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Whoa, you took me back quite a few years there! I really wanted a DX4@100 back then but it wasn't available in my area. I "had" to get a Pentium 60, which I wa

Whoa, you took me back quite a few years there! I really wanted a DX4@100 back then but it wasn't available in my area. I "had" to get a Pentium 60, which I was not happy about lol. Upgraded to a Pentium 200 MMX. Whoa! And then I also got a specific batch Celeron 300a to overclock. "Stole" my dad's Matrox Mystique, coz what does he need a "3D" card for? Played "Destruction Derby" a lot, just coz 3D card: https://archive.org/details/dd2matrox_19961205 https://archive.org/details/dd2matrox_19961205 Wow, the times!

samuelec 10d ago
If I remember correctly the Pentium 60 was the one that had math rounding errors, isn't it? What a memory
- 0points 10d ago
  This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug > The FDIV bug affects the 60 and 66 MHz Pentium P5 800 in stepping levels prior to D1, and the 75, 90, and 100 MHz Pentium P54C 600 in steppings prior to B5. The 120 MHz P54C and P54CQS CPUs are unaffected.
jasonwatkinspdx 10d ago
Those Celeron 300As were quite the deal. My whole LAN party crew had them in the dual slot abit motherboard.
- tharkun__ 8d ago
  Did we go to the same LAN parties?
  - jasonwatkinspdx 8d ago
    Heh, if you were in the PNW it's possible. In that era there definitely were killer deals that just spread like wildfire among people who knew. And ABit built their brand catering to overclockers/tweakers, much to the annoyance of Intel lol. There was also that Hitachi 19" CRT that could do 1600x1200 rock solid, and had a nicer than most shadow mask CRT. A big lot of those went up for sale super cheap on ubid or some site like that and we all found out about it through Something Awful and similar forums. We lugged those 60 lb CRTs to our small dozen person group every other weekend, along with full size ATX towers as you did. That combo with the Voodoo2 SLI was the king rig for quite some time. I was one of the heretics that went from a Voodoo1 to a Riva TNT2 because I was also fooling around with 3d animation apps, and the TNT2 could at least try to make those go.

samuelec 10d ago

If I remember correctly the Pentium 60 was the one that had math rounding errors, isn't it? What a memory

0points 10d ago
This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug > The FDIV bug affects the 60 and 66 MHz Pentium P5 800 in stepping levels prior to D1, and the 75, 90, and 100 MHz Pentium P54C 600 in steppings prior to B5. The 120 MHz P54C and P54CQS CPUs are unaffected.

jasonwatkinspdx 10d ago

Those Celeron 300As were quite the deal. My whole LAN party crew had them in the dual slot abit motherboard.

tharkun__ 8d ago
Did we go to the same LAN parties?
- jasonwatkinspdx 8d ago
  Heh, if you were in the PNW it's possible. In that era there definitely were killer deals that just spread like wildfire among people who knew. And ABit built their brand catering to overclockers/tweakers, much to the annoyance of Intel lol. There was also that Hitachi 19" CRT that could do 1600x1200 rock solid, and had a nicer than most shadow mask CRT. A big lot of those went up for sale super cheap on ubid or some site like that and we all found out about it through Something Awful and similar forums. We lugged those 60 lb CRTs to our small dozen person group every other weekend, along with full size ATX towers as you did. That combo with the Voodoo2 SLI was the king rig for quite some time. I was one of the heretics that went from a Voodoo1 to a Riva TNT2 because I was also fooling around with 3d animation apps, and the TNT2 could at least try to make those go.