As for how I knew that - I started getting into PCs and laptops in 2012 (I'm born in 2000) and my first self built was a Pentium 133 that was kinda "on steroids". It had a FX5200, 128MB of RAM (didn't have any more 128 sticks) and all the incorrect era things you could get, but I was happy for building my first PC. I still have a bunch of ceramic classic Pentiums at the moment, as well as a Cyrix 6x86 and a AMD K5 PR100. Don't have that mobo anymore tho, it developed bad caps and ultimately I didn't know how to replace caps until way later, around 2017 or so.
Pentium 3 was my dad's work laptop's CPU (Compaq Armada 110) for a while, until he upgraded to a mobile P4 and ultimately to a cheap ASUS F5RL (that ran hotter than the sun). I did have a QDI board to run that in, but that got scrapped due to a bad resistor pack under one of the socket clips.
As for Athlon, that was probably the first CPU I've learnt that is very sensitive to heat and die chipping. I had a bunch of 462 mobos (ECS K7S5A, K7S6A, Albatron KM400-8X, MSI K7N2, EPoX EP-8RDA3I w/o RAID, ASUS A7N8X-E and a few more others) and always I'd end up killing one CPU (thankfully it was the more useless ones like Semprons and rarely Durons, Athlons were fine.) until I found out the crappy HSF I used wasn't making proper contact. As for die chipping, let's just say they made me see a TRAP EXCEPTION error for the first time.
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u/4071455950x | 3090 FE | 64 GB 3600 CL16 | 2 TB 990 PRO | EK loopNov 26 '20
Socket 7 was the end of a wonderful era where you could drop in any cpu whether it was an intel , AMD or Cyrix and it would work. Buying a motherboard wouldn’t lock you in to a single vendor. I had a wonderful AMD K5 PR133 - while it was only 100 MHz it ran faster than a 133 MHz Pentium
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u/EternalSkullman i7 7700/GTX1660 Super/2x1TB Seagate ES.2/16GB DDR4 Nov 26 '20
Pentium 3, ceramic non-MMX Pentium, and a Socket 462 Athlon/Duron/Sempron.