Your CPU progression

AMD 64 3700+ (754 Clawhammer)
Intel Q6600
Intel 2500k

Didn't realize its been so long since I last owned an AMD chip.
 
Z80 @ 3.6 Mhz (Coleco Adam)
8088 @ 8 Mhz
80386DX @ 25 Mhz
80486DX2 @66 Mhz
Am586 @ 133 Mhz
K62 @ 450 Mhz
Duron @ 800Mhz
Athlon XP @ 1200Mhz
Athlon 64 @ 1800Mhz
FX-60 @ 2600 Mhz (x2)
Athlon X2 @ 2500Mhz (x2)
Phenom II X4 @ 3250Mhz (x4)

Wow. Memories.
 
Main Desktop progression

1. 386-40
2. 486-66DX2
3. Cyrix P5-120
4. Pentium 233
5. Celeron 300
6. Celeron 400x2 (Abit BP6)
7. Athlon 1ghz
8. Athlon 1.4ghz
9. Athlon 3000+
10. Athlon X2 3800+
11. Intel Q6600
12. Intel Q9550
13. Intel E5300
14. Intel 2550K
 
Ill only count the ones I used in my custom built pcs( had 2 HPs before)

E7200
Phenom II 955
i7 Xeon W3520

Previous prebuilts

Pentium 2
Pentium 3 (I think it was like 700mhz or.something)
Pentium D 920
 
first PC to current (chips of the same series are upgrades)

486SX
486DX/2-66

Pentium 75
Pentium 90
233MMX

Celeron 300a OC'd to 450
Pentium III 700
Pentium III 850

Athlon x1800
Athlon x2500
Athlon 3800X2

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Oc'd to 3.6

Laptops
Z-note 425SL
gateway pentium dual core
Dell Vostro 1400 C2D 1.83
Dell Studio Intel i5
 
I know I'm missing a few, but the major ones I can remember

486-DX80
486-DX120
Pentium 133 MMX
Pentium 200 (@225Mhz, my first OC)
Pentium-II 300 (@ 333Mhz)
Celeron 300A (@450Mhz! This thing kicked so much ass at the time)
AMD Athlon 750
AMD Athlon 1.3Ghz (I remember having to buy a copper shim to prevent cracking the core and using the old "pencil trick" to unlock it)
Intel P4 2.4Ghz
AMD Opteron 165
Intel Q6600
 
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PI 133mHz
PIII 866mHz
AMD9950 - 2.6gHz
AMD920 - 3.0gHz
Intel 2600k - 3.4gHz


Main gaming rig only.

10-20 more if you consider my htpcs, laptops and servers through the years
 
6502 running at 1.1 MHz (Apple IIe overclocked)
Intel 8088
Intel 8086
Intel 80386-20MHz (i386DX) with 387 coprocessor
AMD 486-40MHz
Intel Pentium 90Mhz
Intel Celeron 300A at 450Mhz (Slot 1)
Dual Intel Pentium II 300MHz (Slot 1)
Intel Pentium D 915
Intel Core 2 E6300
Intel Core 2 Q6400
Intel I7-980X
Intel i7-2600K
 
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Prebuilts:

486 DX2
Pentium MMX 133Mhz (I think)

My builds:

PIII 800 Mhz
PIV 2.86Mhz
E6600 @ 3.2
i7 2600K



I've built a couple PC's for my dad too, but I can't remember what components I used.
 
