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250 nanometer transistor design yeah I am not joking that's more than 15 times larger than the 14 enemy to process current Intel CPUs and AMD GPUs utilized today by 12 kilobytes of l2 cache that was not integrated into the CPU die itself a motherboard fitted with a CPU slot not a CPU socket so what processor am I talking about check this thing out the AMD k7 one of only four generations of CPUs to ever take advantage of a CPU slot in this case you're looking at a slot a AMD's first attempt at a slot one mimic created by Intel two years earlier this was a great mimic actually both the AMD and Intel slots were identical you could place a compatible Pentium 2 in an AMD slot and vice versa although nothing would happen the wiring of the circuits beneath the socket on the respective boards mid cross compatibility and impossible tasks but I mean that makes sense if you're wondering this k7 wasn't free but it might as well have been I actually received this processor from a family member who was scavenging old computer parts I guess that does make it free the K 7 motherboard was a bit difficult to find but it wasn't expensive by any means the only compatible Ram was SDRAM which had a unique to knotch design and a theoretical operating frequency of 200 megahertz thanks to double data rate technology hence DDR SDRAM for graphics I found a 3dfx voodoo3 1000 graphics card a card you would have found in a computer of this caliber daring it today it's nothing fancy features a single VGA port no cooler that tells you anything right there 16-bit color support limited textures and a great deal of competition and videos GeForce 256 soon stole the show I discussed the 256 in greater detail in a video you can check out in the card above me now as for power pretty much anything with molex connectivity would have worked I actually pulled one out of another computer 320 Watts solid with plenty of peripheral support since the motherboard only supported IDE also known as parallel ata unlike serial ata or SATA that we use today I was forced to you the hard drive with an IDE interface someone actually gave one to me for free I doubt he could find a compatible computer you'll also want a sound card if you're interested in actually hearing anything sound blasters are always a nice touch a CD drive was also a staple in the late 90s so it's going in here as well for the case I went a bit fancy and fan boyish but just for fun here's a thermal take v3 AMD Black Edition gaming case wouldn't be my first choice but it fits the AMD old-school theme and the Scorpion on the side looks freakin awesome so did it turn on yes after about five or six attempts the IDE cables were finicky I couldn't connect my CD drive to the motherboard at all and yes I know the difference between slave and master it just wouldn't post I was hoping to showcase some old cd-rom games but that wasn't going to be possible with his configuration because I couldn't connect the cd-rom drive to the computer at all alien vs. predator loaded uphill without the CD but it froze just as I was entering the campaign this happened again and again and again I had games like sim golf rollercoaster tycoon 2 and The Sims all lined up to show you but given the circumstances I'm surprised it even booted up at all it actually took about 12 minutes to do even that nonetheless here's my point the kinds of games you could play on this PC similar to the games that I just mentioned were not the kinds of games you wanted to just boost the frame rates of in fact most of these were lost relatively low frame rates anyway and the VGA interface isn't capable of extreme rates in its own right I did however enjoy building this PC and I hope that you at least were able to take a bit of history home with you from this video it's not every day you get to tinker with a slot CPU let alone one that actually works if you like this old-school retro just for kicks AMD PC build give the video a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you're the complete opposite or if you hate everything about life quickly subscribe but if you haven't already stay tuned for on and 390 benchmarks this is not an R 9 390 in here this is a gtx 980ti if you follow me on twitter you would have already known that be sure to do so at sc/st Salazar this is science studio thanks for learning with us you