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I look forward to having the time to read this in full. My first PC was an AMD 286/12 with 1mb memory. Later on, the best CPU I'd owned to date was the AMD K6-4
by geocrasher 6y ago
I look forward to having the time to read this in full. My first PC was an AMD 286/12 with 1mb memory. Later on, the best CPU I'd owned to date was the AMD K6-450. In 2010, I purchased a Phenom II X2 BE, unlocked it to X4 and it served me well for 8 years! I finally replaced it in 2018.
I avoided the bulldozer/piledriver series chips, and got a first gen Ryzen 5 1400. It's a fantastic chip, very fast especially at the price, and will last me years I'm sure.
In the late 90's I also did good business selling computers based on the AMD 486 DX4/120's and 133's. Those things were so fast for the time.
- lnsru 6y agoGot myself AMD FX-8350 a decade ago, used it daily with minor overclocking and replaced with Ryzen 3950X last year. This old FX-8350 went into dedicated Linux machine for things I weren’t able to do with virtual one. I am curious how long will it run:-)
- gibspaulding 6y agoThose FX series had a really bad reputation at the time, but it seems the extra cores have helped them age better than might have been expected. My old FX 6300 is also in a Linux box now hosting a Jellyfin server and it does quite well!
- jandrese 6y agoHa, I was just about to mention the FX-6300 I have running in a server that hosts 3 Minecraft instances. It's not the fastest thing ever but it gets the job done. I was going to replace it when it got too slow, but that hasn't happened yet.
- captswag 6y agoMy first computer was also an AMD? But that wasn't because I loved AMD or knew anything about processors. I believe my parents bought me that one because it was cheaper than Intel. Fast forward to today, my current desktop is an AMD Ryzen 3600X. Did you happen to own any AMD stocks back then?
- geocrasher 6y agoMy first computer was also purchased by my parents. Nope, no stock.