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Your CPU History Tree

AMD Sempron 3000+
Core 2 Duo Exxxx (can't remember the model number)
i7 860
i7 2700k
i7 3770k
R7 3700x

I've mostly bought used, a few years after release. Never had cutting edge.
 
Athlon XP
Athlon 64 x2
Core 2 Duo of some sort - might have been the E6600?
I5 750
Intel 2500k
Zen 1600
Zen 2 3600
Zen 5 9800X3D

Something like that...
 
1988 MOS 7501
1991 AMD 386SX-16
1994 i486DX4-100
1996 Pentium 166MHz
1997 Pentium MMX 200MHz
1998 Celeron 300A OC'd @450MHz
2000 Athlon XP 1200
2004 Athlon 64 3500+
2008 Intel Q6600 OC'd
2012 Intel 3770k OC'd
2020 AMD 3950X
2025 AMD 9950X

Strange to see some getting upgraded bit by bit yearly then 8 years of the 3770k!
 
486 DX2 50 (1995)
Intel Celeron (1998)
Intel Pentium III 800 (1999)
AMD Athlon 1800 (2001)
AMD Athlon 2000 (2002)
Intel Pentium IV 3.2 (2003)
Intel E8400 Core2Duo (2008)
Intel i7 930 (2010)
Intel i7 970 (2011)
Intel i5 2500K (2013)
Intel i7 2600K (2017)
AMD Ryzen 7 2700x (2018)
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x (2020)
AMD Ryzen 7 5700x (2022)
AMD Ryzen 7 9700x (2025)
 
486 DX2 66 (Pre-built)

Pentium 2 - 233mhz
Pentium 2 - 400mhz
Pentium 3 800mhz - Coppermine
Pentium 4 1.4ghz Willamette
Pentium 4 2ghz Willamette
Pentium 4 3.4 Northwood
Core i5 -750
Core i7 - 4790k
Ryzen 9 - 3950X
Ryzen 9 - 5950X
Ryzen 7 - 9850X3D
 
Some are vague recollections but something like this:

Intel Pentium III
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood
AMD Athlon something
AMD Phenom II X3 720
AMD Phenom II X4 975 I think it was
Intel i7 6700K
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
 
Bit vague on exact AMD ones years ago. I remember the 8088 as it's had 8bit bus, it's what I leaned assembly on. I remember the AM386SX as it had no maths co-processor, but ran faster at 40Mhz than the Intel versions. And the Pentium ran Quake like a beast, with it's dual execution units. Get's a bit fuzzy after that.

Intel 8088.
AMD AM386 SX 40Mhz
Intel Pentium 100
AMD K7 Athlon Thunderbird.
AMD K8 Athlon 64
AMD K10 Phenom II
Intel Skylake 6600K
AMD Zen4 7700 (current)
 
Motorola 68000
Motorola 68020
Intel P 200
Intel P3 900
Intel P4 2.4Ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Intel Core i5 8600K
Intel Core i5 3570K
AMD R5 3600 since 2020
 
Meaker said:
I had the DFI lanparty uatx crossfire/SLI AMD board for that and the P45 and X58 equivalents for a while.
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Had a DFI lanparty board back in the day with an Opteron 144 CPU if I recall correctly! Great support from DFI as well, I had an issue and one of the motherboard engineers emailed me directly to troubleshoot!
 
dlknight said:
Had a DFI lanparty board back in the day with an Opteron 144 CPU if I recall correctly! Great support from DFI as well, I had an issue and one of the motherboard engineers emailed me directly to troubleshoot!
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The Opteron 144, what a legendary chip :)

The real trick with the Phenom chips was to get the northbridge clock up, I noticed linear scaling with northbridge frequency in gaming.

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Athlon 64 3200+ (2.0 GHz)
Q6600 (3.0 GHz)
i7 4790k (4.5 GHz)
5800X3D (stock currently..)

i7 2657m (Alienware M11X R3, currently still running with Arch)
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1 (Dell XPS 9345)
 
Also a bit fuzzy going back over 35 years but probably something like:

AMD AM386 SX40?
Intel 486DX 400 (could be 266)
Intel Pentium 2
Maybe AMD Athlon Thunderbird
Then AMD Athlon X2 4200?
AMD Phenom X3 8?
Intel i5 2500k
Ryzen 1600
Ryzen 5600
Ryzen 5700X
 
dlknight said:
Lets see how good my memory is :p

  • zilog z80 4Mhz :D (amstrad cpc 464)
  • amd 386sx-33
  • amd 486dx4-100
  • intel pentium 90 (I think)
  • amd k6-2 500 (maybe more than one of these, can't remember)
  • amd athlon 1Ghz
  • amd athlon xp 2500+ (barton)
  • amd opteron 144
  • Currently = intel core 2 duo e6300 & amd athlon 5200 X2
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Just found my original CPU tree from 2009!

Since then I've had the following CPUs:
  • Intel i5-2320 @ 3.6GHz
  • Intel i5-3570k @ 4.7GHz
  • Intel i7-4790k @ 4.5GHz
And the current CPU:
  • Intel i5-11400F
 
386
486
Anthlon XP
*Few I can't recall maybe
Intel Q6600
AMD FX3600
4790k
AMD 5900x

That's about it from memory
 
  • Pentium II 350mhz
  • Pentium 4 2.66ghz
  • Pentium M 770
  • Core 2 Duo E6300 - overclocked to 3.3ghz, faster than the extreme edition at the time, and only £180!
  • Core 2 Quad Q6600
  • Xeon X3250
  • i7 920
  • i7 2600k
  • Ryzen 1600
  • Ryzen 1800
  • Ryzen 3700X
  • Ryzen 5800X
 
Started with a Pentium 166MHz then a mix of AMD and Intel up to now with a Ryzen 9800X3D Too many to remember at my age :cry:
 
486SX25 was the first home PC with 4MB RAM.
Then the smuggled Pentium 60MHz - over in the USA and a cpu/motherboard/RAM somehow found its way into my luggage ;)
A succession of cpus through the 90s/early 00s, mainly built for customers. Opterons were great. K5's were decent but hot. Slot CPUs always failed.
Then Intel came along with the Core2 and that was it for cpu vendor choice for a long time.
Now we're pretty much AMD both on desktop and laptop (NVidia dGPU). I think there's a Celeron in the NAS.
 
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