As I'm over half a century old, going back 14 years doesn't feel like a big deal. What's significant about that very specific length of time is that's how long it's taken Rockstar to release a port of Red Dead Redemption. In the world of PC technology, it's very much a big deal, a yawning canyon of time, and an awful lot has changed with CPUs, graphics cards, RAM, storage, and displays. So let's see just what kind of gaming PC you could have been using back then.
First up, let's consider the best gaming CPUs money could buy in 2010. From AMD, you could get a Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition. Ludicrous name aside, it boasted some pretty serious figures: six cores and six threads, a boost clock of 3.6 GHz, 6 MB of L3 cache, and a TDP of 125 W—all for a little under $300. How times have changed.
