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Your CPU History Tree

jbs

jbs

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Intel 286
Intel 386
Intel Pentium 166 MMX
AMD K6-2
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
AMD Opteron 175

Have not been upgrading that often and I'm a bit behind at the moment, although it runs everything fine I throw at it even all the games I currently play:)

I remember doing programming on the 286/386 when you really had to give memory a consideration with only 640k available!
 
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6502 Atari 400 16k
6502 BBC B 32k
68020 - Amiga 500
80286 - First PC, had monocrone 12" display
80486SX25 - IBM PS/1
80486DX50
Cyrix M1 - Great chip
Cyrix 686 166+
Pentium 2 266
Celeron 333
Pentium 3 800
Pentium 4 2.4
Core 2 1.86
i5 750 2.66
 
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I've owned the following at some time or another:

Intel 386
Intel 486

Intel Pentium
Pentium 90
Pentium 166
Pentium 200
PII 400
PIII 800
Celeron 2.4
P4 2.6 Northwood C

AMD XP T'Bred
2100
2400
2600
2700

1.6 Duron

AMD XP Barton
2500
2800

AMD64 S754
3000 Newcastle
2800 Sempron

AMD64 S939
3000 Winchester
3500 Winchester
3000 Venice
Opteron 146
3800 X2

AMD AM2
Athlon X2 4800

Intel S775
E4400
E6400
E6750
E6850
E7200
E7300
E8400

Intel i3
i3 530

Not necessarily in that order - and yes I always have more than one PC at all times:D
 

mrk

mrk

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Hmm quite interesting thinking about it, my AMD ownership was fanboyish back in the day!

Starting from 2000~

> Intel P120 with overdrive coprocessor

> AMD Athlon 700MHz (OCd to 850MHz, I recall people on CS saying "Whoah nice CPU!" back in the day :p)
> AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Tbred B 1.46GHz
> AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8GHz
> AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton 1.8GHz
> AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Barton 2.2GHz

> AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.2GHz (short lived, incompatible with mobo)
> AMD Opteron 14something
> AMD Athlon X2 4200+
> AMD Athlon X2 4400+
> AMD Athlon X2 4800+

> Intel Core2Quad Q6600 B3 (2.8GHz OC)
> Intel Core2Quad Q6600 G0 (3.16GHz OC)
> Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (3.8GHz OC)
 
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17 Oct 2002
Posts
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Location
Doncaster
Acorn Electron (go 1986!)
Amiga 500 (dunno what cpu)
Amiga 500+
8086 (omg that was poor)
80486
AMD Athlon K7 700mhz (slot7)
AMD palamino 2100+
AMD tbred 1700+
Intel P4 2.5ghz
AMD barton 2500+
Intel P4 3.06ghz
AMD tbred 1700+ (different one to above)
Intel e2160
Intel q9550 (ordered it today)
 
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3 Jan 2006
Posts
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Location
Elgin
Amstrad CPC 464 (zilog Z80A)
Amstrad CPC 6128 (zilog Z80A) [still have this]
Atari 800XL (MOS 6502,1.8MHz)
Amiga 500+ (motorolla 68000, upgraded to 68010) [still have this]
Intel Pentium II 333
Intel Pentium 3 550E flipchip clocked to 800+ Mhz :D
AMD XP2400 [still have this]
Intel Pentium 4 3.2 [still have this and running it]
Intel Pentium 805D
Intel Pentium 940D [still have this]
Intel Q8300 [running this in my main pc]
 
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24 Jun 2007
Posts
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Location
Elgin, N.E.Scotland
Commodore C-16
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200 (+68060 expansion)
PIII 450
Athlon 750
Athlon XP 2000
Athlon XP 3200
Athlon 64 3200
Athlon 64 3400
Intel P4 1.7 (laptop)
Athlon 64 3700
Intel E2140 (htpc currently)
Intel Q6600 (main rig currently)
Intel E8400 (second rig)
Intel I5 750 (building at moment)
 
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24 Sep 2008
Posts
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Location
London / Belfast
Z80
Intel Pentium 166
Intel Pentium2 233
Intel Pentium3 450
Amd Thunderbird 1400
Amd Athlonxp 2600+
Amd Athlon64 3000+ (socket 754)
Amd Athlon64 3200+ (socket 939)
Intel E6400
Intel E8400
Intel E4200 (laptop)
Intel i7 920
 
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Location
Peterborough
Intel pentium (??mhz) it was a hand me down
intel Pentium 4 2.4 ghz

*then i went thorugh laptop stage with a dual core dell laptop which i still own*

then..

q6600 as in my sig

Quite a small CPU history really, however it does span back a few years, never really been into hardware until a few years ago.
 
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Location
Hampshire
486 SX-33
386 SX-25 (laptop)
Cyrix 6x86 PR200+. Think I killed it due to overclocking and a CPU fan stopped spinning. Back then I had no temp monitoring software.
Celeron 300A @ 472.5mhz. This is what really got me hooked on overclocking.
P3 650E @ 910mhz
P4 1.6A @ 2.6ghz
P4 1.8A @ 2.7ghz (RMA replacement for the above)
Some S754 A64 Clawhammer at speeds I can't remember. This was a silly secondhand purchase that I resold for a small loss shortly after.
A64 3000+ (Venice) @ 2.5ghz
C2D E4300 @ 3.2ghz
i5-750 @ 3.8ghz
Phenom II X4 N930 (laptop)
i5 3570k @ 4.5ghz (use this to play media in the kitchen, replacing the above laptop which is pretty knackered now)
i7 4500U (laptop mostly used by my son, I borrow it occasionally)
Ryzen 1600 (still have this as a backup system but never use it)
Ryzen 2700X
Ryzen 5900X (current PC)
i9 11900F @ 5.2ghz (my son's PC)
A4-5300 (crap system I inherited, think I killed the motherboard with a crazy overclock)
Ryzen 5700u (laptop)

Note how if you ignore then Clawhammer I actually bought 3 cpus in a row with the same default clock speed, 1.8ghz. Things have really stagnated on the clockspeed front.
 
