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Old Pc's are wierd. lol
blubart:
--- Quote from: surdumil on November 22, 2009, 11:43:44 AM ---...without need of a heat sink or forced air conduction. It uses a big metal square under the device to conduct heat into the circuit board.
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isn't that what one would call a heat sink? :P
rheffera:
--- Quote ---Yes, Apple used the PowerPC architecture throughout the 90s. Was a very good architecture up until the early 2000s when it just started to suck and Apple eventually switched to Intel.
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Which is the moment when Apple became Worthless. To me anyway.
The whole reason i liked macs was that they were different than Intel and Old Billy over at micro$oft.
I remember buying a 68k performa from my high school. MMM '040 processor.
I remember having a power pc 603e. it was brutally efficient at running Mac OS 7; vs Microsoft's buggy win98 at the time.
And the game escape velocity. and sim city 2000. MMMMM memories
In fact for thier time they were damn good against Intel and winblows.
Now all an apple is is an overpriced windows pc. The OS's are interchangeable. Might as well buy a regular PC and install mac os manually :(.
speaking of old computers; i just came across a bunch of old 286's. they were never touched! cable ties on the power supply cords!!!!
Lupin:
--- Quote from: Mikan on November 22, 2009, 01:12:08 PM --- (click to show/hide)These things even have any value?
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The processor has gold pins in it if I'm not mistaken
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: Mikan on November 22, 2009, 01:12:08 PM ---The socket has a little metal square in the center surrounded by the prongs then everything on top is ceramic lol
This is from 1994, so unless you mean older PC's I guess mac did things differently, as always.
(click to show/hide)These things even have any value?
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The little square is either an exposed die, or a heatspreader covering the die.
Ceramic packaging persisted into the Pentium Pro and Thunderbird Athlon days. Via used ceramic packaging for a bit longer, switching to plastic with the C7. Processor packaging needs to be an electrical insulator capable of handling high operating temperatures without deforming or degrading. Intel developed plastic packaging in 1993 and first used it at a production level with the high end Pentium Pro about 3 years later. It's lighter, less expensive to produce, and far less likely to crack under the pressure of a heatsink.
And no, it's not worth much.
Mikan:
--- Quote from: Lupin on November 22, 2009, 03:38:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mikan on November 22, 2009, 01:12:08 PM --- (click to show/hide)These things even have any value?
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The processor has gold pins in it if I'm not mistaken
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Yea its gold pins.
It says this stuff on it too.
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