Your CPU progression

Intel 8086
Intel 386DX
Intel 486
Intel Pentium 133Mhz
AMD K6-2 350Mhz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.13Ghz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53Ghz
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2Ghz
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz

/23 years young
 
Commodore64 - Don't remember.
486SX 33
Pentium 100@133
PII 400
Celeron 300a
T-bird [email protected]
T-bird [email protected]
T-bird [email protected]
AthlonXP [email protected] (I think)
AthlonXP [email protected]
AthlonXP-m [email protected]
C2D [email protected]
C2Q [email protected]
C2Q [email protected]
C2Q [email protected]

The list only shows my direct CPU upgrades in my main system(s). The second and third Q6600s are my second and third systems also currently in use. I include them because I do a lot of encoding. The following list includes the CPUs I had in used backup systems, second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth systems I had at my disposal.

Pentium 166
Pentium 166MMX
Pentium 200
Pentium 233MMX
Pentium 233MMX
Pentium 233MMX
Dually PII 266s
K6-2 333@350
PIII 600
PIII 700
PIII 800
PIII 1000
Duron 800
Duron 950
Duron 1000
T-Bird 1.2
AthlonXP 1700+ (Palomino)
AthlonXP 1700+ (T-bred A)
Athlon X2 [email protected]

I did have overclocks on most of these CPUs but I can't remember what they were. I probably still have about 25% of the CPUs laying around somewhere as well although I moved recently and may have gotten rid of some of them.

Currently in use that I know of are all three quads, E6400, Athlon X2 4000+ and one AthlonXP 1700+. Only the quads are in use by me currently. The XP-m 2400+ is in a complete machine but is not hooked up at the moment and one of these days I'm going to get one of the Pentium 233MMXs up and running in an old DOS gaming system. I should still have all the parts needed but haven't put it together.

 
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Nothing special here...

Intel P4 2.4GHz
AMD 3200+ (754)
AMD 3000+ (939)
Intel e2180
Intel e2160
Intel e2180
AMD 4050e
AMD 5000+
AMD 5200+
AMD 5000+ BE
AMD 5000+ BE
AMD 5400+ BE
 
Intel 8086/8
AMD 80386DX/40
Cyrix 5x86-133 (overdrive cpu for 80486 mobos)
Cyrix 6x86-266
AMD K7 550 (later upgraded to 900)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
Intel Core i7 920
 
Intel 80486 SX @ 20 Mhz (No Math Coprocessor = FAIL)
- Overclocked to 33 Mhz (Didn't make up for lack of Math Coprocessor)
- Added off brand Overdrive Chip @ 100 Mhz (Plus it had 387!)
- Overclocked to 133 Mhz
Intel Pentium II @ 350 Mhz
AMD K6-2 @ 350 Mhz
- Overclocked to 450 Mhz
AMD Athlon @ 1.2 Ghz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
- Overclocked to 1.8 Ghz
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
- Overclocked to 2.0 Ghz
AMD Athlon XP Mobile 2500+
- Overclocked to 2.6 Ghz
AMD Athlong 64 3000+
- Worst. Overclocker. Ever.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Overclocked to 3.0 Ghz
Intel Core i7 920
- Overclocked to 3.6 Ghz
 
Pretty rough memory for me. Once upon a time I just had a computer only because I needed it not because it was a fun toy to play with. I would not say I was an enthusiast until my first A64.

Intel - Some 486, no idea but I am pretty sure it was Intel.
AMD - Slot A Athlon something at 700Mhz
Intel - Socket 370 - Pentium 3 Tualatin 1.4Ghz I think
AMD - Socket A - Athlon XP 1700+ 1.4Ghz T-bird I believe
AMD - Socket 754 - Athlon 54 3200+ ClawHammer
Intel - Socket 478 Pentium 4 2.4Ghz want to say Northwood
AMD - Socket 939 Athlon 64 3400+ Newcastle
AMD - Socket AM2 Athlon X2 4000+ Brisbane
AMD - Socket AM2+ Phenom 9600BE (free with a combo deal lol)
AMD - Socket AM2+ Athlon X2 7750BE
AMD - Socket AM3 Phenom II 955BE
 
