Your CPU progression

c64
atari 800
cel 300a @ 450 with step thermodynamics peltier
p2 300 klamath @ 450 w/ step thermo sandwich cooler
p3 500 coppermine @ 750 with first thermalright hs/f with 60mm delta helicopter engine
p3 1000 coppermine @ 1200
athlon thunderbird (?) 1200 slot a @ 1500
athlon 1700 socket a
athlon 2200 @ 2500 (won at amd show. dud.)
shitload of xp1700, 1900, 2400, 2500, 3000, etc
bunch of xp-m 2400, 2500, etc.
s754 amd64 (cant remember speed)
bunch of amd64 s939 and opteron 144, 146
x2 3800
x2 4200
c2d e6600
c2d e6850
c2d q6600
c2d q6700
e8400
e8500 e0 (about 6 of them)
i7 920
 
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
Commodore 64
Atari 520ST
Intel 486 SX 33MHz
AMD K6-2 450MHz
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
AMD Athlon 64 3200
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
 
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K6-2 450
Athlon 2000+
Athlon X2 4000+
Hopefully an i7 sometime this year :D

Let's just say that by the time I can afford to upgrade, it is a *very* noticeable upgrade
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that has been a very smart upgrade path. you at least want to double your performance each time, and you held out even longer then that. good job.
 
486DX
166MMX
350P2
566 celeron @ 850mhz
866EB
2.6ghz P4
E6600

Notebooks I had a AMD Turion TL-25 I think it was and now a T2400 intel based.
 
MOS 6510 (C-64)
Motorola 68000 @7.14MHz (Amiga B2000)
Motorola 68010 @7.14MHz (cheap chip swap upgrade)
Motorola 68030 @33MHz (I think - borrowed CPU card from a friend for a couple of months)
Intel 486DX2/66 (ECS)
Intel Pentium 100 (on 430HX - ECS)
Intel Pentium 200MMX (on 430HX - ECS)
Intel Celeron 600 (on 440BX - Abit BE6-II)
Intel P3-600 (on 440BX - ABit BE6-II) (swapped with dad before he upgraded)
AMD AthlonXP 2600+ (on Gigabyte GA-7NNXP - surplussed by a friend)
Intel E6400 B2 (on ASUS P5B-E)
Intel Q6600 G0 (P5B-E - just a couple of months ago)

In the last 10 years each motherboard usually gets two CPUs. I buy "high end" (not necessarily gamer/overclocker) motherboards/chipsets and CPUs that are just at the upswing of the price curve when I do a new build. That high end motherboard will usually support many processors to come and I upgrade to one of the higher end ones right around the time the next gen comes out. After that, at least one generation lives on in linux headless server form in the basement. I just recently decommissioned the P3-600 on the BE6-II after 9 years in favour of the Athlon, for instance.
 
[something I don't remember, but it had 2x5.25" FDDs]
[a Packard-Bell that ran Win3.1]
Intel 486DX 66MHz
Intel P!!!-E 500MHz @ 700MHz
Intel P!!!-EB 933MHz @ 980MHz
AMD Athlon 2500+ @ 2.2GHz
Intel C2D E6300 @ 2.8GHz
[Intel 528MHz in my Dell X50]
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140 (wife's HTPC)
Intel Xeon X3210 @ 2.8GHz
AMD TurionX2 TL-50 (laptop)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 @ 2.5GHz (wife's PC)
Intel C2Q Q6700 @ 3.3GHz
[Qualcomm 528MHz in my TMo G1]
Intel C2Q Q95500 @ 3.7GHz
Intel Atom N270 (in my mini10v)

I think I caught everything, in basically chronological order.

EDIT: Now, with updates!
 
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
486DX4 100mhz
Pentium 133mhz
Pentium 2 266mhz
Pentium 3 600mhz (oc'ed to 800, my first overclock)
Pentium 4 3ghz (didn't get much out of it, 3.4 I think was tops)
e6600 (3.6ghz)
e8400 (C0) @ stock and e8500 (E0) @ 4ghz
i7 920 C0 @4ghz and D0 @ 4.2ghz

My favorite system was P3... had a lot of fun with that machine :D The others are nice but I didn't spend much time with the rest.
 
