…Year 1999: No one knows yet which long-term hit will be released as a beta on the Gooseman and Cliffe website on June 19, 1999. The first Counter-Strike still had a lot of bugs and the map was immature. Still, within a few weeks, more than 10,000 visitors came to the site and laid the groundwork for the legendary Counter-Strike. From now on, the mod scene continues to work hard on the basic structure, and Valve has taken an interest and is helping with the financial injection. CS 1.0 will be released on November 8, 2000, and the purchase version will also be available in the store. Starting with Counter-Strike 1.6, the game is only available through Steam, followed by CS: Condition Zero and CS: Sources. To this day, many players are playing the original Counter-Strike, which has stayed alive through patches.
For more information Counter Strike History Available from the HL Portal. If you're interested in the basics of CS: Source, the Source engine, we recommend PCGH Special: The Source Engine with the Highest Image Quality.
… 2000: With Athlon, AMD has been able to successfully squeeze Intel in the CPU market, and even took the lead in breaking the gigabit barrier of x86 processors. But high-priced CPUs, which are sometimes popular with gamers, haven't helped AMD gain market share. So the Texans came up with a low-cost offshoot called the Dulong. The processor, code-named Spitfire, is based on the Athlon architecture, but has a slower 100MHz FSB and a smaller L2 cache of only 64K bytes. However, like the Thunderbird Athlons, it sits directly on the CPU die and runs at the full processor clock - thanks to it, the Duron surpasses the Celeron competition from Intel. It even regularly catches up to Pentium 3 CPUs with the same clock speed. OEM prices for the 600, 650, and 700 MHz versions initially shown were $112, $154, and $192, respectively, so they're on par with the corresponding Celeron models, with slightly higher power consumption of 22.7 to 25.5 watts.
The first Duron with a Spitfire core still lacks Intel's SSE extensions - this is provided by Morgan Durons, which is also manufactured using 180nm technology, but also enables higher clock frequencies due to the increased voltage . Thanks to low prices and strong performance, Duron processors sold well and allowed AMD to gain market share.
… 2001: The Pentium 4 is out, but it hasn't inspired anyone so far due to its rather low initial clock rate. On June 19th, Intel will reintroduce the old P6 architecture -- for the last time: in the form of the Pentium 3 with the Tualatin core. Manufactured using a modern 130nm process, the L2 cache is doubled to 512 KiByte, which is a bit faster than its predecessor Coppermine, much faster overall, and can even keep up with Athlon. While Tualatin is mostly used in servers and laptops (like the Mobile Pentium 3 M), and only a handful of desktop chipsets can handle it, it's becoming a popular last-minute upgrade option for many Socket 370 motherboards still using 1.4 GHz speeds upwards. In fan circles, the fastest stage of 1.4Ghz expansion is also affectionately known as "The King". However, the future belongs to the Pentium 4, at least for a few years: Intel will replace it with the Core architecture - which will again be more similar to the Pentium 3.
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