386Sx
Pentium 200 MMX
Pentium 2 400
Pentium 3 1000EB
Pentium 4 2.6C
Pentium 4 3.2C
Pentium DC E2160 (was in HTPC)
Core 2 Duo E6750 (in desktop now)
Core 2 Duo T8300 (in laptop now)
 
Pentium 133
Pentium 233
Pentium II 350
Pentium III 450
Athlon 1200
Athlon 1600+
Athlon 1900+
Athlon 2600+
Athlon 3000+
Core2 Duo e6600
Core2 Quad q6600 (desktop at 3.6)
Turion ml-42 (laptop)
 
Atari 800XL
Apple ][+
486sx 25mhz
Cyrix 5x86 133mhz
K6-2 400mhz
Celeron 300a (464mhz!!)
AMD Athlon 900mhz
Pentium 4 1.6a
Pentium 4 2.8 (HT)
Pentium M 1.6
AMD X2 4800+
Core 2 Duo 2.0
Core 2 Quad q6600 (died need to RMA)
Core 2 Duo e8400
Core 2 Quad q9550
 
Dan_D said:
That's a tough question. I don't really have a single favorite. The ones I remember most fondly are probably those I had in SMP systems starting with my dual Pentium Pro 180MHz CPUs that I ran at 200MHz. Then I had my Celeron 366's overclocked to around 500MHz which I later upgraded to dual 533MHz CPUs which I ran at 600MHz. After that I didn't have another SMP system until my dual Opteron 246's which I only used for a very short time before upgrading those to dual Opteron 254's. I then built a second system for my server needs out of the dual Opteron 246's. Most recently my dual QX9775 system served my needs for work and gaming until getting the Core i7 920. The QX9775's will go into my server setup.

With all that said I'm very fond of my Core i7 920 which is running nicely at 4.2GHz on air cooling alone. This was extremely easy to get going at those clocks and its been rock solid the entire time I've had it.
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Thank you, sir. I will use the info!
 
I'll sandwich the laptop chips in chronologically...

486DX2 50
486DX4 100 ("overdrive" processor upgrade FTW! :cool:)
IBM 6x86MX PR300
AMD Athlon 750 (slot A)
Pentium III Mobile 1.2
Pentium 4 3.0C
AMD Opteron 170
Core2Duo T7200
Core2Duo T9400
Core i7 920 (building this evening)
 
Personal Progression
286 ?
486 ?
450mhz celeron
700mhz celeron
2400+ Athlon Xp socket a
3000+ Athlon Xp socket a
4000+ Athlon 64 socket 939
4800+ x2 Athlon 64 socket 939
e6300 core 2 duo
q6600 core 2 quad

Back up systems

Athlon x2 5000Be
Athlon x2 5200+
Athlon x2 5400Be
Athlon x2 7750
Phenom 9850BE
Intel e4500
Intel celeron 331

and a plethora of old pIIIs and P4s
 
Commodore 64
IBM AT
P133 laptop
200 MMX
PIII 600 FCPGA
PIII 800 Slot 1
AMD 2400+
Pentium D 820
Conroe 6550
E8400
 
Hey Dan did you avoid the whole thunderbird line mostly? I burnt the core(no overclocking even) on so many of those things I swore off amd till late in the 64 x2 series.

Intel 386SX-20 - first PC, a clone from a local builder I ended up frying the hdd so we just got a new system.
AMD 386DX-40 - Which freaking flew running Doom. Acually lasted me a long while allowing me to bypass the 486 era..
Intel 8088 - XT system I got and setup my first Netware install with it booting and loading the novell client across arcnet! Fun weeks of optimizing the load of drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat just to have the right amount of RAM.
Intel Pentium 66 - even with the f00f bug it was an amazing processor for the time. It let me edit and create gaming levels.
AMD K6 266 - decent processor but remarkably shitty chipset. I remember returning 3 pc chip boards before loosing my f'n mind and
Intel Celeron 300a - and overclocking the sucker. System lasted me a short while but I started dabbling with BeOS and moved to a
Intel Celeron 366 (dual with peltier's) running at 550mhz. God that system was so much fun but SMP
was too far ahead of most OS and being forced to run NT4 with its crippled directx support forced me onwords.

