Your CPU progression

This thread is interesting, it's interesting to see how people switch AMD/Intel or remain "true" to the brand. Personally I've always gone best price/performance.

Pentium 150
Pentium II 233 (OC'd to 300)
Celeron 300A (OC'd to 450)
Pentium III 600 (OC'd to 900)
Athlon T-Bird 1 GHz (OC'd to 1.14 - lame chip)
Athlon XP 1800+ (OC'd to 2 GHz0
Pentium 4 2.4 (OC'd to 3 GHz)
Athlon64 3200+ (OC'd to 2.8 GHz)
Athlon64 X2 5200+ (OC'd to 3 GHz)
Core 2 Quad Q6600 (OC'd to 2.8 GHz)
Core i7 975XE

Looking back, that's as best as I can remember it for my home system. Everything after the Athlon64 3200+ has been stuff I've been able to scratch together from work, so I didn't buy that 975XE - just use it at home in a test setup.
 
Intel 486
AMD K5 (aka the "Pentium Killah" lol.. 100mhz? socket 7)
Intel Celeron 300A (first OC build, forgot to what speed, maybe 400mhz)
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
AMD Opteron 165 (OC'd to 2.7ghz)
AMD Sempron 140 (HTPC build in progress)
 
Desktop progression

Pentium 4 2.8ghz (2003-2010)
Athlon 2x4 620 2.6ghz(2010)
1090T @3.8ghz(2010-present)

Laptop Progression

Intel Centrino 1.3ghz
Intel T4400 @ 2.16ghz
Intel Atom N270@ 1.6ghz
 
Dan_D said:
This question gets asked every couple of months. Its always a good memory excercise for me.

Here it goes. The complete list of CPUs I own or have owned but not necessarily in order and not all of which have been in my main gaming rig.

Intel 8088 4MHzIntel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 (3.2GHz) (x2) -(Still have both of these)
Intel Core i7 920 (C0/C1 stepping) (2.66GHz) -(Still have)
Intel Core i7 920 (D0 stepping) (2.66GHz) -(Still have)

I know, I have a problem. (I'm almost as bad when it comes to video cards.) I may also have forgotten some. If I did I'll add them later if I can remember them. :cool:
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w.o.w. HAHA. amazing.

Intel Pentium 2.4ghz
AMD Athalon 4000+
Intel Core i7 930
 
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Brother word processor
Commodore 64
300mhz PowerPC
Pentium Pro 100mhz
Pentium III
Celeron 1.6Ghz s478
P4 3Ghz 478
PD 805 s775
4400X2 s939
C2D E4300
C2D E6400
C2D E6750
C2D E6850
Pentium Dual Core E2120
C2Q Q6600
C2Q Q6700
Xeon 3110
C2D E1400
i7 920
Pentium Dual Core E5200
i7 920
i7 920

Most duplicates were omitted. I have missed a few I know but I bought them for multiple computers in my home.
 
These are the CPU's I've had in my main rig at one time or another. There have been many other CPU's in my secondary machines but I think this list is enough to show myself that I need to stop upgrading every time Intel or AMD launches something shiny and new.

PIII 450
Athlon Thunderbird 1333
Athlon XP 2100+
Mobile Athlon XP 2200+
Athlon 64 3000+ (754)
Athlon 64 3700+ (939)
Opteron 146 (single core)
Opteron 148 (dual core)
E6600
E6700
E6300
QX6700
QX9770
E8400
Q9450
i7 920 (C0)
i7 920 (D0)
i5 750 (still have)
i7 860
x5570
2- x5650 (still have)
2- x5670 (just purchased)

The 5670's are going into an SR-2 due to arrive any day now. My favorite upgrade was to the E6600, such a huge leap in performance!

Edit: As bad as my CPU habit has been, my video card addiction was far worse. From the 6800GT I picked up in April 04, up until the GTX/5800 line I had the 2 highest SKU's of each generation from both ATI and NVIDIA.
 
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Athlon barton 1600 Mhz --> E6600
I maintain a 5-year upgrade path. My next will be a ivy bridge derivate.
 
This is what I remember, I'm sure there are CPus I left out:

Pentium 120
Pentium2 400-- oced to 448mhz and failed, wtf!?
Pentium2 333-- oced to 500mhz for years on end, wtf?! -- Celery333? laf.
Athlon something, some slotA CPU I got to 1ghz, I forget name
Athlon XP-M-- I remember this thing oced like crazy, 2.6ghz or something, maybe more?
Opteron 170-- dualcore goodness, and oced decently
c2duo extreme 2.93ghz-- sample from intel that was horrible at oc but stable stock, had lots of cache
2x Xeon E5410 CPUs-- 2.33ghz quadcore, no ocing :(
i7 920 @ 3.3ghz
 
DaedalusHelios said:
Brother word processor
Pentium Pro 100mhz
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There has never been a production Pentium Pro sold which ran at that frequency. There were some 133MHz samples but the lowest clocked production Pentium Pro's ran at 150MHz. To my knowledge no Pentium Pro that ever ran at 100MHz had ever been shown to the public in any venue or form.
 
