Your CPU progression

Apple IIe (don't know the processor)
Pentium 90
Power PC 150
Athlon XP 1700+
Core 2 Duo 1.83
Phenom II 560 (unlocked at 4.0)
 
apple IIe
486
amd k6-2 333
amd k7 athlon 750
amd athlon xp 2500+
intel q6600
intel i5 2500k
 
P4 3.4 HT @ 3.6Ghz
Athlon X2 @ 2.4GHz
PowerPC Quad Core 2.5GHz
Phenom X4 955 @ 4.0GHz
Phenom X6 960T/1055BE @ 3.9GHz
i7 940xm mobility @ 3.6Ghz ( Sold my desktops for a mobile rig )
 
Intel 486 100MHz
Intel Celeron M 600MHz (only had a laptop the first few years of undergrad)
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
AMD Phenom II X4 945 (C3)
Intel Core i3-2100
Intel Core i5-2400
 
Intel 486
Intel celeron 433
Intel pentium 4 2.4B
Intel pentium 4 2.4C
Intel pentium 4 2.8C
AMD athlon 64X2 4200
Intel Core2duo E6600
Intel Core2Quad Q6600
Intel i7 920
Intel i7 2600k
 
i486 (SX2)
K5 133mhz (PR200)
Pentium III 600mhz (Katmai)
AMD 3700+ (San Diego)
Phenom II 955 BE (Deneb)

Pretty big hops :)
My 3700+ still went strong until a year ago.
 
486 dx2 66 mhz
486 dx4 100 mhz
celeron 300A overclocked to high hell dont remember exact clock speed(i loved my burnt celery chip)
AMD K6-2 500 mhz
Pentium 3 667 mhz (Slot 1)
Pentium 3 1.0 ghz (FC-PGA2)
Pentium 4 1.8 ghz
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2.0 ghz (754)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2 ghz (939)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.2 ghz
Core2Duo e6600 stock 2.4 ghz (i also ended up overclocking it but i dont remember how high)
AMD Phenom X4 9750 2.4 ghz
i7 920 2.66 ghz Overclocked to 3.8 ghz (booyah)
 
I probably have the shortest list here:

Athlon XP 3200+
P4 3.2
Phenom x3 720
 
Mine goes:

Intel 486 50mhz
P3 Katmai 500
P3 Coppermine 700
Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.2
Athlon 64 3200+
Athlon 64x2 4400+
Core 2 Duo 2.66
Phenom II 965BE

Now I'm just waiting with card in hand to see if IB is a flop compared to SB.
 
I just have too many to list. I have had a computer since i was a little kid and i'm 42. I wish i had the time (and memory) to list them all. I'll just do my first and last.

Intel 8086 @8MHz
***many MANY others***
Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.5MHz
 
Mac Performa 460
AMD K6-2
AMD K6-3
Intel PII 350mhz
Intel PIII 733mhz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird @ 1ghz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird @ 1.2ghz
AMD Athlon 2800 XP
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3200+
AMD Phenom II X3 720BE @ 2.8ghz
AMD Phenom II X4 955BE @ 3.2ghz
Intel Core i5 2500k @ 3.3ghz (soon to be OC'ed)
 
Lets see if I can remember this. Every upgrade was a huge boost for me.

Cyrix 133MHz
Pentium 3 1GHz
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
Pentium 4 H/T 3.06GHz
Core 2 E6300 1.86GHz
Xeon 3110 3.0GHz
Core i5 2500k 3.1GHz
 
Intel 286
Intel 486 66 mhz
Pentium 120 mhz

I can't remember what I had after the Pentium 120.

later.

Intel i7 2600K

Is there a good list somewhere besides the other post that has a list of all Intel and AMD cpu's that have been released?
 
Topweasel said:
In my main computer.

Celeron A 366 @550
Athlon 700 @900 (using pencil trick on T-Bird)
Athlon 1GHz @1200
Athlon 1800+ @ 1800
Athlon64 X2 4400+
Phenom X4 9950BE
Core i7 3930k (not completed yet so no OC).

