Wayback: what brand were those 'chilled' AMD computers that first hit 1GHz?

[JC]

Can't remember the brand....pretty expensive....think they cooled an 800 or 850Mhz Athlon to 1 Ghz. I know, who cares...just trivia.

 

[foghorn67]

Was it Falcon Northwest?

Damn, some good memories there. I remember getting some huge heatsink with one of the those noisy fans. Had a speed controller for the CPU and case fans as in the 5.25" slot. Never built the courage to go water cooled.

Ah, good times.

 

[AMCRambler]

I had a slot A AMD 1ghz back in the day. Damn I used to think I was so cool.

 

[JC]

Think these were refrigerated....Arctic Cool....something like that.

 

[zinfamous]

I had a slot A AMD 1ghz back in the day. Damn I used to think I was so cool.

Slot A motherfucker! GO big or Go Home! I had a Thunderbird, iirc.

 

[AMCRambler]

Had an Athlon classic 1ghz and a t-bird too. Big ass Thermaltake fan on it.

 

[88keys]

Slot A motherfucker! GO big or Go Home! I had a Thunderbird, iirc.

I think they had (Peltier?) coolers on them.

 

[foghorn67]

Had an Athlon classic 1ghz and a t-bird too. Big ass Thermaltake fan on it.

Ah, Thermaltake. That was it.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Think these were refrigerated....Arctic Cool....something like that.

I believe that was the thermal paste that everyone swore by. You needed that to go with the 2 story Thermaltake heatsink.

 

[JC]

I believe that was the thermal paste that everyone swore by. You needed that to go with the 2 story Thermaltake heatsink.

OK, that was Arctic Silver. Think I still have some AS5!

I believe KryoTech may be the brand I was looking for....
http://www.anandtech.com/show/432

 

[Genx87]

I remember when AMD hit 1GHz. Then Intel tried and failed with the P3. Good old days!

 

[SKORPI0]

I always wanted one of these...

http://icrontic.com/article/asetek_vapochill_ls

 

[AmdEmAll]

I heard the CEO of KryoTech died and thats possibly why they were never heard from again...

 

[Blitzvogel]

I remember when AMD hit 1GHz. Then Intel tried and failed with the P3. Good old days!

But Intel did hit 1 GHz with the PIII, all the way up to 1.4 GHz with Tualatin.

 

[Genx87]

But Intel did hit 1 GHz with the PIII, all the way up to 1.4 GHz with Tualatin.

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-server/cpu-embarrassment-intel-recalls-pentium-iii-113ghz

 

[ultimatebob]

I had a slot A AMD 1ghz back in the day. Damn I used to think I was so cool.

I had a system with one of the first gen slot A Athlon 700 MHz chips. Damn, the drivers for that motherboard were flaky! I could never get the Mushkin memory in that thing to run stable at 133 MHz like it was supposed to, either. It always crashed and defaulted back to PC100.

 

[Spineshank]

I remember the stuff you could buy from FrozenCPU.

 

[YBS1]

I had a Step-Thermodynamics slot A Athlon that I believe ran at the magical 1GHz. I thought it was pretty neat at the time, but performance increases were coming so fast back then I think I only used that system for 6 months before upgrading again. Ahhh.... the bad old days.

 

[SketchMaster]

OK, that was Arctic Silver. Think I still have some AS5!

I believe KryoTech may be the brand I was looking for....
http://www.anandtech.com/show/432

Ah man... I remember scavenging parts and building my first AMD system from a 500MHz Slot A and DUAL Voodoo2. I thought I was the ***t, and showed off the 3Dmark demo to all my friends.

Then I joined the online community...

 

[Kaido]

Ah, those were the days. My first rig was a 1.4ghz Tbird. Overclocked that puppy to 1.6ghz! I think my cell phone's CPU runs faster than that now

 

[CZroe]

Ah man... I remember scavenging parts and building my first AMD system from a 500MHz Slot A and DUAL Voodoo2. I thought I was the ***t, and showed off the 3Dmark demo to all my friends.

Then I joined the online community...

Sorry. I'm also pooping.

 

[*kjm]

I think they had (Peltier?) coolers on them.

This:thumbsup:

 

[Homerboy]

People's first "real" build were in the 1Ghz range? Jesus I'm old.

I remember getting a Cyrix 133Mhz and thinking it was an incredible jump from my 66mhz.
Then later I got a Pentium Pro 200Mhz and was cock of the walk
Celeron 350A OC'ed to 400 in a Abit PH6
Then DUAL 350As @400 in a Abit BP6
Then I have no idea where I went from there. Maybe an OC'ed AMD TBird?

 

[Cal166]

My first PC was a Intel Pentium 120Mhz then went over to AMD Slot-A 750Mhz.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Tandy 2000 was my first pc. A pentium 90 mhz compaq frankenputer was my first build.

I'm 27 (not that old right) and grew up pretty poor. My first current gen performance build was the Q8200 OCed and now the FX.