Your CPU progression

Pentium 166mhz
Intel i7 920

Slight increase in performance. ;);)
 
Just for my main PC:

Pentium 200mhz (1998)
Pentium II 350mhz (1999)
Duron 800mhz (2000)
AXP 1900 - 1.6ghz (2002)
About 6 Socket A processors ranging from 1700 JIUHB's to XP-M Bartons
A64 3000 Newcastle - 2.0ghz (2004)
A64 3400 Clawhammer - 2.2ghz
A64 3400-M Newark (O/C to 2.6ghz) (2005)
Opteron 165 1.8ghz (2006)
E8400 C2D (2008)
Q9650 C2Q (2009)
i7 920 (2009)

I can't even keep track of all the CPU's I've had for 2nd and 3rd systems.
 
Mine's nothing long, or special.

Intel Pentium 150+
AMD Duron 1.0GHz
AMD Athlon 2400+ 2GHz
AMD Athlon 5000+ 2.6GHz
AMD Phenom II 2.8GHz (OC'd to 3GHz currently)
 
I can't remember what I used when I was a kid, I'm pretty sure the first was a 486, then a Pentium and after that, a Pentium II

Computers I built:
Pentium 3 Coppermine 550MHz
AMD Athlon MP 1600 x2 (Dual processor setup was the shyte in 2001)
Pentium 4 3GHz
Core2 Duo E6850
AMD Phenom II 550 BE @ 3.4GHz
Core i5
 
Intel 80286 (1996), upgraded immediately to...
Intel 80486 33MHz (1996)
Intel 80486 66MHz (1997)
Intel Pentium III 500MHz (1999)
Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood) 2.8GHz, top speed 3.06GHz (2002)
AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.0GHz, top speed 2.4GHz (2004)
AMD Opteron 170 2.0GHz, top speed 2.7GHz (2005)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.6GHz, top speed 4.0GHz (2007)
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz (2007) <- Laptop, at this point I was at Uni and I sold the desktop with the Q6600. My parents got the Opteron 170 system.
AMD Opteron 165 1.8GHz, top speed 2.9GHz (2009) <- Upgraded my parents computer and commandeered it as my gaming rig.
AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE 3.0GHz (upcoming 2009) <- Still waiting for the motherboard to come back from RMA so I haven't installed this yet.

And that's it. Some of the years are approximate since I don't remember exactly.
 
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Lets see. Long list if I can remember it all.

Motorola 6809E 900kHz (TRS-80 CoCo 2)
WDC 65816 2.8MHz (Apple IIGS)
Intel 486SX 25MHz
Intel 482SX2 50MHz
Intel Pentium 60MHz
Intel Pentium II 266MHz
Intel Celeron 300MHz OC'd to 450MHz
Intel Pentium 3 700MHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
Intel Pentium D 2.8GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.83GHz

I think that's everything, for my main desktop at least. Doesn't count laptop, servers, etc.
 
I hope I am remembering them all.. This is really just my 'main box'

286 of some sort
486 DX4-100
Pentium 60 (Bug Chip! Yay)
Pentium II 266 Klamath (P2L-97)
P3 550 Katmai (P2B)
Dual P3 600E's (P2B-DS)
AMD Athlon Tbird 1100 (8kta3) (Alpha PAL6035)
AMD Athlon Tbird 1200 (8kta3) (Alpha PAL6035)
AMD Athlon Tbird 1333 (8kta3) (Alpha PAL6035)
AMD Athlon Tbird 1400 (8kta3) (Alpha PAL6035)
AMD AthlonXP 2000+ on PC133 (8kta3) (Alpha PAL6035)
AMD AthlonXP 2000+ on DDR266 (8kha+) (Alpha PAL6035)
P4 2.4 Northwood (533 FSB) (TT Volcano 7/9)
P4 3.0 Northwood (800 FSB) (Water Cooled, Swiftech Block)
P4 3.2 Northwood (800 FSB) (Water Cooled, Swiftech Block) (Kinf of paused here and rocked this for almost 3 years!)
Pentium M 760 (2.0Ghz, 2MB L2) (Dell 9300)
Core Duo T2500 (2.0Ghz, 2MB L2) (Dell E1705/9400)
C2D E6600 (Asus Commando/MSI P35 Neo2-FR) (Alpha Pal 8045, Swiftech GTX)
C2D E7200 (MSI P35 Neo2-FR/MSI P45 Neo2-FR) (Swiftech GTX)
C2Q Q6600 (MSI P45 Neo2-FR/Asus P5Q-E) (Swiftech GTX)
C2Q Q9550 (Asus P5Q-E) (Swiftech GTX)

