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1.6GHz would make it into a Thunderbird XP2100+ to ca. XP2200+. I had such a "Donnervogel", slightly undervolted, screaming along rock solid under NetBSD and G
by LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
1.6GHz would make it into a Thunderbird XP2100+ to ca. XP2200+.
I had such a "Donnervogel", slightly undervolted, screaming along rock solid under NetBSD and Gentoo with 1.5GB (3x512MB, also undervolted) NEC Virtual Channel RAM. Running from assorted SCSI via NCR/Symbios Logic(40MB, fast, ultrawide?), pushing pixels via 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 AGP to a 21" Hitachi Superscan Elite 1600x1200@80Hz, and one 16" Portrait 864x1152 + one 17" 1280x960 via a Matrox MGA 400PCI.
One hell of a machine!
Mostly silent, even. Except for the drives.
And it ran rings around the assorted SPARCs, PA-RISCs and MIPSn I had.
And mostly anything else in common use at the time, really.
Good times! Sigh :-)
- metadat 4y agoOh man, yeah, spinning hard drives can be surprisingly loud! Especially the 15k RPM SCSIs and 10k RPM WD Raptors I ran in the 00s. And then those ####xp naming schemes, to make it equivalent to the Pentium 4 frequency. That was a product mess!