Your CPU History Tree

[VortexA1]

6502
68000
Pentium 3
Athlon 1 Ghz
An Intel .Not sure the model name/no
Intel quad core 6600,
Intel 2500k
Amd 3700x

 

[alexkyriak]

Shoe box with buttons drawn on

BBC model B 32k 6502 2mhz

Amiga 500 Motorola 6800 7.16mhz 1mb ram (!)

Intel i386

Intel Pentium sx963 100mhz

Intel Pentium II 400mhz dual

Pentium m 1.6ghz (laptop)

Intel Q6700 core 2 quad

Intel i4790k 4.4ghz

Intel i12900k 5.4ghz



Best system? Amiga 500

 

[martos123]

C64 - 6502
Amiga 500 - 68000
Amiga 1200 - 68020
486sx25
Pentium 166
Pentium 2
Pentium 3
Athlon 64
Im sure there was something else here!
4770k
3700x

A few Raspberrypi variants too!

 

[keyser van someone]

MOS Technology 6502/6512 at 2 MHz (BBC Micro)
Motorola 68000 @ 7.16 MHz (Amiga 500)
Motorola 68EC020 @ 14 MHz (Amiga 1200)
Motorola 68030 (Amiga 1200 expansion board that cost crazy money)
P2 333MHz
Celeron 300A @ 500MHz
AMD Thunderbird, o/c'd, cant remember speed
AMD 64 Athlon @ 2.6GHz
this

hmm not many really All for games

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5Hzm7B4xU

update

'this' was an AMD Opteron 939 I think
E8400
i5 Ivy Bridge (2012 - 2019)
AMD Zen 2 3600

Does this count? MiSTer FPGA - it can be a BBC, Amiga, up to a PS1, nearly any 8bit/16bit CPU and play games that are exactly like the original experience.

 

[Trickle]

Moto 68000
AMD K6 233, K6 350, K6 450
AMD Athlon 1ghz, Athlon 1.6ghz
AMD 64, AMD 64 x2
Intel E5200, Intel Q6600 (mistake)
Intel 3570k
AMD 3600, 3900x, 3700x, 5600g

 

[martos123]

C64 - 6502
Amiga 500 - 68000
Amiga 1200 - 68020
486sx25
Pentium 166
Pentium 2
Pentium 3
Athlon 64
Im sure there was something else here!
4770k
3700x

A few Raspberrypi variants too!

The gap was:
E6600
I7 920DO

 

[Jae-So]

Mine
- AMD Phenom x4 9850
- i7 980
- i5 750
- i5 3570k
- i7 5820k
- AMD 5600 - just getting this setup, got temp issues.

 

[alexkyriak]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5Hzm7B4xU

Apologies for the off topic, but... I had that on the Beeb, but it was called Planetoid.... simply awesome memories of that game!

 

[SilverCider]

Athlon XP 3200+ (~2004 Medion prebuilt)
Athlon 62 X2 3800+ (~2007 first self-buid)
i5 750 (2010)
i7 4790k (2015)
...

I think I'm due a CPU refresh!

 

[InfiniteNoise]

- Low power variant of AMD Turion or Athlon in 2006, I don't remember, I grabbed some cheap prebuilt PC at the time.
- AMD Phenom 955 II X4

- and like 4 different Intel CPUs, I don't remember what I had, then sold my last PC around 2014 and didn't have a PC again until AMD first launched their Ryzen series, I just got by with my laptops.

- AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

And that's not including the CPUs I had in laptops/mini PCs.

Considering on getting 5900X or 5950X next when the prices drop some more (hopefully) when 7000 series launches since then upgrade again in about 2-3 years, since I'm on AM4, I don't have a lot of options for upgrades without moving on to a platform.

 

[iMatt]

If I can remember....
8086 (2nd hand unit)
80386 SX40
80486 DX(??)
Cyrix 6x86 GX 225MHz
Cyrix 6x86 MII 533MHz
Cyrix 6x86 MII 833MHz
Intel Celeron of some kind
AMD Athlon of some kind
AMD Athlon Dual Core
Intel Core 2 Duo
Intel Core 2 Quad
AMD Ryzen 1600
AMD Ryzen 3600
AMD Ryzen 5700G (Current)

(Can't help but think I've missed something out)

 

[PeegeeTips]

AMD T'bird 1200 on Slot(!)7
AMD T'bred 2100
AMD 64 3200
AMD 64 3800 X2
Intel C2Quad 6700
AMD X6 1090T
Intel 5820K
Intel 4440 (htpc)
AMD 5800X
AMD 5700G (htpc)

might be a few missing, but that's the broad strokes.

 

[Phil2008]

I can remember the days you would be jealous of people having a faster cpu than yourself, because in the 90s and early 2000's memory and cpu clockspeed made a huge difference for gaming. It was like being able to run a game or not.. I use to love those days where you were really excited about upgrading, but nowadays I dont know if its because Im older, but I dont really get excited about upgrading anymore?

 

[alexkyriak]

Yeah but this one goes up to 11

 

[kmax86]

Pentium 3
Pentium 4
Pentium D
Pentium e2140
i5 2500k
Ryzen 5900x

Jump from 2500k to 5900x was amazing lol

 

[alexkyriak]

I can remember the days you would be jealous of people having a faster cpu than yourself, because in the 90s and early 2000's memory and cpu clockspeed made a huge difference for gaming. It was like being able to run a game or not.. I use to love those days where you were really excited about upgrading, but nowadays I dont know if its because Im older, but I dont really get excited about upgrading anymore?

I did an upgrade recently and I am older, but was v excited I have to say. But I know exactly what you mean about the old days.

 

[Kirkyl85]

PII 350 Mhz
AMD 1.1Ghz
AMD 1.4Ghz
P4 3.2 Ghz
Q6600
R9 5950X

 

[Chrisc]

Intel Pentium 3 500mhz
AMD Athlon 1400mhz
Amd athlon 2000+
Amd Athlon 2700+
Amd athlon 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 FX 55
Intel e6600
Amd FX 8120
Amd Ryzen 7 1700
Amd Ryzen 5 3600
Amd Ryzen 9 3900x

I remember the jump to the dual core e6600 being a game changer.

 

[MrRockliffe]

Intel i3 3320
Intel i5 3470
Intel i5 4670k
Intel i7 6700k
Intel i7 9700k


I’d actually have no issues going AMD but every time I’ve upgraded, the Intel variant has been better suited to my requirements/preferences

 

[matja]

MOS 8501 (Commodore 16)
Zilog Z80 (ZX Spectrum)
Intel 8086 8 MHz (Amstrad PC1512)
Intel 80386 SX 16 MHz (Packard Bell 316SX)
AMD K6-200 ALR (my first custom build)
AMD Athlon Thunderbird AXIA 1000
Intel Pentium Prescott HT 540 3.2 GHz
AMD Opteron 170 (40% overclock, with CL2(!) DDR)
Intel Core2 Duo E6600 (50% overclock)
Intel Core i7-920 (35% overclock)
Intel Xeon X5650 (42% overclock)
Intel Core i5-2500T
Intel Xeon E3-1240L v3
Intel Xeon E3-1285L v4
Intel Core i7 10710U
AMD EPYC 74F3