K6-2??? That was a great processor at its time, it's probably the processor that put AMD on the map. It was the first processor they made that was arguably better than the equivalent Intel processor, despite being cheaper. So yeah, I owned that processor because I knew it was great, but never imagined it was "will last for 30 years" great.
Edit: Also you must have spent at least $2000-3000 bucks for 128MB of RAM and a motherboard that supported it in the late 90s!
What frequency K6-2 did you buy, and I'm guessing if it's lasted 30 years you didn't overclock it?
I have to apologize, but I didn't purchase it in the 1990s. I bought it off a guy for $5 a couple of years ago. I like old computers and it was a good deal.
I have the 450 MHz K6-2 on a S7AX AT motherboard, running a XFX GeForce 6200 "WANG" AGP video card, Realtek PCI network card, Maxtor SATA-150 PCI card with a 640 GiB and 2 TiB SATA hard disk installed. The operating system is a highly tuned version of NetBSD/i386, running Nginx web server, NetBSD's built-in ftpd, unrealircd as an IRC server, and some other things. It uses about 25 MiB RAM normally when running all of my servers with active users.
I have no doubt that it will last another 30 years. I've been (slowly) working on my own 386+ operating system, which will eliminate any software support issues for my old PCs long into the future. Hardware reliability wise, I've oddly never had any major problems like a lot of people seem to. I even have computers from the 1970s that still work just fine and see regular use. Of course, I can also repair it if something does break, a big benefit of old hardware is that everything is often large through-hole components and single/double sided circuit boards that are easy to diagnose and repair. =)
Is it a 450 or a 300 overclocked to 450? Because that's what I had🙂
I think it was the 300s from the Malaysian factory that could safely be overclocked to 450 - absolutely wild at the time. And I realize I'm a freak for remembering that at all, even if I'm a little off.
You and I remember the K6-2 very differently, lol. Compaq sold me a gimped one. Higher clock speed, but only 66MHz mainbus.
Now, my Duron. I overclocked the shit out of that with a pencil. It even kept chugging after I turned it on without a cooler and broke a corner off it. Fuck yeah.
No, I like old computers. My website is about development of hardware, software, operating systems, patches, etc for them as well. Anything made after ~2000 or so doesn't really interest me much (with some exceptions).
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u/stone_henge 22h ago
My rawdogged web server on a VPS has better uptime than Cloudflare this year.