What is your CPU History

[Tim]

I won't count the ones my father had when I was a kid, although they are what I cut my teeth on I'd say.

Every processor I've owned myself went into a PC that I've put together. I've never bought a Dell or a pre-build PC. That being said, here's my list.

• Pentium 3 - 1ghz (Coppermine)

• Pentium 4 - 3.06ghz (Northwood)

• Pentium 4- 3.4ghz (Presc'H'ott)

• Core 2 Duo E6600 - 2.4ghz (Conroe)

• Core 2 Duo E8400 - 3.0ghz (Wolfdale)

 

[child of wonder]

The CPU path of my "main" PC is:

Cyrix 133MHz
Pentium 4 2.0GHz
Athlon XP 2600+
Athlon XP 3200+
Athlon 64 3500+
Opteron 170
Intel e6600
Xeon e3110

 

[najames]

MOS 6502 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Vic_20
Intel 8088
Intel 286
Intel 386sx
Pentium 75
Cyrix something (133?)
Pentium 200MMX still in a box, ran overclocked at 75MHz bus baby!!
AMD K6-2 500 (bought much later to stick on aboves board)
Intel PIII 800eb
*AMD XP 1500+ still running, just did taxes on it
Intel 2.4Mhz Northwood
AMD64 3000
*AMD64 3200 (have 2)
*Dual AMD Opteron 246
*AMD 3600 X2
*AMD 3800 X2
*AMD 5000 X2

* is currently using.

 

[Davegod]

486DX2 50mhz (bought)
P200mmx 200mhz (build)
AMD 1600+ 1.4ghz (build)
AMD 2400+ 2.0ghz (build)
AMD64 3700+ 2.2ghz (build)

next, pondering a E8400 or Q6600 more out of boredom since current 3700+ rig still doing all that's required.

Just realised my first 3 PC's had about a x8 speed jump between them while the next were around x1.5

 

[ther00kie16]

p1 75mhz
amd 466mhz (for some unknown reason, went with a cheap amd rather than p3, but that started my path down amd as opposed to everyone else who had intel)
athlon xp 1700 palomino (still running as general use pc and still thinking about going back to connect the L1 bridge so it'll overclock)
athlon xp 3200
x2 4000

 

[Lorne]

Z80, What ever was int he TI 99-4A, 6502, 6510, 6515, Forgot what was in the C=128, Ami Motorola 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060, , 8080, 8086, 8088, 80286, 386 (sx and dx), 486 (sx,dx,dx2,dx4), intel, amd and zerix verions of 386 and 486,, P60-P166, P166mmx-P233MMX, P2, Cellerons to match, AMD K5, K6, K6-2, K6-3, K7, K7 mp and xp, P4 ( And Zeon),
K8 x2.
And all the Math Co's for all the formantioned that were not internal.
Pointless to write speeds, To many, My OC days started in My electronics class with a C64 and a varible ocsilator.

 

[nemesismk2]

Here is my cpu history which started off with Intel, then Cyrix and I've been with AMD ever since!

intel 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 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 X2 4200

 

[demiurge3141]

386SX -> p2-266 -> duron 866 (with an asus board that keeps trashing hdd) -> xp-m 2200+ -> a64 2800+ (754) -> e4300 -> q6600

 

[Atreus21]

Hyundai 8086, 386 DX, Cyrix 6x86, Athlon K62, Athlon XP 3200, Athlon 64 3500+, Athlon 64 FX-57, Athlon 64 FX-60, C2D E8500.

 

[Texun]

286-16 used - off the shelf

All others are\were home built
486DX-33 Intel
486 DX2-66 AMD
486DX-120 AMD
K5-166 (for about a week - what a dog!)
K6-200

Added and upgraded a second PC using a combination of the following:
Celeron 433 and 533
Celeron 533
P4-550
P4-700 x 2 (dual socket board)
P4-1.6
XP-1700
XP-2100
XP-2400
XP-2800

Added and upgraded a third and fourth PC using a combination of the following:
Two Athlon 754 Semprons: 2800, 3100
Two Athlon 754 Venice 3200's
Athlon S939 3200
FX-55
X2-5600

I probably missed a few in between. How on earth are you planning to use this info? With regard to taltamir's statement about buying "what made sense," not knowing the timing and intent behind each purchase will render any objective conclusion impossible. Example: Some of the rigs I built were assembled with second hand parts where I had no brand preference other than to build a cheap school PC or home file server where speed was not an issue. Others may have used the same parts at a different time because they were high end components at one time. Still, it is interesting to see the history. One thing it does show is that there are more old timers in here than I thought!

 

[schizoid77]

P4 2.26 ---> P4 3.06 ---> AMD 4000+ ---> Opteron 185 ---> Q6600.

 

[frythecpuofbender]

486DX2 66Mhz
P 90Mhz
P 166Mhz
P 233MMX
PII 350Mhz
PIII 866Mhz
P4 2,53Ghz
P4 3,2 Ghz
Q6600@3,2Ghz

 

[skinnypotbelly]

X2 4800 -> FX-60 -> then I learned the joys of overclocking -> Opteron 170 -> e6400 -> e8400 -> q9450

This was since 2005 when I started building computers.