Other random CPU's. Duron 650, Barton 2500+(x2), Cereron 2.8 GHz, Turion X2 Tl-60, Core 2 Duo P8300.
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Have the 3930k up an running, really liking the noise level and performance so far, think I might head back into my 5 year rut of not having the ambition to push for a stable OC.

Also built up a A8-3850 Llano desktop for portability.
 
can't remember
can't remember
can't remember
can't remember
some Celeron 1.2Ghz
Core 2 Duo E4300
Q9550
2500K
G530
i3 3225/i7 3770T or Haswell.
 
CharonPDX said:
Intel Core Duo @ 2.0 GHz (laptop)
Intel Core i7 965 (currently for sale - see proper thread)
Dual Intel Xeon W5580

Those are my "primary" CPUs, in my primary desktop and primary laptop of the time. I also have a collection of vintage computers, and a collection of bare CPUs, so my house presently has somewhere over 200 CPUs in it.
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UPDATE! (Removed all but what were my then-current systems from the quote)

I've downgraded. Don't play games very often/at all any more, and those I do play I play most often on console or mobile.

Sold the i7, decommissioned the dual Xeon (still have it, wasn't able to sell it.) Retired the laptop. (Well, my wife claimed it, and her prior laptop passed to our daughter.)

My primary desktop is now a Core 2 Duo T7300 (yes a mobile-CPU-based desktop,) and my primary mobile device is an iPad.

I do have a home theater PC with a Core 2 Quad Q9650 and Radeon 5770 that I use for HTPC duties plus DVD/Blu-ray ripping, and the very occasional PC game on the TV.

My electricity bill thanks me.
 
Here's some CPU's + additional hardware I've had.


REALLY OLD apple thingy with a screen of a few inches, it died pretty quickly and i still remember it standing outside as trash while it was raining, I felt heart-broken as I was still a really young boy.
Some 80486 100Mhz system
A Pentium II (or III) at 350Mhz with a "Viper video card" from the brand diamond I believe, I still remember the logo in the system tray with a red and white triangle, was still a kid back then.
Ol' AMD Athlon something something @ 1800Mhz (w/ Radeon 9550, 512MB, later 1GB ram)
Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 4.0-4.2Ghz (w/ 8800GTS512, later HD4870, 4GB ram)
Core i7 3770k @ 4.8+ Ghz (waiting on GTX680, 16GB ram)


Yup I'm quite slow aint I :)
 
Motorola 6502 (Atari 400 and 800XL)
8088 in a Columbia MPC (very early IBM PC clone)
NEC V20 in a 64K motherboard IBM PC, clocked up to 8MHZ from 4.77
486DX 33
AMD 5x86 133Mhz overclocked to 160Mhz
Cyrix 5x86 133Mhz (unstable at 150Mhz but ran)
Cyrix 6x86 120Mhz PR 150, overclocked to 133Mhz (was a placeholder to get into a Socket 5 board)
PentiumMMX 166Mhz
K6-2 350Mhz overclocked to 400Mhz
K6-3 450Mhz
Celeron 300A in an Abit BX6 Rev2, never run slower than 450Mhz except by accident
S370 in a slotket, Celeron 400 clocked to 600Mhz rock solid
S370 Celeron 333 that ran 666Mhz stable air cooled (not much gain over the 600Mhz but fun, never could find a twin for my Abit BP6
Coppermine S370 celerons, several at various speeds
Tualatin core Celeron 1.2Ghz run at 1.5Ghz
P4 Northwood Core 1.6Ghz running most of its life around 2.2Ghz
Core2Duo T7250 laptop, never overclocked.

I guess I'm still on a nerd break, still using the C2D laptop. There were some other oddball secondary systems along that path, Pentium Pro, an old 386 board I shoved a 99Mhz 486 IBM blue lightning upgrade chip into, 486DX 50Mhz with a Weitek mathco, a short lived jump to an AMD AthlonXP 1800+, a rise mP6 setup, the list goes on.
 