I think i may have missed some of the socket A AMD chips as I had a ton of those. I think I had a P3 650E in there somewhere too.. I also had a 2Ghz P4 based celeron that I was messing aroun with, and overclocked it to over 3Ghz without even breaking a sweat, thought that was pretty damn cool at the time.

My Server has only had a few iterations over the past 10 years...
Dual PII 300's
Dual P3 1ghz Coppermines
C2D E6600
 
Intel Celeron 400MHz.
Pentium III 1GHz
Intel P4 2.5GHz
Athlon 64 3200+
AMD x2 4400+
Core i7 (Current).
 
Pentium 75 (to 100)
Amd something 166 (to 250)
AMD K2-450
Celeron 366 (to 550
Celeron 533 (to 800)
Athlon 1400
Pentium 4 2.53ghz (to 2.8)
Pentium 4 3.0ghz (to 3.2)
Core 2 Q6600 (to 3.0)
 
Not so long or special for me (only counting machines ive personally built, cant remember anything i had bought)

Athlon 64 3000+
Athlon 64 x2 3800+
Athlon 64 x2 4800+
Intel Q6600
Inttel i7 920
 
pentium 166mhz mmx
pentium 2 233mhz
pentium 2 333mhz
celeron 300a
pentium 3 733mhz
athlon 1900xp
athlon 2400xp
athlon 2700xp
pentium 4 2.0
pentium 4 2.4
pentium 4 3.0
pentium 4 3.4
athlon64 3200
athlon64 3500
athlon64 FX-55 clawhammer
athlon64 FX-55 San Diego
Xeon E5335
Core2extreme x6800
Core2extreme q9650
 
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Something motorola (ancient DOS box)
Intel 386
Intel Pentium II -200MHz
AMD K6-2 550MHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz (533MHz FSB)
Athlon 64 3800+
Athlon X2 4600+
Athlon X2 5600+
Intel Xeon E3310
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

Server: Sempron 1.8GHz --> Athlon II X2 245
 
IBM PC Jr...no idea what was inside but it booted off 5.25 inch discs or a BASIC cartridge
Intel 486DX 33MHz
Cyrix 200MHz
Cyrix 233MHz
AMD K6-2 450MHz
AMD Duron 600MHz
AMD Athlon 1GHz @ 1365 (still have it and runs great. :D )
AMD Athlon 2500+ (Barton) @ 2.3GHz
AMD Athlon X2 6000+
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.2GHz

WHS: Dual-core Pentium D 2.0GHz
 
MOS 6510, 1MHz (Commodore 64)
486DX2 50Mhz
486DX4 100
Cyrix 6x86MX PR200
AMD K6-III 350Mhz
AMD Athlon 1Ghz
AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz
AMD Athlon MP Dual CPU 2Ghz (overclocked)
AMD 64 3000+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
AMD Phenom II 940 3.0Ghz quad core

I did own an Intel once... but it was crap.
 
486 (Custom Build)
Pentium 1 (Something called Gazelle PCs)

AMD K6 (This is one of my favorite cores of all time I had this computer until I graduated High School It ran hot as can be but it worked and worked well)

Pentium 90nm 3.2 Ghz (2005 model runs quite well but too hot I still have this and plan to underclock it to 45W or less to serve as a quake computer under linux)

AMD Phenom II X3 720 (My current "Main PC" and likely to remain in use for half a decade atleast)

AMD Athlon II X2 245 (Media PC to become a HL2 gaming PC)

Intel Atom Single Core with ION chipset (This thing sucks. Will serve ok as a quake and HL2 PC but thats it unless they hardware accelerate flash)
 
"Shared" CPUs (as in, common family use when I didn't yet have my very own):
386SX/33
486/??
Pentium 133
Pentium 225
Celeron 400
Pentium 90 laptop

