CPU History

[LabR@t]

Pii 400mhz
Celeron 633 oc to 1ghz ( first GHz processor afaik)
Athlon 1200
2500barton
3200
Opteron 140?
P4 something
2180
9650
Fx8350
2500u

Looking to build another desktop but pricing is stupid at the moment.

 

[Wolfdale]

Various processors in shop bought pcs but my own home office pc builds thus:

AMD Athlon64 FX-55 @ 2.6Ghz 2004
Intel Pentium D 950 @ 3.4Ghz 2006
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 3.33Ghz 2008
Intel Core i5 760 @ 2.80Ghz 2010
AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT @ 3.8Ghz 2020

 

[dubs]

Some kind of cyrix chip, can never remember which one it was.
P3 600.
Athlon 64 3200 Winchester, great chip.
Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition.
Athlon Phenom2 x4 940 Black Edtion.

And currently running an Intel i5 4670k, really need an upgrade

 

[Grim5]

My list is short

* Intel Pentium 4 1ghz
* AMD 3800x2
* Intel Core i7 860
* Intel Core i7 4790k
* Intel Core i7 8700k
* AMD Ryzen 3950x
* AMD Ryzen 5950x

You can also see I have no brand loyalty, I simply use whichever best fits my needs

 

[turbot1984]

Mine is a bit shorter

Athlon 64 x2
Q6600 - gave this to my brother
I7 920 (this is when I got into custom loop watercooling)
Side grade to a x5650 (overclockers the snot out of it to 4.4GHZ)
Built an unraid server on a 2700x and realised I got better performance in a Windows VM.
Flipped the 2700x for a 3900x and now runs a 6c/12t windows 10Vm and is only about 1-2% off bare metal performance but I can use the other cores for server stuff.

edit: for me my favourite are the Athlon 64 x 2 and the X5650, for £40 it was the best upgrade ever!

Yeah, also have soft spot for X2 4000+ paired with 8800GT.
My previous two, i5 2500K and i7 6700K were mint cpu's... Intel's finest?

 

[Quartz]

So, who has the earliest starting CPU? Anyone earlier than a 6502 or 8080 / Z80?

 

[clv101]

I started a similar thread about 12 years ago & here it is. Perhaps the dons want to merge both?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/your-cpu-history-tree.17946271/

Also this one: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/what-was-your-first-ever-cpu.18220012/

 

[clv101]

First computer I owned for a 48k Spectrum with a Z80, first PC was a 386SX 25MHz.

Then:
P60 @66MHz
P150 @187.5MHz
Celeron 300A @ 464MHz
AMD 1GHz TBird @ 1.4GHz
P2.8A @ 3.2GHz
C2D E4300 1.8 @ 3.2GHz

MacBook C2D 2GHz
MacBook Pro 2.2GHz i7-2675QM

Ryzen 5600X

Ten PC systems in 35 years! I feel each upgrade was a meaningful performance bump and, with the overclocks excellent value for money. For example, the P150 at 187.5MHz outperformed the 200MHz flagship part thanks to the 75MHz overclocked FSB. The 300MHz Celeron at 464MHz matched the flagship P450. The 1.4GHz Thunderbird was top of the tables and getting 3.2GHz from the budget E4300 matched parts 5 times the price.

A decade with MacBooks put a halt to that kind of fun and now with a new 5600X desktop, CPU overclocking just seems pointless. There's no reason to squeeze another few percentage points, in exchange for significantly more heat/power.

 

[LabR@t]

So, who has the earliest starting CPU? Anyone earlier than a 6502 or 8080 / Z80?

oh forgot about those had a vic20, spectrum 48 and c64

 

[jarvis82]

Intel 486 DX2 50 (circa 1994)
Intel Celeron (1998ish - bought 2nd hand, was told it was a Pentium...it wasn't!)
Intel Pentium III 800 (late 1998 - big white tower case, contained first DVD player I ever had - Played Deus Ex on this, a true highlight of my gaming life)
AMD Athlon 1800 (2002ish - built for me by a friend)
AMD Athlon 2000 (2002-2003, cpu upgrade)
Intel Pentium IV 3.2 (2003 - Dell machine that I used to play Eve Online in its first year of release, another wondrous gaming experience)
Intel E8400 Core2Duo (2008 - Assasins Creed demanded a new PC, So I bought a ready built system from PC Specialist - dreadful dreadful dreadful decision, badly put together, with no effort put into cable management at all, laughable)
Intel i7 930 (2010 - with help from this forum, I finally built a nice i7 quad core system for myself. Also first cpu I overclocked)
Intel i7 970 (2011 - cpu upgrade and more overclocking)
Intel i5 2500K (2012 or 2013 - Amazing cpu, 4.5ghz
Intel i7 2600K (2017)
AMD Ryzen 7 2700x (2019 - back to AMD after 16 years with Intel)
?? (more AMD next I expect)

 

[SexyGreyFox]

So, who has the earliest starting CPU? Anyone earlier than a 6502 or 8080 / Z80?

