What happened to the good ol' days of ceramic proccies?

[FragTek]

Mmmm... Oh how I miss the clankity clank of ceramic processors

Starting a wee lil collection of em, got about 5 more on the way in as we speak.

Anyone here collect vintage proccies?

 

[JN]

Gotta love the K6's

I believe it was on my K6-2 i had 3dfx SLI

 

[Ham]

Wow. I was 8 when they came out...

 

[NickS]

I kinda do miss ceramic proccies. Do you know some of the Socket 940 opty's are ceramic?!

Nick

 

[FragTek]

I kinda do miss ceramic proccies. Do you know some of the Socket 940 opty's are ceramic?!

Nick

Nope didn't know that... I'd like to get my hands on one, muahaha

 

[FragTek]

here's the updated list picked up some nice old intels today from a guy shipping out old procs at the store, and also found a 1337 cyrix 486 chip, very rare!

 

[Raging]

so what sort of speeds are those ancient things?

nice lil collection

cheers.

 

[NickS]

Hehe, yep.

Ceramic proccies are so strong too . Unless they suffer a fall onto a hard surface... then they can crack.

Nick

 

[masterofpuppets]

I've got a box of old CPU's including a few 486's a couple of ceramic Pentiums, etc. I've got a pic on my site somewhere but I'm too lazy to find it now

 

[PV5150]

Nice collection Frag :worship:

You should try and get your hands on one of these babies. A huge success in it's time, and the technology lives on in AMD's Athlon and Athlon 64 CPU's.

DEC Alpha

"...Compaq announced that computers using Alpha would be phased out by 2004 in favour of Intel's Itanium. Ironically, in mid-2003, as the Alpha was about to be phased out, the fastest computer in the U.S. (and second fastest in the world) was a cluster of 4096 Alpha processors." Source

You might wanna check this guy out too mate. http://www.cpu-collector.com/menu/byclass/class/Alpha/manufacturer/all.htm

You've started something here, I wanna start collecting now after taking a trip down memory lane :yumyum: I'm on the lookout for one of the CPU's that started the OCing phenomenon...the Intel Celeron 300A

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=277

 

[JN]

Wow i remember that chip. Thats what got me heavily into overclocking (before that i'd only overclocked a 486 50mhz to 66mhz).

I think i'm going to grab myself a pair of voodoo2's and an old slot chip for old-times sake.

 

[PV5150]

HEHE, yeah that's what I'm talking about :worship:

 

[JN]

In my Ebay watch list, i have the following

P3 600 Slot CPU

Matched Pair Of Creative Voodoo2's

Abit BE6

I'm basically going to resurect the PC i had while at college

 

[PV5150]

Sweet!!! :worship:

 

[nathan]

you may laugh but we have an old toshiba laptop in for repair with a K6 cpu in. sometimes i think what the hell is the point.

we have loads of cpu's laying around, i'll see if i can find any weird ones.

 

[nathan]

theres no edit button :S

i'll add some pics of the collection when i get home and get a chance to upload them from my phone.

EDIT: ok it just appeared, think im going blind.

 

[FragTek]

Post up pix of those SLI'd Voodoo's mate, that's going to be hottttt!

 

[nathan]

sorry for the size and quality of these. stupid phone camera doesnt like close up shots.

 

[JN]

Can i pop round yours with a few quid?

 

[nathan]

which ones you want?

im sure i could make it happen