Guys, i think i need an upgrade....

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srbarcena

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Anyone agree? Haha.I was helping my parents move their office and found this. just thought id let you guys reminisce. What was you first CPU if you remember?
 
My first CPU?

Well it was whatever was in the Commodore 64, my memory fails me at the moment.

Speaking strictly in PC terms my first PC CPU that I ever truly owned was an old dinosaur 8088 that my parents picked up for like $30 at a garage sale. This was in 1990 or so... I remember at the time the family computer was a then top of the line 80386SX 25mhz with 2MB memory. I was big into BBSes at the time and so after about a year I bought the family computer from my parents for a few hundred bucks and used it for my own PC which I also ran a 24/7 BBS off of.

Then shortly after that I bought a 486DLC 40mhz and motherboard (the CPU was soldered onto the board) and a cheap case, and did my first upgrade. The BBS ran on that for a couple of years before I began what is now a non stop upgrade spiral. I don't think I've ever gone longer than a year without a major CPU upgrade of some sort. That's almost 15 years of spending god knows how much time and money on my PCs.... and I love every minute of it to this day.
 
First PC had a 80386, inside an IBM Aptiva (with 1 MB SVGA expansion memory right on the board).
Second PC had a 450MHz P3, with a 16 MB Voodoo 3 card :D
 
First PC my parents got was a 386 IIRC. We eventually upgraded to a Pentium Overdrive and then a Dell machine with a P166. After that we got a K6-3 (bad, bad idea) and then a P3 700MHz. After that I started building my own PCs :D. As far as PC hardware goes I got into it pretty late, although I pretty much weaned myself on DOS.
 
We had old Canon computers when I was a kid, but I didn't use those much. First I remember using significantly were 286 and 386 running MS-DOS. I think of VB as my first programming language but I guess I learned to code batch files before then. Oh the horror! :p

I remember when we got a Pentium. I couldn't believe it... 100mhz and 16mb memory. Ran duke nukem 3d like a champ.
 
sinclair zx spectrum got to love basic

then a 286 then 486

then celeron 466
then athlon xp 2200

then amd 3500+

then q6600 and a 3600X2
next will be a another couple of q6600's :)
 
First one I had was a 386.
Then PII 233
Then PIII 600
Then P4 3.04
Then Q6600
 
My first CPU? I think the first computer I had was a Mac Performa, I believe it had like a 100mhz PowerPC 603e or whatever it was. Those processors were the shiz back then :) I used that thing until 2000 when I bought a P3 system from my friend's parents. Used it for a few years until I joined Hardocp and built my first computer which was an AMD Barton based system.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_performa/stats/mac_performa_6300cd.html
 
486 DX2-80 Mhz. It had either 4 or 8 MB memory and had DOS and Windows 3.1 I think. Then we went to a Celeron 500 or thereabouts. It's still in my parent's office but not being used. First comp I owned personally was an Athlon 500 Mhz slot CPU. Went on to my current sig rig in about 2003 or so, whenever the P4 C series came out.


 
My first CPU was the 8088 in a Tandy 1000 EX.

I used that until my dad came home one day with a brand new $3000 Compaq 486DX4/100 with Windows 3.1 and 4 MB of RAM. That was some hot shit, let me tell you.

I used that, with some upgrades (brought it up to a whopping 12MB of RAM and added a 2 GB hard drive) until I put together a Pentium III-450 MHz system with a TNT2 and 32 MB of RAM.

Then I went to an Athlon 700, then an Athlon XP 1600+, and now I'm on an Athlon X2 3800+.
 
My first CPU was a 33mhz. Then we upgraded to a 66mhz chip. TWICE AS FAST!!! ZOMG!

Then I ran a 100 / 133mhz chip (it had a TURBO button to switch modes) that I ran from '96 through '2000.

My first CPU that I bought with my money was an AMD 750mhz.

I upgraded that CPU to an AMD 1.4Ghz. that same computer lasted me from 2002 until a few months ago, when I bought my C2D E7200 new system.
 
You guys are young'uns :)

My first pc in college was an IBM PC Clone XT (8086) 4Mhz.
10M hard disk, 5.25" floppy
 
PS: I still have my original 100-megabyte and 500-megabyte harddrives from those old computers. Yeah. 1/10 of a Gig. :)
 
Robstar said:
You guys are young'uns :)

My first pc in college was an IBM PC Clone XT (8086) 4Mhz.
10M hard disk, 5.25" floppy
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I had double your setup, I think - 8086 8Mhz along with a 20MB MFM drive. Then I skipped the 286 era and bought a 386SX-16 overclocked to 20 by replacing the frequency crystal.
 
My computer history goes something like this...

