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@Nishi Here are the ones I have!
I also have an extremely rare K6-3+ 500 MHz somewhere, but I can't find it now. And everyone's favourite of the time — Celeron 300 MHz, which could be easily overclocked to 500 MHz.

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@m0xee @Nishi Ohh I remember those old AMD processors! We had one machine with maybe a K6-2 or K5-2, where I installed Windows Millenium Edition, that had to be reinstalled every 3 months or otherwise would go absolute unusable.

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@nicemicro I have more pleasant memories about these 😅
K6-2 was the CPU that made me learn that compiler optimizations make a difference. On K6-2 for example "mov AX, 0" was faster than "xor AX, AX" — that is what most used to zero out the register, so just rebuilding with -march=k6-2 was giving you sizeable performance gains. In QuakeForge on heavy scenes it was 22 FPS vs 17 FPS — nothing to sneer at! In integer maths the improvement was 20-25% on average, then there was 3D Now!
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