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VostokProgram posted:Did anybody else notice the page number Alas, I'm but a youngling whose first Wintel machine was a 486 DX 33MHz.
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Drakhoran posted:Alas, I'm but a youngling whose first Wintel machine was a 486 DX 33MHz. Nice, same. Made the jump over from the Amiga. Writing was on the wall for that system by that point unfortunately. A friend had a 386 SX 25 though..
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Oct 20, 2017 08:44
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First Wintel was Win95 OSR2 on a K6, replacing a Macintosh I can't remember the model of (running System friggin 7, the best System) with a 68LC040.
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Oct 20, 2017 08:59
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priznat posted:Nice, same. Made the jump over from the Amiga. Writing was on the wall for that system by that point unfortunately. A1200 -> 486DX2/66. Probably more realistic to phrase it as Dune2 -> C&C though.
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Oct 20, 2017 09:14
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VostokProgram posted:Did anybody else notice the page number I had an AMD 386, the AM-386 SX 40. A generous 40MHz clock, but no math coprocessor...
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Oct 20, 2017 11:04
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Posting on a still historically interesting page number.
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Oct 20, 2017 11:18
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poo poo. My number won't come up until page 8086.
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Oct 20, 2017 11:24
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HalloKitty posted:I had an AMD 386, the AM-386 SX 40. It was good enough for Doom (at half resolution with the screen a little smaller).
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Oct 20, 2017 11:41
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bobfather posted:poo poo. My number won't come up until page 8086. Some of us are waiting for 68,000
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VostokProgram posted:Did anybody else notice the page number Posting on the Math Co-Processor page.
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Oct 20, 2017 12:58
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ohgodwhat posted:Some of us are waiting for 68,000 Yeah, but what was your first Intel processor?
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SwissCM posted:It was good enough for Doom (at half resolution with the screen a little smaller). It was good enough for Doom, especially if you weren't too bothered by a little slowdown. I'm sure there are many good examples of slowdown, but I remember specifically the last level of Doom II; which was close to unplayable on it. A vicious circle: it was already chugging, so you struggled to do the level, which let the enemy spawner spawn more enemies, which made it chug even more, and so on. You had to basically drop the screen to postage stamp size to have something resembling a playable frame rate.
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Oct 20, 2017 14:15
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Drakhoran posted:Alas, I'm but a youngling whose first Wintel machine was a 486 DX 33MHz. I'm probably one of the youngest people here, the first computer I ever used was when my father brought home a Pentium III 
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Oct 20, 2017 17:28
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tight aspirations posted:A1200 -> 486DX2/66. Probably more realistic to phrase it as Dune2 -> C&C though. Nice, I had an OG A500, where the 68k and fat angus would actually pop out of their sockets if they got too hot. It was a great machine anyway.
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Oct 20, 2017 17:32
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We're well past page 64 
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Oct 20, 2017 18:03
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My first Intel processor was a Pentium 75MHz, which I assume is technically a 586 although the main difference that I know of vs. the 486 is superscalar architecture/pipelining and I'm not sure if that changes the actual ISA any. First processor was the 6502 in the Apple IIe though.
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Oct 20, 2017 18:04
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Mine was a LASER branded (actually a Vtech) 486SX like this: Was something like $4000 with a 15in monitor and frankly never usable 8Mb of ram. Youll just never use it. Its too much. Eventually added a SX2 CPU, Sound Blaster 16+Cd-Rom bundle, and even a S3 Virge graphics card (lol) before being replaced with a Pentium 166 MMX. Was a good rear end computer.
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Oct 20, 2017 18:44
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First PC I built when I was like 8 was a 386/33 and it was baller. I had a 286, 80086 and other stuff before that.
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Oct 20, 2017 18:48
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my first pc was a pc jr. which i was operating when i was barely able to read, scrubs you had to load dos off a 5.25 inch floppy every time you wanted to use it
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Oct 20, 2017 18:51
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evilweasel posted:my first pc was a pc jr. which i was operating when i was barely able to read, scrubs Good choice.
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Oct 20, 2017 18:54
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My first computer was some 200mhz thing, as I recall.
