> I had a first-gen AMD Athlon and ran Win2k, where support for Thunderbird CPUs/mobos was not complete Nit: Thunderbird was the third iteration of Athlon and

> I had a first-gen AMD Athlon and ran Win2k, where support for Thunderbird CPUs/mobos was not complete Nit: Thunderbird was the third iteration of Athlon and I only remember this because I had an Athlon 700, which came on a Slot A cartridge (!) and had the L2 cache as separate chips That same system also had one of the first GeForce cards. The term "GPU" was not unknown before GeForce, but it was the first time the mainstream computing media started using it regularly. That was the first computer I built with my own cash and boy it was not cheap. (21" CRT monitor and dual 10k RPM SCSI drives...)