80286 (Prebuilt)
Pentium 60 (Prebuilt)
Pentium 133
Pentium 200
Pentium II 400
Pentium II 450
Celeron (too unremarkable to remember the model, sold it on within a week)
Athlon 900
Duron 1.2GHz
Athlon XP1800+
Athlon XP2400+
Athlon XP2800+
Athlon XP3200+
"Pentium" E2140
C2D E4300
C2Q Q6600
C2Q Q9400
i5-2500K

the more exotic ones:
2x Atlhon MP2400+ (on a Tyan Tiger MPX)
2x Xeon 2.4 (Prestonia, overlcocked on a PC-DL)
2x Xeon 1.6LV (Prestonia, overclocked on a PCH-DL)
Xeon E3-1235
 
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Parents had
8088 4 mhz
286 16 mhz
386 40 mhz
My own PCs
486 dx4 100 mhz
PII 300 mhz asus p2b
P3 750 mhz asus p2b (upgraded from p2 300 mhz)
dual p3 550 asus p2b-d
dual p3 1 ghz asus p2b-d (upgraded from dual p3 550 still have recently retired)
dual athlon mp 1800 on asus a7m266d (had this only a couple weeks as it didn't work with my dc30 capture card and had bios problems with my raid card option rom so sold it)
dual p4 1.8 ghz super micro p4dc6+
dual p4 2.4 ghz supermicro p4dc6+ (upgraded from dual 1.8)
dual p4 lv 1.6 gz over clocked to 3 ghz on asus pc-dl (retired last year)
dual xeon 5130 2.0 ghz on super micro x7dae (recently retired)
dual xeon 5440 2.8 ghz on tyan s5396 (current system)
 
Only counting desktop systems:

486 DX2 66
P166 MMX
P3 866
P4 1800
A64 X2 4400+
C2D E8600
i7 2600K
 
Atari 7600 6502C 1.79MHz
Commodore 128 8502/2.0 MHz + Z80/4.0MHz
intel 8088 8MHz "Turbo" (4.77MHz standard)
intel 80286 12MHz
AMD Am386SX-40
Cyrix 6x86 PR 120+
intel Pentium 233 MMX
AMD K6-2 450
AMD "Duron" 750
intel Pentium III "Coppermine" 1.0 (dual cpu) - just retired this about 2-3 months ago
AMD "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz
AMD "Barton" 2500+
AMD "Venice" 3000+
AMD "Denmark" Opteron 165
AMD "Windsor" 6400+ BE

Coming soon:
intel "Ivy Bridge" i5-3570K or I7-3770K
 
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IBM XT
Apple IIe
Pentium 200Mhz MMX
PowerPC G3 400Mhz
Athlon 1Ghz
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Core2Duo 6420
Core2Quad X3220
Core i7 2500K
Bulldozer FX 8120
 
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Can't remember much circa 1995
Pentium 100mhz
Pentium 200mhz
Pentium II 266mhz
Pentium III 350mhz
Athlon XP 64 2400+ (man, this chip kicked ass)
Intel C2D E6420 (oc 2.6ghz)
Intel C2Q Q6600 (oc 3.6ghz)
Intel C2Q Q9550 (oc 3.6ghz)
Intel i5-760 (oc 4.0ghz)
 
Intel 8088
Intel 8086
AMD? 80386
AMD? 80486-40MHz
Intel Pentium 90Mhz
Intel Pentium II 350MHz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
Intel Pentium M 750 / 1.86 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo P8600
Intel i5 1.7
 
As best I can remember
E8400
I7 920
E8600
W3520
E8600
i7 860
i5 650
i5 660
i5 670
i7 920
i7 970
X3440
i5 670
X3440

Not necessarily in that exact order but I have traded/sold way to many CPUs.
 
Yikes! Well, my brain hurts just thinking about it. Thankfully I've bought most of my CPUs through Newegg over the years and was able to refresh my memory a bit. I've owned a bunch of other CPUs/systems, but this is what I've had as my `main' machine over the years:

6510 (C-64)
6502 (Atari 800)
Motorola 68000 (Atari ST)
Motorola 68000 (Amiga 500)
AMD 386-40
Intel 486-66DX2
Intel Pentium Pro 180 (@200)
Intel Celeron 300A Slot-1
Intel Celeron 533A Socket 370
Intel Celeron 633 Socket 370
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ Palomino Socket-A
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred A Socket-A
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Thoroughbred B Socket-A
AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+ Barton Socket-A
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 939 Venice 939
AMD Opteron 165 Denmark 939
AMD Athlon 64 3600+ X2 Brisbane AM2
AMD Athlon 64 5000+ X2 Brisbane Black Edition AM2
Intel Q6600
Intel Q9550
Intel 2500k

Everything since the 486-66DX2 has been overclocked to some extent or another.
 