Pentium - 1995
Something AMD - 2000
Pentium 4 - 2005
Core i7 920 - 2009
 
Pentium II 300mhz
Celeron 1.1ghz
Athlon XP 2400+
Athlon XP 3200+
Opteron 148
C2D e7200
Atom 1.6ghz

The Opteron was definitely the most fun. It was watercooled in a huge black Chenming Dragon case. But as you go down the list, you'll see I went from an e7200 to a little Atom cpu. I just decided I didn't need all the power of a gaming pc when I wasn't gaming anymore. So I sold it all and bought a netbook :).
 
486DX2 66MHz - 1992
Pentium 166MHz - 1996
Pentium3 500MHz - 1999
Pentium4 2.0GHz - 2002
C2D E6600 - 2006
i7 920 (just bought today)

I was planning on keeping my E6600 for another year, but my PSU went haywire and fried everything in my computer yesterday.

Maybe I should have tried an AMD processor at some time, but I've been pleased with my upgrade path.
 
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Intel Pentium 4 3.0ghz with HT
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
AMD Phenom 940

laptop I had had T7400 and now using laptop with T2250
 
Intel P4 2.2ghz single core (in a dell)
Intel P4 3.0ghz HT (in a dell)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (first legit build)
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200

HTPC has an AMD 4800x2
 
Intel 486
Intel Pentium 90 MHz
Intel Pentium 133 MHz
AMD K6-2 333 MHz
AMD K6-2 450 MHz
AMD Athlon 600 MHz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
AMD Athlon X2 4400+
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Those are for the machines I've used as primary computers.

HTPC:

AMD Athlon XP 3000+
AMD Athlon X2 4400+
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200
 
Uhh a few big jumps I guess?
Pentium 90 mhz?
Pentium something ~200mhz
Something that was 500mhz
AMD Duron if I remember? 800mhz
P4 2ghz
P4 HT 3 ghz, does everything I need it to do.
 
I used old pentium/celerons as far back as i remember like 10 years ago

here is what i can recall though:
800Mhz(i think) PowerPC G3 (beige woot woot)
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 2.13ghz
Intel Core i7 920 2.66ghz
 
Intel Pentium 100MHz Compaq Presario
Intel Pentium 2 400MHz Also a Compaq Presario
Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz (I think. Didn't have this one long, it was an HP Pavilion but didn't have AGP so that kinda sucked.)
A Pentium 4 mobile CPU I think it was 2GHz as well for a laptop I had
An Athlon something in another laptop I had after the first one died.
Around this time my brother built a computer that had an Athlon 3000+
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 in a third laptop. Also 2GHz. I still have this one.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5GHz that I built for a micro ATX computer. I sold this to a friend to build my most recent desktop...
Intel Core i7 920 currently overclocked at 3.4GHz. I still have this. Next week when my parts arrive, I'll have...
Intel Atom 330 as a home server. No overclocking or anything, since it is an Intel board, and shouldn't need it anyway.
 
Main boxes in order

Intel 80386 DX 25MHz
Intel 80486 DX2 50MHz 1996-1997 I bought this myself after saving up for it for months, ran Doom perfect
Cyrix/IBM 6x86 PR200+ POS CPU, always over heated
Intel Pentium MMX 233 Got this after I chucked the Cyrix CPU into the woods
AMD K6 II 350MHz Epox VIA Apollo AT board
Intel Pentium II 400MHz DFI 440BX mobo
Intel Pentium II 450MHz DFI 440BX mobo
Intel Pentium III 500MHz DFI 440BX mobo
Intel Pentium III 650MHz DFI 440BX mobo
Intel Pentium III 1000MHz Tyan Trinity 400
Intel Pentium III 1000MHz x2 (dual CPU system) Tyan mobo
AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1.4GHz
AMD Athlon (T-bred) 1700+ 1.4GHz Abit KX7333 mobo
AMD Athlon (T-bred) 2000+ 1.67GHz Abit KX7333
AMD Athlon (T-bred) 2100+ Asus A7N8X mobo, I had this one running at 2.1GHz
Intel Pentium 4a 1.8GHz Asus P4S533 mobo,
Intel Pentium 4 2.5a Had it running on an IS7-G for almost 5 years without any problems
Intel Pentium D 925 Had this for less than a year, ran too hot for my liking. Intel DG965WH mobo
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 EP45-UD3P
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 EP45-UD3P
Intel C2Q 9550 EP45-UD3P
Intel i7-860 Asus P7P55 WS (ran this from launch date until 11/2013)
Intel i7-4770k Asus Z87 Deluxe

