Why are you not using a Pentium III?

Why are you not using a Pentium III?

...because there are newer, better processors out right now?

You mean ryzen?

Who says I'm not?

Technically, all Intelfags are using a Pentium III in this very moment.

Technically, all Intel and AMDfags are using an 8086 at this very moment.

>Ryzen
>being able to compete with the Pentium III's single core performance

Bit I'm using Pentium 4?

>Pentium 4

How's your inferior IPC housefire treating you?

Upgrade to a PowerPC 970 and watch your house melt.

Actually it's a Pentium 4-M and I'm currently installing gentoo on it.
>3h in and still no usable OS
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into this and install Linux from scratch on that.

Master race coming through.

because 250 MHz cache is for shitters
more like a fast 386 with 64-bit extensions, but from an internal design perspective modern Intel chips certainly do have a fundamental similarity to P6 designs, but to act like they're still Pentium IIIs is intellectually dishonest and shill-tier shitposting, that shit died with Yonah

*blocks your path*

The underage arrived.

was pentium 3 before intel botnet or was that pentium 2?

Intel botnet started after core2

says the kid who could only afford cheap single-socket systems with mommy and daddy's money

>INTELectually dishonest.
>INTEL ACTUALLY DISHONEST

desu these processors shoulnd be called Xeon, they should be called Bentium iii enhanced edition.

wait.......

that really made me think

I'm using the 16th iteration

>he doesn't know about the pentium III processor unique ID

Was the Xbox the biggest game changer for console hardware?

>Celeron/PIII equivalent
>HDD
>Nvidia Ti 4200 equivalent (or 3xxx)
>720p some games (Amped looked like a next gen game)

It was definitely a massive step forward

Xbox was the first modern console.

It did start the trend of consoles just being locked-down PCs, yes.

when were they ever not, consoles have just been shittier low-cost personal computers from the beginning

Well the lockdown part simplified the need for RAM and HDD capacity

The Xbox still needed more RAM to really last. It only lasted 4 years. The GPU was great (like GeForce 3 Ti 500). DirectX 8.1 was a huge part of it, since many of Microsoft's third parties could support it.

I would say the Xbox was the basis for Havoc physics and video game physics in general. It did get an HL2 port that I played and enjoyed.

Visually Doom 3 looked fantastic, as did Halo CE and Halo 2.

But I am. I found one on the roadside a couple of weeks ago that I installed Windows 2000 on. It's some Compaq Deskpro from about '99 with 256MB RAM. It works perfectly.

I'd argue that the extremely unique hardware that older gens had made them not shitty pcs

I still have one, but have no reason to use it.

Why are you not killing yourself?

Anyone using a intel core or i series is just using a heavily modified pentium 3 rn

>not using PII at 233MHz with W98 and CRT watching old cartoons with Windows Media Player 7 for childhood nostalgia
How can you even live with yourself?

fuck off with that CPUID shit

Here's a better question:
Why there's no Pentium V?

Because I'm using a Pentium 2.

But I am.

I dick around with my T43 with its Pentium M processor, which is pretty close to the P3 as Intel went back to the P3 arch for M after the P4 housefires. It can practically do most of what I do on my T520.

Because it's old.

But I'd like to take this opportunity to hand it to the Pentium II.

That CPU was a strange one, CPU was built into one big plastic casing and inserting it on the motherboard was like plugging in a PCI card or something.

REGARDLESS, The Pentium II is hands on the CPU that I used the longest. And by that I mean really, really long. I never actually had a desktop with one, I got a computer with a P2 cheap around 1999. I set it up as a home NAS/Firewall/Web server. It just sat there doing it's thing for 9 whole years. Never used any other system that long.