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CPU History

K6-2
Pentium 4 Northwood B 2.53GHZ
Athlon XP 2800
A socket 754 Sempron
A few Pentium Ms
Pentium D 805
E4300
E4500
E2180
E6320
Q6600
E1200
Core i3 2100
Core i3 3220
Xeon E3 1220
Xeon E3 1230 V2
Athlon II X3 440
A6 3670K
Core i5 3470S
Core i5 6300U
Ryzen 5 2600
Ryzen 7 3700X
 
for my own builds
e8500 i think it was called, it oc'ed very easily
i5 750
i5 6600
10400f (if I keep it)
 
I can't remember more than half of them I can only remember 2500k onwards.

2500k
7600k
8500
1700
1700x
1600x
3600
3600x

That's desktop only and before the 2500k I would have had at least another 6-8 CPUs.

I don't know how anyone can remember each one.

Laptop wise again I could only name the last few everything before that would be anyone's guess.
 
6510 (C64)
M68000 (Amiga)
M68020 (Amiga)
Pentium 3 800 Coppermine
Pentium 150
Pentium 233mmx
Duron 800
Athlon 1400 Thunderbird
Athlon XP 1600+ Palomino
Athlon XP 2100+ Throughbred
Athlon XP 3000 Barton
Opteron 144 SledgeHammer
Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban
Phenom II X6 1100T
Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester
Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Toledo
Core 2 Duo E6400
Core 2 Quad Q6600
FX-8320 Vishera
Ryzen 1700
Ryzen 2700
Ryzen 3600x
Ryzen 3900XT

plus a bunch of 20 or so laptops with intel cpu`s which I never really paid attention to...

Mostly AMD, prefer the underdog..

Best enjoyable times were with the 2nd/3rd cpu`s in the list.. when coding was good, the beer was free and the lamers were few...
 
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In terms of desktops;

Started with a 68000 in an Atari 1040ST
486 DX2
P3 500Mhz
Athlon XP 2400+
Q6600
i5 2500k
4690k
Ryzen 3600
Ryzen 5800x

Loads more in terms of laptops and iMacs, including T9400, 2415M, 8850H and now M1.
 
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Intel Core i7 7700K
Intel Core i7 8700K
Intel Core i9 9900K (Yes, I was a sucker for intel...)
Intel Core i9 9940X (Started doing a lot of video encoding so HEDT was the best way to go until...)
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

And I've put a cap on myself to leave my current 5950X + 3080 system alone until at least the 4th quarter of 2022. I've been chopping and changing way too much over the last few years.
Plus when you spend a crapload on an Asrock Aqua X570 motherboard it'd be a waste to change quickly...
 
oh god where to start, probably missing a few but my memory starts here.

Phenom II x2 unlocked to an x3
Phenom II x4 955 black edition
I5 2400
some laptop Ivybridge no idea which
I5 4440
I5 6600k
I5 7600k
ryzen 1600/1700 can't remember which
Had some sort of amd apu around this time aswell
I7 8700k
Ryzen 5 3600
Ryzen 7 5800x - Today

Interested to see the rise and fall of intel in my cpu history lol
I also really liked I5s apparently
 
Motorola 68020 (I owned systems with several variations of the legendary 68000 chip but the 20 was the base for Amiga 1200 which I have fond memories of)
Pentium 200
P3 900
P4c 2.4Ghz
Core 2 Duo 6400
Q6700
I5 3650k
Ryzen 3600

I've excluded console CPUs
 
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ive had too many ones I can remember

athlon x64 256mb ram or 512mb I cant remember
Core 2 Duo e6600 - this was my favourite PC, bought it to play RS better it was amazing at the time £300 HP from currys refurbished must have been 2009 :)
Q6600
i7 920
i7 950
i7 970
i7 980x
i7 2600k
i7 3770k
i7 4770k
i7 4790k
i7 5775c
i5 6600k
i7 6700k
i7 8700k
E3 1270 V3
Ryzen 2400g - Asrock Desk mini
Ryzen 5 3600 ( currently using ) upgrade itches away
 
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Amega 500+ (Loved it)

Intel Pentium 2 (Loved it)
Intel Pentium 4, 3.2Ghz HT. (Hated it)
AMD Athlon XP 3800+ (Loved it)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (Loved it)
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Married it)
AMD FX 8350 (Meh)
AMD FX 9590 (Hated it)
Intel Core i7 930 (Liked it)
Intel Core i5 4690K (it was ok)
AMD Ryzen R5 1600 (Liked it)
AMD Ryzen R5 3600 (Love it)
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Amega 500+ (Loved it)

Intel Pentium 2 (Loved it)
Intel Pentium 4, 3.2Ghz HT. (Hated it)
AMD Athlon XP 3800+ (Loved it)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (Loved it)
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Married it)
AMD FX 8350 (Meh)
AMD FX 9590 (Hated it)
Intel Core i7 930 (Liked it)
Intel Core i5 4690K (it was ok)
AMD Ryzen R5 1600 (Liked it)
AMD Ryzen R5 3600 (Love it)
AMD Ryzen R7 5800X (Fabulous)
 
Can't even remember half of mine now LOL...

My first two systems were an Acorn A3010 with ARM250 (new) and a 286 system (my dad's old work computer).
Pentium 1 - 166MMX
Pentium 3 - 500, 800, 2-3x 1.x GHz models I can't remember exact models.
Celeron 300, 450 (Mobile), 1GHz
Pentium 4 - 1.5GHz, 2.4, 3.0GHz w/ HT.
Various Pentium 4-M and Celeron based laptops of that era - 1.2-2GHz single core.
Core 2 - E6600, Q6600, Q9550, Xeon E5420
i7 4820K
i7 3610QM (laptop)
Xeon E5-1650 V2

Various tablets/mobile devices based around Intel Atom CPUs of all kinds.

Built a system around a i7 3770K but then sold it to a friend as I didn't see at the time enough of an upgrade from my Q9550 setup and didn't feel like money well spent to me.

Got a build with a 10400F in progress as a kind of backup/future secondary system - but not sure what I'm going to do there as I'm holding on to Windows 7 as long as I can for my main systems.

Also bunch of other laptops I can't remember what CPUs were/are in them at all and definitely forgetting some other stuff.

EDIT: Add the Celeron-M ULV 353 to that list - had an Asus Eee 701.
 
Don't upgrade as often most on here but here is mine. Generally always been very happy with the upgrades and felt they've been worthwhile.

Athlon Barton 2500
Intel i7 920
Intel i7 4770K
Intel i7 6700K

Overdue an update now I think but waiting to see what Intel releases . Will likely break with trend and go for mid range gaming / value option like 5600X/5800K or i7 as oppose to i9.
 
Quite a short list for me but it goes like this.

Amd Athlon 64 X2 5600
Amd Phenom II 555 that I was able to unlock to a quad core it was absolute bargain.
Intel 4670k
Amd 3600

Had every intention to upgrade to the 5000 series but I’ll take a pass at the current prices, hopefully Intel’s latest will bring the prices down.
 
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