What has been you guys CPU upgrade path?

[Smoblikat]

2008 - E5200, 4gb RAM, 1.2TB RAID0, GT 240
2010 - Phenom 2 X4 955, 4gb RAM, 2TB, HD5850
2012 - I5 2500K, 16gb RAM, 11TB, HD6970 Quadfire

 

[lakedude]

p1-133 or maybe 166, W95
Celeron 300A on BX motherboard @ 450MHz, W98
Celeron Coppermine 600 on a slot adapter in the same BX MB as above OCed of course.
Perhaps one more CPU on the same MB, don't remember. Seems like the BX MB lasted a long time.
P4 1.3GHz for video encoding, ME, still have, don't use. 180nm
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+, XP, still in use. 65 nm
C2D 2.3GHz Vista, later FatDog64 Linux, still in use. 65nm
C2D 3GHz, Vista still in use. 45nm
i5-750, W7, still in use. 45nm
i5-2500k, W7, still in use. 32nm
i7-3770s, W7, current main system. 22nm

There have also been 2x AMD Regor (one running FatDog64 and one running SOLARIS with ZFS), and a 1055t (running W7) as well, all still in service.

EDIT: So I noticed a big gap between the 180nm P4 and the 65nm C2D. I've kept many old systems but several have been given away and forgotten about.

If NewEgg's records are correct I also had:

Intel Pentium D 820 Smithfield 2.8GHz LGA 775 95W Dual-Core Processor 90nm (don't remember this one at all, might have been a gift to someone).
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 2.0GHz Socket 939 Single-Core 90nm.
Intel Pentium 4 3.0E Prescott 3.0GHz Socket 478 89W Single-Core 90nm (remember this one a tiny bit).
Intel Pentium 4 2.6C Northwood 2.6GHz Socket 478 Single-Core 130nm.

 

[Zorander]

1998: PII 333MHz
2000: PIII 800MHz
2001: P4 Willamette 1.8GHz
2004: P4 Northwood 2.4GHz
2005: Athlon64 X2 3800+
2008: Athlon64 X2 4600+
2010: Lynnfield Core i7-860

About time for an upgrade, looking at my trend, but there is yet no need to do so.

 

[notty22]

1983- My Dad worked for IBM and wanted to give us kids a opportunity. Intel 8088, no HD
1993- AST PC with a Cyrix 486 dx50 cpu
1995 Intel Pentium Overdrive Cpu
1998 Celeron 300 o/c
1999 Celeron 300a o/c
2001 PIII from a dumpster, o/c
2004 Intel Pentium M 725 processor operating at 1.6 GHz
2005 P4 @ 2.8ghz
2008 E4500 C2D
2009 I5 750 to present. O/C since new

 

[ramj70]

Intel 486
Pentium 233MX
Pentium III
Athlon XP 1700
Athlon XP 2800
Athlon FX-57
Phenom II 945
Phenom II 965
Phenom II 980
I5 3570K

 

[Remobz]

Here goes my CPU history.....

Intel p200 mmx ------------------ 1998

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ ----------------2002

Intel E6950 -------------------- 2007

Intel i3 2100 ------------------ 2012

As you can see I pretty much have always been behind the curve.


Oh and I think I have the record here for a 40 year old with the least CPU upgrades in his lifetime

 

[cytg111]

Ahahaha ... noobs

198x -> 2008

Commodore VIC-20
Commodore 64
80x86 640k ram, cga graphics and monochrome screen, 20MB harddrive
80286 (forget the specs)
80386dx 16Mhz, 1M ram i think
80486 dx4 100mhz (amd), 4M ram, 500MB harddrive, ET4000 gfx
K6-233 oc'd past 266, voodoo graphics revolution.
P2-Celeron 300a oc'd to 504, scramjet for its time. Voodoo2 IIRC
-(forgetting something here)-
P4-Prescott 3Ghz, 2GB ram, AGP 7800
Core2-Q9450, 8GB ram, ssds, gtx580 etc..

Problary going for haswell next.

 

[Jacky60]

Intel 133Mhz (pentium?)