I had a Z80 then a Spectrum

 

[Bacalhau]

Intel Pentium 3 800
AMD 2500+
AMD XP-M 2500+
AMD XP-M 2600+
AMD 3700+
AMD X2 3800
AMD X2 4400
Intel E6400
Intel E6600
Intel Q6600
Intel I5 2500K
Intel I7 6700K
Intel I7 8700K

 

[andy_mk3]

So, who has the earliest starting CPU? Anyone earlier than a 6502 or 8080 / Z80?

No chance for me, they were well before I was even thought of

 

[Blue160]

Pentium 4 - ‘borrowed’ from the university my dad worked at! (His IT department had upgraded their machines and said they didn’t want to see it again).

Core 2 Duo E8400 - Cheap prebuilt bought with no knowledge when the pentium started to feel epically slow.

i5 750 - first self build. Overclocked to 4.2GHz. Loved that CPU!

i3 3220 - Got fed up with PC gaming (and the heat and noise that SLi GTX 460s and a heavily overclocked CPU produce) and went SFF for a while.

Pentium Anniversary G3258 - Built a media centre around this which is still running under my telly.

i3 8100 - Supposed to be for an office machine but then I crumbled and bought an RX580 to go with it and the PC gaming bug bit again.

i7 8700 - impulse upgrade. Turned out to be too much for my cheap motherboard. Now running in my daughter’s machine.

Ryzen 5 3600X - First AMD chip and very pleased with it

 

[Angelos Zeitan]

Hi everyone,...

I don't remember all the details, but it goes like this:

• Intel 286 --> for the family but I used to play some old doss games back in the day...
• Intel 486 SX --> Doom baby!
• Intel Pentium II --> Resident Evils Era, Strategy games...
• Intel Pentium IV --> Some good old Painkiller / NFS...
• Intel Core 2 Quad --> Bioshocks, cRYSIS...
• Intel I7 4770K (For many years).
• AMD 5950x (Just now!, first time AMD!), Enjoying Flight sim...

Cheers!

 

[Cavokk]

hmm - I must be really old..

*8088-5Mhz
*MOS 6510 C64
*8086-8Mhz
*80186-10Mhz - yes very uncommon CPU for a desktop
*286-16Mhz
*386-25Mhz without co processor
*486-33Mhz Tseng ET4000 - with EISA bus - pretty costly back then ..
*AMD 486-40Mhz Tseng ET4000/W32- my first PC that I bought my self - all above was dripped down PC´s from my father when he upgraded
*Pentium2-266Mhz S3 Trio64/Virge AFAIR
*Dual Celerons 400Mhz Riva 128 (yeah - Windows only used 1 cpu but it looked cool )
*Athlon Thunderbird 1200Mhz with Geforce 2
*Core 2 Duo E6600 - first Watercooled PC with Geforce GTS8800-384MB

... looong break using Mac's and no gaming ...

*I7-8700K@5Ghz GTX1080 secondary rig
*5950x RTX3090 primary rig

Cheers

C

 

[Vipernet]

Motorola 68000 @ 7.16 MHz
Intel 80386
Intel Pentium 120mhz
Intel Celeron 300
Intel Celeron 500
Intel Pentium 3 733
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 Northwood
Intel Pentium D 945
Intel E2160
Intel E4400
Intel E6420
Intel Q6600
Intel i5 750
Intel i7 860
Intel i7 3770k
Intel Xeon x5670
Intel i7 5820k
Intel i7 6800k
AMD Ryzen 1800x

That's just all my main machines I can remember, I've benched over 100 CPUs on hwbot.

 

[Quartz]

Motorola 68000 @ 7.16 MHz

Apple or Sinclair?

 

[Vipernet]

Apple or Sinclair?

Amiga 500

 

[almoststew1990]

100MHz Something (probably not intel as it would have been a cheap CPU) family PC
400MHz PII Family PC
2GHz Athlon on Socket 754 Family PC
Athlon X2 5200+ my own PC
i7 860 (still use this PC pretty regularly as when overclocked it's perfectly usable)
i7 4770K now my partner's work from home PC
3700X

And dozens of second hand CPUs bought cheaply in the last five years to mess around with ranging from AMD DX2-80 to P4 3.4GHz to Q6600 to Athlon II x3