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PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose
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monica_b1998 lemmy.world monica_b1998@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-17
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Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/pc-processors-entered-the-gigahertz-era-today-in-the-year-2000-with-amds-athlon-amd-hit-marketing-gold-with-its-1-ghz-athlon-beat-intel-by-a-nose
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Bakkoda lemmy.world Bakkoda@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-28
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I had one of these. They ran so hot but were so impressive.
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CaptPretentious lemmy.world CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
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I remember that. A surprising number of people at my highschool were aware. It was a big topic
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Xenotar mastodon.social xenotar@mastodon.social
Joined: 2019-12-07
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Bakkoda wrote:
I had one of these. They ran so hot but were so impressive.

@Bakkoda @monica_b1998 I had a 700MHz processor that burned out when one of the fans seized up. They were too fast for calculations.
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Bakkoda lemmy.world Bakkoda@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-28
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Xenotar wrote:
@Bakkoda @monica_b1998 I had a 700MHz processor that burned out when one of the fans seized up. They were too fast for calculations.

I went to college and overclocked the athlon tbird with a peltier and a paperclipped heatsink.
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