From modest host to mad scientist build — Hammer is now running an i9 with 128GB RAM On July 20, 2025, I published this article titled ‘Servers’, where I walk through the home servers we’ve assembled over the years. In that article, I wrote that the ultimate upgrade for my Proxmox host would be an…
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35 Years of CPU Mayhem!
When 16 MHz was enough… until my laptop showed up 20,000 times faster Here we are in 2025. i9s, fast Ryzen CPUs, Xeons with a gazillion cores — computers nowadays are fast beyond belief. But it all started somewhere! Intel kicked off the PC revolution with the 8088 CPU (add Wikipedia link later as a…