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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I recall going from a Tandy 1000... To a Packard Bell(Pentium 60 with 16(upgraded from 4) MB RAM and like 1 GB HDD (also upgrade).

Then a Celeron 500 I pieced together cheap(used parts) in middle school. Which didn't last long! I recall building it. Don't recall what happened to it!

I blame that Athlon... I had the XP 1600+(palomino), which was 1.4 Ghz. On an Abit motherboard. First time getting DDR memory. That one lasted quite a few years. Until dual cores, etc etc.

SSDs have been the most exciting thing since then. I really don't need many cores. It's pretty insane how much difference SSDs can make even on 10-15 year old hardware.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Almost the same as for me!

    1996 I was still using an Atari ST (with 8, not 16 MHz...), end of 96 I got a Pentium 100 with 16 MB, switched to a Pentium 200 MMX and later to an overclocked K6-2@400 MHz in the same socket.

    End of 2001 I got the same Athlon XP 1600+ as you.
    Motherboard supported both SD- and DDR-RAM, so could reuse my old 192 MB :-)

    Agree with the SSDs, only significant perceived performance boost during the last 25 years (although multicore is in some special parallelized usecases also significant, e.g. when building software).

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