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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Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.
  • evidences@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Huh I never knew AMD made any slot A cpus. K7 is kind of a black hole to me though I’ve don’t think I’ve ever played with any of those cpus.

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      AMD had the only Slot A. The Intel equivalent was called Slot 1. Same physical form factor, but incompatible electrically.