The next is a bit hazy AMD days where I really blew up a few processors. Can we all stop to remember the great day when ondie thermals were made standard and not the @#$@#$ diodes that touched the bottom of the core that never worked.

AMD Duron 1600+ - It was really fast then it stopped working in under a month
AMD XP 1600+ - was stable and passed on to a family member
AMD Duron 1800+ - Family system. It eventually died also.
AMD Barton 2500+ - with a soyo dragon, god that system was so much trouble, about a year later it cooked its core also.

Seriously :mad: at AMD and the whole socket A chips were a disaster in just plain reliability before we even got to the SIS/VIA troubles.

Intel P4 Northwood mobile - dell laptop didn't last long think it was a 1.6ghz part, lack of a serious GPU option pushed me to a
Intel P4 Northwood 2.0Ghz - Traveled overseas at this point so I went with a shuttle system. I had it for a while then sold it off to buy my all time favorite system.


Intel P4 Northwood C 2.4Ghz - To my surprise a tear came to my eye when the system responded like my old BP6 based celeron machine. Ya for hyperthreading! It lasted me a long while as I avoided the Prescott's and seen no real advantage in CPU performance to swap to an X2 early on (gpu arms race was where its at baby).

UltraSPARC II 400Mhz - Somewhere around my northwood 2.0 I picked up an Ultra 5 for ~$50 and loaded OpenBSD on it. It's been a great small firewall for years now with no complaints. It still sits in the corner (powered off now) and replaced by a far more efficent Broadcom 240Mhz linksys router.
AMD X2 5000+ - Dell desktop system was nice and whisper quiet lasted for a while but got the bug and hated the Nvidia chipset. I found the lack of dell bios updates to be scary even tho the platform should of been future proof AM2.
Intel E2180 - I really wanted back into the socket 775 arena and AMD's platform was getting long in the tooth and I really couldn't see dell supporting phenom code updates etc.
Intel q6600 - Just the natural progression once the price hit really low levels current system and I see zero reason to upgrade in the next while. I really think the system will handle GPU's for a while before moving up to an i5/i7.
 
Fuser said:
Hey Dan did you avoid the whole thunderbird line mostly? I burnt the core(no overclocking even) on so many of those things I swore off amd till late in the 64 x2 series.
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I didn't avoid them. I had three of them:

AMD Athlon 1.0GHz (Thunderbird)
AMD Athlon 1.2GHz (Thunderbird)
AMD Athlon 1.33GHz AXIA (Thunderbird) -(Still have)

Due to my experiences with shitty motherboards during that time I stuck with my ASUS A7V-133 until I upgraded to the Pentium 4 2.0A which I had for quite some time. I probably had three motherboard upgrades with that CPU before purchasing the Intel Pentium 4 2.4C. My next AMD CPU was an Athlon 64 3800+. The Athlon XP 3200+ I had was something I was given much later and served in a spare rig until I took it out and shot it to death about two summers ago.
 
Mac g3 desktop 266MHz

Pentium 4 Willamette 1.7GHz(desktop)

1.7GHz Intel Mobile Celeron Northwood(laptop, the processors is equivalent to above except it's a Northwood)

2Ghz Pentium 4-M Northwood (Upgrade to above comp, briefly overclocked to 2.2GHz with Clockgen)

Still waiting for cash for an upgrade, it will hopefully be to a Phenom II.
 
Celeron 300A
AMD Duron 800MHz
Pentium 4 3.0C
C2D E6600 (still have it)
C2D T8100 (still have it)
 
I'll just list my main system, if I included others and mobile I'd be here all night. Nearly all my secondary and auxiliary systems have been Athlon's though. I built a ton of Athlon XP systems with 1900s and 2600s. All except for one of my mobiles have been Intel based.

