What Budget PC Gaming Looked Like in 2007

2007 was a legendary year for PC gaming—the era of multi-core processors, unified shaders, and the notorious system-killer: Crysis. In this 2nd episode of our retro docuseries, we take a deep dive into the massive leaps made in the 2007 hardware landscape. We put together our own era-correct 2007 budget rig! So stick around to see how that build handled, as we will be putting it through its paces through a range of gaming benchmarks. Built on a Budget Episodes: Episode 1: "The Price of Entry"    • What Low End PC Gaming Looked Like in 2006   Episode 2: "Cores, Clocks, and Crytek"    • What Budget PC Gaming Looked Like in 2007   For the benchmark comparisons between the 2006 and 2007 build, in the 2006 video, I picked a common resolution for each benchmark to show the performance gap between the builds, for lower res 06 benchmarks, please watch the 2006 video Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:38 amd processors for 2007 02:01 intel processors for 2007 03:45 pentium dual cores 05:10 ATI GPUs 08:01 Nvidia GPUs 10:35 GPU market share 11:03 GPU pricing 12:26 PC Gaming scene in 2007 13:28 2007 budget pc gaming build 17:01 Benchmarks 23:12 Full build and conclusion #intel #pc #gaming #retro #retropc #nvidia #amd #ati #retrohardware #retrogaming #gpu #2007