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7/14/2025, 9:31:35 AM
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>>105900009
Of all old 32 bit machines, the PIII had the most sovl. The near 1GHz models with the 133 FSB were literally picrel, tight as fuck and cannot be beaten in its niche. Its legacy lives on in later designs with the rejection of the "clock wars" pipelines which dual PIIIs thrashed even outclocked 2:1. A dual core PIII with 4GB RAM was so fucking fast in its day it puts all this pussy ass modern shit to rest.
Too bad i686 sucked dick and amd64 (aka EM64T aka x86-64) with its more registers and less fragmented feature set killed it off. Some kind of mezzanine past where PIII expanded to 32 64-bit registers yet plowed through 32 bit x86 code would have been kino, maybe with 4 x 667 MHz PIII quads running BeOS who knows. What actually happened is OK with me, though.
t. bought 12 core 9700K 5GHz tower with 64GB ECC for $287 on ebay
>>105900009
Of all old 32 bit machines, the PIII had the most sovl. The near 1GHz models with the 133 FSB were literally picrel, tight as fuck and cannot be beaten in its niche. Its legacy lives on in later designs with the rejection of the "clock wars" pipelines which dual PIIIs thrashed even outclocked 2:1. A dual core PIII with 4GB RAM was so fucking fast in its day it puts all this pussy ass modern shit to rest.
Too bad i686 sucked dick and amd64 (aka EM64T aka x86-64) with its more registers and less fragmented feature set killed it off. Some kind of mezzanine past where PIII expanded to 32 64-bit registers yet plowed through 32 bit x86 code would have been kino, maybe with 4 x 667 MHz PIII quads running BeOS who knows. What actually happened is OK with me, though.
t. bought 12 core 9700K 5GHz tower with 64GB ECC for $287 on ebay
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