Missing a couple that I can't remember...

Q9300
E7200
AMD 4800+ X2
Celeron 430
Pentium D something
Pentium 4 (Northwood)
Some AMD Duron...
Pentium 3 800mhz
 
P4 2.2ghz @ stock
P4 3ghz HT @ stock
C2D E6300 @ 3.2ghz
C2D E7200 @ 3.8ghz
Core i7 920 @ 3.7ghz
Core i7 930 @ 4.2ghz
 
Ah.. memories :) Everything except my last 2 mentioned processors have been either thrown away or sold off. Processors mentioned were all acquired in the order mentioned.

AMD K6 233mhz
Intel Celeron 766mhz
Intel Pentium 200mhz (Given by my aunt)
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0ghz
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ New Castle 2.2ghz oc'ed to 2.4ghz
AMD 4400+ x2 Toledo 2.2ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 2.4ghz oc'ed to 3.6ghz
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (Given by my aunt)
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 C0 3.0ghz oc'ed to 4.0ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 E0 3.0ghz oc'ed to 4.0ghz (way better vcore than the C0)
Intel i7 920 D0 2.66ghz oc'ed to 4.0ghz
 
In order they were bought.

486/66
AMD K6 300mhz
AMD K7 600mhz
AMD Athlon XP 2300+
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Intel Pentium 4 530
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Intel Core i7 920 C0
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
 
286 ???
386 33mhz?
486 66mhz?
Pentium 90mhz
Pentium Pro 150mhz (Awesome machine)
Pentium 2 233 300mhz
Celeron 300A 450MHz (first big OC)
Pentium 3 550 600MHz (bit of a disappointment, this was my last slot CPU)
Athlon 700 T-Bird 1GHz
Athlon XP T-Bred 1600+ 1.8GHz
Pentium 4 mobile 1.8GHz (ball roasting laptop)
A64 Winchester 3000+ 2.96GHz (Last AGP machine)
A64 X2 3800+ 2.4GHz
A64 X2 4800+ Toledo 3.0GHz
C2D T7200 2GHz
Phenom II 555 BE 4.0GHz
i7-950 4.25GHz

Clock speeds approximate and subject to my lack of eidetic memory.
Edit: Forgot a couple laptops
 
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1998: 233Mhz Pentium MMX
2001: 850Mhz Intel Celeron
2005: 3000+ AMD Athlon 64
2006: 3800+ AMD Athlon X2
2007: 6000+ AMD Athlon X2
2008: Intel E8500 Core Duo 2
2009: Intel Q9650, AMD Phenom II 955, AMD Phenom II 550, Intel Core i7 860, Intel Core i7 950, Intel Core i5 750
2010: AMD Phenom II 1090T, Intel Core i7 970

I bought quite a couple of CPU's in 2009, most of them were for testing anyway, the 950 was on my main rig until recently I sold it and replaced it with a 970
 
1988, some CPU I have no idea what it was.
1995: Pentium 100
1996: Pentium 133
1997: Pentium II (forgot the speed)
2001: Pentium 4 1.9
2002: Pentium 4 2.4
2008: Q6600

Not mentioning any second PCs that had AMDs or Celerons
 
486 SX 25
Pentium Pro 200
Celeron 300A @ 450
AMD Thunderbird (I think that was the name) 1 @ 1.2 (did not like this one, never did try AMD again)
Pentium 4 2.4 @ 3
Q6600 2.4 @ 3.4
 
Robotron A-5105
286
486 40mz
pentium 100 ( o/c to 133 =] )
Cyrix 166
Pentium 3 665
Pentium 4 Northwood 1.6 oc to 2.4
Athlon 64 3200 o/c 2.8 ghz
c2 duo 8400
i7 920 and i5 750 currently.
 
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486 DX2-66
Celeron 300A @ 464MHz
Celeron 900 @ ~1.1GHz
Celeron Tualatin 1.13GHz @ ~1.35GHz
Athlon XP 1800+ @ ~1.9GHz
Athlon XP 2500+ @ ~2.2GHz
P4 2.6C @ ~3.3GHz
A64 3000+ @ ~2.8GHz
A64 X2 3800+ @ ~2.6GHz
C2D E4300 @ ~3GHz
C2D E5300 @ ~3.2GHz
C2Q Q9550 @ ~3.8GHz
i5 750 @ ~4.0GHz

Next CPU?

