia hit with "Q6600". Remember when clock speed, cache size and core count were all we cared about? AMD hadn't event bought ATI yet.

Maybe I'll spin up an XP VirtualBox off the back of this thread just for old times' sake and see what happens.

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