What is your CPU History

[gramboh]

8088-7.16MHz (1986 I think) (Family)
386DX/33 (1991 I think) (Family)
486DX2/66 (1993 I think) (Family)
Pentium2-266 oc'd to 333 (1998) (Family)
Celeron 400A oc'd to 500 (2000) (Family)
AMD T-Bird 1200 (2001)
Pentium 4 2.6C oc'd to 3.2 (2003)
Core 2 Duo E6600 oc'd to 3.3 (2007)

 

[Ecoli99]

Atari 400>> Atari 1040ST Motorola?? 486SX/25>> 486DX2/50 >>P2 266>>P3 450>> AMD Athlon 700>>AMD Athlon 1GHz slot A>> AMD Athlon 1.2GHz>> AMD Athlon XP 2400+>> AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton>> INTEL E8200

 

[Hulk]

MOS 6502C @1.79MHz (Atari 800 - Used it through college as an engineer and still have it!)

Intel 486-SX20 (Finally ditched the Atari for this IBM computer)

Intel P5-90 (Gateway P5-90 system)

Intel Celeron 300a o/c to 450 (Discovered Anandtech

Pentium PIII 850 (Another home built one)

P4 2.4 (Gateway, don't ask me why...)

P4 3.06HT (Dell this time)

Core 2 Duo E6400 o/c 3.2GHz (Built this one)

 

[carguy83]

386SX> 486SX 25mhz> amd k6> pentiumMMX> Pentium II 300> AMD K6-2> PENTIUM 3 733> P3 1GHZ> Duron 1.1> ATHLONXP 1800+> P4 2.4> AMD64 3200+> AMD64x2 4200+>e2160@3.4> Q6600

 

[cbuchach]

Intel 386sx 20Mhz-->Pentium 100MHz-->Pentium 166-->AMD K6-2 350Mhz --> AMD K6-2 550 MHZ --> AMD Athlon 1200 MHz --> Intel Pentium 4 2800MHz --> Intel Core 2 E6600 (2400 MHZ)

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: IcePickFreak
8088 12MHz (With the turbo button on haha, otherwise it was 8Mhz)
486 33MHz (Was a beast at the time)
Pentium w/MMX 200MHz, which later was OC'd to 400MHz and SLI'd 3DFX cards and ran for 2 years that way before the mobo gave up.

400MHz ? are you sure? IIRC their limit was about 300MHz I think.

Perry404
Sorry to burst your bubble but the IDT chips were always rubbish (K6-2s & Pentiums annihlated their FPU performance).

dawgfan6
Wow you got a good o/c out of that Cel 466 ,couldn't get my 366 over 578MHz ,not that that was bad.
Using a Slocket T I had a Tualie Celeron 1.1A @1.4GHz on my old BX Soyo 6BA+III running in my sons rig until 2yrs ago when I finally sold it, good cheap upgrade that was.

 

[datwater]

If you don't count pre x86...

PI 133
PI 200 @ 233
Cyrix 300?
AMD K6-2 300
AMD K6-3 400
AMD K6-3 500
Mutliple T-Birds as I was running multiple machines - T-Bird 1000, 1200, 1400, etc.
Athlon XP 2000
Barton 2500
Athlon 64 3200 754
Athlon 64 3500 939
Athlon 64 X2 3800 AM2
Athlon 64 X2 5000 BE AM2

Laptops...
Core Duo T2300
Core Duo T2310
Core 2 Duo T7100

And I'm sure I missed alot of them.

 

[AndroidVageta]

In no particular order:

Pentium 166mhz MMX
Pentium 200mhz MMX
Pentium II 300mhz
Pentium II 333mhz
Pentium III 600mhz
Pentium III 700mhz
Quad Pentium III Xeon 700mhz
Duron 600mhz
Pentium III 1ghz
Duron 1ghz
Celeron 1.4ghz (Northwood)
Pentium 4 1.8ghz (Northwood)
Pentium 4 2.4ghz (Northwood)
Pentium 4 2.8ghz (Prescott)
Pentium 4 3.2ghz (Prescott)
Athlon XP 2200+
Athlon XP 2800+
Athlon XP 3200+
AMD64 3200+ (Clawhammer)
AMD64 3400+ (Newcastle)
AMD64 3700+ (Newcastle)
Intel E2200 (current)

Wow...when I actually write it down I've gone through a decent number of processors...and I'm sure I've forgotten a few others too.

