What is your CPU History

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i enjoy seeing the people with predominant amd-sided or intel-sided buying trends, or sticking to one brand over the entire life of their pc use; versus the ones who've obviously bought the price/performance overclockers from either camp.

ummm.. doesnt this force the other side to get better by doing so?

 

[CurseTheSky]

Pentium II 266MHz
Pentium II 450MHz
Pentium III 1.0GHz
Pentium 4 2.0GHz
Pentium 4 3.0GHz
AMD X2 4200+
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Duo E8400

The two most noticeable jumps were P4 2.0 -> P4 3.0 (with Hyper Threading) and P4 3.0 -> X2 4200+ (dual core).

 

[TomSeek]

I am looking through all the replies here and I notice one chip that is missing in most people's lists: The Celeron 300 OC'd to 450. That was pretty much the first bargain overclocker that can hit 50% OC in the history of overclocking.

Tom

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: Martimus

Originally posted by: nerp
C64
8088 XT
80286-12
AMD386-DX40
Intel Pentium 60
Intel Pentium 90
AMD K62-350
Intel Pentium 266
AMD K63-450
Athlon 1.4
Athlon XP 2100+ Palomino
Athlon XP 2700+ Barton
Opteron 148
Opteron 180
Intel E2180

I'm getting old.

I never really considered the Commodore 64. I have fond memories of Oregon Trail in Grade School on that machine.

Ugh. Counting grade school, I've also used/learned/worked on:

Apple IIc
Apple IIe
Apple IIgs
Apple Mac classic, SE, SE30 et al.
386sx-16 and 33 intel
486-dx2 66
486-dx4 100 i think
few other 486s

I'll stop now.

Oregon trail was a great game and I vividly remember playing it on the early apple IIs. Distemper was the plague.

 

[DaSinical1]

P 166 - K6-2 400 - K6-2 500 - athlon t-bird 1ghz - athlon xp 2200 - e2180 - e2200 - e6600 - q6600 - (just purchased e8400) havn't decided to use it or just keep using my q6600

 

[hnzw rui]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i enjoy seeing the people with predominant amd-sided or intel-sided buying trends, or sticking to one brand over the entire life of their pc use; versus the ones who've obviously bought the price/performance overclockers from either camp.

Lol, mine's almost all Intel. From reviews I've seen, Intel's better at mobile than AMD. Iirc, there should have been a K6 in that line-up (in between the PII and PIII) but that one died within months and the custom-builder I (or rather my parents) bought it from went out of business. I didn't buy AMD until after a long, long time.

 

[Strebor]

Motorola 68000 @ 8 MHz
Intel 286 @ 25 MHz
Pentium II @ 266 MHz
Pentium 4 @ 1300 MHz
Athlon XP @ 1670 MHz
Athlon 64 @ 2000 MHz
Quad 6600 @ 3000 MHz

 

[Okimoto]

In chronological order - not cpu power order! (only posting my most powerful comp if I had more than one computer.

Z80@1.77 trs80/4
8088@4.77 tandy1000ex
68030@25 mac se30
8088@4.77 used tandy1000sx (Mac was taken when parents divorced)
6502@1mhz vic20 (tandy died)
6510@1mhz c64 (someone felt sorry for me - gave it to me)
80386sx@33 Tandy 2500 (Finally, windows 3.1 and a HD )
80286@16 (the tandy broke )
80486DX2@50 (Discovered Frys mb/cpu combo specials)
80486DX3@75 (Discovered Chinese computer store mb/cpu specials)
Cx586/150
80486DX4@100 - Cyrix blew chunks.
P2/300
Celeron 433 Laptop
G4/450
Celeron 700 Laptop
P3/866 - Someone gave it to me.
Duron 800 oc'd to 1.2 i think?
Athlon XP 2200 or something like that.
Athlon 1600 (found in the trash - brother stole my computer)
Celeron 430 Laptop - current machine

 

[Gaurav Duggal]

Pentium 2 266Mhz < Pentium D 820 2.8Ghz

I bet thats probably the largest jump in performance you ever saw!!!!!

 

[Midnight Rambler]

What, no one had an NEC V30 ?

 

[Midnight Rambler]

What, no one had an NEC V30 ?

 

[Drsignguy]

Purchased An AST 486DX 33 in 1992. Said never again, I will build my own. Since then an AMD 5x86 133, <-----really sucked!
P200 MMX OC to 225Mh Ya baby! <---------Still Have it.
PII 450 <----------Gave to a friend
PIII 450 <----------still have it
PIII 500 <----------still have it
P4 2.0 <----------Sold it
P4 2.2 <----------Still in the Family
P4 2.53 <----------still have it
P4 1.73 Lappy <----------use it
P4 3.60 HT <----------still have it
E2160 <----------still have it
E7200 <----------Rig #2 Love this chip.
Q6600 <-------------- On vacation for a bit
Q9450 <---------Rig #1 My dream chip.

 

[plonk420]

*non self-built

*KAYPRO 4
*386SX(?) 20
*Pentium 90
PII-333
Athlon 750 (ugh)
Athlon 1800
*G4-400 (tho i took it apart and reassembled it, adding parts, for shits and grins)
1800 > (upgraded to) 2400
Athlon XP-M 2400
Athlon 64 3000
*G4 1.25 MDD
Athlon 64 3000 E6 for a Hackintosh!
Athlon 64 X2 4600
Athlon 64 X2 4200 AM2 65W (woo!)

ISO a Phenom 9650......

