What has been you guys CPU upgrade path?

[386user]

286
386
486
p1
p2
p3
athlon 2700 (might have gotten the number wrong)
i5 2500k

 

[Imouto]

Philips MSX (does it count?)
PIII 550Mhz
Athlon 64 3200+
Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Q6600

 

[popobearr]

AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Intel Core2Duo e4500
and now a AMD FX 8320

 

[FalseChristian]

1998-Pentium 166MHz
1998-Pentirum 200MHz
2001-Celeron 300A at 450Mhz
2003-Coppermine (180 nm) 566MHz at 849MHz
2005-1GHz Tualitin Celeron at 1.5GHz
2006-AMD X2 4800+ (couldn't overclock it at all!)
2008-Intel Core2Duo E8400 at 4GHz
2011-SB I5 2500K 3.3GHz at 4.5GHz

 

[JustMe21]

Here's what I can recall

Commodore 64 - 6502 - 1 MHz
386-20
Intel 486 DX2-50 (Had buyer's remorse so I returned it)
Intel 486 SX-25
IBM 486 SLC2-50
Cyrix Cx486-DX 40
AMD DX4-100
Cyrix 6x86-133
AMD K5-200
Intel Celeron 366 (and the Abit BP6 motherboard!)
AMD K6-2 300
AMD K7-500
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 650
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000
AMD Athlon XP 1500+
AMD Athlon 64 2500
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
AMD Phenom II X4 940
Intel i7-2600
Intel i7-3770

I really miss the days of Cyrix, AMD, Winchip, NexGen, and Transmeta being around and all the different CPUs being offered.

 

[smitbret]

Pentium II 233MHz MMX
Pentium II 333MHz
Athlon T-Bird 1.4GHz
Athlon XP 1700+ Palamino
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
AMDx2 4400+
AMD Phenom II x 4 955 BE
Athlon FX-6100

 

[aarontpx]

486DX
Pentium 4
Athlon 64 3200+ Newcastle
Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor
Phenom II X4 955BE
Core i7-3770k

 

[SlickR12345]

1994/5 - 32 MHz, with turbo mode at 76 MHz I believe, something like 8mb of ram with dos OS.

1999 - P3 800MHz, 128mb ram, 20GB HDD, Evga2, Windows 98

2002 - P4 2.8GHz, 512mb ram, 80GB HDD, Nvidia FX5600, windows ME >>> 2004 - 1GB ram and ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512DDR2

2013 - I5 3330 3GHz, 4GB ram, 500GB HDD, IGP, windows 7

 

[WilliamM2]

Not sure on all the dates.

1998 - First used free computer Intel 66 mhz
1999 - AMD K6-II 300
1999 - AMD K6-II 380
2000 - AMD Duron 600 mhz @ 1 Ghz
2000 - AMD Athlon 1 Ghz
2001 - Athlon XP 1400+
2001 - Athlon XP 1600+
2001 - Athlon XP 1900+
2002 - P4 2.4 Ghz Northwood @ 3.0 Ghz
2003 - P4 3.0 Ghz Northwood @ 3.6 Ghz
2008 - Core2Duo E8400 3 Ghz @ 3.7Ghz
2012 - Core i5 2500K 3.3 Ghz @ 4.4 Ghz

The AMD's were all overclocked as well, but I can't remember how much, only that it was never much at all, except the Duron.

9 processors upgrades in the first 5 years, and only 2 in the last 10 years. Things sure have changed.

 

[lilrayray69]

Hmm the first PC I built myself had an Athlon XP 3000 I think, socket A?
Then a s939 A64 3200+ a year or two later
I think I actually kept that until 2009 when I got a P2 X3 720
And then like 2 months ago upgraded to a FX-6300

 

[WTSherman]

I used to buy HP systems thinking I was getting a good deal with the employee discount where I worked. I had a couple of those and they had single core Celerons and Pentiums. Then I started building my own systems.

Main system:
Core 2 Duo E6750
Core 2 Duo E8400
Core 2 Quad Q9550 (still in use)

Secondary systems:
Celeron E3400
Pentium E5200 (3)
Core 2 Duo E7200

 

[parvadomus]

Z80 (Spectrum 48K)
IBM 486SLC2 50mhz 16K L1
AMD AM486 DX4 8K
Pentium MMX 233mhz
Pentium 4 1.4 ghz
Athlon XP 2400+
Athlon 64 3200+ upgraded to 3800+
Athlon x3 upg to Phenom x4 965be
FX8350

 

[guskline]

Does an Apple II GS count?

 

[ehume]

1982 - Apple ][+
1987 - Mac SE 20 (20MB HD)
1992 - 386 White box
1997 - Dell Dimension XPS (486, I think)
1999 - Wife's iMac
2000 - Dell 4100
2003 - Dell 4600
2007 - Dell Studio 1537
2009 - i7 860, 8GB RAM, later increased to 16GB when I gave the rig to my daughter.
2010 - i7 875k, 8GB RAM. SSD's, other trinkets adorn this rig.
2013 - will either upgrade to an IB or a HW.

