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I bought a tube of silver thermal goop from OCZ and I've been using it for more than 5 years now I think. I've seated probably 40-50+ cpu's and done a bunch of north bridge mods/replacements/repairs. People put so much thermal goop on when all you need is the tiniest amount. More actually lowers your thermal dissipation rate. People put it on with a trowel.Now you know why I never buy big tube of thermal goop anymore, still got 2 full tubes here.
Latest AS 5 and it's grand-grand father from 1st generation, hand packaged & sent by Nevin Hause him self. (PS: Nevin is the Arctic Silver founder)
The rig with the largest HD for me is 80 GB. I have some that are in the 12GB range. I use a fileserver for all storage (media, docs, etc), so I can't even come close to filling an 80. I have one system with an 80, and 40 gb is still unpartitioned, and the 40gb I do have is maybe 25% full.my main rig uses a maxtor 80 gig IDE for storage
Dude, C2D 6600 w/ Geforce 8800GTS is NOT vintage.well.. no pic, but i haven't visited or posted here in 3 years and the gear in my sig is turning vintage.. kinda.
I still have a 5.25" drive. I've thought about hooking it up for kicks, but I have no more 5.25" disks. My dad used to use 8" disks... anyone else remember those? Or even further back, he used to use punch cards (stacks of cards with holes in them that were used before magnetic media). My sister and I at the time were little and we used to shuffle them and play with them. God did he hate that. Then he'd have to sort the entire stack and hope we hadn't chewed on any... lol.I have 386s, 5 1/4 drives and bnc cable at work...
We call Pentium3 owners liked, and P4 owners blessed.
Pentium 1, 2 and Celeron are the norm.
O_O. Nice! Just curious, how much did you buy that for? I am thinking along the lines of 12 thousand.
Btw, What's a coprocessor?
It used to be 5k+ for a 386DX system. Hard to imagine paying that now for any computer short of a server.
The original Intel cpu's did not have the ability to do floating point math in hardware, so it was emulated. You could add in this ability by adding a coprocessor. For the 8086, it was an 8087, for the 80286, it was an 80287, etc. The 80486 DX was the first cpu by intel with an on die coprocessor. They sold 486 SX chips which were basically 486's w/o coprocessors. Then you could add a 487, but unlike the previous chips, it didn't work as an adjunct to the cpu, it just replaced it (it was basically a 486DX with a different socket).
Doing floating point math was VERY slow on the old PC's. Coprocessors were rare pre-486 and generally used only by people who did a lot of mathematical/scientific work, cad/cam, etc.
You guys are so out of your league. I'm holding in my hand a Genuine Intel 80386-DX 16 mhz and a 387 coprocessor as well! I also have a 300 mb hard drive here and a 5.25 inch floppy. How about a 512 KB totally unacccelerated vga card (ISA)? I have several old SB16 cards too...
I also have a box in front of me with DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (original disks, and they still work actually).
I really should throw more stuff out...
I don't suppose you have cache chips? just curious
I don't suppose you have cache chips? just curious
SRAM = static ram?
We use dynamic ones right?
What types of RAMs are there?
I believe it's basically sram and dram. Before that I think you're talking about tubes and other ancient technology.