Happy 40th b-day AMD!!
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Egads :shocked: Has it ONLY been 13 years since the K5 was released?
I am not old by any means but wow look at how much has happened at AMD (and Intel) in just the past 13 years with the K5 and beyond. That is a dizzying pace of improvements.
I just realized today while reading techreports X4 955 review that this single chip has more horsepower than the floatilla of 24 800MHz athlons I had pieced together as a Beowulf parallel computer a decade ago. 10 years and the processing power of that entire cluster now fits inside a single IHS. Staggering.
I've said it before, having worked in this industry it has never impressed/surprised me that Intel accomplishes what they do because money is a lubricant for technology and timelines like no other, but that AMD manages to accomplish what they do considering what they have (little $) and what they are working against internally (insert favorite Ruiz joke here) as well as externally (Intel) as their benchmark just impresses me in every engineering/business/science sense of my ability to comprehend these aspect of the industry.
I am not old by any means but wow look at how much has happened at AMD (and Intel) in just the past 13 years with the K5 and beyond. That is a dizzying pace of improvements.
I just realized today while reading techreports X4 955 review that this single chip has more horsepower than the floatilla of 24 800MHz athlons I had pieced together as a Beowulf parallel computer a decade ago. 10 years and the processing power of that entire cluster now fits inside a single IHS. Staggering.
I've said it before, having worked in this industry it has never impressed/surprised me that Intel accomplishes what they do because money is a lubricant for technology and timelines like no other, but that AMD manages to accomplish what they do considering what they have (little $) and what they are working against internally (insert favorite Ruiz joke here) as well as externally (Intel) as their benchmark just impresses me in every engineering/business/science sense of my ability to comprehend these aspect of the industry.
damn only 13 years.....seems like an eternity since I left good ole 486's behind (well a AMD 5x86 133mhz).
Its setup with win98SE to run old PC games and Snes/Sega emulators. It has my voodoo 3 3000 in it and 256MB of ram 
I always use it for old games so i dont need to have alot of stuff installed on my current comp i have a KVM switch so its easy to use it, and i use it at least 4 times a month to play old favorites like X-com and mechwarrior, original rainbow 6 and UT as well. Also it still has one hdd fully setup to be a linux router/firewall/web/ftp server but has since been replaced with a Tomato flashed linksys router and am running my servers from my linux mint desktop now. Its the most solid computer i have ever built i have yet to build another as solid even when using higher quality parts. And the kicker is its running with a original IBM deskstar hdd(Deathstar to anyone who has owned one!)
I always use it for old games so i dont need to have alot of stuff installed on my current comp i have a KVM switch so its easy to use it, and i use it at least 4 times a month to play old favorites like X-com and mechwarrior, original rainbow 6 and UT as well. Also it still has one hdd fully setup to be a linux router/firewall/web/ftp server but has since been replaced with a Tomato flashed linksys router and am running my servers from my linux mint desktop now. Its the most solid computer i have ever built i have yet to build another as solid even when using higher quality parts. And the kicker is its running with a original IBM deskstar hdd(Deathstar to anyone who has owned one!)Originally posted by: Rifterut
Its setup with win98SE to run old PC games and Snes/Sega emulators. It has my voodoo 3 3000 in it and 256MB of ram
I guess you run that no more than 8 hours a day...
The k6-2 was running 24/7 for alot of years but then it was hooked up to a 6.4GB Quantum hdd. The deskstar hdd was used for 3 years as the main drive in another system and was on 24/7, since then however it has been hooked up to this old thing and used for win98SE install and old games/rom storage, gets booted and used under 8 hours a week now and has been that way for 5+ years, I still do weekly backups cause im expecting it to explode into a fireball at any moment!
Haha. That was my frist AMD chip as well. I upgraded my 486 DX2 to the AMD 133MHz (Faster than a Pentium 75!) chip. I also upgraded that computer from 4MB of memory to 4MB + 16MB. It seems so long ago... back then you'd go to Best Buy for memory and they asked me if I needed parity or non-parity memory. My buddy had a bleeding edge machine that used EDO.
