Flashback Dual Celeron Cooler Circa 1998

These things were almost always good for 450. Loved those old school Alpha copper coolers from this era also

366 @ 550 was another beast also
 
xrealm20 said:
Plug and Pray.
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His box, or her's? ;)
WhoMe said:
Hmmm, I don't remember that so much, I know some were good overclokers, but people I was selling to didn't OC. But I never found the price performance that great. They did make good cheap workstations though where the server was doing a lot of the work. But as always mileage may very.
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Compared to the full-blown PIIs, they were fantastic values for the money. They absolutely sucked without L2 cache, but once that was introduced, it was game over for the PIIs.

I mean, the best value proposition at the time was the PII-333 OCed to ~400MHz or thereabouts.
(being a dumba*s 17yo, I had to swing for the PII-400, you know, for e-peen)
 
I miss my BP6 w/ my two Celerons @ 450mhz.... That was a beast of a rig back in the day.
 
WhoBeDaPlaya said:
His box, or her's? ;)

Compared to the full-blown PIIs, they were fantastic values for the money. They absolutely sucked without L2 cache, but once that was introduced, it was game over for the PIIs.

I mean, the best value proposition at the time was the PII-333 OCed to ~400MHz or thereabouts.
(being a dumba*s 17yo, I had to swing for the PII-400, you know, for e-peen)
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Well maybe the Mendicino was better than I remember, though it was never really meant to be the performance choice. After that there were often better alternatives in the cheap segment like the AMD duron as I recall. I actually did have Mendicino for a short while but it was a real dud that did not OC well and I just sold it off (maybe dual fans would have helped), so that soured me a bit ;).
 
WhoMe said:
Well maybe the Mendicino was better than I remember, though it was never really meant to be the performance choice. After that there were often better alternatives in the cheap segment like the AMD duron as I recall. I actually did have Mendicino for a short while but it was a real dud that did not OC well and I just sold it off (maybe dual fans would have helped), so that soured me a bit ;).
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Wat? Mendocino was '98, the Thunderbird-based Duron came a few years after ;)
 
I miss the old days where you buy hardware with nothing on it other than the brand and model. No marketing One click overclocking bullshit.
 
Forge said:
Voodoo5 6000, sir. The Voodoo2 was the first one with SLI, where you still needed some glorious Tseng ET6000 to draw your desktop for you.
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You are very correct, sir. Fixed.
 
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