Discussion What Was Your First CPU to Clock Over 1 GHz?

[jnjnilson6]

In my case it was an Intel Celeron Tualatin @ 1.3 GHz (overclockable to 1.5 GHz) on a system with 256 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD Space and GeForce2 MX 400 w/ 64 MB dedicated memory from 2001. Operating Systems initially run were Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 Pro and RedHat Linux 7.3.

What was the machine that broke the 1 GHz barrier for you and when did you acquire it?

Additionally, when did you first go up to 1 GB RAM and beyond?

All intriguing questions passing with effortless surmise into the depths of the memory; memories now faintly frayed and faded and yet bringing about a type of mischievous exhilaration through perambulation of forgotten corners and days long begone.

Do write up and

Thank you!

 

[Flayed]

I think mine was an AMD Duron sometime in the early 2ks, then I upgraded to an AMD 2500 at some point. My memory fails me heh.

 

[Order 66]

Mine was an Intel Celeron N3350 with a base clock of 1.1Ghz and a burst clock of 2.4Ghz. Barely enough to run windows 10 let alone games.

 

[Eximo]

Okay, story time.

So, I had been running a Celeron 466Mhz slocket CPU for a while with a Voodoo 3 3000. It was getting to the point that the latest games would not run well enough and Glide support was basically already done.

So I decided to build a new system featuring a shiny new Athlon 1Ghz T-Bird. Got a motherboard, some memory, also an MX400. All my other old parts went in.

All was well for about 24 hours. Started getting a lot of crashing and eventually system corruption to the point of no longer booting. I re-installed the OS a few times over the next few days, but nothing seemed to help. There was a LAN party the following weekend so I wanted to get everything working.

Again, worked fine for a few hours, eventually stopped booting after a few crashes. Coincidentally this was also 2001 and Windows XP was launching quite soon. If anyone is aware, the entire OS was leaked along with a huge set of valid keys a few months early. The host of the party had started downloading it earlier in the week. I asked if anyone had a Windows disk to re-install and he mentioned he had a Windows XP disc that he had made the previous day, unused. So we all crowded around and installed it.

Worked for a few hours, and corrupt. Ended up trying Windows 2000 and that was actually stable for a couple of days. Never did figure out what was wrong.

The motherboard and memory worked fine with a Duron 750 in it. The CPU worked fine in another board. I kept the MX400, hard drives, power supply, etc. Just for whatever reason that particular combination of parts would not coexist. (I did lose a hard drive during this, and the other I had to do a low level format on to get it back)

Frustrated I went to next computer show and blew everything on a top of the line Athlon XP 1800+ which ran at 1.53Ghz, DDR memory if I recall correctly, the same MX400 (later upgraded to a 4400Ti? FX5200 and 5600 later on. I had a lot of low end cards back then, basically needed something new for every major game launch, or someone was selling an upgrade to me on the cheap)

Sadly that computer was in the peak of the capacitor plague era and didn't last too long.

 

[hotaru.hino]

I made the jump from a 600MHz Celeron to a 1.9GHz AMD Athlon XP 2600+

I kinda miss that computer.

 

[stonecarver]

I was a kind of long wait for me in this PC journey . In 1995 the wife wanted a Mac Power PC 6100

Power Macintosh 6100 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I had Just bought a Carver TFM75 Amplifier and it was her turn for a toy.

On the way out of the store I said to her you know I want something out of this, she look at me with her sinister eyes and said ok. I said no no not that I want to be able to use it to. She said I can't touch your Audio stuff so this is mine. 🤣 fair enough!

Up until 1999 I did have computers but all from a local city offices where I had a person bring me 6 or 7 computers here and there even when I really didn't want them but I respected they were trying to help ME learn PC's.
In 1999 wife again wanted an upgraded system and to busy working I paid a local shop to make her a Duron 750Mhz custom computer.
In 2000 I did buy myself a HP 600Mhz Celeron and like a fool bought another E-machine with guess what a 600Mhz Celeron
So I waited and went to Fry's this time more on my game knew what I wanted. I settled on a Sony pre built with a 2.53 P4. 2003 I think. Man that ran so fast it blew my mind. I thought cool I'm good.
Mess with it for a few months and Buy Indiana Jones The Emperors Tomb Pc game. Load it all up and get a pop up screen your system does not meet system requirements.

What the heck , okay I seem to need this mysterious to me at the time shader 2.0 for the video card.
Fine go buy a Radeon 9200 come home pop that Sony open and get kicked in the nuts.

There the AGP port was MIA it had the pins on the motherboard but not port.

Fine went and bought a AMD board and a 3000+ XP at 2.1Ghz I believe.

I still have that TFM75 her Power Mac 6100 got lost In a move.