Self-bought:
Athlon 700
Duron 1200
Athlon Thunderbird 1400
Athlon 64 3700+
C2Q Q6600
Turion 64 X2 TL-60 or some such laptop
Atom N270 netbook
C2D E5200
Ci5 750

That mostly covers it.
 
i went from a pentium 266 megahertz.............uh forgot the one i had built 350 megahertz i think. a compaq amd xp forgot the speed. amd 4000 athlon. intel quad socket 775
 
386DX/16
486SX/25
486DX2/66
Pentium 100
Pentium II 233
Pentium II 266
Pentium II 350
Pentium III 550
Athlon XP 2400+
Athlon XP 2600+
Athlon64 3000+ (754)
Athlon64 3800+ (939)
Athlon64 x2 3800+ (939)
Pentium Dual-Core e2140
Athlon x2 5000+ Black
Core 2 Duo e6320
Phenom x4 9850 Black
 
MOS 6502 @ 1 MHz (Commodore VIC-20)
Zilog Z80 @ 4 MHz (C 128)
386 33 MHz
486- 50 & 100 MHz
Pentium 166
Pentium 233 MMX
Pentium III 450
Pentium III 866
Pentium III-M 1.13 GHz
Dually Pentium III 1 GHz
Athlon XP 1600+
Athlon XP 2800+
Pentium 4 2.4, 2.6, & 2.8
Core 2 E6550
 
It will be hard to get them all, but here goes:

6502 (SYM-1)
6502 (AIM-65)
6502 (Apple II)
Z-80 (Apple II SoftCard)
6809 (wire-wrap homebrew)
6502 (wire-wrap homebrew)
PDP-11

Burroughs B2400 (I think; certainly a B2000 series)

8088, 4.77 MHz
8088, 4.77 MHz + 8087

80286 12 MHz

80386SX, IBM PS/2 Model 55
80386DX, IBM P/70

80486 33 MHz
80486DX 66 MHz

Pentium 90 // FDIV Bug!
Pentium Pro 200
Pentium Pro 300

2x Pentium II 200 MHz

Pentium II 900

DEC Alpha 21164

AMD K6
2x AMD Athlon MP-1700
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
2x AMD Opteron 248
2x AMD Opteron 246
2x AMD Opteron 254

4x Pentium III 450 MHz
Pentium III 300 MHz
Pentium III 600 MHz

Pentium M 3.0GHz

Pentium 4 3.0GHz
Pentium 4 2.4GHz

2x Xenon
4x Xenon
8x Xenon
16x Xenon
64x Itanium
32x Itanium2

Core2 Duo T7400
Core2 Duo QX6600

Core i7 940
Core i7 965

2x Xeon 5530
4x Xeon 7440
 
The Pentium 90 shouldn't have had the FDIV bug. The Pentium 60 and 66 were the ones with that flaw. (Though as I understand it, some rare examples of the Pentium 75MHz-100MHz CPUs had it as well in certain steppings.)
 
Since age 16 (1997):
Cyrix M2 300 (233mhz)
Athlon 550 (slot A)
Athlon Thunderbird ..........1.0 @ 1.33
Pentium 4 Northwood.......1.6A @ 2.4
Athlon XP Barton 2500+...1.8? @ 2.5
Opteron 165....................1.8 @ 2.5
Core 2 Q6600 .................2.4 @ 3.0 .......+Laptop Turion X2 TL-50 @ 1.6
Phenom 2 720 ................2.8 @ 3.4
Core i5 750 ....................2.66 @ tbd
 
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guess i might as well join in...

celeron 333 @525
athlon xp 1600+ (didn't o/c very well, never bothered)
opteron 165 1.8 @ 2.8Ghz
E4500 2.2 @ 2.8 and counting...

i find it interesting looking through this thread you can really tell who the fanboys are :D
 
For self-built only
E6420
Phenom 9600
Athlon 5800[?]
E8400
Q6600
E8400
E5200
 
Intel 486 DX4 100 MHz
Intel Celeron 300A @ 450 MHz
Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 1.6 @ 2.1 GHz
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.15 GHz
Intel i5 750 @ 3.33 Ghz (4 GHz Turbo)
 
Sorry gets a bit fussy before the X2, I remember owning an A64, P2, P4, Athlon XP and Athlon T-Bird etc but I can't remember which. :D

?
X2 4400+
E6600
Q6600
Q9950
i7 920
 
Intel 486 - 40?Mhz
Cirix 166Mhz
AMD K6-2 450Mhz
AMD Athlon 800Mhz
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz
Intel Core2Duo E8400 @ stock

I currently run both Core2 machines.
I see no need at all to upgrade my CPU at this time. It's 2 years old and not showing any signs of aging yet. The E8400 hasn't even been overclocked. it's simply fast enough as is.
 
