June 19, 2000, the company has released a budget AMD processors Duron. In the new model range, buyers finally came to the high-frequency processors, more humane than the Athlon series, price. Their main competitors were, of course, “Junior Intel”, which were produced under the brand name Celeron. “Durany” hit the enemy with its affordable price and smart design, which became very common CPU in computers of initial level.
AMD Duron
The first generation of Duron processors worked on frequency from 600 to 950 MHz, and more efficient Athlon differed only in the amount of cache second level and worked in the usual other AMD motherboards with Socket A.
On the background of Intel Celeron, the characteristics of which were “smothered” in the amount of L2 cache and speed of the system bus, a beginner AMD-based architecture of the K7 looked much more promising — at system bus frequency equal to 100 MHz, its bandwidth was 3 times higher than comparably priced Intel processors. Not to mention the fact that the first-level cache from the Celeron was 4 times less than the “budget” AMD.
AMD Duron 950
Conveyor life AMD Duron lasted from 2000 to 2004. During this time of budget processors three times, changed the kernel (Spitfire, Morgan, Applebred), managed several times to “punish” Intel thanks modest, compared to Celeron, limitations in design and overclocking potential, then even “to beat their” in the face of higher hierarchy processors Athlon. The last became possible thanks to the inquiring mind of enthusiasts who have discovered that alteration AMD Duron into a full-fledged and more expensive Athlon XP (with the possibility of further acceleration) is sufficient to close only the foot, leading to the L2 cache.
In a time when duroy was based on a cut in potential chip in the Athlon XP (the period of “blossom” Pentium 4), they “gave a light” even those Celeron chips, which was obviously higher frequency. Because of this, AMD had to invent the proverbial “performance indexes”, when the digit, for example “1200+” usually meant that “the processor even at a lower clock frequency are equal in performance to a Pentium running at 1.2 GHz”.
But then the Duron brand was “buried” or if you prefer, copied to the Sempron — the number of innovations, prepared for the new budget processors, according to AMD, was worthy of a name change. By the way, Semproni exist to this day as the most available chips with integrated graphics.
19 June 1999 released the first beta version team shooter Counter-Strike. Legendary computer game was originally developed as an Amateur modification for the sci-Fi adventure “Half-Life”, and in a short time managed to become not only a symbol of “shooting from the computer club”, but the first Association with any computer game in the genre of action.
Game menu Counter-Strike BETA 1.0
Today the schedule of classic Counter-Strike is only a smile, but by the standards of his time, with the realism of the game was all right
The confrontation between terrorists and commandos in Counter-Strike BETA 1.0 was held exclusively according to the scenario “hostage rescue” is a popular card game, in which the special forces get the chance to defuse the bomb, came much later. Shooting was carried out only on maps cs_siege, cs_mansion, cs_wpndepot and cs_prison. It was not in the game and beloved by fans, models of weapons, such as AK-47, Desert Eagle and a knife, useful in close combat. But the dynamics, ease of shooting and principles of the game over the past 16 years has been preserved almost in its original form.
Recall that with the debut of the first Beta before the release of “recognized classics”, Counter-Strike 1.6, passed, neither more nor less, 4 years (CS 1.6 was released in the fall of 2003), and the latest version of the game called Global Offensive debut version separates the age of 13.
For winning the competition in Counter-Strike rely serious prizes. Photo — Ukrainian team Natus Vincere (Na’vi) Champions of the fourth season of Intel Extreme Masters
19 June 1947 military aircraft broke the speed barrier of 1000 km/h speed Record set by American pilot albert Boyd on a jet fighter Lockheed XP-80R Shooting Star. The plane-record was created by the conversion of first post-war fighter, the Lockheed P-80, the basic model of the US air force at the time. To overcome the barrier of high-speed aircraft supplied the original air intakes, sharp leading edge of the wing and a new cockpit canopy. In addition, the fighter, was a very powerful at the time of engine J-33-A-23, who had thrust up to 2090 lbs.
Experimental fighter Lockheed XP-80R
Serial variation of the Lockheed P-80 stood for the US air force in the 1950s and proved itself in the fighting during the conflict between North and South Korea, even despite the fact that the fighter was not designed for a targeted attack ground targets. However, with Soviet rival, the MiG-15 “champion” from U.S. competition could not withstand, and soon was used only in the role of reconnaissance aircraft.