How old is a Compaq P500?

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:11 pm

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.

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:28 pm

You need to be a bit more specific. Is it one of these?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:58 am

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.

Vertigo · Post by **Vertigo** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:29 am

Hmmm.... I guess your best bet would be asking a hystorian.

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:12 pm

P=Pentium 3
500=500mhz

That's how old it is.

edit: Never had a P1

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:59 pm

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.

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:01 pm

Your memory is not serving well. P1 made it to 233MHz. Same mark that P2 started.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:15 pm

yup Pent's go upto 233......im looking at one on my desk right now

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:21 pm

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...

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:51 pm

Mobi: Close. The Deschutes core went up to 450mhz.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003021 ... _chart.gif
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AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:58 pm

Vindicator wrote:http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003021 ... _chart.gif
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ehhhh yeah..........

large image my ass (large image... edited)

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003021 ... _chart.gif

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:07 pm

Dimwit, I linked it for a reason. Remember the discussions on here about bandwidth theft? And image size?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:12 pm

you forget who your talking to?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:12 am

Truedat ... the original bandwidth theif speaks