Your CPU progression

Atari 800XL
Atari 520ST
Intel 386 SX/16Mhz
Intel Pentium 60Mhz
Intel Pentium II 350Mhz
AMD Althlon 800Mhz (Later upgraded to 1.3Ghz)
Intel Pentium IV 2.4Ghz
AMD Althlon64 3500+ 2.2Ghz
Intel Pentium D 940 3.4Ghz Dual-Core
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 1.8Ghz
Currently On 2x Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz (One @ 3.0Ghz, other @ 2.53Ghz)
and a AMD Phenom 9600 2.3Ghz
 
65C816 @ ? 2.8 MHz (Apple IIGS)
486DX2 @ 66 MHz (Compaq Presario)
1x Pentium Laptop (Dell Inspiron)
1x Celeron Laptop (Dell Inspiron)
Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.4 GHz (Macbook Pro)
Core 2 Duo E6320 @ 1.86 GHz (Dimension 9200)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.0 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ @ 3.1 GHz
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz, 3.4 GHz and 3.6 GHz
Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 4.05 GHz
 
In chronological order from ownership:
(Items in red I still own)

Intel 80286
Intel Pentium 100Mhz
Intel Pentium II 400Mhz
Intel Celeron 366 @ 533Mhz [First OC]
Intel Pentium III 700Mhz @ 1Ghz
Intel Pentium MMX 266Mhz
AMD Duron 800 @ 900Mhz [I think]
Intel Pentium III 1Ghz @ 1.3Ghz
Intel Mobile Pentium III 1Ghz [Inspiron 8100]
Intel Mobile Pentium III 700Mhz [Latitude L400]
AMD Athlon T-bird 1Ghz @ 1.3Ghz
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. Need to fill this gap (several AMD chips)
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AMD Sempron 64 2800+ @ 1.6Ghz [Stock]
Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86Ghz [Inspiron e1505]
AMD Athlon64 3200+ @ 2.2Ghz [Stock]
AMD Phenom II x4 920 @ 3.2Ghz
AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.6Ghz
AMD Athlon II x2 240 @ 2.8Ghz [Stock]
AMD Athlon II x2 245 @ 2.9Ghz [Stock]
Intel Atom N450 @ 1.66Ghz [AspireOne]
Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.675Ghz
 
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some packardbell intel cpu
AMD K7 700 Mhz
AMD Athlon ??? Mhz (its been a long time maybe 1.5 Ghzish)
Intel P4 3.4 Ghz


yup, thats it, I'm still rocking a p4 today :p I'm poor :(
 
Motorola 68LC040 (25 Mhz)
Intel Pentium M 745 (1.8 GHz)
Intel Pentium D 830 (3.0 Ghz)
Intel Core Duo T7400 (2.16 Ghz)
Intel Xeon W3520 (2.66 Ghz)
 
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AM386 DX33 800nm
33MHz
1991?
My first CPU, and yes, also the first CPU that I ever used the internet with! It barely worked in Win 3.1

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Intel Pentium 200 MMX P54CS 350nm
200MHz
1997?

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Intel Pentium III Slot 1 Coppermine 250nm
450MHz (Overclocked on Abit BX6 R2 @ 4.5 x 129 = 581MHz)
2000?
My first overclock

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AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino 1467 MHz (Overclocked on Abit AT7 Max @ ??UNKNOWN??) 180nm
2002?
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Thoroughbred 1600 MHz (Overclocked on Abit AT7 Max @ CRUSHED BY BAD HEATSINK INSTALL) 130nm
2003?
AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ Barton (mobile) 1867 MHz (Overclocked on DFI Infinity NFII Ultra @ ??UNKNOWN??) 130nm
2004?

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AMD Opteron 146 Venus 90nm
2.0GHz (Overclocked on Shuttle SN95G5 @ 10x280 = 2.8GHz?)
2005?

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AMD Athlon 64 3800+ X2 Manchester 65nm
2.0GHz (Overclocked on Shuttle SN21G5 @ 10x260 for a strange buggy bios result of 2.583GHz)
2006?

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield B3 45nm
2.4GHz (Overclocked on Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P @ 9x400 = 3.6GHz)
2009

I've owned twice as much AMD as Intel :) Can't remember exactly how much everything was overclocked but the only things I never overclocked were the AMD 386 and Pentium 200 MMX. Man, going through a new processor every year from 2002-2006 seems crazy and a stupid waste of money to me now. That was the height of the PC upgrade beast era, where you were pressured to upgrade every year because of increasing system requirements. I still own all of these except for the Pentium 200 and Opteron 146. I should have sold all those AMD XP Processors back then, but I managed to fry the Throughbred by crushing it through incorrect heatsink installation of a Thermaltake Volcano. I added in all the process numbers because I thought it was interesting how far I've come since 1991 and an 800 nanometer CPU to a 45nm one which I will probably still be using in 2011, 20 years later, a 94.4% drop in process size. That's technology for you.
 
