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Im fucking jealous right now you lucky bastard! ;)
I upgraded twice in 3-4 year to a dx66 then a p120 that was for some reason running at 133mhz. That was the day i discovered over clocking.
The vendor i bought the pc from set the jumper wrong but it was stable anyways. I thought i found a crazy secret and convinced my BIL to upgrade that same day. It actually was lucky for me as later on i tried flashing the updated tyan bios only to find out my floppy drive would stop working 20 mins in.
Turns out my 'tyan' motherboard was a clone and i had to end up copying my BIL's bios image to revert it back lol.
The 60mhz Pentium was really just a beefed up 486. I remember it had an enormous (for the time) heat sink fan that eventually wore its bearing out. I also upgraded to a P120, and in fact I still have that board in another machine, waiting on the right vintage parts to get it going again. I just wish I had saved that old Acer case.
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[–] voats4goats [S] ago
Im fucking jealous right now you lucky bastard! ;)
I upgraded twice in 3-4 year to a dx66 then a p120 that was for some reason running at 133mhz. That was the day i discovered over clocking.
The vendor i bought the pc from set the jumper wrong but it was stable anyways. I thought i found a crazy secret and convinced my BIL to upgrade that same day. It actually was lucky for me as later on i tried flashing the updated tyan bios only to find out my floppy drive would stop working 20 mins in.
Turns out my 'tyan' motherboard was a clone and i had to end up copying my BIL's bios image to revert it back lol.
Ahh good times before plug and play and BBS'
[–] SmokeyMeadow ago
The 60mhz Pentium was really just a beefed up 486. I remember it had an enormous (for the time) heat sink fan that eventually wore its bearing out. I also upgraded to a P120, and in fact I still have that board in another machine, waiting on the right vintage parts to get it going again. I just wish I had saved that old Acer case.
[–] voats4goats [S] ago
I think the big thing with the first pentium was a significantly improved floating point performance.
Didnt matter too much when it came out but it definitely made a dent later on when quake first debuted.
That game basically killed off Cyrix chips as those totally blew for floating point operations