Other notables from secondary rigs:

Countless amounts of PII 400s in secondary rigs (still have the guts from many of those PCs)
Celeron 333
Celeron 400
Celeron 466
PIII 533
PIII 866
PIII 1.4GHz
P4 2GHz
P4 630
P4 670 3.8GHz Prescott room heater
E2200 x3
E6300 x2 (Wolfdale based)
E6300 (Conroe)
E6550
E6600
E6700
E6750
Celeron 420
Celeron 440 x2
Pentium D 805 x2
AMD Phenom II X3 720 unlocked it
AMD Phenom II X2 550 unlocked it also
AMD Phenom II X4 830 with 6MB L3 cache
Q9550s HTPC 1
i5 2400s HTPC 2

There are a few missing...
 
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1982: Commodore Vic 20 (6502?)
1 x Commodore 64
1 x Commodore 128
1 x Intel 808X 4.77 Mhz
1 x Intel 486 33 Mhz
1 x Intel 486 100 MHz
1 x AMD 586
1 x Intel Pentium 1 100Mhz
2 x Intel Pentium 1 133 Mhz
2 x Intel Pentium 1 233 Mhz
2 x Intel 300A clocked at 466 MHz
2 x Intel Pentium 2 600 Mhz ( not exactly sure of the frequency)
2 x Intel Pentium 2 850 Mhz
2 x AMD Athlon 1200
2 x AMD Athlon MP 2400
1 x AMD Athlon 2800+ (only used 2 weeks)
1 X AMD Opteron 240 Single core
2 X AMD Opteron 850 Single core
2 X AMD Opteron 285 Dual core
2 x AMD Opteron 250 Dual core
1 X Intel Q9550

[EDIT]
April 2010 - 1 x Intel i7 920
[/EDIT]

I am sure I missed at minimum 5 to 10 of these.

I know I had a Cyrix 266 and a few other AMD cores (Opteron 240 some more 586 clones) but these were not used for long.

BTW, I still have many of these cores. The 300As are in my garage and the a dozen or so of the Opterons are sitting 3 feet away from me in my desk. At one point I planned to sell some of these but never ended up doing so..

The longest running system was the dual Athlon 2400 MP system that ran for over 5 years but it did so simultaneously with a lot of the Opteron purchases. It was eventually phased out because it was not as energy efficient as the dual Opteron 850 system.

[EDIT]I forgot to mention that each line is for a single machine. So I am saying I have been dual core or greater for > 90% of the time from 199[4 or 5] till now.[/EDIT]
 
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1. 486 DX4 100mhz (family PC)
2. PentiumII 300mhz
3. Celeron 400mhz
4. PentiumIII 650mhz
5. PentiumIII 1ghz
6. AthlonXP 1700+
7. AthlonXP 1900+
8. AthlonXP 2000+
9. AthlonXP 2400+
10. AthlonXP 2400+
11. AthlonXP 2500+
12. AthlonXP 2500+
13. AthlonXP 2600+
14. Opteron 146
15. Opteron 180
16. Core2Duo E6600
17. Core2Quad Q6700

Damn, I didn't realise I went through so many AthlonXPs! I'm an AMD f'boy and I never knew it! :eek:


Favourite CPU: AMD Opteron146

On-die MCH made this cpu scream, and mine almost overclocked to 3ghz. Fucking loved it. Though my current Q6700 CPU is my favourite overclock to date for various reasons.
 
