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Kyle just reminded me that ten years ago today, the general public could finally get its hands on a lightning fast 1.4GHz AMD Athlon Socket A processor. The price? Only $289 plus shipping!
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Man, I loved my old AMD TBird,
These things were delicate flowers.
If the heatsink managed to come off or wasn't properly mounted the CPU would fry in seconds. It had no thermal protection. Newer CPUs will throttle down the speed or shut off the processor if that happens.
And as many stated the core was easily broken on the corners....
That picture reminds me of my laptop...a 9 1/2 year old Centrino laptop with a 1.5 GHz processor in it. Runs Windows 7 just fine, even with 512 megs of RAM.
...now I feel old.
...mostly because I still have a few old motherboards/processors from the era uincluding a KT7A
Wow. 10 years ago today, I was sporting a pencil unlocked Duron 800 @ 1050 and a KT7. Somehow, it doesn't seem that long ago.
Yeah but I bought a duron 800 for $89 and overclocked it to 1.6ghz
Drop $289 on a new CPU then crush the core while installing the HSF. Damn I hated that generation of AMD chips.
I just had a vision that you had the arms ,hands and fingers of Shrek, trying to put the heat sink on.