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Planet Earth
Laptops

AMD K6-II+ or K6-III+(can't remember which one)
Pentium 4 2GHZ
Pentium 4 2.53GHZ
Pentium M 1.6GHZ
Pentium M A110
Core i5 6300U

Desktops

AMD XP 2800+
AMD Sempron(can't remember model number but was socket 754)
Pentium D 805
E2180
E1200/E1400(can't remember which one)
E4300
E4500
E6300
Q6600
Phenom II X2 550BE
Core i3 2100
Core i3 3220
Core i5 3470S
Core i5 3550
Xeon E3 1220
Xeon E3 1230 V2
Llano A6 3670K
Ryzen 5 2600
Ryzen 7 3700X
Ryzen 7 5700X
Core i5 10400
 
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Intel 80286
Intel i386 DX 33
Pentium 4 ~1400Mhz
Athlon 64 3000+
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Duo E8400
Core i7 860
Core i5 3570K
Core i5 6600K
Ryzen 7 5800X
Ryzen 9 5900X
 
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Intel 286
Intel 386
Intel Pentium 166 MMX
AMD K6-2
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
AMD Opteron 175

Have not been upgrading that often and I'm a bit behind at the moment, although it runs everything fine I throw at it even all the games I currently play:)

I remember doing programming on the 286/386 when you really had to give memory a consideration with only 640k available!
386, 486, pentium 1 133 clocked at 233 with jumper settings haha, amd 3200xp, duron 1.2ghz iirc (second rig at the time), 3200xp-m in an htpc, q6600, c2d 2.4ghz, i5 3210m, soon to own a 5800x...
 
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Post from 2009
Holy thread Nercro Batman! ...So I forgot entirely about this thread in the ...13 years since I made this post, I am really glad someone dug this up actually as it's interesting to me, a trip down memory lane as I have started to forget a a lot of these now, I don't think I could have made this list so completely anymore, but I can add a lot to this now.

Desktop

Motorola MC68EC020 CISC 14.18MHz (Aminga 1200)

Intel Pentium 133MHz (Socket 7)

AMD K6-2 300Mhz (Super Socket 7, clocked at 400Mhz)

AMD K6-3 400Mhz (Super Socket 7, wouldn't clock more than a few Mhz)

Intel Celeron 400MHz (Socket 370, clocked at 500Mhz - legendary chip!)

AMD Athlon K7 700MHz (Slot A, wouldn't clock at all really)

AMD Duron 750MHz (Socket A, clocked at 900Mhz)

AMD Duron 800MHz (Socket A, clocked at 950Mhz, still couldn't hit 1GHz, I crushed the core on the previous chip, this replaced it)

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1533MHz (Socket A, Palomino core, didn't clock it)

AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2000MHz (Socket A, Thoroughbred core, clocked to 2,300MHz)

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2400MHz (socket 754, Clawhammer core, wouldn't clock much)

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2200Mhz (socket 939, Newcastle core, clocked to 2500Mhz)

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2000MHz (socket 939, Venice core, bought for a second computer, still runs in my Mum's machine now, would clock to 2400MHz at least)

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2400MHz (socket 775, Conroe core, clocked to 3000MHz and still running in my media machine/server)

AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE 3000MHz (socket AM2+, wouldn't clock much, 3100MHz or so)

AMD Phenom II x2 550 BE 3100MHz (socket AM3+, used/using in a test setup)

Intel Core I5 2666Mhz (socket 1156, Lynfield core, my main machine now, I haven't tried overclocking it yet)

---- Additions since I first made this ----

Intel Core I5 3570K (socket 1155 Ivybridge)

Intel Xeon E3-1226v3 (socket 1150 Haswell, these were in home servers and I had 2 or 3 of these over the years)

Intel I5 2400 (socket 1155 Sandybridge, bought used for very little years after it was current to fit in an old board I rescued and it's still used today as my CD ripping system, rarely gets turned on now, I think I got this around the same time as my first Ryzen actually)

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (sold early 2019)

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (sold in 2020)

Intel 10700 (10th gen Comet Lake, I fancied an Intel again, didn't keep long as I moved onto a Ryzen 5000 series quickly now sold on to a friend as a complete system)

Intel 10500 (10th gen Comet Lake, this was built because I felt like it, sold to another friend in a complete system and only kept and used a few months by me, was the first version of my livingroom PC connected to my TV as I got an LG CX OLED)

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (this is in my living-room PC which is connected to my TV and is used for gaming and some media stuff)

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (my current main PC)



Laptop

Intel Pentium M 1733MHz (Dothan core)

AMD Turion TL-56 1800MHz (Tyler core I think)

AMD Turion ZM-82 2200MHz (Lion core)

Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2200MHz (Merom Core, socket P, my main laptop now)

Intel Celeron M 600MHz (whatever the Celeron used by the first Asus E701 was)

Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2400MHz (Penryn)

Intel Atom N270 1600MHz

I can't remember, I had a bunch of laptops after this period upto about 2013, since then though I have only had 1 personal laptop which is a Dell with a 6th gen Intel which more or less never gets used now, I used to travel a lot as when I made this list in 2009 upto 2012 my girlfriend lived in the Netherlands so I spent a lot of time there with her, after 2012 we split up and I came back to the UK full time and didn't need a laptop much anymore)
 
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