LoL, hey everyone
While browsing for CPU info, I bucked up on this rather interesting article which at the end of it - gives clues to what the Pentium D moniker actually stands for![]()
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,121126-page,1/article.html
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that reminds me of police academy.
you are d squad.......d for dirtbags
it really doesn't suprise me, they where some of the crappest cpu's to hit the market. -
Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:00 PM PDT
Wow that's old. 2 years in CPU time = 100 years Human time. -
Intel Pentium Donkey... Sounds about right.
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heh and I bet you if they officially called it that, marketed it with Donkeys being lazy in their ads and even wrote it all on the box, they'd still sell millions of em!
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well i got my pentium donkey to 4.2ghz last night on air... wee fun. benchmarks shows it is on par with the amd x2 6000 now
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Im curious though. how did you manage to coax errr overclock it to run at 4ghz? did you by any chance use the ol'stick and carrot method of overclocking
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But it is a DONKKKKKKKKAAAAYY!!!
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LoL!
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Yeah I remember some managed to do that with a Pentium and a DFI motherboard and probably using one of those sub zero cooling systems
Intel admits - Pentium 'D' stands for 'Donkey' :p
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