eMachines were Gateway’s budget models. They didn’t have any models with video cards. These are actually pretty solid specs for a late 00s laptop, certainly out of eMachine range! At that time, eMachines would have a Pentium or more likely a Celeron and 2GB RAM.
The last times May 4 was on a Thursday were 2006, 2017 and 2023. The Core 2 wasn't released until July of 2006 so I'd guess the correct year is 2017, but even then the hardware was already pretty dated. For reference, in 2017 the first generation Ryzen prozessors and Intel Kaby Lake (7th generation Core i) were around.
There are many 775 socket boards that support ddr3 and core 2 duo/quad supported ddr2 and 3.
There are even motherboard that support both ddr2 and ddr3 like this gigabyte g41m combo
Edit: damn at least some core 2 duo's support also ddr1. So core duo supports ddr1, 2 and 3
There are almost no lga 775 boards that have ddr1 support and have core 2 duo as supported cpu. But this ASRock motherboard does support the core 2 duo and ddr1 and ddr2
guys who have actually big dicks tend to understate them on grindr and stuff. it's easier to undersell it and let them discover in person than it is to tell the truth and have to deal with the "oh really? I doubt it." bullshit every single time where suddenly everyone is a CSI photoshop-detecting photography genius. better to just fly under the radar as average and exceed expectations once they can't argue it's "just the angle".
Sounds like its written by someone that have never owned a Core 2 Duo, as I remember the disk sizes of that time was 500GB, 750GB and 1000GB at 7200 RPM, I think 5400 RPM is slow and mostly used on 2.5" or 5.25" disks.
As I remember around 2007, 5400 RPM was frowned upon in builds.
The disks I have from that time is a WD RE2 (very noisy 7200 RPM) and a few WD Green's (I think they are slower than 5400 RPM just to mess with my arguments).
The latest the CPU could've come out is around the time Barack Obama became a household name, at which point 64GB would've been a really big and expensive SSD. They probably wanted space
Crysis was single threaded so single core clock speed was the bottleneck. It remained a benchmark for so long mostly because after it's release multicore systems became the norm.