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Dual (50% overclocked) Celerons on a BP6 was a relatively common enthusiast setup in the early 2000s. 128M of RAM was also not a huge amount then.
by userbinator 2y ago
Dual (50% overclocked) Celerons on a BP6 was a relatively common enthusiast setup in the early 2000s. 128M of RAM was also not a huge amount then.
- kingo55 2y agoYes, I remember getting my Tualatin Celeron in 2003 with 256mb RAM. It was a beast compared to my friends machines at the time. :P
- jojobas 2y agoYeah, "Toilets" were the way to go.
- DaoVeles 2y agoI had that as well, and also grabbed a Sempron 3100+ a few years later. Both those chips are in the class of punching way beyond their intended weight. Tualatin for its over clockable head room. The Sempron for its oddly large L1 cache for the spec.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoIt was a good time to be buying Intel when they were naming their chips after Oregon cities.
- system2 2y agoPentium 2 was released in 1997 and was released with maximum speed of 450 MHZ which could be overclocked much higher.
- hypercube33 2y agoIn 98 I ordered a p3 500mhz with 128mb and planned to upgrade to 384mb. before it even shipped out to me Intel announced the 550mhz irrc or 10% faster. two years later at least 50% faster with the 700mhz and copper mine. Things moved rapidly back then.
- rasz 2y ago500 was released in February 99. 550 4 months later, 700 five more months later. $700 worth of CPU performance from February 1999 could be had in a low end March 2000 system with $130 CPU. In 2001 500MHz system was already obsolete.
- cellularmitosis 2y agoYeah. My first PC build was in 98: PII 300MHz / 128MB RAM. No way a P3 500 was available at the time.
- rasz 2y agoNo Pentium 2 could be overclocked much above ~500MHz due to the way they were all manufactured. 10% is not really much higher.
- system2 2y agoI vividly remember pushing 233 to 300.
- adastra22 2y agoFrom 1988 to the 2000’s is a LONG time.
- userbinator 2y agoThe comment I was replying to was talking about "10-15 years later" (i.e. 1998-2003).
- supportengineer 2y agoQuite a few Unix commands and concepts are exactly the same!
- anthk 2y agoFrom 1988 you would watch b/w or 4 colours on PC made for offices being really expensive, and from y2k you could play DivX videos and TV at home. And from 2k-2k1, even under Unix at home too (something unthinkable by 1988) with some nice GNU/Linux distro :D. The technology change from 1988 to 1998 was really huge, much more compared to what you could get since 2010 until today.
- supportengineer 2y agoYou should look up “Commodore Amiga”, it was way more powerful than PC
- anthk 2y agoThe 486 and later the Pentium killed it.
- snvzz 2y agoThe PC being effectively an open platform killed it. (if not Commodore's incompetence. E.g. Apple did manage to hang on)
- TheAmazingRace 2y ago
- garciasn 2y agoI bought one in 1998 or 1999 with dual 366s OCd to 700 each; anything over 700 was too unstable for my setup. I kept that thing running until 2008 or 2009. Great machine.
- K0balt 2y agoDual 450s running at 900 was the price/power sweet spot for a while :)
- rasz 2y agoTell me more about 450MHz socked 370 PPGA CPU that could be overclocked to 900MHz.
- K0balt 2y agoThey were bare (no plastic) Slot1 not socket 370 iirc? I don’t remember whether it was the base or the multiplier or both that you tweaked, but there was a bunch of Celeron 450s that would run at 900 typically with standard voltage and decent cooling. IIRC they may have been pIII-900s or 800s that got binned down due to bad cache. Or, maybe im remembering wrong and they were 266s clocked to 450, and people were slapping them into dual slot boards to get “900”? That kinda feels like maybe it was that? It was a long time ago, man, idk. At any rate, every one we bought from MA labs in COI CA for a couple of months clocked up with no problems. We must have shipped a couple hundred of those golden celerons before they dried up.
- sitkack 2y agoMy friends and I all built BP6 machines. Such a wonderful workstation machine. I donated mine to the PC recycler when I moved in 2005. It still is my favorite beige box unix workstation.
- to11mtm 2y agoI was too late to the party for the BP6... I was however lucky enough to be able to get a Tyan Tiger MPX alongside a couple of 'Morgan' core Durons... Can't remember if they were 1.0 or 1.2GHZ... But wow that thing was -nice- on Windows 2000 and held up better than most than other systems I built in that era (Although, in retrospect that may have been because most other builds I did suffered from the capacitor plague...)
- sitkack 2y agoThis does look like an interesting board https://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S2466_Tiger%20MPX https://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S2466_Tiger%20MPX
- to11mtm 2y agoIt was pretty fun. The -intended- purpose was Dual Athlon MPs. That said, AFAIK some early AXPs could be used, many later ones could have the bridges 'repaired' to allow dual operation. Early Morgan core (Model 7) Durons however could also run MP. One big pain point however, the built in USB was broken on early revs (but hey, they bundled a PCI USB2.0 card to compensate) but also the chipset was... -meh-. But wow it was a solid board!