▲ 35 ▼ 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 (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 8 months ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputers@lemmy.world 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children) I had one of these. They ran so hot but were so impressive. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xenotar@mastodon.social 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) @Bakkoda @monica_b1998 I had a 700MHz processor that burned out when one of the fans seized up. They were too fast for calculations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago I went to college and overclocked the athlon tbird with a peltier and a paperclipped heatsink. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xenotar@mastodon.social 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) @Bakkoda @monica_b1998 I had a 700MHz processor that burned out when one of the fans seized up. They were too fast for calculations. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago I went to college and overclocked the athlon tbird with a peltier and a paperclipped heatsink. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago I went to college and overclocked the athlon tbird with a peltier and a paperclipped heatsink. permalink fedilink source parent