Feast thine eyes upon my CPU

[silverpig]

Good show old chap! Seeing soldered wires in a CPU design is rather quaint I should say. Those 186s were going for about $10 each on Ebay recently.

Those likely aren't solder points, but rather wirebonds. It looks a lot like the chip carriers we used to use in the lab for wiring up samples to sockets.

 

[daw123]

The only historic CPU worth mentioning:

Everything else is wrong.

I never owned one myself, but is that an Intel Celeron 300A?

 

[rh71]

Not depending on other people: look it up
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30119

why doesn't this work on other vbulletins?

 

[dwell]

I never owned one myself, but is that an Intel Celeron 300A?

Yes'ir. That particular one did 501Mhz solid too 😉

 

[l0cke]

why doesn't this work on other vbulletins?

It should. I don't know why it wouldn't, unless they are using some weird custom thing.

 

[daw123]

167% overclock is not shabby.

 

[buzzsaw13]

If you don't use it in a PC, make it into a keyring instead:

I've got an IHS off an Opteron 146 I use as a keychain

 

[zanejohnson]

woo i get to whore this pic out

 

[AVAFREAK182]

Zane fails. again

 

[StrangerGuy]

I wonder how much faster is a i7 compared to a non-OOO chip like a Pentium MMX...Like 10000x?

 

[FelixDeCat]

I wonder how much faster is a i7 compared to a non-OOO chip like a Pentium MMX...Like 10000x?

They both go about the same speed if thrown properly. 😱

 

[SunSamurai]

I wonder how much faster is a i7 compared to a non-OOO chip like a Pentium MMX...Like 10000x?

Noo.. .I would say around 500x-1000x

 

[FlashG]

Yes'ir. That particular one did 501Mhz solid too 😉

Man I miss those days. I only got mine up to 450 like most everyone else. I bow to your ancient geekyness.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Man I miss those days. I only got mine up to 450 like most everyone else. I bow to your ancient geekyness.

Why cant we turn back the hands of time? Why?!

 

[StrangerGuy]

Why cant we turn back the hands of time? Why?!

Well, P4 1.8A, XP1700 and E6300 can do over 50% OC easily...

 

[ed21x]

slot loading CPUs are awesome. one day, we will go back to that marvel of simplicity...

 

[Nik]

I prefer mine.

 

[geno]

Yeah but if troy aikmang threw it at you ten years ago how many times would sprial before it was obsolete?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Yeah but if troy aikmang threw it at you ten years ago how many times would sprial before it was obsolete?

I miss Troy Aikmang. :'(

I prefer mine.

I prefer yours too. :awe:

Well, P4 1.8A, XP1700 and E6300 can do over 50% OC easily...

Waidaminute! It was the 1.6A that O/C'd to 2.1! I remember, I was there! And please dont forget about the 2.4 p4 SL6Z3 that went up to 3.2!
I made thousands of dollars buying them here and flipping them on Ebay. 😱

 

[Dubb]

I miss Troy Aikmang. :'(



I prefer yours too. :awe:



Waidaminute! It was the 1.6A that O/C'd to 2.1! I remember, I was there! And please dont forget about the 2.4 p4 SL6Z3 that went up to 3.2!
I made thousands of dollars buying them here and flipping them on Ebay. 😱

There were also some 1.6 rev. D xeons that would do 3.2 in a pc-DL w/ wire mod. I had a few pair, but at 3.2 mine weren't totally stable under load. I kept it at 2.66 - I think. Back before dual/muticore processors, that was cheap SMP heaven.

 

[Kadarin]

The only historic CPU worth mentioning:

Everything else is wrong.

You're forgetting this one: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/650x/L_MOS-6502 (MOS logo).jpg

 

[l0cke]

slot loading CPUs are awesome. one day, we will go back to that marvel of simplicity...

We already have slot loading GPUs and they suck. We need socketed GPUs yesterday.

 

[RESmonkey]

I prefer mine.

i dont keep up with cpus these days, enlighten me, is that an 8 core??? iirc u work for intel....

 

[crab]

I miss the fun I had with all of this in the late 90s...New hardware just doesnt excite me like it did then. The jumps we were making seemed enormous.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I miss the fun I had with all of this in the late 90s...New hardware just doesnt excite me like it did then. The jumps we were making seemed enormous.

IIRC we went from Celeron 300As in early 1999 to P4 3.06 GHz HT in late 2002. Athlon broke 1GHz in just 6 months from debut.

From a pure MHz perspective we are still stuck at the 3GHz range from 2002 till now.