 

[jaqie]

Way, way more then I can remember. I started with a TRS-80 model III, then an 8088 (also started my overclocking, took it to 12Mhz), then on through a muddled myriad of systems, and now I have these:
A64 x2 3800+ main gaming box; Demia
A64 3600+ PVR; Taz
Dual P3 933 (STL2 mobo) server; Phobos
Newest aquizition: dell dimention 8200 lappy p4m 2Ghz with a video corruption problem; Tifa.
Toshiba Libretto 70CT P120MMX PDA sized clamshell laptop (DOS MP3 player); Toshi

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Texun
286-16 used - off the shelf

All others are\were home built
486DX-33 Intel
486 DX2-66 AMD
486DX-120 AMD
K5-166 (for about a week - what a dog!)
K6-200

Added and upgraded a second PC using a combination of the following:
Celeron 433 and 533
Celeron 533
P4-550
P4-700 x 2 (dual socket board)
........

I think you meant PIIIs

 

[Krash]

I said to my wife, "Why would anyone need a computer at home?"
Then she brought home a throw away from her office-

Intel XT 8086

So then it started:

Pentium 90Mhz (Gateway - $5000 /Jeez!!!)
*AMD K6-III 450Mhz ($1400 - Getting cheaper)
*HP N3370 AMD K6-2+ 550Mhz (Laptop $1700 - Still hurts)
Pentium-Pro 200Mhz (Just for fun)
*AMD Athlon 64 3500+ ($500 CPU)
*P4 2.4Ghz Northwood (Brother-in-Law)
Intel Celeron 2.93Ghz (Just for more fun)
*AMD X2 4400+ ($200 CPU)
*Acer Aspire 9500 - Celeron M 1.5Ghz / Upgraded to Pentium M 1.6Ghz (Just because I could) ($890 Getting a lot cheaper!)
*E4400 @3.0Ghz ($115 CPU)
*E2180 @3.0Ghz ($84 CPU) (Son)
Q6600 G0 - On the Way! ($200 CPU - Now that's more like it!)

* Still running (Why the heck do I need all these computers?)

 

[Assimilator1]

You should put them to good use.

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[angry hampster]

AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+ (Brisbane) @ 2.99GHz
Intel E6400 ES @ 3.20GHz


These are the only machines I've actually bought/built. Used my parents' computers before then.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Came into the scene in 2000 and the P4 was just coming out.

P4 423 socket 1.3Ghz
P4 478 2.4 Northwood
P4 478 3.06 Hyper Threader Rambus - still using today
AMD Opteron 170
AMD FX60

 

[hokahknow]

Intel 75mhz ->AMD 450 -> AMD Duron 600 -> AMD Athlon 900 ->
AMD Athlon XP 1200 -> AMD 64 3200 WHich is current machine.

Plan to upgrade in the next few months to a Phenom

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Texun
I probably missed a few in between. How on earth are you planning to use this info? With regard to taltamir's statement about buying "what made sense," not knowing the timing and intent behind each purchase will render any objective conclusion impossible. Example: Some of the rigs I built were assembled with second hand parts where I had no brand preference other than to build a cheap school PC or home file server where speed was not an issue. Others may have used the same parts at a different time because they were high end components at one time. Still, it is interesting to see the history. One thing it does show is that there are more old timers in here than I thought!

Then you didn't BUY them... If you got scrap components from elsewhere for free and built a computer from them you aren't "buying what makes", but you are also not being "a fanboi, buying by brand loyalty"... You are being a scavenger, assembling a PC from scrap. Which, btw, is the coolest of things for a geek like me

 

[frombauer]

commodore vic-20
commodore 64
8088
286
386 dx-33
386 dx-40
486 sx (don't remember the frequency)
486 dx2-66
P100
p233mmx (or was it a 200mhz?)
p2-400 (I still have this system)
p3-700
p4-1.6
p4-2.6
p4-2.8
a64-3200+
a64 x2 3800+
c2d e8400

phew! nice to remember that.

 

[LumbergTech]

disclaimer, no i did not waste as much money as it looks like, i mostly found deals and sold my old cpus and upgraded very cheaply

pentium 75
celeron 400
amd k62 500
athlon 700 mhz
athlon 900 mhz
tbred 1.4 ghz
athlon 64 3000+
athlon 64 3500+
opteron 1.8 ghz oced to 2.7 ghz (wow this was amazing for the price)
core 2 duo 2.66 oced to 3.2ghz

 

[BolleY2K]

Commodore VC20 with the mighty Datasette ^^
Commodore C64
386SX-33
486DX2-66
Pentium P133
AMD K6/2 300
Pentium 3 Coppermine 667
Amd Athlon XP 2500+ (lateron first OC ever to 2800+ specs)
Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3.05 Ghz on stock voltages (current system)

 

[geno]

486DX - 25Mhz (no sound, no CDROM, no modem, had to add it all myself at the age of 12 )
Intel SX2 Overdrive - 63Mhz
Cyrix 5x86 - 100Mhz
Pentium (w/ MMX! Woo!) - 200Mhz
Celeron 333Mhz (my first foray into OCing and Slot 1, but the multiplier on these 333's made it tough)
Pentium III 800Mhz (I think this one went to 1-1.2Ghz, can't remember)
Pentium 4(D I believe, whichever sported the 800Mhz FSB) - 2.8 Ghz (never OC'd this for some reason)

As of a few weeks ago, Pentium C2D 2.2 Ghz @ 2.97Ghz