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Oct 20, 2017 18:56
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My first computer was some Gateway 486-DX50 that ran Doom, Heretic, Dark Forces, and X-Wing CD Edition (because yeah I guess it had a CD drive). It was good enough.
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Oct 20, 2017 19:42
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TRS-80 for me. Loaded/saved programs to cassette tape. 300 baud modem. Good times.
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Oct 20, 2017 19:53
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Commodore PC-10, an 8086 PC clone with dual 360k floppies, 640k RAM, CGA graphics, and no hard drive. Added a joystick card not long after we got it. We held onto that for many, many years before eventually picking up a 486 just as the Pentiums were coming out. The 486 had the processor in a removable cartridge, and the idea was that as new ones came out, you could buy a new cartridge and swap it. Unfortunately, the company went out of business not long after, so nothing was ever available.
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Oct 20, 2017 20:17
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 My great-grandmother asked me what I wanted her to read to me. I asked her to read me the manual to our new Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. I guess I have always been this way...
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Oct 20, 2017 20:26
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My first PC was 286, but the first computer I bought myself was a 386. I bought a used set of 386 CPU, motherboard and RAM and installed them in the 286. This was sometime after 1995, so I was 10+ years behind PC evolution at that point.
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Oct 20, 2017 21:14
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My first PC was a Celeron 366 in 1999, not a great experience trying to use that as a gaming PC with integrated graphics featuring 4MB VRAM. The first PC I built was an Athlon 1.4GHz with a GeForce 3 in 2001, that was quite the upgrade.
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Oct 20, 2017 21:32
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huge Anandtech Z370 motherboard round-up: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11860/z370-motherboards-asus-asrock-ecs-evga-biostar-msi-gigabyte
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Oct 20, 2017 22:54
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How many goons are sporting Coffee Lake yet? Some retail overclocking results would be interesting.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:40
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Everything wrong with my life started when my parents bought a Packard Bell 386 SX from Sears. Then I feel through the rabbit hole of 2400 baud modems, dialing into BBSes, downloading Doom 2 over a period of 3 days  , upgrading to a 14.4kHz modem, spending a week downloading X-Wing that some guy emailed me, DWANGO Doom, and then being one of the first households to have a cable modem.God admn you, computer. I coulda been a movie star or something 
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Oct 20, 2017 23:59
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eames posted:How many goons are sporting Coffee Lake yet? Some retail overclocking results would be interesting. I’d like to get an 8700k, any  folks have opinions on who would be the best option to park an order?
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priznat posted:I’d like to get an 8700k, any I'm eyeballing it too. Back ordering it on ncix is probably good
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Oct 21, 2017 00:17
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mewse posted:I'm eyeballing it too. Back ordering it on ncix is probably good Yeah that’d be my most likely pick as there are local shops here for pickup too. I am debating what motherboard form factor to go with, mATX or mini ITX this time out.
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Oct 21, 2017 00:20
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My 8600k is great and I'm glad I bought it instead of waiting for an 8700k
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Someone talk me out of buying a 7900X. I know I dont need it but for some reason I want it way more than I reasonably should. (I do a lot of compiling Go and Virtual Machines / docker, so there's some justification, but I cant say my 5820k is exactly a slouch).
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Oct 21, 2017 00:37
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A used 6950x is definitely cheaper and performs very similarly. Unless you can use AVX512 there's no reason to get a X299 system over buying a 6950X since you already have an X99 system if you only need 10 cores.
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craig588 posted:A used 6950x is definitely cheaper and performs very similarly. Unless you can use AVX512 there's no reason to get a X299 system over buying a 6950X since you already have an X99 system if you only need 10 cores. Well drat. A used 6950x is much more reasonably priced than I expected. Thanks; that makes this all much simpler.
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I really think it's worth waiting till next summer to invest in something greater than 4 cores. Intel and AMD are battling hardcore right now and the only winners are nerds. This summer was the tipping point for major multiprocessor gains and first generation is a bitch to buy into.
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Walked posted:Someone talk me out of buying a 7900X. I know I dont need it but for some reason I want it way more than I reasonably should. According to the reviews that I have seen a 7820x is a much better value than 7900x. A bit slower but quite a lot cheaper. But if you can keep the same platform (MB maybe?) and only buy the CPU then obviously a 69XXK becomes very attractive.
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