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monica_b1998@lemmy.world to Retro Computers@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

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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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

monica_b1998@lemmy.world to Retro Computers@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago
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Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.
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    I had one of these. They ran so hot but were so impressive.

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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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    Good times in personal computing, people were really squeezing a lot of performance out of these and the celerons coming out around then, overclocking them with homemade cooling solutions.

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