Pentium 350hmz
Pentium 3 900mhz
Athlon Thunderbird 1ghz
Athlon 64 Venice 2ghz(?)
AMD Fx51
Pentium 4 3.0ghz
Athlon 3200x2
Core 2 Duo E8400
Nehalem I7 920

 

[imported_Smurf]

2003 - Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI X1950, 21" CRT, 80GB HDD
2007 - Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB RAM, ATI X800, 21" CRT, 320GB HDD
2009 - Core i7 920, 6GB RAM, GTX 260, Intel X-25 80GB SSD, 32" HDTV for monitor
2010 - Core i7 960, 12GB RAM, GTX 480 SLI, Intel X-25 80GB SSD, 3D Vision Surround (3 x Samsung 2233RZ monitors)
2012 - Core i7 980X, 12GB RAM, GTX 580 SLI, Intel 520 256GB SSD, Dell U3011 (2560x1600)
2013 - Core i7 3770k, 16GB RAM, GTX 680 SLI, Intel 520 256GB SSD, Dell U3011 (2560x1600)

 

[MountainKing]

2003 - Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI X1950, 21" CRT, 80GB HDD
2007 - Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB RAM, ATI X800, 21" CRT, 320GB HDD
2009 - Core i7 920, 6GB RAM, GTX 260, Intel X-25 80GB SSD, 32" HDTV for monitor
2010 - Core i7 960, 12GB RAM, GTX 480 SLI, Intel X-25 80GB SSD, 3D Vision Surround (3 x Samsung 2233RZ monitors)
2012 - Core i7 980X, 12GB RAM, GTX 580 SLI, Intel 520 256GB SSD, Dell U3011 (2560x1600)
2013 - Core i7 3770k, 16GB RAM, GTX 680 SLI, Intel 520 256GB SSD, Dell U3011 (2560x1600)

Haha man...King of overkill from 2009 to 2013?? or you're some kind of gamer I'd guess?

 

[Sable]

TI TMS9900 @ 3.0 MHz (Texas Instruments TI-99/4A)

Zilog Z80 A @ 3.5469 MHz (Spectrum +2)

486SX @ 33Mhz

Pentium Overdrive @ 83Mhz

AMD K6 @ 233Mhz

AMD K6-2 @ 400Mhz (I think)

AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1467 MHz then AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2000 MHz

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @ 2200Mhz

Intel i5 2500k @ 4700Mhz

 

[nemesismk2]

i have owned a lot of processors (mostly amd) over the years which are:-

amd 386 dx 40mhz
intel pentium 75mhz
cyrix 166mhz
cyrix m2 233mhz
cyrix m2 333mhz
amd 486 dx4 100mhz
amd k6 200mhz
amd k6 II 333mhz
amd k6 II 550mhz
amd duron 750mhz
amd duron 900mhz
amd athlon 1.3ghz tbird
amd athlon xp 1700 palomino
amd athlon xp 1700 tbred b
amd athlon xp 2500 barton
amd athlon xp 2500 barton mobile
amd sempron 2200
amd sempron 2800
amd sempron 3100
amd sempron 3400
amd athlon64 3400
amd athlon64 3000
amd athlon64 3500
amd athlon64 4000
amd athlon64 x2 4200
amd athlon64 opteron 180
amd athlon ii x2 240
amd athlon ii x4 645

yes i've had a lot of motherboards and over 150 video cards as well

 

[krumme]

386
486
Pentium
K6
K6-2
K7
XP
Pentium M
Core duo mobile
Core 2 duo
Core 2 duo penryn
Core 2 duo penryn mobile
i5 first gen mobile
Atom with netbook (well that cpu just sucked)
AMD e450 with netbook
SB mobile
SB mobile quad
IB desktop
IB Ultrabook
Haswell comming up

 

[frozentundra123456]

233mhz pentium
600 mhz celeron with Windows ME (absolute POS)
1.5ghz P4 (sort of sucked too)
Athlon XP 2600+
Core 2 Duo E4500
i5 2320

Barring hardware failure of some sort, I actually see the i5 lasting pretty much indefinitely, since I game but dont really require the latest and greatest settings and am not really interested in shooters anymore, which seem to be the most demanding.

I also think I had some sort of old Commodore or Ti something or other in the 80s or early 90s, but dont remember what it was. I keep the Athlon and Core 2 machines set up and can still use them, except the athlon is pretty much useless for gaming. I occasionally use the athlon for downloading stuff and the Core 2 Duo is hooked up to a TV and has a tuner card, so I can use it to record.

