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Your CPU History Tree

Could be out of order as the list is almost 25 years

Celeron 1.6
Pentium 4 3ghz
Pentium D
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Quad
Core i7 920 - Probably my favorite of them all lasting the longest.
Core i7 5820
Core i7 5960x
Ryzen 5900x

I might have missed some
 
486DX2 - Our first family PC, still have the spec sheet too!
Pentium
Pentium 3
Pentium 4
Gen 1 Intel Core i7 - I forget the exact model.
i7-4790 - My first PC
Ryzen 5700X - First time building!
Ryzen 9700X
Ryzen 9800X3D
 
Can't really remember that well, I think it's something like the below, prob a few more in there somewhere.

486DX2-66
Pentium
Athlon
Celeron
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Quad
Core i7 920
Core i7 4790k
Ryzen 5900x
Ryzen 7800X3D
 
My main PCs...
@ = Overlocked to :D

Pentium 75 > Upgraded to Pentium 133
AMD K6-2 400 @ 450mhz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird AXIA 1Ghz @ 1.33Ghz
AMD Athlon XP 2800 @ Stock
AMD Athlon64X2 3800 @ 3.8Ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 3.2Ghz Upgraded/Sidegraded to Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800 (Got it very cheap! Hardly any difference)
Intel i5 2500k @ ??
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X @ 4.2Ghz
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @ 4.7Ghz
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

The biggest jump for me in terms of day to day was the Core2 Duo era. Blew everything out of the water and was monumental jump in performance from anything on the market. The bog standard E6300 could overclock and get speeds similar to a Extreme chip which cost £1k.

Had the i5 2500k the longest. Great platform.
 
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Its all a bit vague
Motorola 68020
Motorola 68040 40mhz Yes it was an Amiga
Athlon 500mhz something
Athlon 600mhz
Intel something
Intel something i7 8086 anniversary unlocked
AMD AM4 5800x
AMD AM5 7800x3D
 
INTEL P4 (Northwood)
INTEL P4 (Prescott)
INTEL C2D E6600
INTEL C2Q 9550
INTEL 2700K
INTEL 6700K
AMD 2700X
AMD 3900X
AMD 5700X
AMD 5800X3D
AMD 7800X3D

AM4 such a great platform having ran 4 CPU's on the same MSI X470 Carbon Wifi Motherboard for over 7 years that now has a Ryzen 4300G in it as a second PC :)
 
Phenom II x4 965 - regret buying should have gone intel

2500K

2700K

5820K - regret buying it offered no benefit over the mainstream intel for my workload

8700K - regret buying as I went back to console shortly after and lost lots of money

5950X - regret buying, was buggy and ran hot but I kept reading how AMD were winning.

13900K

13900KS - regret buying, expensive and was worse than the k variant I owned

14900KF - regret selling, was a great example and did everything I needed

9800X3D - regret buying as I’ve ended up using the pc for more than gaming

Next one will be a 9950X3D2 if that actually releases so I can keep motherboard and ram. I did contemplate selling and starting again on Intel but I’ll lose too much money.

I do wish I had gone with intel though. I was sucked in with all the hype on gaming on AMD, but at 4k 120hz there’s next to no difference, but I notice the difference with anything I do that’s non-gaming.

I should have bought the 9950X3D at least. Ah well it’s my own fault. Looking back it would have been better to just stick with the 14900KF I had. It was a golden sample that had an unusually high SP rating and things haven’t really moved on and likely won’t for a couple of cpu generations.

I feel the same regret with the 5090, it offers next to nothing over the 4090 I had in the games I play.

Reading back my post I do have a lot of regrets, maybe I should stop buying pc parts :D
 
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AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (bought from Bowlers computer fair)
Intel Celeron E1400
AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition - could be unlocked to become Phenom II x4 B55 Quad Core
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - because the single core IPC was so bad on the Phenom II, trying to play Starcraft 2 was horrendous.
Intel Core i7-920
Intel Xeon X5650
Intel Core i3-2100
Intel Core i5-2500K
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD Ryzen 5 5800X
AMD Ryzen 7 7700X - want to upgrade to either a 7800X3D or a 9800X3D
 
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there is no way i can remeber ever CPU ive hid, but i will always remember the fist one i paid for at the age of 17, AMD Athlon Thunderbird.
i literally got the PC becuase the CPU was called Thunderbird hahah
 
No idea at a guess:
Pentium 2
Pentium 4
2500k
Amd phenom X4
4090k (name is wrong, but high end 4000 series)
6700k
Now AM5 7800X3D

I remember going from the 4000 series to the 6700k and being disappointed that I didn't notice much improvement in my games and felt from then I shouldn't upgrade so quickly.
6700k to 7800x3d and a Nvidia 1080 to a AMD 7900XTX was a night and day difference. From now on I want to experience that with every upgrade. Just phenomenal difference.
 
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P90
P133
P200
P2-300
AMD Slot-A 550
Duron 800
Thunderbird 1.2
Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83ghz) @ 2.5ghz phase change
AMD64 San Diego 3200ish
AMD64 Venice 3500ish
AMD64 oneoftheabove 3800ish
Intel Core 2 Quad (I forget clockspeed)
i7 2600K (sat on this for about 7 years, eventually pushed to about 4.4/4.5)
Ryzen 2600x
Ryzen 3700x
Ryzen 5900x
I9-13900HX
 
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