STICK WAVING CONTEST: HOW TO BRAG ABOUT YOUR PC IN THE 1990s

The nature of the PC as a, shall we say, collective instrument of sub-systems designed by different companies, and replaced by new versions at different rates, or becoming suddenly obsolete or integrated into so other system, and so forth, means the importance of each of those systems changes over time.

Importance to the gamer I mean. Consider the importance of your choice of CPU vs your choice of GPU, for example.

And therefore, so too has the way we brag about our awesome systems evolved, over time. And bragging about your PC has never been easy. And rarely has it been something