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20 years ago today....

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On the 20'th April 2003 AMD gave us 64Bit computing, AMD64, or later known as X86_64, i was there, i'm old, back then you had 2 versions of Windows XP, the standard 32Bit, it could only handle a maximum of 3.2GB of System RAM, even if you had 4GB installed it would only use 3.2GB.
And Windows XP 64. Which had no limits.

AMD did not invent 64Bit, at the time there was competition for 64Bit, including from Intel, AMD were they only ones who could get it to work and work efficiently, everyone else, including Intel eventually gave up, Intel now use AMD's 64Bit IP, to this very day.

Today its the default everywhere that matters, we can't do without it.


On your Intel system navigate to C:/Windows/WinSxS

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Cool bit of history.

I remember buying a 3700+ San Diego Athlon, stepping was CABGE and it overclocked like a cabbage too.... Think 2.6Ghz was max I could get out of it which matched the FX55 my friend paid around double more than I did for exact same performance and he was raging :D. If I had a good stepping/clocker he'd have exploded. I then got the 3800 X2, first one I bought from here overclocked like a lemon so I bought a tried and tested one that overclocked well from an overclocker in America called V1nce. I'm pretty sure it was Kingpin but this was through Overclock(dot)net and on an abandoned email address so I'll never know for sure but I'm pretty confident it was him.

Opteron looked fun to mess with, so many clocked insanely well IIRC.

Then Core2Duo came and put Intel back on top for a very long time.
 
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To contribute my first was an Athlon 3800+, then an Athlon X2 5200+, another AMD contribution to X86 as the first true X86 multicore CPU.

Then a Phenom II X6 1090T, (Thuban) back in the days when AMD called their unlocked CPU's "Black Edition" i adored that CPU, after that it all went a bit Pete Tong, those coming of age in the 1990's will have heard that before. :)
 
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To contribute my first was an Athlon 3800+, then an Athlon X2 5200+, another AMD contribution to X86 as the first true X86 multicore CPU.

Then a Phenom II X6 1090T, (Thuban) back in the days when AMD called their unlocked CPU's "Black Edition" i adored that CPU, after that it all went a bit Pete Tong, those coming of age in the 1990's will have heard that before. :)
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My first AMD chip was a 1700 that clocked really really well, in fact so well it got me hooked on overclocking. The next one was a 2500 Mobile that clocked like crazy and then another stepping of the 2500 mobile that just blew everything out of the water.

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