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Packard Bell.. that was my DX33. didn't come with onboard cache as standard. Had to order the chip separately and plug it in.The first few were all in prebuilt family PCs so may not be 100% accurate but nevertheless:
Pentium II in a prebuilt Tiny running Win 98
Pentium 4 in a Packard Bell prebuilt with Win XP
E6600 in some prebuilt ACER thing
Q6600
unknown T series intel Core 2 in a Dell laptop
I5 3570k
i5 6200u in a HP laptop (still using this one)
Ryzen r7 1700
Ryzen r9 3900x
Ryzen r9 7950x
Couldn't you have just gotten the Althon duo 4000+Zilog z80 (ZX Spectrum)
Motorola 68000 (Amiga A500)
Motorola 68HC000 (28MHz clock and 16Kb Cache A500 upgrade)
80286 8Mhz
386DX 40Mhz
486DX50
Pentium 90
Athlon 1000
Athlon 2000+
Athlon 3000+
Athlon Duo 4400+
Celeron 300A
Pentium III 700
Core 2 Duo 6600
Core 2 Quad 6600
i7 930
i7 4770
Ryzen 7 3800x
Ryzen 7 5900x
As you can see the rate of upgrade has slowed pretty drastically over the last 10 years! The early i7s were man enough for just about anything, for ages. Now I was waiting for AM6 and expecting to skip AM5, but I'm not sure if i can wait till 2027....
Haha. I wasn't thinking of symmetry, but performance!Couldn't you have just gotten the Althon duo 4000+![]()
Solid chips in every gen really.Lets see how my memory fares...
Cyrix 586 - in some old Compaq Presario thingy.
Athlon XP - No clue the model anymore.
Athlon 64 3200+
Athlon 64 3700+
Athlon x2 4400+
Intel Core 2 Duo E2140 - Into 2007 I remember this one easily getting a 100% overclock. (£50 CPU!) [Order date and time: 31 May, 07, 11:02 am.]
Intel Q6600 G0
Intel Core i5-4670K
Ryzen 1700
Ryzen 3700x
Ryzen 9700x
I'd forgotten Phenom existed! I had an x6 before the i5.Solid chips in every gen really.
I'm sure I am missing a few, i'll mark the chips that clocked well too
Celeron 333A - Golden Sample
PII 400
Athlon XP Thunderbird 1.4Ghz
Athlon XP 2500+
Athlon XP 2400 Mobile (in the desktop socket)- Golden Sample
Athlon 64 3200+ socket 754
Pentium M 740
Core 2 e4300
Athlon X2 3800+
Core 2 E6750
Core 2 E8400 - Golden Sample
Core 2 Quad 6600
Phenom II x6 1045 - Golden Sample (4Ghz NB clock)
Core i5 750
Core I7 920+
Phenom II x6 1065
Core 2 mobile T4300
Core 2 mobile Q9100ES - Golden Sample
i7 mobile - 2630QM
i7 Extreme mobile - 2920XM
A10 4600M mobile AMD APU
i7 mobile 3620QM
i7 mobile 3820QM
I7 -4920K (in a laptop)
I7 - 4980HQ Iris pro
I7 - 6700K (this until the 9900KS all in the same laptop with mods to make work)
i7 - 7700k
i7 - 8700K
i7 - 8086k - Golden Sample
I9 - 9900K
I9 - 9900KS - Golden Sample
Ryzen 7 7700 non X (Back to desktop)
So i've run mobile CPUs in desktops and desktop CPUs in mobile![]()