Oh My Gosh - Shrout is leaving

[crp 774]

Wither PCPer ?

 

https://www.pcper.com/news/Editorial/Beginning-new-journey

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I have never heard PC Perspective before but it is sad that after 19 years, the guy has to leave the project.

[V.T. Eric Layton 6,451]

I'd never heard of it either. Sad.

 

That AMD K7 "Thunderbird" that he mentions in that article was one rockin' and rollin' processor back in the day. I still have two working ones out in my shop... and a K7 mobo, also. I'll make a project out of it one day.

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I'd never heard of it either. Sad.

 

That AMD K7 "Thunderbird" that he mentions in that article was one rockin' and rollin' processor back in the day. I still have two working ones out in my shop... and a K7 mobo, also. I'll make a project out of it one day.

 

I had a K6 that worked great for many years....

[raymac46 2,563]

My oldest AMD now is a K8 - Athlon64 X2 4600+ CPU. Still runs well for playing music or streaming Spotify. If I recall correctly I have 6GB DDR2 in it and an old 325GB HDD.

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My oldest AMD now is a K8 - Athlon64 X2 4600+ CPU. Still runs well for playing music or streaming Spotify. If I recall correctly I have 6GB DDR2 in it and an old 325GB HDD.

 

That's nuts. I have a pentium 3 at work that I play pinball on sometimes. That is literally the only reason that it stays powered on. It's an old NEC laptop and it works beautifully running windows 95.

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Back before Planned Obsolescence

[raymac46 2,563]

The Athlon 64 X2 machine was the very first one I got to run Linux exclusively. It never has run anything else. I remember I got it around the time Bruno was building a Core 2 Quad machine. Mine was far less powerful but it did well for me considering it was replacing an old Pentium III 866.