Dan_D said:
This question gets asked every couple of months. Its always a good memory excercise for me.

Here it goes. The complete list of CPUs I own or have owned but not necessarily in order and not all of which have been in my main gaming rig.

Intel 8088 4MHz
Intel 80286 12MHz
Intel 386 SX 16MHz
Intel 386 DX 25MHz
Cyrix 486 DX2 66MHz
Cyrix 486 DX2 80MHz -(Still have)
IBM Blue Lighting 486 DX2 66GP -(Still have)
Intel 486 DX2 66MHz (Actually faster than my Cyrix 486 DX2 80MHz.) -(Still have)
Intel 486 DX4 100MHz
Cyrix 5x86 120MHz
Cyrix 5x86 133MHz
Cyrix 6x86 PR90+ (x2)
Cyrix/IBM 6x86 PR166+
Cyrix/IBM 6x86 PR200+
AMD K5 PR75+
Intel Pentium 60MHz -(Still have)
Intel Pentium 66MHz
Intel Pentium 75MHz
Intel Pentium 100MHz
Intel Pentium 133MHz (SY039 Stepping.)
Intel Pentium 150MHz
Intel Pentium 166MHz (x2, I still have one of these.)
Intel Pentium 200MHz
Intel Pentium MMX 166MHz
Intel Pentium MMX 200MHz
Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz -(Still have)
AMD K6 300MHz
AMD K6 II 400MHz
Intel Pentium Pro 150MHz (x4) -(Still have 1)
Intel Pentium Pro 180MHz (x2) -(Still have)
Intel Pentium Pro 200MHz (x1)
Intel Pentium II 233MHz -(Still have)
Intel Pentium II 266MHz
Intel Pentium II 300MHz
Intel Pentium II 333MHz
Intel Pentium II 350MHz
Intel Pentium II 400MHz
Intel Pentium III 450MHz
Intel Pentium III 500MHz -(Still have)
Intel Pentium III 550MHz (x2)
Intel Pentium III 800MHz
Intel Pentium III 1,000MHz (S370 Coppermine) -(Still have)
Intel Celeron 266MHz
Intel Celeron 300A (x4)
Intel Celeron 366MHz (x2)
Intel Celeron 533MHz (x2)
AMD Duron 900MHz
AMD Athlon 1.0GHz (Thunderbird)
AMD Athlon 1.2GHz (Thunderbird)
AMD Athlon 1.33GHz AXIA (Thunderbird) -(Still have)
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Intel Celeron 2.0GHz
Intel Celeron 2.5GHz
Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz (S423)
Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz (S478) -(Still have)
Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.0A (2.0GHz)
Intel Pentium 4 2.4C (2.4GHz)
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz
Intel Pentium 4 3.0C
Intel Pentium 4 3.0E
Intel Pentium Model 550 (3.4GHz)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (90nm)
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
AMD Opteron 246 (x2)
AMD Opteron 254 (x2)
Intel Pentium D 965 Extreme Edition (3.73GHz) -(Still have)
Intel Celeron 430 (Mobile) -(Still have)
Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (Mobile) -(Still have)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 -(Still have)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 -(Still have)
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 -(Still have)
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 (3.2GHz) (x2) -(Still have both of these)
Intel Core i7 920 (C0/C1 stepping) (2.66GHz) -(Still have)
Intel Core i7 920 (D0 stepping) (2.66GHz) -(Still have)
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 980X -(Still have)

I know, I have a problem. (I'm almost as bad when it comes to video cards.) I may also have forgotten some. If I did I'll add them later if I can remember them. :cool:
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Wow...wow...wow...:eek: I'm not worthy.
 
