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Your CPU History Tree

Intel pentium 60
Intel P4 3.0 GHz Horthwood
Athlon 750 Slot A
Athlon thunderbird xp1400 axia
Intel core 2 duo E6300
Core 2 quad q6600
Core 2 quad q9600
Pentium m adapted skt 775 asus mobo
I5 2500k
I7 3770k
I7 5930k
I7 5960x
I9 12900
I7 13700k
I9 14700k
Amd 7960x
 
OK then

Here's a memory test for me

Trs-80 (Zilog Z80)
C64 (MOS Technology 6510 CPU)
Amiga A500 ( Motorola 68000 )
Amiga A1200 ( Motorola 68EC020 )
Dx33
DX2-66
DX4-100
Lots of Pentiums - Can't remember the individual models - including 1 dual CPU setup ( what a nightmare that was )
Lots of AMD Athlons - Can't remember the individual models
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600
Intel i7-980
Intel i7-6700K
Intel i7-8700K
Intel i7- 9800X
Intel i9-10900K
AMD Threadripper 3960X
AMD Threadripper 3970X
 
Atari 800xl - Motorola 6502
Amiga - Motorola 68000
Amiga 1200 - Motorola 68020

Cyrix - 486 equivalent forgotten name
386dx
Celeron 600mhz
Thunderbird AMD athlon
Barton AMD
i5 2500k
i5 4690k
i7 4970k
Ryzen 2600x
Ryzen 3700x
Ryzen 5900x
Ryzen 9800x3d

Forgotten a load of chips in-between like an AMD duron but can't remember where they fit in.
 
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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
 
Not sure I have the brain power to summon some of these memories.. something like..

<Not sure prior>
Duron 700
Athlon XP 1700+
Athlon XP 2800+
Intel core 2 duo E6300
Athlon XP 3200+ "Barton"
Athlon XP 4000+ "Sandiego"
<PC break>
Ryzen 1700x
Ryzen 5800X3D
 
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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
Packard Bell.. that was my DX33. didn't come with onboard cache as standard. Had to order the chip separately and plug it in.
 
386 sx
Pentium 150
Amd athlon 600
Pentium 4 1.8
Amd athlon x2 4600+ (my first purchase from ocuk)
Q6600
(Break from desktop for a couple years)
i7 4790k
Ryzen 1700x
Ryzen 3900x
Ryzen 9700x

These are all my personal rig. But have had a handful of others. And all 3 ryzen are still in use. And the 4790k has only recently been retired.
 
i5-650
i5-750
i5-4690k
i7-4790k
i7-8700k
i9-9900k

i9 still going strong with the 9070 Xt and I genuinely don’t see a need to upgrade other than platform upgrades, I.e PCIE gen for GPU and SSDs + amount of NVME..
 
Athlon XP 1600
Athlon XP 2500 Barton
AMD Athlon 64 3000
AMD Athlon 64 3700
Intel Core Duo 4300
Intel Core Duo 8400
Intel Core Duo 8600
Intel i7 920
Intel i7 2700
Intel Core i5 4670
Intel i7 6850
Intel i7 7940X
Intel i7 8700K
Intel i7 9900K
Intel i7 12900K
Intel i7 14900KS
 
Intel Pentium 2
Intel Pentium 4
AMD Athlon 64 3600+
Intel I7 950
Intel I7 9700K (Now my Plex Server)
AMD 2200G (Son's PC)
AMD 3600 (Upgrade for son's PC)
AMD 9800X3D (Current PC)
 
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Amstrad 6128
amiga 500
I'm going with Athlon 1800x
opteron
intel q9550
3900x
5900x
9800x3d

I did have a list on a blueyonder website but that's gone and so too is the backup of the site as the 3900x + 28TB raid array went walkies.
 
Pentium 4 3ghz
Athlon 3500
Athlon X2 2200
E6600
E8400
2500K
1950x threadripper
4800H (laptop)
5900x
155H (laptop)
 
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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....
 
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....
Couldn't you have just gotten the Althon duo 4000+ :)
 
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
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T
Intel Core i5-4670K
Ryzen 1700
Ryzen 3700x
Ryzen 9700x
 
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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
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 :D
 
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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 :D
I'd forgotten Phenom existed! I had an x6 before the i5. :D.
 
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