AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas etched onto the chip

Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by accrual on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:20AM (#39303802)

This is especially fascinating to me because I have such a K7 chip right next to me! I never had one in their heyday but built a K7 rig last year to test AGP 8x cards. It's a pretty impressive chip and my fastest retro CPU. Paired with a fast AGP card, it handles HL2 and Doom 3 pretty well.

These were the last 32-bit chips from AMD before they introduced AMD64 to the world with the Athlon64. They would eventually gain dual-channel DDR memory with KT880 chipset, the last mainstream 32-bit AMD consumer chipset in 2004. [0]

[0] https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/724-via-kt880-chips...

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Re:AMD Athlon K7 Easter egg has a revolver and map of Texas ... by M95D on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:33PM (#39306466)

I also have mine right next to me, but instead of upgrading to KT880, I downgraded to KT133 board with an ISA slot for my Sound Blaster 16. I really wanted a KT133A with 133MHz FSB, but no luck. Those boards are so hard to find.

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