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Your CPU History Tree

cainer said:
athlon 900 in year 2000, athlon 3200+ clawhammer in 2004, next week i7 920 @ 4ghz :D
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^^ That was from 16 years ago in Feb 2010....

Still rocking my i7 920 haha, Waiting for Zen 6 X3D then i'll finally upgrade,

Never did manage to get 4ghz stable though, Maxed out at 3.6ghz but decided to run it day to day at 3.2ghz
 
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cainer said:
^^ That was from 16 years ago in Feb 2010....

Still rocking my i7 920 haha, Waiting for Zen 6 X3D then i'll finally upgrade,

Never did manage to get 4ghz stable though, Maxed out at 3.6ghz but decided to run it day to day at 3.2ghz
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I still have an I7 950, mobo and ram sitting in a box somewhere lol
 
In 1990 i bought a 286 / 12.5mhz ready built 40mb hdd, 1mb ram.

In 1993 I built my first one, a 486dx33

SInce then i have had a combination of Intel and AMD processors powering a long list of machines which i am too old to fully recall. Several pentiums, PII, PIII etc up to the modern day when i have an AMD Ryzen 5 series still home built.

Mostly overclocked where feasible.
 
lsg1r said:
lets see
commodore 64 (tape deck)
atari ste 1024 model iirc
packard bell sx2 50
custom made pentium 100
tiny (shudder) pIII 500mhz - I was naive back then :D
custom made (to my spec) dual cpu athlon mp 1900+
athlon 4 1200mhz in sharp laptop
(built) opteron 175 (still use)
(built) x2 4200+ (still use)

Next step is probably i7 unless the new phenom x4's really hit hard and of course the matx boards become available at normal prices :)
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time for an update I suppose...last post was 26 Nov 2008...

(built) intel 4790k (still have it but not used really)
(built) ryzen 5950x (still using as main pc)
intel 12700h (dell laptop)
ryzen 5600h (mini forums mini pc)
apple m4 (mac mini)
(built) intel i5 13500 (unraid server)
arm snapdragon x elite (surface pro 13" - really wish they did an 11 inch arm surface pro...)
arm snapdragon plus (asus zenbook A14)

Next...
Maybe an apple laptop, I am curious about the rumoured budget laptop with a series cpu being rumoured....
Next gen ryzen/intel, got be at least twice the performance of my 5950x to be worth the cost imo, not quite there with current gen.
 
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1997 - Intel Pentium II MMX (Socket7)
1999/2000 - AMD Slot A K7 700mhz clocked to 750 by Millenium computers / OCUK
2003 - AMD Athlon XP 1.1GHZ
2008 - Intel Quad Core Q6600
2013 - AMD FX 8350
2020 - AMD Ryzen 3600
2026 - AMD Ryzen 9700x
 
Intel Pentium P60
INtel Pentium II 400
AMD Athlon 1333 Thunderbird
AMD Athlon XP 2000
AMD Athlon XP 2500 Barton
AMD Athlon XP 2500M Barton
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Clawhammer
Intel E6600
Intel E8400
Intel Q6600
Intel I7 920
Intel I7 4790K Devils Canyon
Intel I7 8700K
Intel I7 9700K
AMD Ryzen 5900X
 
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Meaker said:
You could just run the 2500K for so long and it be so valid, my wife went from the 4590k which is not THAT different to the Ryzen 7700 just because of the legs that design had.
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My 2500K is still running just fine as a media PC recording TV shows (using NextPVR) and sending audio to remote devices (using Roon).
 
I was trying to think back to what CPU's I have had over the years, there is far too many to remember! I know I started at a 486DX4100 then had many Cyrix, AMD, and Intel chips over the years that followed! :P

The standout one in my memory was the Athlon that you had to colour in (with a pencil) to either enable or improve overclocking?! :)
 
iwrox said:
I was trying to think back to what CPU's I have had over the years, there is far too many to remember! I know I started at a 486DX4100 then had many Cyrix, AMD, and Intel chips over the years that followed! :P

The standout one in my memory was the Athlon that you had to colour in (with a pencil) to either enable or improve overclocking?! :)
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My favorite of that kind of era was the XP mobile chips, they were essentially binned CPUs for about the same money, so I had a 2400XP mobile that did 2.4Ghz at the stock voltage.

Back when getting a CPU with an FSB lower than boards supported meaning you could just bump them up.
 
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< Had others as a kid, but they were prebuilts / don't remember the specs.
Athlon XP 2800+
Athlon XP 3200+ (Broke the 2800+ repasting it, and bent the pins)
Q9550
4690k
11700k < current, and happy with it.

Various laptops with crap celerons as well. Don't remember them much either.
 
Can't remember all of them but I remember something like ;
Pentium 2
Pentium 3
AMD Athlon 1200+
AMD Athlon 2600+
AMD Venice 3200
Intel e6300
Intel e8400
Ryzen 5 3600
7800X3D
 
2017 - AMD Ryzen 1600 (£189) paired with 1060
2025 - AMD Ryzen 5700x3D (£199)...also upgraded from 1060 to 5080

Also built a second PC at the end of 2025 which has a Ryzen 5600 (£62 from China)
 
Intel 386 25Mhz
Intel Pentium 120Mhz
Intel Celeron 333a
Intel Pentium 3 733Mhz
Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz Northwood
Intel Pentium 4 3.06Ghz Hyperthreading baby!
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2Ghz
Intel E2140
Intel E4400
Intel Q6600
Intel i5 750
Intel i7 860
Intel i5 3570k
Intel i7 920
Intel Xeon X5650
AMD Ryzen 1700x
AMD Ryzen 2700x
AMD Ryzen 5800x
 
Pentium 100
Pentium 166 MMX
Athlon 750
Athlon T-bird 1ghz
Athlon 64 3400+
C2D 6600
Intel i7 4790K
Ryzen 3900X
Intel 13700k
 
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