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Intel 80286
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- No own PC
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Intel Pentium D 960
Intel E4300
Intel Q6600
AMD Athlon II X2 245 (HTPC)
 
Intel Pentium 2 > Intel Pentium 4 2.4ghz HT > Intel Pentium D 930 > Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 > Intel Core i7 920
 
Intel 486 33mhz
Intel Pentium 166mhz (MMX, baby!)
Intel PII 300mhz (my only slot-based CPU, so weird)
AMD Athlon 1.33ghz (underclocked to 1.00ghz to get it to run stably, heh)
Intel P4 2.4ghz (now with HT!)
Intel C2D E6400 (workhorse)
Intel I7 930 (fun with overclocking!)
 
I can't remember the exact model of my first micro processor, all I remember was that it's intel, it have a small heatsink with no fan, and it run 16bit MS DOS ( i actually open it up, but wasn't educated in computers to know enough to be able to identify the hardware heh

After that, its:

Pentium 3 800MHz
Pentium 4 [C] HT 2.8GHz -- o/c to 3.1 GHz
Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz
Core i7 930 2.8 GHz -- o/c to 3.8GHz and still pushing
 
Intel Pentium II 300
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4
AMD Athlon XP-M 2600+
AMD Athlon64 3200+
AMD Athlon64 x2 4200+
AMD Phenom II 955 BE
 
Intel 486 SX 25mhz
Intel 486 DX 50mhz
Intel 433 Celeron oc 480something
Intel 566 celeron oc 850mhz (turned cobalt blue color)
Intel P3 1.0 ghz overclock 1.2 FPGA2
Intel Tualatin Celeron 1.2 overclocked a lot *can't remember*
Intel P4 3.4Ghz Prescott oc'd to 4.1Ghz
Intel C2D 2.4 oc'd to 3.6 ghz
Intel I7 930 oc'd to 4.26ghz (and going)
 
Destonomos said:
some packardbell intel cpu
AMD K7 700 Mhz
AMD Athlon ??? Mhz (its been a long time maybe 1.5 Ghzish)
Intel P4 3.4 Ghz


yup, thats it, I'm still rocking a p4 today :p I'm poor :(
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GET OUT!!!! NOW!!!!
You dont belong here, booooooy!!!!



:D

/jk
 
Ok, here we go...

P60
P66
P75 @100 (first OC)
P100 @133
P133 @ 150
Cyrix 166+ (133MHz @150MHz)
P166MMX @190
P233MMX (had that puppy running at ~300MHz :eek:)
K6 266
K6 366
K6 450
Celery 266 @400
Celery 300 @450
Celery 600 @833
Duron 600 @ 900
Duron 800 @1000
Duron 900 @ 1100
T-bird 1200 @1400
P4 1.8HT @2.4
P4 2.4HT @ 3.2
P4 2.8HT @ 3.6
C2 6300 @ 2.8
C2 6400 @ 3.3
e7200 @ 3.6
e7300 @ 3.9
i3 540 @ 4.3 (4.5 when I feel like pushing it)

That's a bout it... For now...:cool:
 
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Barton 2400 IQYHA
Barton 2400 IQYHA (lol waterblcok mounting failure)
Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2 Ghz @ 4.2Ghz
Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4Ghz @ 4.0Ghz
AMD64 2.4 4000+ San Diego Stock (for shame)
AMD64 2.4 Venice @ 2.9Ghz
Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale @ 3.8Ghz
Core 2 Duo E5400 Wolfdale @ 4.0Ghz
Next: Core i5 with a nasty overclock I'm sure ]>: )


This short list makes me feel like a newbie around here!
 
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486DX - 1990 ~ 1995: 5 years
Pentium 133 - 1995 ~ 2001: 6 years
Athlone 1200 - 2001 ~ 2009: 8 years
AMD x2 3800 - 2009 ~ present: 1 year.
 
Pentium 100
Pentium 166
Pentium 233
AMD K6-2 450
AMD Athlon xp 2800+
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
AMD Athlon II X4 630
 
c64 (lol)
286
386 overdrive
486 sx 33
486 dx100
p100
p133
p166mmx (omg mmx)
amd k6 350
P2 350
c366 @ 450
2x 366 @ 450 (bp6)
P3 450
p3 750
tbird 800/1.1/1.4
p3 1ghz
p4 1.4
p4 1.8
p4 2.6
p4 3.0 EE (single core w ht)
p4 2.8 d
amd x64 x2 3000
e8400
q 9450
q 9650
i7 920

too many years in a pc shop... lol
 
This brings back some memories. Funny how I remember the early stuff but in between it is a bit foggy. I remember the 1st great overclockers like the Celeron 300. AMD's hey days with the early Athlon XP and Opteron, then the return of Intel with C2D, that lasted me quite some time before upgrading last month to a i7. Not that I really needed too.