 

[Gikaseixas]

Intel Pentium 75
Cirix 120 mhz
Intel Pentium II 450
Intel Celeron 500 mhz
AMD Druron 1000 mhz
AMD XP1800+
AMD XP1900+
AMD XP2600+
Intel Pentium 4 1.8
AMD XP2500+
AMD XP3000+
AMD XP3200+
Intel Pentium 4 3.0
AMD Athlon 64 2800
AMD Athlon 64 3000
AMD Athlon 64 3200
AMD Athlon 64 3700
AMD Athlon 64 3800
Intel C2D P9600
AMD X2 4200
AMD X2 4400
AMD X2 6000
AMD X2 6400
AMD Phenom 9850
AMD Phenom II 940
Intel Q9000
Intel C2Q 9550
Intel Core i7 860
Intel Core i7 2675QM
AMD A8 3850
AMD FX 8350

...and a few others i can't remember

 

[A5]

286
Pentium 100
K6-2
Duron Spitfire
Thunderbird Athlon
Opteron 165
Core i7 920

Next system:
Probably Haswell i7 4770K

 

[dave_the_nerd]

In order of acquisition:

16 MHz M68030
20 MHz 386
75 MHz 603e
233 MHz PPC 750
350 MHz PPC 7400
1 GHz Athlon
2 GHz Athlon
3.2 GHz P4
2.4GHz C2Q
2.13GHz C2D
4.2GHz i5-3570K

 

[Unoid]

First PC that was all mine was a Work laptop of my fathers.
386 with maybe 8mb ram

then:
P166 with 32mb+64mb, added a Ricoh CD-rw and a Voodoo2 8mb.
stuck with this bad boy until 1999

1.4ghz t-bird 512mb ram, Sony 21" trinitron (was uber) Raden 8500

OCd 2.5ghz Mobile Barton, 1gb ram, 9600 pro

Q6600 at 3.6ghz, 4gb ram, 5850 and later crossfired.

2600k @ 4.8ghz, 16gb ram, 680 and later SLI.

 

[djshortsleeve]

1986 - Intel 7.16 MHz 8088
1993 - Intel 25 MHz 486 DX
2002 - ??? AMD
2004 - AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (Barton)
2006 - Intel Core Duo
2008 - AMD Athlon Neo x2
2010 - AMD Phenom II x6 1035t (Thuban)
2011 - Intel Core i5 2500k

 

[krumme]

I just love all my cpu - haha i think are all great. Especially the jumps in the earlier generations was really a blast. Since core duo, it have been more meh.

(edit: just forgot the Atom with my 10 inch netbook. That was just an awfull cpu)

 

[crashtech]

I wanted to participate in this thread, but to my shame I realized although I remember a great many builds and CPUs I can't separate in my memory whose was whose, I did a lot of work and had a lot of folding rigs also. Should have kept a journal.


Ones I remember, dates approximate:

1993: 386 DX 20
1995: Am486 DX4-100
1996: Pentium 150
1998: Celeron 300
2001: Celeron 733
'03-07: Various Athlon XPs???
2008: E5200
2010: 2x E5420
2012: 2x E5472
2013: E3-1230

These are just my personal desktop CPUs, I've gone through LOTS of others as far as spouse, children, folding, work, etc. Typing this on a PhII X4 940 at work.

 

[Topweasel]

Desktops
Celeron A 366
Athlon 700 (TB Socket A)
Athlon 1200
Duron 700
Athlon 1800+
Athlon 2500+ (x2)
Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Celeron 2.0 GHz
Phenom 9950 BE
Core i7 3930K

Laptops
Turion 64 X2 TL-60
Core 2 Duo P8400

 

[Bryf50]

In my own builds
Pentium 4 2ghz Northwood
Athlon64 3200+
Athlon64 X2 3800+
Core 2 Quad Q6600
Core i5 2500k

 

[Ken g6]

1996: Cyrix 150+ don't remember specs
1999: Pentium II 400MHz 128MB ram 10GB HDD.
2003: Athlon XP @1.8GHz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD (added 512MB RAM, 80GB)
2005: Pentium M 1.5GHz laptop, 512MB RAM, 40GB HDD - still in use!
2009: Core 2 Q9400, 4GB RAM, 750GB Hdd. (Added 2TB HDD, 128GB SSD, GTX 460 768MB)
2013: Tegra 3 Quad-Core @1.2Ghz, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD. (It's a tablet if you hadn't guessed.)

 

[kalrith]

1999: Pentium 100
2004: Pentium 2.4c
2006: Opteron 165
2008: Core 2 Q6600
2011: Core i5-2500k