Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks

budn3kkid writes "Seems like Upgradeware have a new gadget out for those overclockers looking to upgrade their age old Athlon mobo (KT133, KT266 etc.) with a spanking new AMD Barton CPU. Also, saw an article at ol' Tom's about it right here as well."

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who cares

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares?

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

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HTTP 403.9 -
Internet Information Services

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Microsoft Support

Japanese is not lame!

Re:Junis reporting in...

[Anonymous Coward]

Please do not degrade the name of Junis with such trivialities. The Junis troll shall stand through out history as an olive wreath to which only the best can aspire. You can only make Junis references if your troll is GOOD.

Re:Junis reporting in...

[Anonymous Coward]

That John Katz was a real unscrupulous fucker, wasn't he?

Slightly offtopic, but I have to say this.

[Anonymous Coward]

At first let me apologize. This is offtopic, but I have to say this.

Anyone heard of H.P. Lovecraft? The famous author who lived through late 1800 and early 1900 years. Anyone read his books? He has written _several_ books about a mysterious sea monster that lives deep in the ocean. A creature called CTHULHU.

What makes this story really interesting is this news story here.

Now those of you who have read H.P. Lovecraft's books about CTHULHU now doesn't this creature look a lot like one?? Seriously. I got chills when I heard about this news. This carcass is 12 meters long and it weights 13 000 kilograms and _NOBODY KNOWS_ what it is!!! Pretty scary thing!!! Those of you who have not read H.P.Lovecraft's books, get them and read them! They were written about 100 years ago, but he described with details this creature that was found on the shores of Chile!

Re:Slightly offtopic, but I have to say this.

[Anonymous Coward]

So far they've yet to blow up this carcas. One can only hope they get this one on video too!

Fuck

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck

Arrrrgggghhh!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Kuro5hin is down :(

Re:I'm sure retailers will love this.

[Anonymous Coward]

Fascist eurotrash.

Down in 3 years

[Anonymous Coward]

Hasn't been down in three years? Well I've got a girlfriend who hasn't been down in 12 months and I'm thinking of getting an upgrade. If your system hasn't been down in three years I'd be hopping mad!!!!

check this out - magic?

[intelligent poster]

Go to babelfish, and paste in the URL where you get the error message (its here) . Choose Japanese to English and hit translate. Presto, you get the article (complete with pics even). Is this some kind of sinister tie up between upgradeware and altavista to draw traffic to them? Food for thought. And as an aside, I would like to know why that is happening, because I am unable to figure it out.

Re:Ha!

[DaveAtFraud]

Oh, cone on now! Funny, as in, "Funny, I don't have any problem with my Athlon based system."

[dave@spindle ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1468.501
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 2929.45

[dave@spindle ~]# uptime
19:28:43 up 20 days, 20:31, 6 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.08

Unfortunately, the better example isn't an Athlon:

[dave@fraud ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 551.260
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
bogomips : 1101.00

[dave@fraud ~]# uptime
7:30pm up 110 days, 43 min, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00