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Your CPU History Tree

Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k+
Pentium 100MHz
Cyrix Instead P233 (187MHz)
AMD K62 500 (ish?) MHz
AMD Duron 700MHz
AMD Athlon 1600
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (@ 3200+ [2.2GHz])
Intel P4 Northwood 2.6GHz @ 3.4GHz
AMD Atlon 64 (754) 3400+
AMD Athlon 64 (939) 3700+ San Diego
AMD Athlon 64 FX 57
AMD Athlon 64 FX 60
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (G0) @ 4GHz (Current)

:D
 
From new to old:


Q9550 E0
Q6600
Q9540
Q9550 C0
E6420
E6400
Pentium D 930 3.0 ghz
Pentium 4 630 3ghz
Pentium 4 s478 3.4 ghz prescott
Pentium 4 s478 3.0 prescott
pentium 4 s478 3.0 northwood
p4 2.4ghz
p4 1.8ghz
p3 1000mhz
p3 800mhz
p3 600mhz
p2 450 ? mhz
a few more pentium 2's
p1 166 mhz


That's for my own pc in my room.

We have had earlier cpu's though like 100mhz p1's, 486 cpu's, 386, etc as the household always had a pc, long before I was born...
 
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Pre-PC
MOS Technology 6502A - in an Acorn Electron
MOS Technology 6510/8500 - in a C-64
Motorola MC68000 - in an Amiga 500

PC
some sort of 286
Pentium 75
Pentium 100
Pentium 3 667mhz
AMD Athlon 2600+
AMD Athlon 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+

Now looking at building something new...
 
Commodore VIC20
C64
Amstrad CPC 6128
Amiga 500

Duron 900mhz
Athlon XP 1600+
Athlon XP 2200+
Athlon XP 3000+ (200mhz FSB)
Athlon XP-M 2600+
Opteron 146
C2D E6400
C2D E6600
C2Q Q6600 B3
C2D E2140
C2D E2180
C2D E6600
C2Q Q6600 G0
C2Q Q9450
C2D E2180
C2D T5500
 
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Zilog Z80 (ZX80)
Zilog Z80a (Sinclair Spectrum)
Motorola 68000 (Atari ST)
Motorola 68000 (Commodore Amiga 500)
Motorola 68020 (Commodore Amiga 1200)
Intel Pentium 100 Mhz (built by Dan Computers - remember them?)
Intel Pentium 200 Mhz (first of my self built machines)
Intel Pentium II 400 Mhz
Intel Pentium III 800 Mhz
Intel Pentium 4 2Ghz
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz with HT
Intel Q6600
 
Pentium 1 100MHz
Pentium 4 HT 3.0GHz
Core 2 Duo E8500

yes that's some quite big jumps between each! They're also still all in working order, the p1 is still fine for writing a word doc or something else simple
 
Spectrum ZX 128k
Amiga 1200
P2 400 or 450Mhz not really sure now
AMD 2000+
AMD 1700+ clocked to 2.2Ghz
AMD 3000+
C2D E6300
C2Q Q6600

Next i7 920
 
Spectrum 48k
Amstrad 6128
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200

Pentium 90
Pentium 400
Athlon Thunderbird 1200 (266 DDR!)
Athlon 2000+
A64 3500 (939)
A64X2 3900 (939)
C2Q Q6600
 
Pentium 333Mhz
Athlon 700Mhz
Intel Pentium III 1.0Ghz
Intel Pentium 1.3Ghz
Intel Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
Intel Pentium 4 3.4Ghz
Athlon 4000 Skt 939
Athlon X2 5200
Athlon X2 6000 3.1Ghz
Intel Pentium Q9550
Lots of older CPU's in between for OC Learning :D
 
I had a spectrum and an amiga 500 but i was too young to ever know the details about them
486DX100 - Prebuilt PC given to my parents, only game i ever played was dune back then
Pentium 100mhz - the first PC i ever took apart to explore the innerds
Celeron 900mhz - Prebuilt emachine PC
AMD Duron 1.1ghz - the first PC i built myself
Athlon XP 1800 - my first overclocking attempt started here
Athlon XP 2500 - killed this one by shorting out the board by accident
AMD64 3000 - also had a A64 3000 laptop around this time
AMD64 3200 - my first venture into watercooling
AMD64 3800 - Phase change cooled :D had it running at 3ghz 24/7
E6600
E2180
E8400
 
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Vic 20 + 16k ram pack( i think you could switch it between 8 and 16k) going back a long time.
Spectrum 48k
Atari St520
Amiga 1200
AMD K62 300mhz
P3 866 coppermine.
Athlon 2600 Thoroughbred B
Intel Q6600
Also had one of my computers at work upgraded from an AMD processer running at about 166MHZ , to a pentium 2 running at 266mhz.(this was last year).
 
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1991 - 6502 (Commodore 64)
1992 - 68000 (Amiga 600)
1993 - 68EC020 (A1200)
1994 - 68EC030 + FPU
1996 - Pentium 133MHz
2000 - Duron 800MHz
2002 - Athlon XP 1700+
2004 - Athlon 64 3000+
2005 - Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2008 - E2180 @ 3 GHz
 
Can't remember the processors, so:

VIC20 (16k ram pack cost me 50 quid!!!!)
ZX Spectrum 48k (Z80)
Commodore 128 (6502?)

Then I had a bit of a sabatical....

IBM AT/XT
Viglen 286, 386SX, 386DX33, 386DX2-66
IBM ThinkPad 755, 770, 600E
P3 800MHz - Dell Optiplex
P4 2GHz - Dell Inspiron 8500
Thinkpad T21 (P3 266?), T31, X60, X61 (C2D 1.83GHz)
Dell XPS M1330 (C2D 2.4GHz)
QX6700
Celeron 900MHz (eee 701)
Q9550

My god, how much money have I wasted ;)
 
AMD Athlon 700mhz (Thunderbird: Slot A)
AMD Athlon 900mhz (Thunderbird: Slot A)
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Winchester: Skt 939)
AMD Athlon64 3700+ (San Diego: Skt 939)
AMD Opteron 146 (Venus: Skt 939)
AMD Athlon64 3800x2 (Toledo: Skt 939) [pretty much unused]

Intel C2D e4600 (Allendale: Skt775)
 
There's a real trend of people using the AMD athlon chips, and even the X2, and then everyone jumped ship to Intel.

I mean, it makes sense that people move to where the performance is. But it's kinda sad that AMD aren't getting competitive chips out there. I don't want to end up paying £500 for a mid-range chip again!
 
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