Hardware Asylum CES 2025 Coverage
I would like to thank Yeyian Gaming for helping sponsor Hardware Asylum during CES 2025. The Consumer Electronics Show starts Jan 9th and runs through Jan 12th.
Yeyian Gaming offers an wide range of solutions for the PC gamer including pre-built PCs to fully customized gaming computers with an online configurator. Their builds feature the latest in computer hardware including Intel Ultra, AMD Ryzen 9 and the latest in Nvidia RTX.
Be sure to check them out at https://us.yeyiangaming.com and the Venetian Tower if you'll be attending CES 2025.
Flashback Friday - Dual Pentium 450Mhz
Believe it or not, there was a time when processors only had a single core and to get better performance you had to double up. For this Flashback Friday I give you a Tyan Tiger S1832D Dual Pentium motherboard. This particular motherboard was designed for Pentium II based processors however I was running dual P3 450Mhz procs and matched it up with some PC-100 memory.
It is actually rather painful to think back on those days knowing that we can buy 8 and 10 core processors but when this system was built it was considered an elite enthusiast PC that I used mostly for 3DStudio MAX rendering, animation and AutoCAD. Of course I played games on this machine and it ran flawless.
Of course after a year or so I upgraded to a dual Pentium 3 800 EB based system and this particular motherboard became part of a development server.
Some interesting things about this board is the single AGP slot (important at the time) and a jumper based CPU selection. Those jumpers would set the FSB and multiplier and was an easy way to overclock the system at the hardware level. Tyan was/is a US based system board designer and was well known for their server board designs and multiprocessor motherboards for workstations.