6502
65C816
486SX25
486DX2-66
K6-166
Athlon 650
Athlon MP 1.2ghz x 2
Athlon64-3500+
Turion64X2 TL-52
Phenom 9500
Phenom II X940BE

Coming Soon:
i7-3930k
 
Intel Pentium 4M mobile 2.2GHz
Intel Core 2 duo e6300 1.86GHz
Intel Core 2 quad Q8200 2.33GHz
Intel Core 2 quad Q8300 2.5GHz
Intel Core i7 2700k 3.5-3.9GHz
 
Let's see what the old brain cells remember;

286 16Mhz
486SX25
486DX2 66 I think it was a Texas Instrument one.
486DX4 100
Pentium 90
Pentium 233MMX
PowerPC 603E
Pentium II 400
AMD K6-2 350
Pentium III 450 (still own)
Pentium III 800 Slot 1 Coppermine (still own)
Pentium III 800 Socket 370 Coppermine (still own)
Pentium III 1.1Ghz Taulatin
AMD XP1800+ (Thunderbird?)
AMD XP2500+ Barton (still in operation)
Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Prescott (still in operation)
AMD 3000 64
AMD Phenom II X4 810
Core i7 960 S1366 (my current primary rig)
Phenom II X6 1100T (my current secondary rig)

No Celerons or Durons for me
 
Mines pretty easy cause I ran my first rig for 7 years. Didn't get addicted to chronic upgrading til 2009.....hmmm, that's the same time I joined up here. Hmmmm.....

Intel Pentium 4 1.6 GHz (2001-2008)
AMD Athlon X2 7750 (2008-2009)
AMD Athlon II X3 435 (2009-2010)
AMD Phenom II X2 555 (2010-2011)
AMD Phenom II X6 1090 (2011-probably this week)

I'm probably going to pull the trigger on a FX-8120 here in the next few days for no other reason than I want something new to play with. I've cranked my trusty X6 as far as it will go so now I want to play with an FX and see how far I can get it with my humble Hyper 212 cooling.
 
Intel Pentium 75mhz
Intel Pentium III 500mhz
AMD T-Bird 1.4ghz
AMD XP2500+
AMD XP3500+
AMD X2 4400+
Intel Q6600
Intel Q9550
Intel i5 760 (current)
 
Hrmmm.....

Core I7-3930K everything else before that is irrelevant, slow, and worthy of being a memory.

AMD 486DX4 100
Pentium MMX 166mhz
Pentiums of all kinds of generations

wow I already gave up right here >.<
 
Intel 486DX 33MHz
AMD K6-2 350MHz
Athlon XP 1800+ 1533MHz
Athlon XP 3200+ 2200MHz
Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz (Fried MoBo/CPU)
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz
 
pentium 200 with mmx
P4 2.4 --> P4 3.2
E6400
Q6600
i920 -->i950
3930k
 
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Intel 3x86 SX 16
Intel 4x86 DX 33
Intel Pentium II 300
Intel Pentium III 450 ----- (Secondary) K6-2 500
Intel Pentium III 933 ----- (Secondary) P III 450
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1100mhz ----- (Secondary) PIII 933
AMD Duron 1800mhz ----- (Secondary) PIII 1200mhz Tualatin
Intel Pentium 4 2.4ghz (400mhz)
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2ghz ----- (Secondary) Athlon 64 3200+
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.6ghz ----- (Added 3rd system) Prescott 3.2ghz --- (Added 4th) Athlon 64 3000+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (Never Installed/used... sat and gathered dust for a solid year)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 ---- (4th) Athlon 4000+
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 ----- (4th) E6750 ----
Intel Core i7 920 ---- (Secondary) E6750 -> i3 530 -> i5 760 ---- (3rd) I3 550 -> I3 2120 ---- (4th) i5 760 ---> I5 2500k

Many of my secondary systems were just transplanted CPU's from what used to be my main system, and i prolly also missed a few cpu's in there
 
My personal machine building began in 2003. Started using a 286 when I was in diapers, but that doesn't count.

