Your CPU History Tree

[OspreyO]

For myself, I had seen/used dragon32, ataris, bbc micros, but had no interest in computers till I used PCs and Macs in College.

 

[Silent Bob]

Probably missed a few but going back to the late 90's

AMD K6-2 300MHz
Intel Celeron 466MHz
AMD Duron 900MHz
AMD T-bird 1.0GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Intel P4 2.4GHz
Intel P4 3.0GHz
Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz (in mATX desktop board)
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
Intel Core 2 Duo 6400
Intel Core 2 Duo 8400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel i5-2500
Intel i7-3700
Intel i7-4790
AMD Ryzen 3600
AMD Ryzen 3700
AMD Ryzen 5800

 

[Vince]

I think I was just late to the PC world, late 90's. It was very expensive before then, closest I came was a 48K Spectrum!

Ahh man ive got a specky 128k in my queue for fixing as well as an Atari 520stfm... love a bit of old school!

 

[nlel1975]

Intel 486SX 25 MHz
AMD 486DX 100 MHz
Cyrix 166 MHz
Intel Pentium 233 MMX
Intel Celeron 366 @ 550 MHz
Intel Pentium 3 650 @ 866 MHz
AMD Thunderbird 1 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1700
AMD Athlon XP 2400
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Intel Quad Core Q6600
Intel Core i5 2500k
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
AMD Ryzen 7 5700x

Have definitely missed some along the way but these are all I can remember.

 

[dvinell]

Looking at some of these lists there are a lot of old people on here

MOS 6502, O dear ...

 

[malccy]

Commodore 64
Atari STFM
Amiga A500
486sxX25
Pentium 3
Athlon 2000
Athlon 2200
Pentium 4 2.8ghz
Opteron 146
Athlon 3500
Intel Q6600
i7 8700
i9 9900k

 

[Smokey Deza]

AMD K6-2 300MHz
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
Intel Core 2 Duo 8400
Intel i5-2500k

 

[Kei]

1993 - Intel 386sx25 (socket 3)
1996 - Cyrix 6x86 166 (socket 7)
1999 - Cyrix 6x86 MII 333 (Super socket 7)
2001 - AMD Duron 800 (Socket A)
2003 - AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Socket A)
2006 - AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (Socket 939)
2009 - AMD Phenom II X4 955 (Socket AM3)
2014 - Intel i7 4820K
2017 - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X

Waiting to upgrade again.

 

[Uhtred]

Not a long list really

486 dx33
cyrix of some description - think it was a pr200
duron 850
p4 northwood 1.6
E6300
Q6600
i5 6600k
Ryzen 5600x

 

[james73]

Intel Pentium II 350MHz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Intel i5 4670

Will be looking to upgrade soon but both the XP 3200+ and i5 4670 have served me very well.

 

[Setras]

Intel 8086 7mhz
Intel 386/SX25
AMD K5 PR133
Cyrix 686 166+ (IBM Branded, Still have this chip)
Pentium II 266
Pentium III 550
AMD XP 2400+
AMD XP 3200+
Pentium 4 2.5Ghz
Pentium 4 Extreme (My 1st water cooled chip on a custom loop)
Core 2 due E6600
Intel Quad Q9550
Core i7 2700k @5ghz
Xeon (ivy bridge 3770 equivelent)
Core i7 9700k @5.3ghz
Core i9 9900kf @5.1ghz
Ryzen 5 3600x
Core i9 12900ks @5.6ghz

 

[UnmuffledRyan]

Cyrix MII-333
AMD Sempron 3000
Intel Q6600
Intel 3570K
AMD 3700X
AMD 5800X

 

[Kirby Wurm]

1998 - Pentium II 450MHz (family PC)
2003 - Athlon XP 2600+ (my first system, managed to convince my parents I needed a 9800 Pro for uni!)
2005 - Athlon XP 3200+ (don't ask)
2006 - Core 2 Duo E6400
2009 - Core 2 Quad Q9400 (overclocked brilliantly)
2011 - Core i5 2500K
2014 - Core i5 4690K
2018 - Core i7 8700K
2021 - Ryzen 7 5800X
2021 - Ryzen 9 5900X (after selling the previous CPU/mobo to my brother)

Nowhere near as extensive as some on here!

 

[Tony habergham]

MOS 7501/8501 (Commodore Plus 4)
AMD 486DX-40
K5-75
K5-133
K6-2 333
Duron 600
Duron 900
Duron 1200
Athlon 600
Sempron 2400+
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP-M 2400+
Athlon XP 3000+
Athon X2 Too many to remember
Athlon 64 Too many to remember
Athlon X4 Too Many to remember
Ryzen 1600

Intel Pentium-75
Pentium-2 600?
Pentium-3 1GHz

It all got a bit of a blur in the early 2000s. I was upgrading myself and others but also taking junked stuff and castoffs to build PCs to run seti@home (before global warming made it big). Had about 4 on the go at home, at one stage. Anyone need a load of old BNC network cables from THAT setup?

Always been mainly AMD. The Pentium 3 1KHz shouldn't really count because I got it to run using a slot to socket adaptor, and only actually gotting working years later when trying with above stock voltages, just before junking it.

Recently had a clear out... dumped loads of old CPUs in the 'electrical' recycling at the local tip, together with loads of memory from 1 MB FPM sticks to 1GB DDR-1 sticks. All together... must have cost me thousands, over 25 years or so.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

AMD K6-2 333
AMD Duron 800
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
AMD Phenom II X4 940
AMD Ryzen 5 2600

 

[uscool]

Intel P166 MMX
Celeron 500mhz
AMD Phenom II X4 965
AMD Bulldozer FX-8350
Intel i7 6700k
AMD Ryzen 9 5900x

 

[caliberlife]

Pre p166 I actually had an thick laptop maybe 3 inch thick with a thick bezel and black and white screen with i windows 3.1 not sure what khz or mhz it was … I also had an Olivetti with windows 1995 but system not really launched for 1995
My uncle installed it on the Olivetti.
After that I had:

P 166
PIII 800
Athlon 2800+ Dual core
Core2 Duo T5750
AMD Phenom x6 1100T Blk Edit.
Intel 4670k

Now looking to go 7700X soon.

 

[StephenJ]

486 dx4 120mh
Pentium 133
Pentium 166 mmx
Pentium 233
Pentium II 333
Pentium III 500
Pentium III 866
Pentium 4 3.0
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Quad Q6600
Core i7 920
Core i7 4790K
Ryzen 3800x
Ryzen 5800x3D

 

[SPG]

DX4-100
Pentium II
AMD Athlon
2500k

The system is getting really long in the tooth now.... but somehow paired with a 1080Ti on a ultrawide screen its not causing any problems. The benfit of water cooling stuff the first time is its a ball ache to take apart and replace hence the 2500k

 

[nomadd]

6502
6510
Z80
6800
68008

..then it all gets a bit fuzzy as I stopped programming in assembler and moved to C.