386 SX 25
486 DX 33
Pentium 100
Pentium 166 MMX
(At this point I started working at a hardware reseller for several years so started upgrading frequently through customer returns, open box, etc)
Pentium II 266
Pentium II 450
Pentium III 600
Athlon socket A 1.0 GHZ
Athlon T-bird 1.4 GHZ
Athlon XP 2200
Pentium 4 2.6GHZ HT
No more cheap hardware, but I finally started overclocking!
Athlon X2-3800 @ 2.2GHZ
C2D Q6600 @ 3.0 GHZ
i7 920 @ 3.8 GHZ
 
486 dx66
100 mhz pent
200 pent pro
p2 300 sl2w8
p3 700
t bird blue meanie
athlon xp 1800
p4 1.6a
p4 2.4
p4 3.0 preshott
amd x2 3800
opteron cabne
e6400
q6600
amd x4 920
 
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Primary rigs
Intel 486DX 66mhz
Intel Pentium 200mhz MMX
AMD XP2500+ (oc'd to 3200+)
Intel Q6700 (oc'd to 3.33mhz)

other rigs
Intel E2180
Intel E5200
AMD 64x2 5050e

incomplete rig
Intel i7 920
 
286@16MHz - I had so much fun with this machine. Many fond memories of playing Wing Commander or Wolfenstein 3D on this thing. Ended up giving it to a family friend's 4-year-old.

386sx 33MHz - Dad brought a couple of these home from work. Didn't like these. Wing Commander played too fast on them, and newer games played too slowly. Doom was just right, though. Played many a game against my brother via null-modem.

486dx/2-66 - Originally brother's computer. I remember sneaking on while he was at after-school club meetings and playing X-Wing or TIE Fighter. Good times. Then he got a Pentium II system for college, and the 486 was mine.

Pentium MMX@166MHz - This one might have been great, but it was crippled by the choice of video card - an S3 ViRGE. Still, it ran the games I played decently.

Celeron@400MHz - This one might have also been great, but it was horribly let down by the motherboard - a VIA Apollo Pro something-or-other. Horrible, horrible chipset. That, and the OS - a hacked version of Windows 98. Blue-screens galore.

Celeron@466MHz - This was a drop-in replacement for the Celeron-400.

Celeron@566MHz - Ditto.

Pentium III@866MHz - Ditto. It was the last upgrade for this system, along with a new video card - moved from a Voodoo3 2000 to a Radeon 9000Pro.

The motherboard in this last system thoroughly (and probably wrongly) turned me off from Intel. That, and the fact that anything new from Intel at the time used RDRAM, which was horribly expensive. The only reason I kept throwing new processors at it was that my brother got them for dirt cheap from his job. Stil, I eventually got sick of the motherboard. So for my next system, I went green.

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton - My dad had built an Athlon XP 1800+ T-Bred system a few months before. I was impressed. So much so, that I decided to build my own Athlon XP system. I built down to a budget of about $800, so the parts weren't the best - a VIA KT600 motherboard, 256MB of RAM, and the 9000Pro from my old P3 system. But I liked it a lot more. It didn't hurt that I moved from Windows 98 to 2000 at the same time. Much more stable.

Athlon XP 3200+ - Replaced the 2500+. That, plus 1GB of RAM, held me over for the next two years, until my next build. This went to my mom.

Opteron [email protected] - This was a late graduation present from myself. My first attempt at overclocking. Got 400MHz extra out of it. For a while. Eventually had to bring it back down to stock speeds. This went to my mom when I built my next machine.

Core 2 Quad [email protected] - Back to Big Blue. Got this for myself after getting my first full-time job. Still using it today.
 
