CPU History

[Meddling-Monk]

Going to just list actual PC CPU parts, rather than what I've been in possession of, which would extend back much further in time.

Intel Pentium 166Mhz
Intel Pentium 2 300Mhz
Evergreen Spectra 400Mhz
Intel Pentium 3 600Mhz
Intel Pentium 3 1Ghz
Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz
AMD MP2200+ (x2) 1.8Ghz
AMD Opteron 240 (x2) 1,4Ghz
Intel i7 920 2.6Ghz
Intel i5 3570 3.4Ghz (Ran at 4Ghz)
Intel i7 3820 3.6Ghz (Ran at 4.2Ghz)
Intel i7 4903k 3.4Ghz (Ran at 4.2Ghz)

 

[nthlord]

Celeron pre-built
Celeron "gaming" laptop (obsolete after 6 months)
Atom netbook

Dual-core Athlon (DDR2)
Quad-core Athlon II (DDR3)
Hexa-core Zen+ (DDR4)
Octa-core Zen 5/6 (DDR5)

Probably sticking to this upgrade pattern forever apart from my first few noobish picks.

 

[Lokken86]

Intel Pentium 4 3.0ghz (775)
AMD Athon X2 4400
Intel E6600
Intel E8400
Intel 3570k
AMD 1950x
AMD 5900x

 

[Marc250]

Intel Pentium 1 200MMX
AMD Athlon 600
AMD Athlon 1000
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400
AMD Athlon XP2400+
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Intel Q6600
Intel 2700k
Intel 9700k
Intel 9900k

 

[robinbanks]

I think mine was:

Intel Pentium 3
I5 760
I5 2500k
I7 950
I5 2400
I7 965
EQ6950
1620v3
2667v3

I didn't include the laptops. What a random order.

 

[shiver]

Ignoring various Macs over the years :

Intel Pentium 2
Intel Pentium 4 1.4Ghz (RDRAM :/ )
Intel Pentium 4 3GHz Prescott
Intel Q6600
Intel i7 4770K
AMD Ryzen 3700X

 

[onedice]

AMD Duron 600 mhz in a IBM net vista PC
Intel Celeron 1.8 ghz single core
Intel core2duo e6600
AMD Phenom 920 x3 (unlocked the fouth core)
AMD FX6300
Intel I5 6600
AMD Ryzen 2600
Future upgrade maybe to go for a pci-e gen 4 motherboard and Ryzen 5700 if one is released or maybe (less likely) see what Intel has to offer when they release support.

 

[zola25]

Ignoring everything prior to my PC days....

Intel 386 SX
Intel 486 DX2
Intel 486 DX4
Cyrix MII 300
Intel P3 450
Intel P3 550
AMD Athlon XP1700+
AMD Athlon XP2400+
AMD Athlon 64 3000
AMD Athlon 64 3700
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400
Intel Core2 Duo E6400 - Probably my favourite due to a 50% overclock
Intel Core2 Duo E8400
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
Intel Core i7 2700K
Intel Core i7 4790K
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
Intel Core I7 8700K
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

 

[Randomface74]

Random PCs I had before I learnt to build:
- Intel Pentium 2
- Intel Celeron D

My builds:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
- Intel Core i7 920
- Intel Core i7 6700K

 

[Iamzod]

I might get this a little mixed up as i've had my current CPU about 8 years but it looks something like this -

Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz (Wilamette Core)
AMD Athlon XP2500+ (Barton Core overclocked at a stable 2525MHz)

There was then an Intel Core 2 Duo and an Athlon X2 3800+ in there but I can't remember which order they were in.

Last & current CPU is an i5 3570k clocked at 4.5GHz.

I'm currently holding off on purchasing either an i5 or a Ryzen 5.

