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What was your first ever CPU?

When I was 8 my parents bought our first ever PC and it had a Pentium III in it. I'll be damned if I remember the speed though...

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Pentium III
Pentium IV
AMD Athlon
AMD Athlon64
AMD Athlon X2
Intel C2D E6850
Intel C2D E8600 - just sold :'( [my favourite ever chip]
Intel i3 530

Looking at an i5 quad for my first foray into quad cores :)
 
AMD Athlon 850 T-Bird. nice chip, OC'd it to a whopping 1000MHz, ran pretty damn hot at that speed. :p
 
frozennova said:
Cyrix 233mhz
Pentium 1 333mhz
Pentium 2 500mhz
Athlon XP 1800+ I think
Celeron 2.4ghz
Athlon II X2 240 (2.8ghz @ 3.6)
Athlon II X4 630 (2.6Ghz Unlocked L3 @ 3.6)
Phenom II 955 (3.2Ghz @ 4Ghz)

Quite a short history, all of those have been my own PCs the cyrix was xmas 97 I think so I would have just turned 6
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Lol at the downgrade from an XP 1800 to a celeron 2.4ghz.
 
8080 on Altair 8800 at after school technical college on computer programming in about 1977 or 78
 
clv101 said:
Was it worth it? Why not just go 1200 to 4400? I'd say a CPU is only worth considering if it at least tipples CPU performance.
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also forgot to add that that cpu died due to water/rust and because it was running at 2.1volts instead of 1.6 ;)
 
Mine was a Z80 in a TRS-80 in maybe 1979. First x86 chip was a 386DX25.

Just think, in 30 years' time there will be another thread asking the same question, and people who answer i7 will be thought of as 'dead old'!
 
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