PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose
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I had one of these. They ran so hot but were so impressive.
@Bakkoda @monica_b1998 I had a 700MHz processor that burned out when one of the fans seized up. They were too fast for calculations.
I went to college and overclocked the athlon tbird with a peltier and a paperclipped heatsink.
I remember that. A surprising number of people at my highschool were aware. It was a big topic