CPU Porn

[schmuckley]

Thanks for posting

 

[Carson Dyle]

Why do people save their garbage? I once knew a guy who had two bedrooms and half a house full of newspapers going back to 1965. Another guy I once lived next to had about 40 or 50 rusting washers and dryers sitting in his back yard.

 

[tweakboy]

nice!!!!! work

 

[AkumaX]

Omg that's so hot...

 

[ShadowVVL]

Finally a good thread Been weeks since anything decent was posted!

I think that is one of the most impressive collections I have seen and its beautiful.
I would also be interested in seeing other hardware even floppy drives from the 80s if you got any.

I thought it would be neat to keep them as a reminder of where we have come from.

I collect computer hardware, monitors.tvs,radios,vcrs,car parts....ect for the same reason. I only have 5 cpus and the oldest one is a intel from 95 which was my first computer.

 

[Joeydubbs]

nice collection, more silicon than the usual porn I see!

 

[JEDIYoda]

should have named the thread -- CPU Hyper thread orgasm!!

 

[jumpncrash]

I have a good collection, but not that many, I've thrown out alot over the years. I still have a tape backup drive and a 5 1/4 floppy drive

 

[CRCSUX]

Damn I wish I had kept some of my old stuff like this. Nowhere near the amount you have but worth hanging on to for me. Very nostalgic.

 

[tolis626]

I was born in '94 and I do remember some of these CPUs.My father had a 60MHz Pentium when he first opened his office.That computer made it to our house one day and I was so excited back then!All these lights flashing on that strange TV...Or that's what I thought when I saw DOS for the first time.

Interestingly,even if someone added the computing power of all these together somehow,they probably wouldn't match a modern CPU.Strange,eh?

 

[ViRGE]

Interestingly,even if someone added the computing power of all these together somehow,they probably wouldn't match a modern CPU.Strange,eh?

We live in amazing times. There's no other technology that has experienced such a massive and sustained improvement over time like integrated circuits have.

 

[blackened23]

A lot of this is before my time but thanks for taking the time to post this, OP! Pretty awesome stuff. :thumbsup:

 

[2is]

That's a lot of gold!

 

[Maximilian]

Sweet thread OP! Ive got a small collection of CPU's, nothing rare though.

Heres a pentium PRO I sanded the top off of.

Adding one of those elusive nexgen nx586 chips to your collection would be a good move :thumbsup:

 

[Virgorising]

Why do people save their garbage? I once knew a guy who had two bedrooms and half a house full of newspapers going back to 1965. Another guy I once lived next to had about 40 or 50 rusting washers and dryers sitting in his back yard.

Watch American Pickers on cable. It will broaden and enrich you, and grow Eyes by Marcel Proust,

http://www.history.com/shows/american-pickers

 

[WiseUp216]

Awesome collection.

My first DIY upgrade was adding RAM to my 486 DX2-66 so I could run Netscape. Amazing how far we've come in 20 years.

 

[NTMBK]

The only thing that your collection needs to be completely awesome is some Transmeta love. Their chips had some really cool ideas, even if they didn't work out.

 

[jihe]

Wow that's a lot of gold right there.

 

[Raduque]

Nice big collection.

I used to have a big zip-lock bag full of those older 486, Pentium, AMD K6 and Celeron chips. I had a matched pair of Celeron 333s, two cacheless 300MHz slot Celerons, and several of those old PII and PIII slot CPUs.

I've still got a couple of Tualarons (Tualatin Celerons) somewhere, and a P3 933/133 Coppermine EB on a board with 1gb of DDR that still works.

I have several AMD Athlon Thunderbirds, 4 or 5 Durons, and two Bartons. Never had any slot Athlons.

 

[Skitzer]

Nice post. Thank you for the eye candy.

I thought I had a big collection of old CPU's and Memory ... it pales in comparison to yours.

 

[MeldarthX]

hah looks like my old work place. I loved seeing that; I have fond memories of my AMD DX2-66 OC to 100.......and my K62- OC to 600.....lol saving up to upgrade my ram from 32 megs; to 64, then 96.......

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Wow, nice collection, OP!
I can't say I have as many as you

Sadly, we can't do this with ARM chips... imagine showing your grandkids what the first Android smartphone was based on....

 

[bbhaag]

Thanks for sharing OP. The pics of the 386 reminded me of my very first computer. It was a Packard Bell running MS-DOS 5.0.

I still remember jumping for joy late one night when I finally got Wing Commander II to load in the upper memory area and I was finally able to play it. Good times, good times.