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[Maximilian]

I been buying cheap CPU's from ebay

My little collection

From the bottom, left to right there is:

Pentium PRO 1MB
Pentium PRO 512kb
Pentium PRO 256kb (my coaster)
Pentium 1 200mhz MMX
Cyrix MII 300mhz
Intel 486 DX2 50mhz
Intel PIIIE 600mhz
Opteron 170 (getting ebayed)
Pentium III 450mhz
Pentium II Xeon 400mhz
Pentium II 333mhz
Itanium 800mhz

I had a busted socket A athlon but ive lost it, and a socket 423 P4 but i sold that. Does anyone else collect cpu's?

Update

 

[acegazda]

sweet thats probably the best way to throw cash right down the drain. Great job...really ure a hero.
j/k but I would nevr do that.

 

[Duvie]

Sounds cool....i was going to do it awhile back and build like a mini cpu museum, but found out it was actually quite expensive once you got into the Athlon/Duron and P4 chips....

 

[CheesePoofs]

I have a cyrix MII and a PowerPC G3, but thats it for my collection.

 

[Cooler]

All my CPUs I have work and are in computers.

286 10mhz
386 25mhz
486DX4 75 mhz
PII350 (laptop)
PIII 1.0GHZ
P4 willamette 1.8 ghz
P4 2.4ghz northwood (laptop)
P-D 840EE 3.2@3.8

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Soviet
I been buying cheap CPU's from ebay

My little collection

:thumbsup: That's kinda cool.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: Duvie
Sounds cool....i was going to do it awhile back and build like a mini cpu museum, but found out it was actually quite expensive once you got into the Athlon/Duron and P4 chips....

Yea, i was trying to get my hands on a Tualatin PIII for the collection, but theyre real expensive too. I was thinking on just getting broken ones instead, all my current ones apparently still work, but its not like im ever gonna test them so it wouldnt matter if they didnt work. A nice busted Northwood would be a good addition

 

[jlbenedict]

need to get an AMD K6 and K62
you should be able to find those fairly cheap

 

[phaxmohdem]

My little CPU collection

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/oldcpus.jpg

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/oldcpus2.jpg

I've also got a cardboard box full of random CPU's I run into. ITs a fun hobby actually and it seems to get quite expensive when you get into the first early intel chips as well That white 4004 in the pic cost me over $200 on eBay.

Regardless, you've got an Itanium... I'm jealous.

 

[compgeek89]

Originally posted by: phaxmohdem
My little CPU collection

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/oldcpus.jpg

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/oldcpus2.jpg

I've also got a cardboard box full of random CPU's I run into. ITs a fun hobby actually and it seems to get quite expensive when you get into the first early intel chips as well That white 4004 in the pic cost me over $200 on eBay.

Regardless, you've got an Itanium... I'm jealous.

Now THAT is a collection. Im jealous.

"Mommy why does Bobby get a 108khz CPU to play text editor on and not me? "

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

All in operation & crunching
P3-550
P3-776
dual P3-776
dual Xeon 2.66

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Soviet
I been buying cheap CPU's from ebay

My little collection

From the bottom, left to right there is:

Pentium PRO 1MB
Pentium PRO 512kb
Pentium PRO 256kb (my coaster)
Pentium 1 200mhz MMX
Cyrix MII 300mhz
Intel 486 DX2 50mhz
Intel PIIIE 600mhz
Opteron 170 (getting ebayed)
Pentium III 450mhz
Pentium II Xeon 400mhz
Pentium II 333mhz
Itanium 800mhz

I had a busted socket A athlon but ive lost it, and a socket 423 P4 but i sold that. Does anyone else collect cpu's?

How much L2 does your Pentium II Xeon 400mhz have its is basicly same core as th PII and it is 2x the size.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: phaxmohdem
My little CPU collection

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/oldcpus.jpg

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/oldcpus2.jpg

I've also got a cardboard box full of random CPU's I run into. ITs a fun hobby actually and it seems to get quite expensive when you get into the first early intel chips as well That white 4004 in the pic cost me over $200 on eBay.

Regardless, you've got an Itanium... I'm jealous.

Thats a real sweet collection! Framed and labelled, very nice dude.