Sinclair Spectrum (ZX80 - JetPack)
C64 (Fort Apocalypse)
Intel 286-16 (Wing Commander I)
Intel 386-33 (WC II)
AMD486-DX2 66
AMD 486-DX4 100

then had the early P1's and P2'
1st notebook (Transmonde Vibrant 166Tmx)

Celeron 300 @ 450
P4 1.8 @ 2.4
My 1st Shuttle SS51G HTPC (ended-up buying 2 and keeping them till last year)

Then switched to AMD again, but can't remember the OC's
Athlon XP Tbird 1.8
Opteron 148

Somewhere here I got a PS3 (1st console and ended up using it for bluray only)

Back to Intel for Core2Duo
E6300 1.8 @ 3GHz
Q6600 @ 3GHz
E2160 then E8400 for an HTPC (first MATX box)
Core2Duo U7600
Atom notebook

Currently using a i720 930 @ 4GHz
 
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Ryokurin said:
AMD 486 66mhz
AMD 486 100mhz
Cyrix 120mhz (overclocked to 133mhz)
Pentium MMX 166mhz
K6 233mhz
K6/2 400mhz
K6/3 500mhz
Athlon 500mhz
Athlon 850mhz
Athlon 1.3ghz
Athlon XP 2100+
Athlon XP 2500+ (overclocked to be like a XP 3200+)
Athlon XP 2800+
Athlon 64 3200+
Opteron 175.
Phenom 8650

Thinking about a i7, but Ill probably get another Phenom. money is tight.
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Update to this. purchased a celeron e3200 for an htpc (phenom given to my sister) and I went from the Opteron to a Athlon x4 630 with a modest overclock to 3.15ghz.
 
Intel 80486DX2 66mhz
Intel Pentium MMX 166mhz@200mhz
AMD K6-2 333mhz
AMD Athlon 1ghz@1,333ghz
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
Intel Pentium 4 2,8ghz@3,2ghz
Intel Core2Duo E6300 1,8ghz@2,8ghz
Intel i5 750 2,6ghz@3,2ghz

guess that's all.
 
Intel 486 SX 33MHz (SX means disabled FPU);
Intel Pentium I 166MHz @ 200MHz (Non-MMX :( );
Intel Pentium M 1.5GHz (Dothan);
Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz @ 3.46GHz (Northwood);
Intel Pentium 4 3.40GHz @ 3.70GHz (Northwood);
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13GHz (Conroe);
Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHZ @ 3.9GHz.
 
Commodore VIC-20
Commodore C-64
Intel Pentium 90
AMD Athlon 1.1Ghz
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
Intel Core 2 Duo 3.16Ghz

That's about it!
 
SpeedyVV said:
Intel 80286
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- No own PC
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Intel Pentium D 960
Intel E4300
Intel Q6600
AMD Athlon II X2 245 (HTPC)
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haha. I should have included my hiatus as well (1997ish -2004ish). Sidenote: my folks gave me digital camera as a gift somewhere around 2002. lost for. words.
 
Celeron 400mhz
Dual Pentium 3 1ghz
Pentium 4 3.0ghz
Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4ghz
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz
Core i5-750 2.66ghz
 
Apple IIgs
486DX 33
Pentium 90
Celeron 300a
Athlon TBird 1400
Athlon 64 3000
C2D 6750

bout time for my next....
 
Haha... remember when the CPUs didn't even NEED a heatsink? Ah, those were the days :D
 
Pentium 466
AMD 64 3400+
C2D e6420

about 3-5 years between cpu upgrades, time for my next one...next year.
 
8088 10mhz
286 12mhz
AMD 386DX-40
486DLC-40mhz (I think it was TI 486 that was supposed to offer 486 'performance' on the 386 socket)
Cyrix DX2-66mhz
AMD DX4-100mhz
AMD 5x86 133 (best socket 7 CPU imho)
Pentium II-300 (slot1)
Celeron 566 (oc'd to 850, bios picked it up as a P3-850)
AMD T-bird 1.2ghz (later 1.3ghz)
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (barton core)
Athlon 64 3200+
Athlon 64 4000+
Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Intel C2D 6400
AMD Phenom 9850BE
AMD Phenom II 940BE
 
8086 25 MHz
Cyrix 166 Mhz
IBM (AMD) 400 Mhz

(probably 4 or 5 forgotten cpus here)

Pentium 4 : 2400 Mhz
AMD 64 1.8
AMD 64X2 2.2
Intel C2D 1800 Mhz
Intel Q 8200
Phenom x4

it feels like a lot more. I guess I pick up a new processor every 2 years or so since 1988.
 
6502 - BBC Micro
68000 - Amiga 500
386 SX 40 AMD
486 Dx2 66 AMD
5x86 100 Cyrix
P133
P166MMX
Celeron 300a @ 450
Athlon 1900xp,
Athlon 2000xp a month later when I crushed the core on the 1900
Athlon 2600xp about 5 months later as I got offered decent money for the 2000
P4 2.8
P4 3.2 as I got offered decent money for the 2,8
Pentium E2140 @ 3ghz, sold as a mate wanted a pc as his 3rd xbox died :D
Phenom 2 x4 955 @ 3.7 current rig.
 
Intel Pentium III 800Mz
Intel Celeron D
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Intel Pentium 4 2800 Mhz [Northwood]
Intel Celeron M 520
Intel Core i7 920
Intel Core 2 Solo ULV SU3500
 
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