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
AMD Athlon x2 3600+
AMD Athlon x2 6000+
AMD Phenom 955 BE
Intel i5 2500K (I finally jumped ship, couldn't be happier)
 
I've overclocked every single CPU I've ever owned and never killed a one and I've built every single system myself, save the very first one I bought.


Cyrix 333MHz (first and last prebuilt computer I've ever bought)
Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz
Intel Celeron 300A
AMD K6 II 400MHz
AMD K6 II 450MHz
Intel Pentium III 650MHz
Intel Pentium III 750MHz
Intel Pentium III 900MHz Coppermine
AMD Athlon 1.0GHz Thunderbird
Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz
AMD XP2500+ Barton
Intel Pentium 4 3.0E
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4000+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
AMD Phenom II 1055T x6
Intel Core i7 2600k
 
Commodore SX-64
IBM XT-286
Dell 486-SX 25mhz
Packard Bell DX2-66,eventually upgraded to DX4-100 mhz
White box Pentium 90 mhz
E-machines celeron 400 mhz

Custom here on out

[1999-2000] AMD Athlon Slot A 750 Mhz / Geforce 256 / 256mb mem [first order from newegg?]
[8/2001] AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz - crushed CPU die going to lan party with heavy cooper cooler
[2003?] AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4ghz / Geforce Gi 4200 128mb / 120 GB HDD
[2005?] AMD Athlon 3000+ Socket 754
[7/2007] AMD Athlon 5600+ Socket AM2 2.8ghz dual core / 7950GT -> 8800 GTS 512
[6/2008] [Intel Q9450 12MB
[9/2009] Intel i7-860
[7/2010] Intel i7-875K [friend wanted i7-860, paid almost full price for it, so I just upgraded]
 
Tandy 1000 HX
Intel 486sx upgraded it to a:
Intel 486dx 66mhz
Intel Pentium 90MHz over clocked to 100MHz (wouldn't play MP3s smoothly otherwise)
AMD Thunderbird 800MHz
AMD 2100+ (I won this one in a AMD contest :D)
AMD 1700+ over clocked to 2400+
Intel C2D 6400
Intel C2Q Q6600
Intel C2D T9400 (laptop since I have a tentative sale on the desktop)

Not quite sure what's next, but it will be better then all the above :)
 
Up until the 486 these were all family systems that my dad purchased, so not sure on some of the exact specs esp 286 + 386

Mid 80s - 8088 4.77 MHz IBM PCjr
Late 80s - unk likely same as above 8088 - Tandy 1000 HD
Early 90s - 286 unk, then 386 unk
1993 - 486 DX 33 - Cirrus Logic 1 MB VGA
1996 - Pentium 200 (non MMx) Matrox Mystique 4 MB
2002 - Pentium 4 2.0A Northwood Nvidia Geforce Ti 4200 64 MB
2012 - i7-2700k eVGA 580 1.5 GB

Believe it has been 100% intel !! Chew on that fanboys!

Quite the pause in between the P4 and i7, but MAN is the speed increase noticeable -- I even ran Cinebench 11.5 on the P4 -- got something like a .23 vs the 7.7 or so I get on my 2700k (all cores at 3.9)
 
Intel P4 @ 2GHz
Intel P4 @ 3GHz
C2D E6300 @ 2.8GHz
C2Q Q6600 @3.2GHz (in spare PC)
i5-2500k @4.5GHz
 
8086 2Mhz I think
2 MHz MOS Technology 6502
386 SX 40
486 DX2 66
P75
PII 300 (Slot A)
Duron 800Mhz
Atherlon XP 2100+
P4 2.8 none HT with 533 Mhz FSB
P4 2.8 HT with 800Mhz FSB
E6600
Q6600
 
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