486DX - IBM system, couldn't tell ya much about the mobo as it was my first computer...
Pentium 133MHz - Dell system, first computer I really started messing with (Doom! Mechwarrior!)
PII 450MHz - another Dell System which suffered thru a lot of uprades (dawn of the 3D cards), I remember Dell used ASUS mobos at the time too
PIII 933MHz - which I later swapped for a PIII 850MHz as I got into OC'ing, Socket 370 baby! No Slot 1 for me :p originally ran on an Abit mobo but it died and was replaced by some horrible SOYO board
A64 3000+ Winchester - OC'd it to 2.4 for most of it's lifetime on an ASUS A8V (solid mobo despite the VIA chipset), it's now running at 2.1-ish on my mother's system
C2Q Q6600 - on an ASUS P5Q Pro

The longest I've probably gone between upgrades was the A64 to the C2Q... The most expensive system was probably the first one I self-built from the ground up, the PIII, and I paid way too much for that 933MHz Socket 370 proc (and the 75GB IBM 75GXP).

Edit: Oh yeah, had a Core Duo laptop (work issued) for a while, and now an Atom N270 netbook. Do those count? :D
 
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From what I remember

Celeron 466Mhz
PIII 500Mhz
PIII 800Mhz
PIII 1000Mhz
P4 1.8 Ghz
P4 2.6 Ghz
P4 3.06 Ghz
AMD 3200+
AMD 3800 X2
Intel E6600
Intel QX6700
Intel Q9450
Intel QX9650/Q9650 *Had both*
Intel i7 920 *Have 2 on hand.*

Other Rigs:
AMD 4200+
AMD 5200+
AMD 6400+
AMD x4 9850


I missed a few for sure.
 
Intel:

i386/DX 33MHz
i486/DX 25MHz
i486/DX2 66MHz
Pentium Overdrive 83MHz
Pentium 100MHz
Pentium 133MHz
Pentium 200MHz
Pentium MMX 166MHz
Pentium MMX 200MHz
Pentium MMX 233MHz
Pentium II 333MHz
Pentium II 450MHz
Celeron 766MHz
Celeron 800MHz
Celeron Tualatin 1.3GHz
Celeron Northwood 2.53GHz
Pentium III 850MHz
Pentium III 1GHz
Pentium IV Willamette 1.7GHz
Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz
Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
Core 2 Duo T8400 2.26GHz*
Core i5 3570 3.4GHz*

AMD:

K6-2 500MHz
Duron 800MHz
Athlon 900MHz
Athlon 1.1GHz
Athlon 1.33GHz
Athlon XP 2400+ 2GHz
Athlon XP 2600+ 1.93GHz (Barton)
Athlon XP 2700+ 2.13GHz
Athlon 64 3700+ 2.4GHz (754)
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz (AM2)
Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8GHz
Athlon 64 X2 5600+ 2.8GHz
Athlon II 240 2.8GHz*

*Current as of 5/9/2013
 
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Apple II+ clone (6502 1MHz)
Intel 486 DX 33MHz (first time I have done any upgrade by myself - added memory to the video card)
Intel Pentium 200MHz (first time I upgraded RAM, HD and optical drive)
Intel Pentium III 500MHz (first time I overclocked a video card)
Intel III 1.2GHz (first non OEM/pre-assembled)
Intel Pentium 4 630 @3.75GHz
Intel Pentium D 945 @ 4.08GHz
Intel Q6700 @ 3.2GHz

Not counting laptops and HTPCs...
 
Celeron 533MHz (Mendocino, socket 370)
Celeron 2.4GHz (northwood)
Pentium 4 1.6GHz (willamette)
Pentium 4 2.26GHz northwood
Core 2 Duo E6400 @3.2GHz
Core i5-2520M (in laptop, still use this)
Core i7-3820 (in desktop, main rig now) @ 4.4GHz
 
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Desktop/Workstation:

PII 350
PII 350 x2
PIII 600 x2
P4 3.0E
A64 3000+
P4 640
Xeon 2.8 (Prestonia) x2
PD 930
X2 3800+ x2
Xeon 5060 x2
E6600
Xeon 5160 x2
Q6600
Xeon 5355 x2
i7 920 x3

Mobiles:

PIIIm 1.2
P4m 2.6
PM 715
PM LV 758
PM 770
CD T2300
CD T2700 x2
C2D T7400
C2D T9300
 
8088
486DX-33
Celeron 400
K6-2 350
Athlon 950
Athlon 1000
Sempron 2500+
Sempron 2800+
Pentium 4 2.53GHz
Athlon X2 3800+
Pentium Dual-Core E2160
Pentium Dual-Core E5200

