Now there's some old school tech. I literally haven't touched or even seen a floppy disk in the wild since maybe 2003. And the last time I seriously used one was on an Apple computer, back in 1988 or 1989, at my high school.
I had to do a BIOS update from a USB stick to use the faster CPU
So the BIOs can support the faster processor with the BIOS update, at least. Not all can, and I hate reaching a ceiling on them that can't be circumvented.
It was an Amazon reseller. The price was originally 15 dollars but there was a price drop.
Yeah, I could see that. I've looked up older CPUs/mobos we have kicking around here to sell on eBay and the best I could do on most of them was maybe $27 each, and those are some old damn processors (single core, max speed maybe 1.7 GHz?). And I thought/still think that at that price it isn't worth the trouble of listing them. So to get one at that speed for $5 sounds pretty good.
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Now there's some old school tech. I literally haven't touched or even seen a floppy disk in the wild since maybe 2003. And the last time I seriously used one was on an Apple computer, back in 1988 or 1989, at my high school.
I had to do a BIOS update from a USB stick to use the faster CPU
So the BIOs can support the faster processor with the BIOS update, at least. Not all can, and I hate reaching a ceiling on them that can't be circumvented.
It was an Amazon reseller. The price was originally 15 dollars but there was a price drop.
Yeah, I could see that. I've looked up older CPUs/mobos we have kicking around here to sell on eBay and the best I could do on most of them was maybe $27 each, and those are some old damn processors (single core, max speed maybe 1.7 GHz?). And I thought/still think that at that price it isn't worth the trouble of listing them. So to get one at that speed for $5 sounds pretty good.