What has been you guys CPU upgrade path?

[JBT]

Pentium 200, 32MB of ram
Athlon 1Ghz 256 MB of ram
Athlon XP 1.466 @ 2.4GHz 512 MB of ram
Athlon 64 3200+ @ I forget 2GB
Opteron 265 @ I forget 8 GB
Intel Q6600 @ 3.066
Intel Q8300 @ 3.6
Intel 2500K @ 4.45GHz 8GB

 

[Lepton87]

1997 - Pentium 2 233MHz I paid over 500$ for that thing, the most expensive CPU I've ever bought, that's what no competition does

K6-2 350MHz or 400MHz

I fell for the MHz, it wasn't a big improvement but it was dirt cheap in comparison

K6-2 500MHz

Athlon 800MHz

almost as expensive as the first one, it was the first time AMD actually surpassed Intel in CPU performance.

Athlon T-bird 1400MHz

that thing was very hot for its time

Athlon XP 1700+
a stellar overclocker, I overclocked it by about 60%!

Athlon 64 3200+ socket 754

Athlon X2 3800+

VERY expensive sadly that was the last AMD CPU that competed successfully with Intel. P4 was slower, Yonah was close but it was hard to get a good mobo for it and it was generally a bit difficult to run it as desktop

Core 2 Duo E6400

that was the most overclock-able CPU I've ever had, actually one of the best overclocker ever in modern times. 2.13GHZ@3.6GHz was cool!

Core i5 750
Core i5 2500K

Most of the time I preferred to spend more money on the graphics card because gaming was the only thing that I always felt I had too little performance in. It still feels that today. The only time that I had enough was when I built a 6990 Quad Fire rig but only when CF was working, if it worked better it would make no sense to side-grade to Titan but Titan it's still the stupidest purchase I've ever made when it comes to computers. If 780 lands at 600$ I will be angry that I basically wasted 400$.

 

[Rio Rebel]

Tandy 1000ex - eventually upgraded it to a full 640k of ram and a 3.5" single density floppy.
Packard Bell 386 with 3mb ram.
486sx25
Cyrix piece o' shit that I can't remember
Pentium 233
Celeron 300a at 450
Pentium III 800, I think it was
Several AMD processors
Core2Duo 6500, iirc
Core2Duo e8400 (Rebuilt as a file server and running Ubuntu today)
Corei3 1st generation (HTPC, still going)
Core i7 laptop

 

[Enigmoid]

laptops only (I need portability)


pentium 4 3.2--toshiba--screen died, norton killed it (overheated running a virus scan)

Core 2 duo T5500 (1.66 ghz)--still works but slow as hell

i7-2630qm dell--overheated like crazy, poor screen, basically fell apart for mobile use (power cord frayed, battery at 30% capacity, unable to upgrade drivers--don't buy dell). Other family members use it not.

i7-3630qm--working fine so far, have a three year warranty so don't plan on upgrading for a while.

 

[tarmc]

486dx66
P-75
166mmx
K62-450
Celeron 1ghz
xp 2000
xp 2500
X2 3800
I7 920

 

[SPBHM]

OK, let me try to remember, since 2002, because before that I used my family PC (since the 486 days until the P3).

Pentium 4 2GHz(Northwood), Athlon XP 2600+(TbredB), Athlon XP 1700+(TbredB), Athlon 64 3000+(Winchester), Sempron 2600+(Palermo), Sempron 3000+(Manila), X2 4000+(Brisbane), E5200, E5400, X3210, i3 2100

I have and had other CPUs, but that's from my main PC.
the current i3 and the 1700+ are probably the ones that lasted longer...

 

[Montosaurous]

I'm young, so mine is quite short but...
2000: Pentium III 500E 500 MHz (Coppermine)
2007: Core 2 Duo E4400 @2.00 GHz
2012: FX 4100 OC'd to 4.2GHz

And hopefully...
2013: FX 8320 OC'd to 4.2-4.5 GHz

 

[CakeMonster]

Practically once a year since 2002-ish.

 

[Sunburn74]

Don't remember the years but usually I buy 6-12 months after the product has been released

Pentium D dual core
E6600
E8400
Q9550
I7-875k
I7-2600k (I have a feeling I will be staying at this one for a long long while given the latest intel has been putting out. Use anand's bench to compare a i7 3960x to a 2600k and you'll be shocked at how the 2600k is often the faster chip)

 

[guskline]

Does a Pickett Slide Rule in the Fall of 1969 in college count as a starting point?

 

[Turbonium]

Desktop:

• circa 1994 - Pentium 166 (non-MMX) *
• (8 long years) :|
• early 2002 - Pentium 4 1.8GHz 400FSB (Northwood) *
• late 2004 - Pentium 4 2.4GHz 800FSB (Northwood) /w HT
• late 2005 - Pentium 4 3.2GHz 800FSB (Northwood) /w HT
• -
• late 2007 - Core 2 Duo T5470 1.6GHz (laptop)
• early 2013 - Core 2 Duo T9500 2.6GHz (laptop)
• -
• early 2013 - Core i5 3570

* = my dad's system (I didn't have my own at the time)

 

[john3850]

Pentium 75 - 1993
Pentium 200
Pentium III coppermine 500@800
AMD athlon - 1ghz
AMD athlon xp 1800
AMD athlon xp 2500
AMD athlon - 1ghz
AMD athlon 3200
AMD opteron 165
AMD athlon 3200
Core 2 Duo E6600 @2500
Core 2 Duo E8400 @4100
Core 2 Xeon E3110 @3800
Intel I7 930 @4200
Intel I5 2500k @4700
Intel I7 3770k @4600

 

[LV3]

Core i5-750 in 2010.

Thats it, I'm rather new compared to all you guys. :biggrin:

Next will likely be an i5 variant of Haswell or Broadwell.

 

[FwFred]

Pentium 75MHz (P54C), Samsung 10" 640x480, 810MB laptop
Pentium II 400MHz (Deschutes) in Tyan dual-socket board
Pentium III 600 MHz (Katmai) Intel MB
Pentium 4 2 GHz (Willamette) Intel MB
Pentium III ULV 800Mz (Tualatin) Dell X200 pre-ultrabook
Pentium 4 2.8GHz (Northwood) Dell
Core 2 P7350 2 GHZ (Penryn) Lenovo U330
Core 2 Extreme QX9770 @ 3.6GHz (Penryn) Asus P5E x38
Core i5 2400S 2.5 GHz (Sandy Bridge) HTPC Intel H67
Core i5 2557M 1.7 GHz (Sandy Bridge) Macbook Air
Core i5 3550 @ 4.1 GHz (Ivy Bridge) Asus Z77

Next up: Haswell convertible Ultrabook

 

[aigomorla]

if i listed all the cpu's ive had and got to play with, id probably get in trouble from IDC for spamming.