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Reply 40 of 43, by Shponglefan

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appiah4 wrote on 2024-01-23, 18:50:

But strangely enough there was never a year where the Pentium MMX was the top dog. I never realized Klamath came only a few months after P54C. It almost feels like the MMX was Intel's own kind of Super Socket 7 platform..

The Pentium MMX was a great mainstream and upgrade CPU for 1997, especially given the initially high costs of the PII.

But I agree, it feels a bit odd that the Pentium MMX never qualified as a high end CPU on a year-by-year basis.

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Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build
486 DX4-100 with 6 sound cards
486 DX-33 with 5 sound cards

Reply 41 of 43, by rkurbatov

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appiah4 wrote on 2024-01-23, 21:01:

In 1993 my 486-33 had 4MB, in 1994 I got a CD-ROM Upgrade kit and upgraded to 8MB. In 1995, I upgraded to a DX4-100 and had 16MB. In 1996 I upgraded to a P133 with 32MB. In 1998 I had a PII-300 with 64MB. I remember RAM becoming INCREDIBLY expensive in the late 90s due to some factory fire or whatnot..

Your configuration was beyond average, definitely 😀

As for memory prices rising up - it was earthquake on Taiwan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Jiji_earthquake

486: ECS UM486 VLB, 256kb cache, i486 DX2/66, 8MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440AGi VLB 1MB, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, FDD 3.5, ZIP 100 ATA
PII: Asus P2B, Pentium II 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Trident 9750 AGP 4MB, Voodoo2 SLI, MonsterSound MX300

Reply 42 of 43, by H3nrik V!

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Think I got my dx2/66 in '95 (or maybe even '94). It had 8Mb memory and 1Mb VLB graphics.
In '97, I think, I got a spanking new K6-233 with no less than 32Mb.
That was upgraded to a Celeron 450A (which for some reason was marked 300A 🤣 ) i '99, that had a whopping 128Mb ...

If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎

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Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀

Reply 43 of 43, by rkurbatov

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-01-23, 21:14:

That was upgraded to a Celeron 450A (which for some reason was marked 300A 🤣 )

Lol, yeaaah. Such a friendly CPU 😀

486: ECS UM486 VLB, 256kb cache, i486 DX2/66, 8MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440AGi VLB 1MB, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, FDD 3.5, ZIP 100 ATA
PII: Asus P2B, Pentium II 400MHz, 512MB RAM, Trident 9750 AGP 4MB, Voodoo2 SLI, MonsterSound MX300