IT'S THURSDAY, AND GUESS WHAT? IT'S #TBT!
It's finally here - the 18-year-old (probably 19 if we're a bit sensible about the actual production date) Pentium II 233MHz, from the Klamath family. Living history, well, maybe not, I can't guarantee that it works. Here it is with its companion heatsink, both all cleaned up with a razor blade and isopropyl alcohol.
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Here is the back, the ol' 5mm aluminium plate that we all wish was smothering our FX-8350s and i7-4790Ks instead.
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I still don't see the point of that sticker, but it's like trying to find a purpose behind the stylised sliver of silicon on Intel's SSDs and case badges. #yolo let's just have a sticker to make it seem like the CPU is underneath, because AMD doesn't have one.
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Unfortunately,
GreiverBlade's analysis seems to be correct, as Intel sadly discontinued this kind of Slot 1 cartridge design after Pentium II, seemingly shifting to a crappy plastic enclosure. They literally cut corners; the corners are "cut off" on the P3s.
There's also a S3 Trio64 that I dug up yesterday; unfortunately, I couldn't get it here in time, so the 20-year-old VGA card is going to have to wait until next Thursday.
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