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Your CPU History Tree

386SX unsure of speed
Intel P100
Cyrix PR200
Cyrix PR300
AMD K6-2 350 MHz
AMD K6-2 500 MHz
AMD Athlon 750 MHz
AMD Athlon Tbird 1000 MHz
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Intel Core 2 E4300
 
286 8MHz
AMD 386 40Mhz
AMD K6 200Mhz
AMD 1300 MHz
AMD Athlon x2 4400 (at 2.8GHz)
AMD Athlon x2 5000 BE (at 3.1GHz)

Used to be I only changed machine when I could get about x10 improvement in speed. Long gone!
 
Intel 8086 @ 8 MHz (Amstrad PC1512)
Intel Pentium: 2.63GHz (N/wood), 3.4GHz (N/Wood), 2.4GHz (N/wood), 3.0GHz (Prescott)
E6600
Q6600
E8400
Pentium T3200
Q9550

Not necessarily in the order listed...
 
386 16 mhz
AMD k6/2 300 mhz
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1400 mhz was so happy to get this to 1600mhz
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1800 mhz managed 2300mhz
AMD Athlon X2 3800+ 2 ghz managed 2.4 ghz
Intel e2160 1.8 ghz managed 3 ghz
Intel e7200 2.53 ghz currently running fanless at 3.5 ghz
damn I feel old lol
 
pingwing said:
noob :p



Only joking! thats a pretty cool cpu to have as a starting point!
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lol shhhhh! :cool:

yeah i like it a lot, and to be honest don't really want to upgrade it for a long while yet think i will keep it for at least another year/18months or so, I've had it for about a year now, i think its a great chip. :p
 
here we go :

PII 400 slot1
PII 600 slot1
PIII 866 Pga
AMD XP2100+ A
AMD XP2400+ 754
AMD64 3000+ 754
AMD64 3700+ 939
AMD64 x2 4800+ 939
Intel core2 quad QX6800 775
 
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PII 400
celeron 600 @ 1ghz
athlon 1.2
barton 2500
Pentuim 4 3.0ghz northwood
a64 3200 @2.5ghz
optron 165 @ 2.8ghz
2180 @ 3.2ghz
q9550 @ 3.8ghz
 
PC only:

P3 450Mhz.
AMD 1Ghz Thunderbird.
AMD XP2500+ Barton.
AMD64 3200 (754).
AMD64 4000 (939) Won in a competition.
Intel Core2Duo E6600.
 
AMD: Athlon XP 'Barton' XP 3200 > Athlon 64 'San Diego' 4000 > Phenom II X4 'Deneb' 940

INTEL: Celeron 'Coppermine' 700MHz > Pentium 4 'Northwood' 2.67GHz > Core 2 Duo 'Allendale' E4500
 
286
486
Cyrix (Not sure which)
Pentium II
Duron 900
Athlon 1200
Athlon XP 1900+
AMD64 3200
E6400

I miss the old AMD years:p
Im a sielnt PC setup guy now.

Its funny how the CPU's seem to have longer technological lifespan, or maybe Im just getting old!
 
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This bigass pc that I could not even lift. It had a tape drive in it and had REALLY long graphics card like cards in it. This was when I was like 6yrs old lol.

Then we moved up to a P3 400mhz or something pc in the late 90's.

Then it was to an AMD 1.2ghz something crap or the other.


*Yawn*


Got bored. Time for bed :D
 
Pentium 2 233mhz(or 266)
Duron 800mhz
Smepron 1.6ghz
Athlon 3.4Ghz Socket 754)
Opteron 146 (socket 939)
Intel Q6600

lol a few big jumps in there, as you can see, i prefer AMD by choice :), but if the performance/price is right, i will take anything :)
 
As far as Windows compatible CPU's are concerned:

Pentium 133
Pentium 2 400MHz (managed to drag it kicking and screamin to 480MHz)
AMD Athlon 3000+
T2050 (first laptop to supplement the desktop)
Intel Atom 330 (Netbook)
PhenomII 720 (current build)
 
Vic 20
Apple IIe
Acer 80286 16Mhz
Acer 80386DX 33MHz + Cyrix FPU coprocessor!
80486SX
80486DX 50Mhz
80486DX2 100Mhz
Pentium P54 90Mhz
Penttium MMx 233Mhz Socket 7 (the last industry wide socket standard??)
AMD K6 Socket 7
Pentuim II 933 MHz
Pentium II Laptop
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Pentium 4 (533 bus) 2.66Ghz
AMD Athlon 64 2.2 Ghz
TM5800 HP TC1000 Tablet
Intel Pentium M DELL D410 Laptop
Core2Duo E6600 2.4 Ghz
Core2Quad q6600 2.4Ghz
Intel Atom 1.6Ghz Netbook
i7 920 2.66Ghz (building)
 
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