CPU: AMD Athlon 64 (1.8 GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
RAM: 1 GB DDR1
Disk 1: 1 TB SSD
Disk 2: 512 GB HDD
Optical storage: DVD-RW drive
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 (1.8 GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
RAM: 1 GB DDR1
Disk 1: 1 TB SSD
Disk 2: 512 GB HDD
Optical storage: DVD-RW drive
A very average early/mid-2000s PC (maybe except for the GPU). I built it from the parts of a computer I bought for very cheap and the parts of a dead PC with a very similar CPU (Sempron 2600+), which I built mostly from parts I had laying around, as I felt like I got too easily distracted on more powerful computers.
The motherboard in this PC can take up to 4 GB of RAM, but I only put one gigabyte in to see how much I could do with one gigabyte. A lot, it turns out.
This PC is surprisingly capable in 2026 - it can do a lot of things that aren't browsing modern websites, playing demanding games or using bloated software. For instance, I'm using it to write this website!
I'm mostly using it for tasks like programming, web design and image editing, and it does a great job. It can take some CPU time when doing operations on very high-resolution images, but it still feels quick enough.
It's a pretty good machine for old games, although I mostly play games on consoles. Unlike my Pentium III laptop, it's powerful enough to run Touhou at a stable 60 fps.
How is web browsing though? Modern browsers will BARELY run on this thing, thanks to the CPU supporting SSE2. I tested some heavy websites and it does load them, but it takes minutes and a lot of swap usage. Older browsers like Netscape or K-Meleon and lighter newer browsers like NetSurf or Links run great, especially with JavaScript disabled.