Sandy Bridge @ ~5GHz hopefully! :D
 
shoot i forgot what i had before my dell p3 866...
anyways:

p3 866mhz
amd64 turion 1.6ghz
t8300 2.4ghz
p4 3.4
NOW> i7-965 (quite a jump) but still need a couple of parts
 
Pentium 2 450Mhz
Pentium 4 HT 2.6Ghz
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2Ghz (939)
Athlon 64 X2 7750 BE 2.7Ghz
Phenom II X4 945 3Ghz
 
Intel 486 33mhz
Pentium 3 500mhz
AMD 3500+
Intel Q6600


I've had more than these but these are the ones that I've actually owned myself.. lol.
 
Pentium II 350
AMD K6-2 380
Intel P4 2.4
Athlon 3000+
Athlon X2 3800+
Athlon X2 5200+
Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition
Intel Core2Duo E8400
Intel Core2Duo E8700
 
I'm most likely forgetting some.

AMD Athlon T-bird 1.4GHz
AMD AthlonXP 2400+ 2.0 GHz
AMD 64 3800+ 2.4 GHz [Still Own]
Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.66 GHz
Intel Core2Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz
Intel i7 930 2.0 GHz

Laptops:
Dell XPS M1210 - Core2Duo T5600 1.83 GHz
HP Pavilion DM3Z - AMD Athlon Neo X2 1.6 Ghz
 
Apple ][
PC-XT 8088
80386DX
80486DX2-66
Pentium MMX-200
P3-733
P4-3.6
E2180
Q9650
 
Intel 486 33MHz
AMD K5 100MHz
AMD K6-2 533 MHz
AMD Athlon Socket A 1333MHz
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ speeds (2.2GHz)
Intel Q6600 overclocked to 3.4GHz :cool:
 
68000 6.8mhz (Mac Classic)
AMD K6-2 500mhz integrated
AMD Athlon XP 1800+/GeForce ti4200
AMD Duron 650
AMD Athlon XP 2700+
AMD Athlon XP 3500+/GeForce 7600GS
Intel Core2Quad [email protected]/GeForce GTS 250
 
C64 (Commodore 64!)
386 33Mhz
486 50Mhz
Pentium 160Mhz MMX
Celeron 400A (A classic!)
Pentium III 700 Mhz
Pentium IV 1.6GHZ
Athlon 64 3500+
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
Core Duo 2 E6400
Core Duo 2 E6600
Core 2 Quad Q6600
Xeon X3330 2.66GHZ
Core i7 920 C0
Core i7 950
 
P II [forgot the frequency though]
P III 500mhz
celeron 1ghz
P 3 1ghz
athlon +1500
amd athlon 3200+ [939]
amd sempron 140 [am3]
amd athlon II x2 240 [am3]
amd Phenom II x4 940 [am2+]
 
Pentium-133
Pentium-200
Pentium 4 1.6 Williamette
Pentium 4 2.4 Northwood B 478
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Manchester 2x2.0GHz 939
Athlon 64 FX-55 San Diego 2.6GHz 939
Core 2 Duo T7500 Merom 2x2.2GHz
Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 6x2.8GHz AM3

This is of course referring to my "main" rig. I've probably picked up over a dozen additional computers over the years, often free, but I didn't include them because I don't remember them all.

I skipped a fair few generations. My main rig was never a Pentium 2 or Pentium 3. Never a 32-bit AMD processor. Never a LGA socket, only PGA. Never had desktop DDR2 in my main rig.
 
Started with a
386
486
PIII from Dell
P4 2.4 Prescott (still have it)
AMD X2 3800 (Still use it)
i5 750 (current)
 
Need to add 980X to my list. Successful OC to 4.2GHz (200x21)

Best processor I have ever owned. But then again, I said that about my Conroe 2.4GHz when it came out too :D
 
Something PII
Something PIII
Athlon XP 1800+
Athlon XP 2600+
Athlon XP 2500+
P4 2.4
Sempron 2800+
Phenom II X4 945

Not really a "progression"...more like a smorgasbord :D
 
Motorola 68000
486 DX2-66
P120
P2-300
Athlon 650
Athlon 1.33
Dual Opteron 246
Dual Opteron 252
Core 2 Duo 8400
i7 870


+ a few more, my memory is getting fuzzy. I must be getting old.
 
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