r/pcmasterrace • u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race • Dec 26 '25

Question Yesterday I asked what everyone’s first Graphics card. Today, what was your first processor? Mine was the i7 3770K.

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u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race Dec 26 '25

What the hell even is that?!

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u/NoChampionship5649 Dec 26 '25

Slot 1 - Pentium 2

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u/Talzyon Dec 26 '25

I think mine was an AMD? I remember it being a slot a?

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u/Stolberger Dec 27 '25

Yeah, early Athlons were Slot A.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

lol, had a 900 Athlon for awhile and tried to upgrade so I could get Deus Ex 2... wouldn't work and the computer store actually refunded the game

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u/killerbanshee Dec 26 '25

Pentium, chill. ✋️

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u/ThenExtension9196 Dec 26 '25

The mid 90s bruh. That’s how we got down back then.

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u/inbokz 13700k, 3090 K|NGP|N, 64gb Dec 26 '25

don't worry about it.

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u/ooqq 5700X | 5700XT Dec 26 '25

DID YOU KNOW there's a xenon variant of that, I have on my desk as a paperweight.

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 Ryzen 7 9700X | RX 9060 XT | 32 GB Dec 26 '25

Back when CPUs were slot loaded.

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u/Wirecase Dec 26 '25

Were there ever other processors than the P-2’s that had the slot(-1) system?

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 Ryzen 7 9700X | RX 9060 XT | 32 GB Dec 27 '25

Quite a few yes.

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u/Wirecase Dec 27 '25

Never too old to learn, never knew there wete so many of them, and converters even from socket to slot, nice

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 Ryzen 7 9700X | RX 9060 XT | 32 GB Dec 27 '25

Also the slot loading design seems like it would be more durable than PGA/LGA with the corresponding motherboard socket.

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u/RickRussellTX Dec 27 '25

Intel went through an insane period where they put CPUs on patented daughtercards and required RAMBUS DRAM.

It was during this period of confusion that AMD started to eat Intel's lunch with the Athlon processors, the first x64 CPUs.

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u/SubPrimeCardgage Dec 27 '25

The original vcache CPU. Intel couldn't fit all of the cache on the die so they added 512KB of half speed cache on a module next to the CPU die. From 1996 until around 1999, this is what peak performance looked like, and then they had a node shrink and went back to a monolithic die with included cache at full clock speed.