I don’t know why I made this

  • @Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    59 days ago

    I had that exact AMD 486DX4 100mhz. It was awesome! It was on an older socket, where Intel was pushing people to go onto a new socket. But motherboards were super expensive back then and often you would need to do a memory upgrade as well. Then AMD came along with a 3x multiplier for a really good price. It gave my system a couple of extra years.

    Later they did the same with the K6 series, where they pushed socket 7 systems to their absolute max. Those 550 mhz K6-III chips were super fast and cheap and you didn’t need to upgrade your entire system. And in my experience the 450 mhz models were much cheaper and could be overclocked to 550 mhz without any issue.