I remember this. Was running an Athlon box at the time. The RDRAM kerfuffle, and the privacy implications of each part being given a queryable unique ID, scared me off getting a Pentium III system.<p>Remember that time Rambus tried to get a hammerlock on the RAM industry by claiming patent rights over DDR, the industry's alternative to RDRAM?
>The Pentium III (especially a single CPU) was not a particularly memory-hungry CPU<p>So CPUs are now wrestling software for memory? What is this supposed to mean?
I remember Asus refusing to accept that there was any flaw with the cc820 at all, and thus not joining in on the recall, it was my last Asus board for a few years as a result (finally turned back to them in ~2006 with a Core 2).<p>The lack of that recall on Asus brand cc820 based boards, is probably why one commenter notes that they were easy to find in 2014.
Yeah fuck all that noise the single edge contact cartridge cpus were all so over priced for my 13 year old budget so I went with the k6-2 and overclocked that biatch