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How long do you keep your cpus for?

probably had in the region of 10-15 athlons in the last year.

i like to chop and change and test each chip to its max :) (and i mean max).

Tom
 
I give my old stuff to my G/F, or other family members, or keep it for spares. I wouldn't sell stuff that's 2+ years old anyway.

I usually only upgrade when there's new tech available. The only exception was going from a P4 2.4b to a P4 3.4c, as they were both socket 478.

I've had an XT, 286, 386, 486, P-100, PII-450, PIII-733, Athlon 1Ghz, P4-2.4, P4-3.4, E6600.
 
I try to keep my CPU's until the next upgrade is a 100% improvement.

I've just upgraded from a 3.2Ghz Northwood P4, to a Core 2 E6700. Its pretty much twice the speed of the P4 on each core! :) A very worthwhile upgrade :)

Dont even remember when I bought the 3.2, but being a Northwood rather than a prescott, my guess would be 2003 sometime.
 
Long enough ;)

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Lusty
 
Currently have a 2.4 P4C Northwood that I've had for nearly 2 years and a AMD 64 Winnie 3500+ which I've had for about 18 months or so.

I do still have a Pentium 90 System that isn't in use at the moment, used normally as a Smoothwall Box.

Think next upgrade will be next year when Kentsfield and AMD's equivalent are released.
 
Normally 12-18 months.

I'm stuffed at the moment as I have:
Athlon 64 3400
Abit S754 MB
AGP GFX
DDR ram

To upgrade my CPU now means replacing the lot, and I just cannot afford it. :(
 
2000 - INTEL PIII *Coppermine* 550e (Intel BX Chipset)

2003 - AMD *Barton* XP2500+ @XP3200+ (nVidia nForce2 Chipset)

2004 - INTEL P4 *Northwood* 2.6c @ 3Ghz (Intel i865PE Chipset)
2004 - INTEL P4 *Northwood* 2.8c @ 3.5Ghz (Intel i865PE Chipset)

2006 - AMD *Opteron* 146 @ 2.8GHz (nVidia nForce4)
2006 - AMD *Opteron* 170 @ 2.6GHz (nVidia nForce4)

That seems to be every year and a half :)

I guess some of that is boredom but its mostly down to the fact that I am always curious about new tech and I also like to have *hands on* experience of new CPU's and chipsets.
 
About a year

1999-2001 Celeron 400mhz (when I was still in South Africa)
2002-2003 XP2400+
2003-2004 XPM 2500 @ 3200+
2005 A64 3000+ @ 2.2Ghz
2006 A64 4000+ @ 3Ghz
 
Intel P3 HP effort 2000-2001
Intel P4 1.5Ghz Dell 2001-2004
Intel P4 2.8Ghz First build 2004
Intel P4 3.0Ghz @ 3.6Ghz second build 2004
Amd 3200+ Barton 2004
Amd 4000+ Clawhammer @ 2.7 2005 broken due to failed water cooling £400 :eek:
Amd 3500+ winchester
Intel P4 3.06 laptop
Amd 3200 socket 754
Amd 3700 socket 754
Amd 3200 venice
Intel celeron 2.66Ghz
Intel p4 3.0Ghz
Amd 4000 venice @ 2.8

I`ve chopped and changed a little lol most chips should last around six to 12 months.
 
Well......including everything.....

Z80 ( :eek: ) > 6502 > Motorola 68000 (Amiga-joy) > 486 DX > K6/400 > Duron 1000 > XP2500+ (Barton) > A64 3000+ (Venice) > X2 3800+ (Toledo) > Core 2 Duo E6600

Changes happen at seemingly random times......in the early days a chip lasted sime time....now I have 'upgrade-u-like-fever' :p
 
I've had 3 this year, probably every 4 months normally..

or in other words not as often as I change my gfx card(s) :p
 
MMMMM, from memory

286SX :cool:
Pentium P60
Cyrix 166
Pentium 233MMX
AMD K6 450
AMD Athlon 900
AMD Athlon 1.4ghz
Pentium 4 2.4ghz
Pentium 4 3.4ghz
AMD Athlon X2 4400+
Conroe E6600 2.4ghz
 
Untill I break them.

That's why I got a Pentium D 805 (With a cruddy ASUS P5P-800SE, hardly stable at stock speeds :( Vcore droop,). I'd tryed to mount a Thermaltake Big Typhoon on my old 3000+ Barton, squeeeesh.
 
I change em far too often...

80486 DX2 50Mhz
AMD K5 133
AMD K6/2 300
AMD K6/2 350
AMD K6/2 380
AMD K6/2 500
AMD Duron 650
AMD T-Bird 1.4Ghz
Intel P4 1.6A
Intel P4 2.4A
AMD XP2100+
AMD XP2400+
AMD XP1700+ (TBred B)
AMD XP2500+
AMD XP2500-M
Intel P4 3.0E
AMD A64 3400+ (754)
AMD Opteron 144 (939)
AMD X2 4400+ (939)
AMD Opteron 175 (939)
 
It depends. Sometimes I keep a CPU for a few months, sometimes for years.

Nov 1998: P2 400
Jan 2001: AMD 900mhz (the one before Athlon series)
Feb 2003: Athlon T-bred 2200+
Apr 2004: Barton 2800+
May 2005: Barton XP-M 2500
Feb 2006: 165 Opteron

It was not untill spring 2004 when I became interested in overclocking, I remember buying the NF7s for the 2800+ with great expectations...only to find the 2800+ was a rubbish clocker :D
But I had my revenge and took the Mobile Barton into the OCUK 'elite' clocking league.

My current Opteron was considered a decent stepping. However, with the fantastic 2006 steppings it is now rather mediocre at [email protected] :/
Still the best CPU I have owned. 1.8ghz to 2.8ghz. thats a 900MHZ overclock. 50%!
 
K6-2 350 lasted me ~6 months
400 about 1-2 years
XP2000 about 2 years
A64 3200 ~1.5 years
A64 X2 3800 1 week
E6300 atm

So just until I feel like an upgrade, or something breaks, and I upgrade whole system (3800x2, chip on mobo blew up. Upgraded to a Core2Duo system)
 
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