486DX 33MHz
Pentium 200 MMX w/Voodoo2 card
Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz
Athlon Thunderbird 1.333GHz (gave the 1GHz to my parents and upgraded to the 1.333)
Athlon XP 1900+
Athlon XP 2600+ (Mobile Barton)
Athlon 64 3700+
Opteron 146
Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Core 2 Quad Q6600

I've had and have other machines, but those are all the ones I've used as my "main machine"
 
My first pc was Timex Sinclair 1000 (with optional 16K memory expansion)
First pc used in School was Tandy Radio Shack TRS 80-III- Apple IIe - Apple IIc
My Cpu history:
AMD Duron 333 mhz
AMD Duron 800 mhz
AMD XP 1700 (Thoroughbred)
AMD XP 2400 mobile (Barton)
C2D E6400 (Never used collecting dust in my closet)
 
Yakyb said:
sinclair zx spectrum got to love basic
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+1, ZX Spectrum FTW :cool: Loved that little machine to the death, even learnt assembly code to tinker with it :p
Then 486dx4 100mhz
Pentium 133
Pentium 2 266
Pentium 3 600 slot 1(oc'ed to 800 w/o any issues!)
Pentium 4 3ghz
C2D e6600
C2D e8500 currently :D

I think that's about it... maybe missed a couple :rolleyes:
 
Intel 486sx 25mhz
Intel 486dx-2 66mhz
Intel 486dx-4 100mhz
Intel Pentium 200mhz
AMD K6 400mhz
AMD K7 700mhz
AMD Athlon 1ghz
AMD Athlon 1.4ghz
AMD Athlon 1.9ghz
Intel P4 3ghz
AMD Opteron 165 1.8ghz
Intel Q6600 2.4ghz
 
The first was the Commodore 64. Following that was:
486SX 33
Pentium 100
PII 400 which died and was replaced by a Celeron 300
T-Bird 900
T-Bird 1200
XP 1800+
XP 2400+
XP-m 2400+ 35watt
C2D E6400
C2Q Q6600 x3

Over the years I also had a dually PII 266 system.
P3 500, 600, 800 and 1000
Duron 800, 950 and 1000
T-Bird 1000 x2 and 1333
XP 1700+ x2
X2 4000+
Pentium 166, 166MMX, 200, 233MMX x3
And probably some more I don't remember.

I still have the 486, some of the Pentiums, Pentium 3s, Durons, T-Birds and XPs as well as the quads and the X2.

The quads, X2, XP-m 2400+, P3 1000 and XP1700+ are still running right now.

 
Well, lets see, the first computer I got to USE was at my High School. My Junior year they replaced some ancient punched card computer with a IBM System 34 mini computer. The system cabinet was the size of a large chest freezer. I believe it had a 30 MB drive with platters a foot across. I saw them replacing one of the drives once. The terminals were green text only.

My personal comps:

Commodore 128
Commodore Amiga 500 (upgraded processor from 68000 to a 68010) (upped memory from 512 k to 3 meg and added a 40 MB hard drive)

486 SX 25 (added math co processor) (Upgradded processor to DX4 75MHZ I think)

Various AMD CPUs up to an Athlon 2800

Q6600

Don
 
In 1997 or so we got a Mac Performa (unknown pos cpu) then I started getting old 386's and crap from the dump, then in 2000 or so got a p3 866mhz with 128mb ram running Windows ME, and i kept getting old pc's from the dump and finaly got a s939 sempron 3200+ in like 2005-2006. I wish i had a list of all the crappers i have had, it would of been over a page long.
 
my first proc was a celeron something in 98" with 500mhz of processing power!

Then came the P4 1.5ghz
P4 2.8GHz
AMD 64 3200+ socket 754
AMD 64 3000+ socket 939
AMD X2 3800+
Intel Core 2 Duo e6300
then lastly where I end up now is my E6550
 
Timex Sinclair TS1000
Some 8086 I built for Grumman to run their local BBS
C64
8088 - Replaced the 8086
80386/20 w/ magitronic mobo (what a POS)
80486/33
80486DX4/100
PPro180
P2-333
P3-733
A64 3200
Opty 165
Q6600
 
I have to say I've hAd computers in my house since I can remember (LATE 80's), but the first specs I can remember were:

PIII
P4 (2.0GHz) 1999, one of the first on my block with one of these..
Athlon XP 2700+ (first self-built machine)
Athlon XP 2500m+ (when I learned how to overclock and realized what a POS the 2700+ was)
FX-55 (S939, for bro's first rig)
2 x X2 4400+ (S939, parents and bro's upgrade)
X2 5200+ AM2
X2 FX-62 AM2
E8400
Q6600 G0
 
Here's my list:

Pentium III 450mhz
AMD Athlon 1ghz (slot A)
AMD Athlon 64 3000 (skt754; first computer I built)
AMD Athlon 64 3000 (skt939- ran it at 2.5ghz)
Intel Core 2 Duo E 6300 (running at 2.33ghz)
 
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