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How old is a Compaq P500?
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:11 pm
by thewolfe
How old is a Compaq P500?
I have a chance to buy a Compaq P500 for $35 but I don't have any idea how old the P500 model is and can't get that info at this time.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:28 pm
by Flatlander
You need to be a bit more specific. Is it one of
these?
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:58 am
by Iceman
In 1997-1998 I was working with a firm that did nothing but realtime graphics/simulation. We had state of the art PCs with high end graphics cards. My box had a 200 Mhz P2.
My guess? Mid 1999 to 2000 or so for the P500.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:29 am
by Vertigo
Hmmm.... I guess your best bet would be asking a hystorian.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:12 pm
by Testiculese
P=Pentium 3
500=500mhz
That's how old it is.
edit: Never had a P1
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:59 pm
by Mobius
Testiculese wrote:P=Pentium 1
500=500mhz
That's how old it is.
From memory, "Pentium" chips never exceeded 166MHz. The first chip to hit 500MHz was the Pentium 2, 500, with the Deschutz core.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:01 pm
by STRESSTEST
Your memory is not serving well. P1 made it to 233MHz. Same mark that P2 started.
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:15 pm
by AceCombat
yup Pent's go upto 233......im looking at one on my desk right now
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:21 pm
by Mobius
STRESSTEST wrote:Your memory is not serving well. P1 made it to 233MHz. Same mark that P2 started.
Damn my RAM is going bad! I have 2 x Pentium 233 MHz cores hanging inside frames on the wall at home. DOH! Believe I'm correct about the P2 and Deschutz though...
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:51 pm
by Vindicator
Mobi: Close. The Deschutes core went up to 450mhz.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003021 ... _chart.gif
(warning: big image)
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:58 pm
by AceCombat
ehhhh yeah..........
large image my ass (large image... edited)
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003021 ... _chart.gif
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:07 pm
by Vindicator
Dimwit, I linked it for a reason. Remember the discussions on here about bandwidth theft? And image size?
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:12 pm
by AceCombat
you forget who your talking to?
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:12 am
by Iceman
Truedat ... the original bandwidth theif speaks