 

[socket462]

TMS9000? TI 99/4A->Intel 286 ->386sx->486DX's->P75->p133->P150->K6-2 300->K6-2 350->k6-2 500->DUAL P2 300's-> Duron 850 ( my first smoked processor!! broke the core!! )->T-Bird 1100-> Motorola 65030/65000/65040-> P4 1.5 Williamette-> P4 1.7 Williamette-> P4 mobile 1.8-> Celeron 2.2 -> P4 2.26-> Mac G4 Dual 450's ->P4 2.66-> P4 2.8-> P4 Prescott 3.0-> Presott 3.4-> P4 EE Gallatin 3.4-> Core 2 Duo T7500 2.0 ->Core 2 Duo E8400-> Core 2 Quad Q9450-> Hal 9000+

Wow-- that almost hurt to remember...

 

[skillyho]

Celeron 333 -> Celeron 450 -> Celeron D 2.93 -> 2.2GHz s754 Sempy -> 2.6GHz s939 A64 -> 3.2GHz e4300 -> 3.4GHz e6600

 

[busmaster11]

Intel 386sx/16
Cyrix P166+
AMD K6-2 300 oc FSB 66 to 100
Intel Celeron 300a @463
AMD Athlon 600 oc to ~800
AMD Athlon XP 1800 oc to 1.8GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000 oc to 2.2 GHz
Intel Core 2 6300
Intel Core 2 Wolfdale e8400 @ 3.6 GHz

great question OP!

 

[Engineer]

I've come to the conclusion, after reading this thread, that there are a bunch of old farts around here!

 

[imported_Lathspell]

P1 120 Mhz --> P3 600 Mhz --> AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8 GHz (can go higher, but I don't really give a @@)
Short I know, and kind of weak even for their times, but I always compensate processor power with video and RAM power. And it always works. Still, I'm getting a Core 2 now. I'd go for a Quad Core, but it's just not worth it.

 

[stevty2889]

486 DX-2 6hz, pentium 133, pentium MMX 233, cyrix 266mhz(yuck), pentium-2 266, dual pentium 2 266, pentium 3 600mhz(kitami core), pentium 3 667mhz, pentium 4 1.8ghz willamette(yuck), pentium 4 1.6ghz northwood, pentium 4 3.06ghz northwood, pentium 4 2.4C, pentium 4 2.8ghz socket 478 prescott, P4 LGA775 3.4ghz prescott, pentium D 830,
Currently have:
P4 3.2ghz ES(sitting in the closet), pentium D 920(hasn't been turned on in about a year), pentium D 805@ 3.6ghz, core due 1.6ghz(laptop), pentium M 1.6ghz@ 2.4ghz, X2 4200+ @2.6ghz, C2D E6600, C2Q Q6600 @3.1ghz.

 

[jdkick]

Intel Pentium 133 (@ 150MHz) -> AMD K6 233 -> AMD K6-2 450 -> AMD Athlon 1GHz -> AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -> AMD Sempron 3200+ (OEM S939 version) -> Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200

Now that I think about it, that's a lot of AMD. Most of those were during my starving student years tho so that explains it...

 

[bryanW1995]

my wallet hurts just looking at some of these.

 

[dawgfan6]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: IcePickFreak
8088 12MHz (With the turbo button on haha, otherwise it was 8Mhz)
486 33MHz (Was a beast at the time)
Pentium w/MMX 200MHz, which later was OC'd to 400MHz and SLI'd 3DFX cards and ran for 2 years that way before the mobo gave up.

400MHz ? are you sure? IIRC their limit was about 300MHz I think.

Perry404
Sorry to burst your bubble but the IDT chips were always rubbish (K6-2s & Pentiums annihlated their FPU performance).

dawgfan6
Wow you got a good o/c out of that Cel 466 ,couldn't get my 366 over 578MHz ,not that that was bad.
Using a Slocket T I had a Tualie Celeron 1.1A @1.4GHz on my old BX Soyo 6BA+III running in my sons rig until 2yrs ago when I finally sold it, good cheap upgrade that was.

Y'know, now that you mention it, I think that BH6 had an 83mhz bus, which would bring the Celery 466 up to about 580mhz. I think I was "rounding up" on that chip. I could swear I had something overclocked to 600...I remember being quite proud of that number. I did have a Abit BE6-2, but I don't think I had it paired with the 466. Heck, it's hard to remember that far back. However, as I was thinking about it, I did remember I had a PIII 600e o/c to 800 in that Abit BE6-2. I updated my list. I also realized I only had to tually 1.0 running at 1333 in the BH6 (corrected my list). I had it running at one time in the BE6-2 at 1400, but that board eventually died, and I moved it back to the previously retired BH6. My grandmother uses that board/processor to browse the web/email, now.