Apple IIGS 2.8Mhz
Pentium 133Mhz
Evergreen 233Mhz upgrade (ugg..)
K6-2 400Mhz
K6-3 500Mhz
Athlon 700Mhz
AthlonXP 2000
Athlon64 3500+
Xeon e3110 (Core2Duo e8400) 3Ghz (could never reliably oc it)
Corei7 3770k @ 4.4Ghz
 
Early ones were all about the same era, I think I have these in the right order, or close to it
RCA 1802 @ 1.0 to about 1.4 MHz (in a COSMAC ELF, 1978 or so - built from a kit - and expanded considerably)
Intel 8080A @ 2.0 MHz (Altair 8800b)
TMS9900, 3.0 MHz (TI-99/4A)
Zilog Z80A @ 3.25MHz (Sinclair ZX80... oh yeah!)
MOS 6502 @ 1.0 MHz (Franklin ACE 1200)
MOS 6510 @ 1.0MHz (Commodore 64 - modded the hell out this thing....)

More modern, sort of
Intel 8086 @ 10 MHz (Altos 586)
Intel 80286 @ 8 MHz. This was the first "parts and pieces" PC I assembled. I did some modding and had it running at just a bit over 12 MHz. It was a "screamer"
Intel 80486 DX2/66 - had it running @ 44/88 MHz before I was done with it. Not easy to do...
Intel Pentium 200MMX - had it @ 266MHz
Intel Celeron 300A -- this was when I found the [H]. I had this bad boy running at 966MHz, then power surge took it out :(
AMD Duron 850 @ 1170 MHz - this is still running at this speed as router at a friends house
AMD T-Bird 1.33
AMD T-Bird 1.4
About four different Athlon XP chips...
Serveral P4 chips from 1.4 to 1.8MHz
AMD 64 3200+ (venice core)
AMD 64 4000+ (still running in a server)
AMD Opteron 165 (Dad is running this one)
AMD Opteron 175 (Still running in a TF2 server :) )
AND 64X2 4200
AMD 64X2 5000+ BE (in my HTPC)
AMD 64X2 5200+ BE (in 14yo daughters's rig)
Intel i7 870 (current CPU)

During my LAN party running years, I changed out CPU's so many times... I lost track. I know there's some missing in there... especially in the AMD 64 era and the S939 Opterons.

I'm not including any laptops I've owned, nor any servers I've built for LAN stuff (I have listed CPUs I used in my rig that migrated to a server)
 
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Intel Pentium 90 (My first PC, a Compaq Presario pizza box running Windows 3.11)
Intel Pentium 133
Intel Pentium 200 MMX
Intel Pentium II 350
AMD K6-2 450 (running this baby with dual Voodooo 2's SLI)
Intel Celeron 366 @ 550
Intel Celeron 400 @ 600
Intel Pentium III 600 (Slot 1), Pentium III 750, and Pentium III 1.0 Ghz (Had the 750 and 1.0 on an Asus CUSL2)
AMD T-Bird 1 Ghz
AMD T-Bird 1.3 Ghz
AMD XP 1600
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.0 Ghz
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
AMD 64 X2 3800+ (S939) - Had this on an Abit AN8
Intel Pentium 4 Cedar Mill 3.4 Ghz
AMD Phenom II 555
AMD Phenom 9850 (yes.. I did go to this, from the Phenom II.. needed 4 cores, and it was cheap)
Intel Core i7 2670QM
 
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Processor history in order of acquisition.

486 (IBM)
166 Pentium w/ MMX (Gateway)
466 Celeron (HP)
700 Duron (Compaq) (still works, voodoo 5500agp)
P3 700Mhz (IBM Laptop)
XP1600+
XP2600+ Barton
XP2600+ M (was run @2.7 under an xp90c) (my socket a motherboards were killed when lent out)
Opteron [email protected] (htpc)
P2 333 (freebie was used for boinc)
P4 2.4 (freebie was used for boinc)
Opteron 140 (linux box) (in service)
AM2 3800+ single core
AM2 4850E (in service)
Atom 1.6 (asus Netbook)
I7 [email protected] (in service)
Athalon x4 630 (in service)
Athalon x3 405e (in service)

Pretty Interesting looking through my newegg order history. First pc of my own that i built was the 1600+. The list is mostly complete.
 