 

[Tinkers2004]

Mine is

Cyrix 686

Pentium 233

Pentium II 333Mhz

Athlon 600

Athlon 2500 Barton

Athlon 4000

X2 4800+

Q6600

I7 3770K

I7 6700K

I7 10700k (wanted i9 but couldn’t get one anywhere)

Next will be i9 11900K

 

[Pocket10s]

Athlon 3800+
AMD FX6300+
AMD Ryzen 3600

AMD fanboy here

 

[bobbarley]

486 SX-25 (turbo'd to 33MHz!)
Pentium 166
AMD K6-2 300MHz
Duron 800MHz
Athlon 1Ghz
Athlon 1.3Ghz
Athlon XP 1600+
Athlon XP 2600+
Intel C2D 6320
E8400
Phenom 955 BE
Pentium G3258
i5 4670k
i5 4790k
Ryzen 2600
Ryzen 5600x

I know there are more than that, I just can't remember!

 

[Davey D]

My first PC was a 286 16mhz machine back in 1992. it had 1Mb ram and a 40Mb hard drive... Those were the days playing all those shareware games on floppy disc, and PC speaker sounds

Between then and now there have been so many upgrades, and parts that its all just a blur. Current processor is a 5900x, prior to that a 6700k.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Just to see how old some of you actually are and whats passed through your hands over the years.

Ahahahaha ok. Lets see if I can remember...

6502 1mhz
65C02 2mhz
ARM1 - 4 mips I think
Duron 800mhz
Athlon XP 1600 iirc
Athlon 64 3400+
E6600
Q6600
i7 920
i5 4690k
i7 4790k
3900X
5900X

to date.

 

[4K8KW10]

My first PC was a 286 16mhz machine back in 1992. it had 1Mb ram and a 40Mb hard drive... Those were the days playing all those shareware games on floppy disc, and PC speaker sounds

Between then and now there have been so many upgrades, and parts that its all just a blur. Current processor is a 5900x, prior to that a 6700k.

Too many to list now but like others, dx2 66. Iirc it had 5 1/4 like the 386 but one was swapped out for a mahoosive 20mb hdd. Cutting edge back then! Spent many hours playing gunship, space quest 2 and elite.

Then pentium came along and absolutely obliterated it. Remember a pal had a p90, the tower was huge! Think that was the start of playing wing commander. Loved it!

These old 5.25" hard drives are very interesting. They are rated at 5 Mbit/s transfers, which means 0.625 MB/s - for example the Seagate ST 225 20 MB 5.25.
This would mean that the HDD was able to transfer its whole capacity in just 32 seconds!!!

In modern times, it would translate to a 1 TB drive being able to transfer its contents at 31.25 GB/s read speed.

Am I doing the calculations correct?

 

[Brazo]

Assuming we are starting from the intel platform and not going back to bbc micro!

386 sx40
486 dx66 (beast!)
various laptops with low power cpus
I5 4670k
I7 4790k
I7 7700k
AMD 2700x
AMD 3800x
AMD 3900XT

 

[lloydcars18]

Intel Pentium 4
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
AMD Ryzen 7 5800x

Only 4 CPUs over 13+ years

 

[4K8KW10]

Only 4 CPUs over 13+ years

This is even more than enough. Your most recent upgrade was 100% performance improvement.

The guy above you has more like sidegrades with pretty small performance improvements.

For a comparison - mine:

The last, of course.

Mine:

Pentium 233 MHz
Pentium II 450 MHz
Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego (recently upgraded to Athlon 64 4400+ X2 Toledo)
Core 2 Quad Q9450
Core 2 Duo T5250 upgraded later to Core 2 Duo T6600
Ryzen 5 2500U
Ryzen 9 5900X

Desktop:
Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego - 2006
Core 2 Quad Q9450 - 2008
Ryzen 9 5900X - 2021

3 for 14 years

 

[Sc00p007]

486dx2 66
Pentium 150
Pentium 233mmx
Pentium 2 300
Duron 800
Athlon 2400+
Core 2 duo e6400
Core 2 quad q6600
I7 920 D0
I7 2600
I7 6700k
I9 9900k
Ryzen 9 5950x