 

[secretanchitman]

as far as i can remember (im sure my dad/bro had cpus before i could remember):

pentium 60Mhz
pentium pro 200Mhz
pentium 2 266Mhz with MMX
pentium 3 733Mhz
amd duron 650Mhz
intel pentium 4 2.4Ghz (northwood of course - RIP) with HT
amd opteron 170
intel pentium D 930
intel xeon 3060 (c2d e6600)
intel core 2 duo t7200 (macbook)
intel core 2 duo t7500 (macbook pro)
intel core 2 quad q9450 - coming soon

we've also got various cpus too...but i dont remember when they came:

amd athlon 64 3200+ (S939)
intel pentium 4 1.6Ghz
intel pentium 4 1.4Ghz
intel celeron 2.4Ghz

 

[Lithan]

486sx25 200mmx k2350 k2500 athlon 900 tbird 900 about 30 different socket a chips from every gen and family, about 4 different p4's about 10 different dothans about 10 different a64's and opterons core 2 duo e6400.

 

[Assimilator1]

All PIIs had MMX

Originally posted by: Engineer
I've come to the conclusion, after reading this thread, that there are a bunch of old farts around here!

lol ,hey! we/you ressemble that remark!

 

[Lord Banshee]

K6-2 400MHz -> celeron 500 -> p3 800 -> althon 64 1.8@2.2-> athlon 64 939 1.8@2.7-> opteron (DC) 939 1.8@2.4-> T9300 (laptop).

There was a big jump from p3 800 to athlon 64 1.8

 

[fleshconsumed]

Family owned that I got to use (too young to buy it)

8086???
- I'm not even sure it was 8086, it loaded from tape recorder, loved playing python on that thing
286 16MHz (I think)
- were running Windows 3.11 on that thing, surprisingly it ran very well considering the CPU
AMD 486DX4 100MHz
- first machine to get Win95 installed on it. Ran slow.
P133 OC'ed to P150
- was a huge jump from 486. 486 was struggling to play quake at 320x240 while P133 could run it at 640x480 at acceptable framerates. Still wasn't enough to play Q2 in software mode, could only go as far as 320x240.
P200MMX
- ran Half-Life on it in software mode at 320x240. Best fun I've ever had. Interestingly enough once I got a real 3D card and hardware to run the game properly at high resolutions I was sadly disappointed by the lack of detail at 1024x768. I guess playing for ages at 320x240 my mind sort of filled all the little details that didn't really exist in the game.


My Own in no particular order

PIII-800
- was bought at the height of AMD/Intel wars
Pentium M 1.4GHz
- in a laptop, the screen died since then, but laptop is still functional otherwise
P4 Celeron 2.4GHz
- was bought for a bargain, I thought I'd use it with cheap SIS motherboard, but was sadly disappointed because said SIS motherboard had hardware incompatibility with my sound card at the time.
P4 3.0C
- was an upgrade from 2.4GHz celeron, only paid $100 after I sold celeron, "donated" to my mother
P4 Celeron Mobile 1.8GHz
- got it for $12 from ebay, one of the best deals ever. Used in a file server with 865 chipset right now. Very cool running chip compared to normal P4's - runs passive with Zalman 7000 with fan removed idling at 35C or so.
AMD Barton Mobile 2.5GHz
- used in 24/7 rig, supposed to run cooler than mobile celeron above, but does not. Without active cooling idles at 50C. So much for AMD efficiency.
C2D 4300
- was running at 2.4GHz with BSEL pinmod in ECS motherboard flawlessly for about a year.
C2Q X3350
- bought it thinking about giving linux another try in a virtual machine





Man, so many memories...

 

[djplayer]

not sure why I would ever forget the middle and I'm not gonna go digging..

386 --> 486sx 33 laptop (still own it somewhere) --> 486dx 66 (still got it =] ) --> 486dx100 (upgrade to the dx66)

p1, 2's and 3's are total blur... I remember only having 1 of each version.. and one was an mmx.

p4 478 2.4 northwood --> p4 478 2.8 prescott ---> p4 478 3.0 prescott ---> e8400

 

[imported_ogre]

(showing my age here...)
Zilog Z80A (Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K and Spectrum +3)
Motorola 68030 (Apple Mac Color Classic)
Pentium 166
Athlon 650
Athlon XP 2500 Barton
P4 2.4GHz (HomeServer)
X2 4200
several lappies - Celeron 600, Pentium M 1600, PowerPC G4.

I guess you could chart Moore's law in there somewhere

 

[nervegrind3r]

good thread!

Intel P1 60mhz (original pentium chip with bug)
--> Intel PII 350mhz
---> AMD AXP 1700+
----> AMD AXP 2700+
---- > AMD 4200+ 939/OPTY 144 & 165
------> Intel C2D 8400

WEEEEEEEEEEEE!