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Man what a throwback, memories I forgot I had. I was all about upgrading my K6-2 450 to a 550, but was equally fun to cheer on AMD's Slot A chips that had begu
by kirse 6y ago
Man what a throwback, memories I forgot I had. I was all about upgrading my K6-2 450 to a 550, but was equally fun to cheer on AMD's Slot A chips that had begun to erase Intel's dominance at the time.
- qzw 6y agoThe peak of tech excitement in my entire life was when a friend brought a copy of Computer Shopper to school, and the cover proclaimed a new 90Mhz 486!! No other tech ever blew my mind like that again.
- galeos 6y agoLikewise - I remember someone walking into art class at school with a computer magazine featuring at 100mhz 486 DX4 on the cover. Triple figures!
- cogman10 6y agoI have to wonder if computer parts are less exciting now because of the lack of generational improvement or the fact that I'm an old fart that can't spend a bunch of time geeking out over the next generation. I really followed computer evolution during the GHz wars. Watching a CPU go from 300Mhz being fast to 2GHz being fast was amazing. Then watching as AMD pulled 1.8GHz parts and kicked the pants off of Intel's 2.5GHz parts was equally incredible to young me. Now I see generation to generation pushing 5->10% improvements and mostly go "meh".
- Shorel 6y agoDo you remember being able to run DooM and Winamp at the same time!?
- ant6n 6y agoUpgrading from 450 to 550? I once had an AMD Duron 650, which I overclocked very late in its life to 850MHz simply by increasing the FSB from 100MHz to 133Mhz (or so), no extra cooling or anything.
- smcl 6y agoYeah maybe today 100MHz difference might not seem like much, but it's a >20% increase which is nothing to sneeze at! I did a similar one (K6-2 366MHz to K6-2 550MHz). Those lower-clocked Durons you mentioned were fantastic value though - I remember buying a 700 MHz part and running it at 900 MHz (after using a pencil to short those traces on the chip that let you manipulate the clock multiplier)