 
K6-2 450
Athlon 2000+
Athlon X2 4000+
Hopefully an i7 sometime this year :D

Let's just say that by the time I can afford to upgrade, it is a *very* noticeable upgrade
 
Excluding my non-x86 CPUs from 1988 and earlier:

286-16
386-25
486-25
486DX2-66
Pentium 75MHz @ 120MHz (I kept that system a long time)
K6-200 @ 250MHz
K6-2 266 @ 350MHz
Celeron 300MHz @ 450MHz (I had another @ 504MHz later)
Celeron 366MHz @ 550MHz
Athlon 500MHz @ 750MHz via resistor mod
Tualatin Celeron 1GHz @ 1.33GHz
Athlon 1GHz @ 1.5GHz <-- died after heatsink fell off :( I hate 2 lug socket a mounts
<several Athlon XP models from 1.4GHz ~ 1.8GHz>
P4 2.53GHz
P4 3.2GHz
Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.5GHz
Athlon X2 3800+ @ 2.6GHz
E4300 @ 2.7GHz
Q6600 @ 3.2GHz
Q9550 @ 3.6GHz

That should be most of the highlights. I have secondary, tertiary and sometimes even quaternary systems or more. :p Right now I have 3 quad core systems.
 
I go through computers so often and try different things its hard to nail down a list in order however I'll try.

486@33mhz

K6-2 300@336 First foray into OC'ing

Duron 650@1ghz Had this forever

Mobile Xp 2500+ @ 2.6GHZ

Opteron [email protected]

Pentium Dualcore 2180 @ 3.3GHZ

Phenom II 920 @ 3.7ghz in my current rig.
 
286/8
386/25
486/100
Cyrix 686/166
K6-2 450
K6-3 550
Pentium 4 2.4C
Core Duo T2300
Pentium M/1.7 (laptop)
Q6600
Q9300
Q9400

The last four are still in use. No particular plans to buy more CPUS any time soon.
 
Desktops
PII 450mhz - This was our family's first computer... I used it mostly for talking on messageboards, but I did do some gaming on it - Hidden and Dangerous (which had amazing graphics at the time), Graal (online version of Zelda, basically) and a couple others. Windows 98 was terrible.
P4 2.4GHz - Got really into gaming on this computer with CS1.6, CS:Source (upgraded graphics from a GeForce4 MX440 to a 6600GT and added 512mb ram for 768 total). Family still uses computer
AMD64 3200+ - The first computer I built myself. Intended to build and then sell it, but ended up just using it.
C2D Q6600 @ 3ghz - First real expidition into overclocking, and latest build (back in November, to replace the 3200+ that was nearly 3 years old). I still own all of these, though the PII and the 3200+ are sitting in pieces in boxes
 
Pentium 75
Pentium II 350
Pentium 4 2.53
AMD K6 233
Pentium MMX 200
Celeron 600
Pentium 3 667
Pentium 3 933
Pentium Dual Core E2200
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Duo T5270
Core 2 Duo T7100
 
Zilog Z80A (TS1000)
6510 (Commodore 64)
8086 (Big desktop I believe called a LASER XT or XT3 with 30MB HDD)
80286 (Compaq)
386
486 SX (whitebox with 120MB HDD)
P 133
PII 333
AMD K6-2 333
P4 2.8C (Main rig for 6 years now)
Mobile Pentium M 1.6 (Thinkpad)
i7 - Future CPU :) @ Windows 7 release
 
Commodore 64
P 166MHz
PIII 500MHz
P4 2,0GHz
P4 2,8GHz
Athlon 64 3500
Athlon 64 X2 4200
Intel Core 2 Quad 9650

Main rig's only
test and play stuff not included
 
Intel 8088
Intel 486dx2-66
Pentium 100
Pentium Pro 200
Athlon 850
Athlon64 3400+
Athlon64 X2 3800+
Core 2 Duo e6600
Core 2 Quad q6600
Core 2 Duo e8500
 
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