CPU Install question

Paul wrote:

Yes. There aren't too many that do 4GHz as the stock value.

This has a higher clock, but benches lower. And it also uses
a lot of power.

http://products.amd.com/en-us/Deskto...il.aspx?id=840

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Passmark
4790K 11,251
FX-9590 10,220

Paul
Ah, AMD. I had an AMD Athlon XP 2100+, when it was "hot"! Memory Lane!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...icroprocessors

I was surprised (in looking at the link) just how many different models
were made.

My current build was my 4th one. Thanks again for your help! Flasherly,
Thank you too!

Bill

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 03:35:49 -0600, Bill
wrote:

Flasherly,
Thank you too!

And thank you for that listing. My first Athlon may even not be
within Wiki's scope.

A slotted Athlon that took a dedicated CPU slot (alongside ISA/Memory
slots), and, shortly eclipsed by a socketed same model. May have not
even been an Athlon, per se;- came out around/after the K6s (350Mhz).

Around a sub-1000MHz or slightly lower.

Memory Lane, alright, just can't remember, now, all the rooms in
Memory Motel I've frequented. Do recall that slotted one, though, it
was a horrible setup to seat, prone to lose connections and need
reseating before it would boot.

Oh, well - I suppose it's always good to know that would be X200
magnitude faster than an Intel 8088 4.77Mhz, or, an all-nighter to
convert archives, arc to zip, residing on perhaps half a 20Meg MFM
Seagate with its proprietary ISA interface controller.

Flasherly wrote:
My first Athlon may even not be within Wiki's scope. A slotted Athlon
that took a dedicated CPU slot (alongside ISA/Memory slots), and,
shortly eclipsed by a socketed same model. May have not even been an
Athlon, per se;- came out around/after the K6s (350Mhz). Around a
sub-1000MHz or slightly lower. Memory Lane, alright, just can't
remember, now, all the rooms in Memory Motel I've frequented.

My second computer was a CDC Cyber 172, which I programmed in Fortran
and assembly. From there I upgraded to a Digital (may they rest in
peace) Vax Cluster. Then to SUN (may they also rest in peace)
workstations... lol I did NOT anticipate Apple being successful with
computers at their onset (who would want them?), and this keeps my
"investor acumen" in check. Of course, at that point I had never heard
more than a monochrome beep from a computer, literally!

My first computer I dialed to with a phone modem from a dumb terminal,
in 1975, and I'm not sure what was on the other end. I saved my Basic
All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code programs on paper tape.

But for all of my admittedly limited computer hardware experience,
everything else pales compared to watching a "card reader" work through
a big stack of cards!

Bill

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:03:02 -0600, Bill
wrote:

My second computer was a CDC Cyber 172, which I programmed in Fortran
and assembly. From there I upgraded to a Digital (may they rest in
peace) Vax Cluster. Then to SUN (may they also rest in peace)
workstations... lol I did NOT anticipate Apple being successful with
computers at their onset (who would want them?), and this keeps my
"investor acumen" in check. Of course, at that point I had never heard
more than a monochrome beep from a computer, literally!

My first computer I dialed to with a phone modem from a dumb terminal,
in 1975, and I'm not sure what was on the other end. I saved my Basic
All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code programs on paper tape.

But for all of my admittedly limited computer hardware experience,
everything else pales compared to watching a "card reader" work through
a big stack of cards!

Bill

Pretty much the same scenario here, except a little later;- tho' did
work a stint at an Evacuation Control Center with its
recording-keeping stored via cards. Came back, awhile later,
exchanging/updating a handheld calculator given to me. Found a
calculator with a subset of Basic interesting, a programming language
I'd never seen before;- took it home, scratching my head, but wouldn't
take no for an "answer" until figuring it out. Bought a couple
computers not long after, happenstance, in time immediately to also
exchange the first when visiting an electronics repair shop, upon
seeing my first IBM PC. So I bought a brandname Intel-powered PC. Sold
that within a year, by the time I was figuring how to update/augment
hardware on the thing, when I built my first from parts alone. Every
computer since I've built off parts.

Little later than the CDC's with a dual-core potential of 40Mhz and
provisions for a bank of peripheral processors. 8" glass harddisks
and all kinds of esoteric and prohibitively expensive setups. There's
a saying 'the revolution' was started in garages by tinkerers,
bringing computing out into a much broader front of popularity,
business, then, only could fractionally compare by sheer magnitude
ensuing. Little more than tinkerer, if to include myself and think
back to some of those crazy prices I would cough up for my digital
fix. Really. Got so bad for awhile I'd hustle them, just as quick as
I could see an update out of flipping one I'd just built.

Also did repair work on the side in a computer shop run by a former
NASA "assembler type," IT upgrades at local government offices, only
kept it at a certain distance, informally augmenting/expanding what I
was already doing for a few select individuals;- too interesting to
exchange for a stricter work disciple and a certain latitude of focus
to freely approach them. Computers have provided me certainly with
enough entertainment not to forget why.