crp Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Wither PCPer ? https://www.pcper.com/news/Editorial/Beginning-new-journey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 I have never heard PC Perspective before but it is sad that after 19 years, the guy has to leave the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 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.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Back before Planned Obsolescence 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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