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What was your first ever CPU?

Whatever was in this:


Followed by a a Z80, Spectrum 48K and other 80's stuff.

First Proper X86 CPU was an IBM Cyrix 'Instead' P233 which was supposed to be same as a Pentium 233MHz. It actually ran at 187MHz :D
 
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Whatever was in this:


Followed by a a Z80, Spectrum 48K and other 80's stuff.

First Proper X86 CPU was an IBM Cyrix 'Instead' P233 which was supposed to be same as a Pentium 233MHz. It actually ran at 187MHz :D
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he was in fact overclocking 'when you were in pants'
 
Intel 386 SX

Ran at a slow 10Mhz at stock, then if you hit a 'turbo' button on the case.... that would magic up to the stock 12Mhz.

I was then increadibly fortunate to get the 386 math co processor (i387 or i287? can't remember what happened with that) to chuck in too, although not long after that came my first 486 SX @ 33mhz. (like night and day.) Think last 486 I had was DX2 @ 75mhz?

Always wanted a DX4-100 but ended up moving onto a Cryix P166 equivilent, then after that a dual Pentium Pro 180mhz , first PII 333mhz etc

to infinity up to an e6400 :D

Don't give a crap about PC's and technology anymore, it's nothing like it was at the start.

(I first hit 1Ghz+ with a Duron 700/750 iirc, an increadibly well clocking duron that I swapped an athlon for)
 
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1st buy was IBM 286 12.5MHz (1990)

Ist build was 486 DX33 (with onboard math copro) clocked up to 40MHz with a single jumper setting (1991-2)
 
Pentium 100 (no o/c)
AMD K6-2 500 (think this got about a 40MHz o/c lol)
Socket A Athlon 1GHz Thunderbird (o/c to 1.4GHz)
Athlon XP T-Bred 2500+ (I think) (crap o/c)
Athlon 64 3500+ (crap o/c)
Opteron 170 (o/c to 2.9GHz)
Xeon X5440 (cant o/c; dell mobo)

So, lots of AMD in there.
Didn't realise I had been through as many processors as that tbh!
 
Started with a 80386SX/40Mhz that my Dad bought me. Was lucky to get an upgrade on the 40MB hard drive to 130MB.

Was incredibly jealous of the 80486 powerhouses, a DX2/66Mhz was highly sought after but never had. Ended up with a poxy AMD DX4/100Mhz which sounded much better but I can't recall how it faired with the Intel power.
 
Mine was a 6502C CPU in an Atari 65XE
It ran at 1.77Mhz in PAL or 1.79Mhz in NTSC
Had 64K of RAM

It was a cut down version of the 130XE which had 128K Ram
I remember it well, it loaded games from a casette tape drive.
for it to load the game you got the system ready and then pressed play on the tape drive you had to wait for the sounds from the tape to load into the systems RAM.
upto 60 or 90 mins before you could play a game.....LOL
The joy of my youth.......

then it was games consoles
Master System II
Game Boy
Until i got a PC running an Intel P120Mhz Packard Bell from Dixons £1500 with printer & 5yr OSM..... Rip off but Awsome LOL
Then PII 400Mhz (Built Myself)
Then AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz (again Built myself) "The AXIA chip" fully unlocked could clock to 1.6Ghz at a real push but very unstable and I cooked it running Half Life......LOL
Replaced it with the same CPU but ran it at 1.4Ghz Safely...AWSOME CPU
Game Console PS2
Then back to Intel P4 3Ghz (yes built it myself aswell) - Still have it, runs as the basic family PC for the kids.....
Game Console Xbox 360
Now on the Intel i5 760 2.8Ghz Quad Core (My New Gaming Rig just Built it Dec 2010)

Plus the Laptops I've had in between

IBM Stinkpad - Intel P4 Celeron 2Ghz
Samsung P55 - Intel P4 2.66Ghz
HP Probook 4510s - Intel Core 2 Duo T6570 @ 2.10Ghz (Currently Still Use)

Wow what a history there..... I can't belive how many I've been through.... :-) I'm only 29 and all that spreads from 1986 onwards... (ok some of the early ones parents bought for me)
 
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