I had a 440MB hard drive, my buddy later bought a 7.2GB drive from Best Buy (of course we had to partition it into 4 different drive letters back then) and kept rubbing it in, how much he could store.
I upgraded my PC to a 14.4 modem.
I worked at a helpdesk (they used to be more then just call centers back then). We had a 2xCD burner (that our boss told us was very expensive constantly) that we'd go in and burn CD's on the weekend. No one had burned CD's back then, this impressed lots of people that we could make our own CD's.
It's funny how much more powerful PC's are today, how much more you can do with them, yet I remember those days more foundly. I guess it's just how 'new' everything was back then... the internet, multiplayer online games, etc. Oh well, probably more me just getting old than anything.
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Haha. That was my frist AMD chip as well. I upgraded my 486 DX2 to the AMD 133MHz (Faster than a Pentium 75!) chip. I also upgraded that computer from 4MB of memory to 4MB + 16MB. It seems so long ago... back then you'd go to Best Buy for memory and they asked me if I needed parity or non-parity memory. My buddy had a bleeding edge machine that used EDO.
I had a 440MB hard drive, my buddy later bought a 7.2GB drive from Best Buy (of course we had to partition it into 4 different drive letters back then) and kept rubbing it in, how much he could store.
I upgraded my PC to a 14.4 modem.
I worked at a helpdesk (they used to be more then just call centers back then). We had a 2xCD burner (that our boss told us was very expensive constantly) that we'd go in and burn CD's on the weekend. No one had burned CD's back then, this impressed lots of people that we could make our own CD's.
It's funny how much more powerful PC's are today, how much more you can do with them, yet I remember those days more foundly. I guess it's just how 'new' everything was back then... the internet, multiplayer online games, etc. Oh well, probably more me just getting old than anything.
My first AMD was an Am386dx-40 which I still have...along with it's mainboard, I had it out a few weeks ago seeing if it still works, which it does, it needs a new cmos battery however.
I still have my Am5x86 as well with it's mainboard...come to think of it I still have 99% of all the PC's that I have owned, most still work.
I am especially fond of my K6-III+ 550 system, 256mb PC133 ,GA-5AA rev 3.2 mobo, 20gb Quantum, 3DFX Voodoo 5 AGP, it runs win98se pretty sweetly.
I have a few other K6 based systems in my stock pile as well as plenty of Athlon's and A64's
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
It's funny how much more powerful PC's are today, how much more you can do with them, yet I remember those days more foundly. I guess it's just how 'new' everything was back then... the internet, multiplayer online games, etc. Oh well, probably more me just getting old than anything.
This.
Everything was much more seat-of-the-pants years ago. It was exhilarating, almost mysterious.
Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
It's funny how much more powerful PC's are today, how much more you can do with them, yet I remember those days more foundly. I guess it's just how 'new' everything was back then... the internet, multiplayer online games, etc. Oh well, probably more me just getting old than anything.
This.
Everything was much more seat-of-the-pants years ago. It was exhilarating, almost mysterious.
I agree, PC's these days are boring...I miss the days when even a simple thing like a 8mb ram upgrade was exciting.
You guys need a new hobby...how about you get in on the early phase of overclocking solar cells? Alternative energy seems like it is going to be all the rage for the next couple decades, time to get in at the ground floor and make a name for yourselves as the old-skool solar cell overclockers where everything has to be done with a soldering iron and mercury amalgams...act now before it becomes a mere bios option tweak! :laugh:
i do hope you're joking IDC. if not you probably just found me a new hobby and my upcomming powerbuild to celebrate the 10 year mark from when i built my first PC when i was 9 will get scrapped
Originally posted by: faxon
i do hope you're joking IDC. if not you probably just found me a new hobby and my upcomming powerbuild to celebrate the 10 year mark from when i built my first PC when i was 9 will get scrapped
I am absolutely 100% just joking. Maybe.
:laugh:
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