Aluminum Athlon

This project started out in somewhat unusual fashion. I’d built a few Super7 systems over the past year or so, and didn’t seem to get the sort of performance in 3D games I’d like. Desktop performance, any integer-heavy computation was extremely snappy on a high-end Super7 setup, but the FPU was inherently lacking versus other systems with CPUs of the same frequency. So, I opted to upgrade by one generation to the “Athlon Classic” (a 180nm Slot A part so not the very first Athlon, but with the same lithography as the K6-II/III+.