Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

Consumer PCs have long abandoned the multi-GHz race for core count and NPU inflation.

  • MultiplexerEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Almost the same as for me!

    1996 I was still using an Atari ST (with 8, not 16 MHz…), end of 96 I got a Pentium 100 with 16 MB, switched to a Pentium 200 MMX and later to an overclocked K6-2@400 MHz in the same socket.

    End of 2001 I got the same Athlon XP 1600+ as you.
    Motherboard supported both SD- and DDR-RAM, so could reuse my old 192 MB :-)

    Agree with the SSDs, only significant perceived performance boost during the last 25 years (although multicore is in some special parallelized usecases also significant, e.g. when building software).