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I'm old to remember the excitement over AMD's K6 processors, which were quickly overtaken in speed by Intel for a decade. I just hope that AMD continues to be c
by copperx 9y ago
I'm old to remember the excitement over AMD's K6 processors, which were quickly overtaken in speed by Intel for a decade. I just hope that AMD continues to be competitive.
- snvzz 9y agoI'm not sure what you mean. From the time AMD released the K7 'Athlon' CPU, until the time Intel released Core2, AMD was king of performance. That's a long spawn of time. To understand why Intel kept selling CPUs like pancakes despite this, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSMJRyxG0k
- bitL 9y agoI was a kid so I might be wrong, though I seem to remember there was some crazy overclockable Celeron that was killing K6, right?
- creaturemachine 9y agoThe Celeron 300 could hit 450MHz and barely break a sweat. Of course I discovered that after splashing big cash on a P2 450. 50% OCs are unheard of today.
- spamizbad 9y agoYep. And you could even run a pair of them with SMP with delicate modifications. I used to have a 440BX board with a pair of 300A's clocked to 450mhz and 128MB of SDRAM. Excellent poor-mans workstation.