Originally posted by: Cooler
How much L2 does your Pentium II Xeon 400mhz have its is basicly same core as th PII and it is 2x the size.

My Pentium II Xeon has 1MB of L2 cache, twice that of the PII, and its full speed whilest still remaining off die.

Yea it is basically the same as a 400mhz PII deschutes apart from the different slot and cache.

 

[phaxmohdem]

I've also got a pair of PII Xeons w/ 1MB cache each. The reason that the Xeon cartridges are SO frickin huge is that the Cache on a PII Xeon runs at full clock speed. Now this doesn't sound impressive, but back in the day the Cache was NOT on-die, and as such the Xeon needed some serious busses & bandwidth (and clever cache packaging) to talk to the external cache on the PCB at full speed. The standard PII chip also has its cache off die, underneath that nifty plastic nintendo looking cartridge, but it could only talk to its L2 cache at half speed (400MHz P2 = 200MHz L2 Cache)

Edit: I just raided my collection and broke open a PII Xeon and a normal PII so you can see what the difference is inside those crazy cartridges. Kind of interesting.

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/xeonpii1.jpg <--Xeon and PII side by side

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/xeonpii2.jpg <--Backside of Open Xeon

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/xeonpii3.jpg <--Front Side of Open Xeon... Cache is on top.

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/xeonpii4.jpg <--Backside of Open PII

http://www.auctionspice.com/misc/xeonpii5.jpg <--Front Side of Open PII... Cache is on the sides.

 

[karpy]

pentium 1 @ 133mhz

pentium 2 @ 233mhz

pentium 3 @ 743mhz

pentium 4 @ 2ghz

amd athlon @ 1ghz

amd duron @ 800mhz

 

[Maximilian]

Ahhh nostalgia :awe:

Heres a more up to date pic:

 

[Vic Vega]

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[Denithor]

Karpy is quite the necromancer, raised a 6 year old thread from the dead on his first try!

;-)

As an aside, if you're looking for chips to fill in the gaps, might try www.starmicroinc.net as they have quite a few of the older chips pretty cheap.

 

[Maximilian]

Karpy is quite the necromancer, raised a 6 year old thread from the dead on his first try!

;-)

As an aside, if you're looking for chips to fill in the gaps, might try www.starmicroinc.net as they have quite a few of the older chips pretty cheap.

Ive found CPU world forums to be a great place to get chips:

http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=7c1d623270234c6d44e28ae1fa1025c3

 

[BD231]

Look at all those key chains :whiste:

I have at least three P4's sittin around and 2 or three Athlon XP's. Only remember purchasing one Athlon XP in my time, where the rest came from I couldn't imagine. Heck I actually have a Intel Atom CPU sittin around. A buddy decided he liked his Net Book so much he smashed it against a rock repeatedly

 

[ShadowVVL]

vary nice, I wonder why we don't have a stickied gallery for old cpus?

 

[jumpncrash]

I am very jealous of the xeons and Pentium Pros


I've depleted my collection by quite a bit, but I still have about 5 Pentiums, 20ish PIIs, not sure how many P3s...at least 10, then a few P4s..

I'd really love to find a quad slot 1 board to throw in some of my P2s.

right now I'm using a P2l97-DS with 2 400mhz PIIs

 

[machasm]

Oh boy and I thought I was a nerd!
Great collection guys but you gotta ask yourself, WHY?
Please don't be offended. Each to their own.
If I still had any of these I would gladly give them to you guys.
Who knows maybe one day they might be worth a lot of money to a museum???
Mac.

 

[exar333]

Oh boy and I thought I was a nerd!
Great collection guys but you gotta ask yourself, WHY?
Please don't be offended. Each to their own.
If I still had any of these I would gladly give them to you guys.
Who knows maybe one day they might be worth a lot of money to a museum???
Mac.

Each CPU tells a different story, and it's fun to remember those experiences/times. Some are pretty collectable, if rare, but sounds like fun to me. People collect all sorts of things.

 

[formulav8]

I have a bunch of various cpu's if you want more. I have old Pentiums, K6-2's, AMD DX4 120mhz, ect... I have older socket a's as well. If you want old ram I have that as well.

I actually just got rid of about 30x P2's to someone who wanted to mess around. Just shoot me a pm if you want some more to add to your collection.