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My oldest system was based around an Intel 486/DX2 66MHz with 8MB RAM and 530MB hard drive... Was a Packard Bell Axcel 251CD+ I think. Was complete garbage. For every day that outdated POS worked it was broken or unbootable for five, no exaggeration. Next system was a Compaq Deskpro tower with a 100MHz Pentium. Bought a 2x8MB kit from the shop it was bought at to upgrade it from 16MB to 32MB. Installed the RAM, powered it, and then there was magic smoke and no POST. The tech must've been drunk or something because he gave me 70ns parity SIMMs and not 60ns EDO. Since they didn't have another I was introduced to Cyrix CPUs in one of that shop's in-house brand PCs. Since Quake was on the menu, I couldn't upgrade off of that piece of shit fast enough. Finally ended up with a 200MHz Pentium MMX, but I ended up having to sell it to help the household out a couple years after getting the build settled. It wasn't until 3 and a half years later in the beginning of 2003 that I snagged a used 900MHz Thunderbird Athlon and an MSI K7T Turbo2 used at a local shop.From my fuzzy memory I went from a Dell Pentium 90 -> HP Vectra Pentium 133 -> AMD K6/2 266 (I think) -> AMD Athlon 1GHZ (I bought the 1GHZ chip for bragging rights in high school LoL) -> Intel E5200 -> Intel i7 2600 - > Intel 4790K -> Ryzen 3700X and then on the same MB to a Ryzen 5900X and then I downgraded to an i7-8700 as my life sucks and I now live at an Extended Care Facility (AKA Nursing Home) a Dell Latitude 5511 with the i7-10850H is now my main PC for nowdamn my life sucks
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I could regurgitate that list, but let's just say I skipped Intel until Core 2 in 2008. The various Athlons, Athlon XPs, and Athlon 64s were fast enough. Until they weren't. Then it was 3 different platforms of Intel (775, 1155, then 2011v3). It wasn't until Ryzen that I've been rocking AMD again since the end of 2022.
It's good to be back on AMD.
