I've thought this for awhile now. It used to be that there was THE game to play back in the day. Duke vs Quake, Warcraft II vs C&C, etc. Now there's so many games, and so many different people playing them. I think it takes a little away from the communities that used to form around these games.
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I've thought this for awhile now. It used to be that there was THE game to play back in the day. Duke vs Quake, Warcraft II vs C&C, etc. Now there's so many games, and so many different people playing them. I think it takes a little away from the communities that used to form around these games.
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[citation][nom]TA152H[/nom]If you want a picture with more processors than these, Tuan, email me.I have everything from 8088 to 8086, 186, 188, 286, 287, 386, 386SX, 387,486, 486DX, 486SX, 486DX2, 486DX4, Pentium Overdrive, Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pros (including the rare 2M version), Pentium II, Pentium II Overdrive, III (Katmai and Coppermine), not to mention multiple versions K6 (I still run a server on a K6-2). Also, some 68Ks, a few z80s, 6502Cs, lots of 6809s, a couple of 6309s, 8048s, some Cyrix chips, a few old Centuar Winchips, and some odd 387-compatible processors from another company, and and probably more that I can't remember. Probably the rarest, and maybe coolest, is the Pentium II overdrive, because it was better than the Pentium II when it came out, and it's really rare. It fit into Socket 8, and had a full-speed L2 cache, plus the enhancements of the Pentium II. So, it was really quite good for the time, and it overclocked very well, and could be used in multiprocessor systems with a lot of memory without a performance penalty.That picture is ugly too, all dirty processors, thrown all over the place. By the way, the little 486 looking processor is a Pentium Overdrive. It was a Pentium processor stuck into the Socket 5 interface. I have a few of those, but they don't perform that great, because one of the main benefits of the Pentium was the incredible memory bandwidth (4x the 33 MHz 486, which is the slot this thing fit into). Once you take that away, and considering the slower clock speed, there isn't much use for this chip (although, they did compensate by doubling the L1 cache).[/citation]
Sad to say it and I kick my self for it but I had the chance to land two unopened Pnetium Overdrive 2 for $7 each at a local Goodwill. Sad to when I came back the next day to buy them up both were gone.
Sad to say it and I kick my self for it but I had the chance to land two unopened Pnetium Overdrive 2 for $7 each at a local Goodwill. Sad to when I came back the next day to buy them up both were gone.
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I have multiples of all of those except the P Pro. Not a big deal, also have all the AMD chips back to the 486DX knockoffs.
[citation][nom]nforce4max[/nom]Sad to say it and I kick my self for it but I had the chance to land two unopened Pnetium Overdrive 2 for $7 each at a local Goodwill. Sad to when I came back the next day to buy them up both were gone.[/citation]
Well, maybe they were upgrades for the Pentium, not the 486. The ones for the Pentium are really very common, and not worth much. But, if you passed on the 486 versions, well, I feel your pain.
But, for what it's worth, I think we've all experienced something like that. I've seen things for sale, sometimes on eBay, that I was planning to buy, but then forgot, and then saw it sell for very little. It's a grotesque feeling when it's something you really wanted.
On the plus side, about four years ago, there was a guy selling an Apple IIe never out of the box. He had no feedback, so I got it really cheap (I think $300, with monitor and floppy disk). I had to drive to Boston (no way I was going to send zero feedback $300) to pick it up, but, it's such a rare item I was ecstatic.
The irony is, something like this is, in a way, the worst type of thing to buy. I'll never take it out of the box, or even open it, it's just too rare, and I'll never sell it. I don't think I'll ever see one again. So, what's that make it? A box sitting in my closet, all wrapped out nicely with bubble wrap, that will remain pampered and virginal until I die. So, what's the point? The box isn't that pretty.
Weird how life is.
Well, maybe they were upgrades for the Pentium, not the 486. The ones for the Pentium are really very common, and not worth much. But, if you passed on the 486 versions, well, I feel your pain.
But, for what it's worth, I think we've all experienced something like that. I've seen things for sale, sometimes on eBay, that I was planning to buy, but then forgot, and then saw it sell for very little. It's a grotesque feeling when it's something you really wanted.
On the plus side, about four years ago, there was a guy selling an Apple IIe never out of the box. He had no feedback, so I got it really cheap (I think $300, with monitor and floppy disk). I had to drive to Boston (no way I was going to send zero feedback $300) to pick it up, but, it's such a rare item I was ecstatic.
The irony is, something like this is, in a way, the worst type of thing to buy. I'll never take it out of the box, or even open it, it's just too rare, and I'll never sell it. I don't think I'll ever see one again. So, what's that make it? A box sitting in my closet, all wrapped out nicely with bubble wrap, that will remain pampered and virginal until I die. So, what's the point? The box isn't that pretty.
Weird how life is.
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their missing the slot 2 pentium II Xeon. I had one of those years ago hooked upto a SCSI 15,000 rpm Raid Array. I used it for a game server at LAN Partys. sure loaded maps fast back in the days of counterstike...
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