In the olden days, CPU frequency increased by steps of 33MHz. Me and my friends was looking forward to them reaching the 666MHz mark but when it finally did, Intel set it to 667MHz so that no one would be offended.
In the olden days, CPU frequency increased by steps of 33MHz. Me and my friends was looking forward to them reaching the 666MHz mark but when it finally did, Intel set it to 667MHz so that no one would be offended.
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Under lock the fsb a fraction of a mhz, bam, devil chip.
Owned a 667 Celeron… The thing is, the FSB was 33.3 or 66.6mhz. So if your bios had the ability you could clock them down below 666.5 and get that magic satanic number to actually show.
I thought there was a lawsuit about that too, they weren’t actually 667MHz
lame
My first PC. P3 533mhz.
I would be offended by it not being 666
I missed it. My first PC had an 800 MHz Celeron processor haha
My first PC was a Pentium 75 with 8mb RAM and an 800mb hard disk. Good times.
Uhm, not to ruin your “fact” but 666MHz is NOT a multiple of 33MHz.
There is some math flaw in your story. To get 666MHz from 33MHz, a Frac-N PLL is required and cannot be done with Integer-N
You do realize 666 is not divisible by 33, right?
Who remembers running their DDR4 at 2667 MHz, or maybe DDR3 at 1667 MHz? How about glorious old chips of the past, like the Pentium-III 867, Pentium-II 267, the 486 DX-67?
I had a P3-850 on an Asus P3B-F motherboard, they had faster but it was expensive. The P3s were faster than the early P4s clock for clock.
That’s actually pathetic. These religious nuts really do fuck everything up.
The first pc I owned for myself had this processor paired with a geforce 3.