Russian Dude Shows Off Awesome CPU Collection
Russian Dude Shows Off Awesome CPU Collection
Posted 07/29/2010 at 5:24am
| by Paul Lilly
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Remember that scaled down replica of Helsinki, Finland constructed entirely of motherboards we showed you two months ago? This Russian guy's "humble collection" of CPUs, as he describes them in a forum post, might just have the motherboard city beat.
"Cat Vaska," as he's known online, listed over a thousand CPUs, or so we're told (it takes long enough just scrolling through the list, let alone trying to count every chip). It's an impressive collection, to say the least, with processors dating back to the 286 era and earlier, and up to around the Pentium III, or thereabouts. He even lists a few fake chips that have been remarked.
Take a look at some more pics here, and scroll through his forum post here. When you're finished, hit the jump and tell us which you think is more impressive, the motherboard city model or the this seemingly ultimate CPU collection.
Image Credit: EnglishRussia.com
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JDHatman
July 29, 2010 at 11:32am
I love the collection. It's very impressive, but in the end, it's just a bunch of processors. I'm personally more impressed with the motherboard city. It's just a bunch of motherboads, grant it, but it's a bunch of motherboards arranged into a beautiful and imaginative creation.
Motherboard City - 1
Processor Colltion - 0
lunchbox73
July 29, 2010 at 10:06am
What a wierd setting. What are those all laid out on? Is it a bed or some futon type thing? I'm assuming it's a temporary display for sake of taking the photo. Gotta love his shirt too.
bingojubes
July 29, 2010 at 4:36pm
and the walls. that room must be a death trap for static electricity. it also looks like that is his bed under all of that.
rabbit01
July 29, 2010 at 7:08am
Wow, Cyrix CPU. I had that in one of my computers way back. Was still in school then & didn't have a job nor a lot of money to spend. Intel Pentium was expensive. A similar CPU from Cyrix was cheaper.
Keith E. Whisman
July 29, 2010 at 6:02am
I had an Athlon Thunderbird 700MHZ Slot 1 or A I, I can't remember who made what. I think that was 1996 or so. God I can remember purchasing that chip and the motherboard. Back then, before Fry's Electronics drove out all the ma and pa computer businesses, the Thursday newspaper in the Business section would be loaded with Ma and Pa computer store ads. Best prices in Arizona were in those pages. You didn't buy motherboards in a box loaded with extras. No, you purchased an AT motherboard that sad in an anti static bag and that is all you got. Sometimes, and I mean sometimes, you might get a manual but that hardly never happened. The Ma and Pa stores usually sold only OEM hardware but at incredible prices. That is, again, until Fry's Electronics was born from the death of Incredible Universe.
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