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Always been intel on my main rig. Cant remember the earlier ones at the moment, but from the last few years:

P4 2.8ghz 478
P4 3.4ghz 775
C2D e6600 (the original one) @ 3.0ghz
IB 3570k
 
Intel 486 24/33MHz
Intel Pentium 133/166
Intel Pentium 2 333MHz
Dual Intel Pentium 2 400MHz
Intel Pentium 3 450MHz
AMD Athlon dont remember model.
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz till Mid 2011.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz Till Dec 2011.
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz Current.
 
i joined in on pcs quite late ^^

intel pentium III (700 MHz)
intel pentium dual core d850 (2.8GHz)
intel core i7 920
intel core i7 3820

behold my massive list...With the exception of the pentium III they are still all in use by my parents (the dual core) and my little bro (the i7 920).
They're very lucky to have some of my generosity :p
 
Intel Pentium 3 500MHz
AMD Athlon 1GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
Intel C2D E6850
Intel C2Q Q9550
Intel Core i7-2600K
AMD Phenom X6 1090T
 
I'm only going to list specifically my processors and not whatever might have been in our family computers growing up.

X2 3800+
C2D e6750
i5 2500k

Short list! :D
 
1. Pentium 90mhz (1996 or 1997)
2. Pentium 200mhz w/MMX (1997 or 1998)
3. Celeron 700mhz (2001)
4. P4 2.4ghz (2003)
5. Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0ghz (2006)
6. Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz (2008)
7. Waiting for Haswell i5 4500 series (2013)
 
P2 450
Athlon 800
Athlon XP 1800+
P4c 2.4
C2D E6300 (easily the greatest overclocking cpu of all time)
C2D E8400
i7 920
i5 2500k
 
Pentium III 'Coppermine' 80256
Pentium III 'Tualatin' (laptop)
AMD 64 3000+
Pentium IV/M 'Dothan' (laptop)
Intel Q6600 'Kentsfield*
Intel Atom 330 (netbook)*

*My current systems. (I would love to upgrade to Ivy Bridge but if the budget situation doesn't improve I might be waiting for Haswell...)
 
jonnypage said:
Evergreen 233Mhz upgrade (ugg..)
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LOL, I worked for them once upon a time. Was that the 233Mhz Centaur WinChip upgrade? WooHoo 'CentaurHauls' in the CPUID! I also kind of remember a briefly sold 233Mhz Intel Pentium MMX upgrade that wasn't so bad. I think they called them both Spectra 233s. We had quite a bit of fun after hours testing upgrades with LAN Quake 2 sessions. ("CrunchyFrog was railed by Savage_Savant!") Hardocp reading was actually job related. :D One of the better jobs in my employment history.

Back in the old days Evergreen made some pretty wild 286 and 386 upgrades. Going from 8 or 10Mhz up to more like 40-66Mhz was a real upgrade.
 
P2 233 mx
AMD tbird 1.4ghz
AMD barton M 2600+ @ 2.6-3ghz, cant remember (first oc!)
Laptop with core2duo @ 2.1ghz i think
i7 930 @ 4ghz
i5 3570k @ 4.5ghz
 
Intel 386 DX 25MHz
Celeron 400@950
Athlon XP 2600+ @ Stock
Pentium D 805
Pentium D 920
Pentium D 945
AMD 3200+
Intel Core2Duo e6600
Intel Core2Quad Q6600
AMD Phenom II 555
AMD Phenom II 1100T
Intel i5 750
 
Here is a list of my CPU's in chronological order.

Intel Piii 500mhz (Was in my compaq 1800 laptop)
Intel P4 2.8ghz socket 478
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3ghz
Intel Core i7 740QM
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 4ghz
Intel Core i5 2500k @ 4.7ghz + Intel Atom N550 + E7200 (current machines)
 
Oooooh fun thread, this is my history:

Intel Pentium 60mhz
Intel Pentium II 233mhz
AMD K6-II 533mhz
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2ghz
AMD Phenom 9950 X4 2.6ghz
Intel Core i5-2500 3.7ghz

I haven't thought of those old cpus in such a long time! Ah, the memories...
 
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