Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoPC 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 nosewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1157arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkPC 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 nosewww.tomshardware.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoI even remember first heat spreaders and later fans on top of them on Pentiums, probably.
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoMy Pentium 100 already had a (small) CPU fan, friend still had a 386 which only had a passive heat sink.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoYep, that’s what I remember, could phrase it better I suppose.
I even remember first heat spreaders and later fans on top of them on Pentiums, probably.
My Pentium 100 already had a (small) CPU fan, friend still had a 386 which only had a passive heat sink.
Yep, that’s what I remember, could phrase it better I suppose.