Pretty short list here

Pentium 166
Pentium3 500
P4 2.0GHz
Athlon64 3500
Athlon64 X2 4200
C2Q Q9650
 
Pentium II 266MHz
Celeron 500 @ 566MHz
Pentium 3 600MHz @ 800
Dual Pentium 3 600s @ 800MHz
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
P4 3.6GHz
Opteron 165
Pentium D @ 4.0GHz
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.6GHz
Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 3.4GHz
Core i7 920 @ 4.2GHz
 
TMS9900 (TI 99/4A, rockin with a max'd out 48 KB of RAM, speech enoder, and 90KB single sided single density floppy, 4KB of data saved in 5 seconds as opposed to a couple of minutes of audio tape!)

Intel DX 386 25
Intel DX 386 40
IBM 486SLC2 66 (new motherboard)
Pentium 75 (new motherboard)
Cyrix P166
Duall PII 233 (new motherboard)
Duall PII 450
Dual PIII 700
Dual AMD 1800+ (new motherboard)
P IV 3.4 GHz (new motherboard, missed every second of true dual CPU multi-processing smoothness)
Core 2 2.4 GHz (New motherboard)
Core 2 3.0 GHz
i7 920 (new motherboard)
 
My first one was something my dad bought.... ran at 100 mhz, don't even know what it was.
P2 166 (200?) Mhz
Celeron 1 GHz
P4 2.4 GHz
Athlon 64 3500+
Athlon X2 4600+ (the mobo on my 3500+ died)
Core i7 860
 
Wow... memories....

286 - 8Mhz (12Mhz with "turbo" turned on ;) )
386 - 33Mhz (I seem to recall adding a math co-processor to this thing at some point too)
486 - 66Mhz (Adventure games were the win-sauce back then)
Pentium MMX - 133Mhz (Short lived. It lit on fire. Literally)
Pentium MMX - 166Mhz (I remember the term "multimedia" happening around this time)
Pentium II - 266Mhz (this sucker SCREAMED :p )
Pentium III - 750Mhz (Holy crap! Almost a GIGAHERTZ!)
Pentium 4 - 2.8Ghz (Hyper-threading? More like Awesome-threading!)
Pentium 4 - 3.0Ghz (Prescott was my friend all the way through Morrowind)
Pentium D - 2.8Ghz (What a hunk of crap)
Pentium D - 3.4Ghz (An even bigger hunk of crap. At least it runs my HTPC fine now)
Athlon X2 4400 Toledo - 2.2Ghz (got this hot mother for $189 when they still sold for ~$580 by buying one with bent pins and fixing it with a credit card and mechanical pencil. This proc gave me much love up until yesterday!)
Core i5-750 - 2.6Ghz (It's not the greatest of the current generation but trumps my Athlon X2 with room to spare)
 
Pentium 133 MHz
Pentium II 450 MHz
Pentium III 500 MHz
Pentium III 1.2 GHz
Pentium IV 1.4 GHz
Celeron M 1.6 GHz
Pentium M 1.6 GHz
Pentium IV 2.4 GHz
Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0 GHz
Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4 GHz
Core i7 920 2.67 GHz
 
Parents Machines

286 8MHz
486 50MHz
K-6 333MHz

My Machines

Duron 800 MHz
Athlon XP 2200+
E4200 1.8GHz OC'd to 3 GHz
Q6600 - Current.

I tend to upgrade in leaps and bounds.
 
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386SX 33
486DX 33
Pentium 133
PIII 500MHz
Athlon XP 2800+
Athlon 64 3400+
Athlon 64 X2 4600+
Core 2 Quad 6600 @3.0GHz

Will probably be going i7 920 pretty soon.
 
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