 

[sequoia464]

Does an Apple II GS count?

I'm pretty sure that they can, they just have to do it in binary.

 

[Duvie]

1995 pentium 75mhz
1996 dual pentium pro 200mhz
1999 AMD k2-400mhz
2000 AMD thunderbird 750mhz
2001 AMD thunderbird 1200mhz
2002-3 P4 north woods 1.6, 2.4ghz
2004 AMD Athlon64 3800+
2005 AMD x2
2006 AMD dual opterons 270s
2006 C2D 1.86ghz, 2.13ghz@3.33ghz
2007 C2Q 6700@3.5ghz
2012 i5 2500k@4.7ghz

Big lull between 2007 to 2012 as i just realized the CPU was not my bottleneck for my performance in the apps I was running. So during that time I upgraded
1) 64bit and windows 7
2) 4gb to 8gb to 16gb of ddr3
3) SATA 1 to 2 to 3
4) 9800gt to gtx 470

Now I have upgraded my sandy bridge with 32gb of DDR3, GTX 660ti, soon to be coming SSD SATA3 drives

 

[AtenRa]

Main PC

i486 DX2 66mhz
Pentium 166MHz (non MMX) first OC @ 200MHz
Celeron 300A @ 450MHz
Celeron 366 @ 550MHz
Pentium III 650@ 867MHz (could reach 1GHz)
AMD Athlon 1.4 (pencil unlock)
Pentium 4 1.6GHz @ 2.4GHz
Pentium 4 2.4GHz @ Could reach up to 3.7GHz on air
Pentium 4 630 3GHz @ up to 4.2GHz+ (Water)
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.5GHz (Water)
Core 2 duo E6600 @ 3.6GHz (water)
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz (air)
Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.2GHz (air)
Core i7 920 @ 4GHz (air)
Core i7 3770K (multiple frequencies)

Secondary and/or HTPC
I have used a lot of those CPUs from the main PC when upgraded them, but also new CPUs like Pentium 4 Celerons OCed, Core 2 Celerons/Pentiums OCed, a few Athlons OCed, core i3 530 OCed lately APUs like 3870K/5800K and FX8150/8350.

 

[beginner99]

Well I was actually late to the game, eg. being interested in Computers. So most of them were supplied by my parents and I did not have much say in it and I also don't know the actual brands of the CPUs they used:

286 (no idea what exact make and model)
486 (sx, 25 mhz not sure)
486dx 66 Mhz
Pentium 200 Mhz and Pentium MMX 233 Mhz (family had 2 PCs at this point)
Pentium 4 2.6 and 2.8 Mhz
Core 2 Duo E4300
i7-870 (in use, the first one I actually built myself)

 

[JimmiG]

6502 @ 1 MHz
68EC020 @ 14.7 MHz
68030 @ 50 MHz

Pentium 133 MHz

K6-2 400 MHz
Athlon 900 MHz
AthlonXP 1900+
AthlonXP 2400+
AthlonXP 2800+
Athlon64 3500+
Athlon X2 4800+ @ 2.9 GHz
Phenom 9650 @ 2.5 GHz
Phenom II X4 955BE @ 3.7 GHz

Soon: Haswell @ 4.5 GHz? Also first Intel CPU since 1997.

 

[Lavans]

Pentium MMX 233 MHz
Athlon 1GHz
Pentium 4 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB
Athlon 4200+ x2
C2Q 9450
i5-2500K

 

[Anubis]

AMD Tbird 1GHz
Athlon XP 1600+
Athlon XP 2400+
Athlon64 (something i cant remember)
Opteron 185
Intel E8400
Intel I7 920
Intel I7 3770K

 

[Keysplayr]

Abacus
Tandy TRS-80
Commodore Vic20
Commodore 64
386DX-40
486 SX-25
Pentium 75
Pentium233
Pentium II 233>300>400
Pentium III 533>667>800>1.13
Pentium IV 1.6 Northy> 2.0 northy> 2.8 Prescott 3.8 Prescott
Core 2 Duo 6450 > Core 2 Quad 6600
Phenom II 720> 940
Core i7 860
Core i5 2500k
Had a few more over the years I don't remember exactly.
END.

 

[mv2devnull]

Commodore 64
386SX
486DX 33
Pentium Pro 200 (later dual)
Athlon 64 Winchester
Opteron 180
C2D E8500
i7-2600

 

[yepp]

First computer was an IBM Aptiva that ran at 50MHz or something.

AMD K6-2 500MHz
Celeron 700 > Celeron 1300
Athlon 64 3000+ > Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Core 2 Duo E6300 > Core 2 Quad Q6600
Pentium E5200 > Core 2 Quad Q8400
Core i5 760

 

[jakuum]

Pentium II 350
Pentium III 450
Athlon XP 2800+
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Duo E7200
Core 2 Quad Q9550
Core I7 930
Core I7 3770K