 

[SpeedEng66]

8088 (4mhz amstrad)
286 (12 mhz ibm)
486 (dx2-66 first homemade rig)
pentium (233 ibm my first laptop)
amd k6-2 (450mhz)
pentium 3 (700mhz x 2 server toshiba)
xp1600 (1400mhz I thought I bought a 1600mhz )
pentium m (1700mhz bandas ex-htpc)
pentum 3 (1133mhz laptop my main rig)
pentium m (1.6 yohan wifes lappy)
e6550 (2.3 wifes box)
pentium m (1.7 dothan ex htpc now my mame box)
e2160 (1.8 my new htpc)

 

[AzN]

Intel 286 8mhz @ 12mhz
Intel 386 33mhz @ 40mhz
p2 333mhz @ 412mhz--->celeron 300A@450
Athlon 800mhz
IBM p2 400 lappy
Athlon XP1600 and a duron in between
IBM p4 1.6ghz lappy
p4 2.4c @ 3.2ghz
Pentium D 805 @ 3.6ghz
core 2 duo E6300 @ 3.05ghz capable of 3.5ghz

 

[ochadd]

Pentium 233 > Athlon T-bird 800 > Athlon XP 2000 > Athlon XP 3200 venice > Athlon 3800 x2 @ 2.4 > Core 2 duo 6750 @ 3.6

I'm sure there was one or two in there I'm missing for my home machine. For business use I've gone through dozens of different CPUs I never cared to remember.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Intel DX2 (66Mhz) -> AMD '586' overdrive chip as an upgrade (133Mhz, about as fast as a Pentium 83Mhz) -> AMD Duron 700Mhz @ 815Mhz -> AMD Duron 1.8Ghz @ 2.15Ghz -> AMD 2500+ Mobile @ 2.2Ghz... could never get that one 100% stable though -> AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice @ 2.5Ghz -> AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.56Ghz -> a Phenom B3 in the very near future.

I've also had a few laptops in there, oddly enough all but one of my desktop CPU's have been AMD, all of my laptop CPU's have bee Intel. Right now I have a 1.8Ghz Pentium Mobile (Dothan core, 2MB cache)... it does perfectly fine for Office and internet type stuff.

 

[Golgatha]

AMD K5 233Mhz > Pentium II 400Mhz > Katmai Pentium 3 550Mhz > Coppermine Pentium III 700Mhz > Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4Ghz > Pentium 4 1.8a 1.8Ghz@400Mhz FSB Northwood > Pentium 4 2.4b 2.4Ghz@533Mhz Northwood > Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 800Mhz FSB Prescott > Pentium D 920 2.8Ghz > Core 2 Duo E6600 > Core 2 Quad Q6600

I didn't really get into overclocking until the Pentium 4 640, which I ran at 4.0Ghz, the Pentium D was at 4.0Ghz, the E6600 was at 3.0Ghz, and the Q6600 is currently at 3.0Ghz. The one exception to overclocking before the Pentium 4 640 was the Coppermine P3, which got overclocked to 933Mhz.


I've owned a few other CPUs in secondary system, but my main workhorse and gaming rig history is shown above. Here are some secondary system (mainly HTPC usage) CPUs I've used.

Athlon K7 800Mhz
AMD Opteron 180 socket 939 2.4Ghz@2.6Ghz (pitiful overclocker)
Core 2 Duo E2160 1.8Ghz overclocked to 2.4Ghz


My laptop history is much easier to recall, as I haven't been a laptop owner very long and don't upgrade them nearly as much.

Amd Mobile Sempron 3600+ > Intel Pentium M 1.7Ghz

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Midnight Rambler
What, no one had an NEC V30 ?

Actually, yes, I did, my list is so long I forgot. Also, a Vic 20 or something like that, the smaller brother of the Commodore 64 ?

 

[Denithor]

486SX25
486SX100
Cyrix 133 (why, oh why, did I do that to myself?!?)
Pentium 233 MMX (custom build at local shop)
Pentium III 733 (my first build)
P4 2.4/533 (Dell--again, why did I do that to myself?)
P4 2.4/800 (much better)
A64 3000+
A64 3500+
A64 X2-3800+ (cost way too much!)
e6400 @ 3GHz

Hmmm...about time for another...c'mon, Intel, release the e7300 already!

 

[scheibler1]

P4 1.8ghz
Athlon XP Mobile 2500+ (overclocked, but can't remember how high)
Athlon XP 64 3200+
Intel E2180 @ 3ghz

 

[Kaspian]

P 100---> P2 350mhz----> P3 500mhz----> P3 800mhz---->P4 2.4ghz and AMD64 3200+------>AMD64 3700+------Xeon E3110

 

[AshPhoenix]

PIII 550 MHz --------> Celeron 2 2.66 GHz

 

[gorobei]

(family) ibm 8088 ---> cyrix 486 100something --->pentium 2 300mhz --->p4 2ghz ---> e2140

(mine) amd 386 dx40 ---> athlon 1ghz ---> sempron 3100 ---> e4300 + q6600


Wow. I really miss the days of cpu's with no fan or heatsinks. Interestingly the only chips that failed/died prematurely were the cyrix and the P4.

 

[flexy]

6502
MC 68000
MC 68010
MC 68020 ("turbo" card)
486 DX4
Pentium 133
K6-2 350@400
Some Pentium again (133? 233?)
AMD XP 1800
AMD A64 3500+
Intel Quad Q6600

CPU got always faster, OS got always worse. With the exception of C64. Cant reallys say it had an "OS"
Best OS and hardware (for its time) IMHO was AmigaOS, hands-down, followed by XP, followed by 98, Vista comes in last.