fsmith2003 wrote:Just thought I would throw out what I have came up with for the specific "fastest" Intel CPU for each year of 1990-2000 for the […]
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Just thought I would throw out what I have came up with for the specific "fastest" Intel CPU for each year of 1990-2000 for the spreadsheet.
1990 - 486 DX-33
1991 - 486 DX-50
1992 - 486 DX2-66
1993 - Pentium 66
1994 - Pentium 100
1995 - Pentium 133
1996 - Pentium 200
1997 - Pentium II 300
1998 - Pentium II 450
1999 - Pentium III 800
2000 - Pentium 4 1.5
Beware the nostalgia ahead...
Ah... 1999. We had one computer in 1998, and it was my brother's, which had been through several rebuilds at that point (it was a custom Pentium 200MMX, 96MB EDO, Scream'n 3D Verite 1000). We all wanted to use it for various things and it was hard to get time to do so. I started 8th grade in 1999 and my Mom thought it'd be good for me to get more hands on time with computers, so in spring of 1999 we bought a Gateway G6-400 mid tower. I remember that the Pentium III 450 (and maybe the 500?) had just been released around that time, so the Pentium II 400Mhz we chose was a really high end chip at the time (hard to call it a chip since it looked like a video game cartridge). The system had a 440BX board (no AGP slot), 64MB of SDRAM, integrated 8MB Velocity 128 (Riva 128), integrated Ensoniq\Creative "Audio PCI" of some sort, LS-120, 6.4GB Quantum hard drive, 15" CRT... it was a beast at the time, and it was like $1700 if I remember correctly (we were dirt poor so it was huge deal to make this kind of investment). I still have it, and it still works great with all the original parts. I learned a LOT using this computer. I just wish I hadn't thrown away some of the random internal bits from it over the years, like the metal bracket\cage that was used to mount a hard drive. If I ever find another similar system I'm going to steal the parts for my old one... 🤣
/nostalgia
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.