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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 14 2019, @01:58PM
Mmmmmm. I see "pentium" yada yada yada, uh-huh, alright, OK, then "super socket 7". Right there, you have me.
I took a Super Socket 7, with an AMD 450 mobile, slightly overclocked it (I think I clocked to 515, can't remember for certain if that's the "stable" speed I settled on), provided a full gig of PC-150 memory, and installed WinXP on it. With careful tweaking, I could convince the less savvy user that he was running an Athlon class computer. You would never convince the tech savvy of that, but the machine was far more responsive, and seemingly faster than the new-at-the-time 1 ghz Athlon chips. Later, it held it's own against the Athlon XP chip, at some slightly higher CPU speed. By the time the Athlons reached 2 Ghz, I gave in and bought my own Athlon, and retired the Super Socket 7.
If you could resurrect that kind of sweetness, I would certainly drive it!