Whatever was in the C64 and C128
Motorola 68000
386 SX20
Overdriven 386 SX20 (became basically a 486 SX40)
Pentium 90MHz - fried it trying to overclock it
Pentium 200MHz MMX
Celeron 300A overclocked to 450 (loved this thing!)
Pentium 3 550MHz overclocked to 825MHz
Dual Pentium 733's overclocked to 900MHz (Abit VP6 motherboard, loved it too!)
Thunderbird 1.2GHz
Pentium 4 2.26GHz
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Quad Q9450 - Current desktop, i dont have any of the other cpus anymore, i either tossed them, sold them, or gave them away

At some point i also used the following although they weren't my main systems:
Pentium 100MHz - my first experience with a pentium class CPU.
Cyrix 200MHz - loved to crash from heat problems
Pentium 4 2.6GHz with HT
Core 2 Duo T7200 - Mobile CPU in my current laptop
 
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Zilog Z80A 3.5 MHz (MSX)
Intel 80286 12 MHz
Intel 80386DX 33 MHz
Intel 80486DX2 66 MHz
Intel Pentium 90 MHz
Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz
Intel Pentium II 400 MHz
Intel Pentium II 500 MHz
Intel Pentium II 600 MHz
Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1 GHz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1900+
Intel Pentium 4 2.26 GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz HT
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
 
Intel 486 SX-25
Intel 486 DX-66
Intel Pentium-133
Intel Celeron 300A
Intel Pentium III 600
AMD Duron 700
AMD Athlon 1400
AMD Athlon XP 1800
AMD Athlon XP-M 2500
Intel C2D E6420
Intel C2Q Q6600
Intel Xeon W3520
 
Oh boy, I love these threads! I currently have a lot of systems so, at that point I'll post in order of performance.

Intel Pentium MMX 200
AMD K62+ 550
AMD Duron 800 @ 950mhz
AMD Athlon 1300mhz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 3200+(2.2Ghz)
AMD Athlon XP-m @ 2.5Ghz
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
AMD Opteron 165 @ 2.8Ghz
AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 @ 3.2Ghz
Intel Core2 Duo E4400 @ 3.0Ghz
Intel Core2 Duo E6550 @ 3.4Ghz
AMD Phenom 9600
AMD Phenom II X2 550 @ 3.6Ghz (shhhh it's a secret)
Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz

Yup, I was an AMD fanboy back in the day....and do you blame me? Intel used to SUCK!
Now I'm just an AMD fan, and pick up there stuff for light duty (the 9600 is in a homeserver and the BE-2400 is in an HTPC) or for fun to see if I can have it run as fast than my Q6600.
 
1991?? Intel 8088 (Tandy 1000SX I think, it had a green+black monitor, detached keyboard, and dual 5.25" floppies)
1993 Intel 486 DX2 66MHz - 'rents didn't have the cash for a 586
1999 AMD K6-2 233MHz
2000 Intel Celeron 366 @ 425 (first self-built and oc'ed machine)
2002 AMD T-bred A 1800+ 1.533 @ 1.8GHz
2003 AMD Barton 2500+ 1.83 @ 2.2GHz
2006 AMD X2 3800+ 2.0 @ 2.4GHz

Added bonus, when digging through my emails to find old receipts for when I ordered this gear I found my activation email for [H] forums, +1 to nostalgia. Your guys' lists make me feel like I've been missing out on the party, though. My upgrade itch will likely get scratched at the end of this year and it's looking like either an i5 or an i7, depending on how balls out I want to go.

Edit: It's kind of interesting to plot the clockspeed vs. year data sampled from this thread on a line graph and see the progression. You can clearly see the hard-on that Intel and AMD had for clockspeed around the year 2000.
 
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Intel 386 SX
Intel Pentium 100 MHz
AMD K6-2 380 MHz
AMD T-Bird 1.4 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
AMD Opteron 185
Intel Core i7 920

I think that's it. Not super impressive but some pretty major jumps in there. The latest three are still in use.
 
Main rig:
Intel 386 (no mathco)
Intel 486 100mhz (ran it with out a heatsink into the ground)
Intel Celeron 600mhz
AMD Athlon 1300+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+
Intel Core 2 Quad q6700 @ 3.33Ghz
Intel Core i7 930 (use to be main, currently is my secondary)
Intel Core i7 3770k (current, as of April 2013)

Other systems (given to me and made into secondary rigs):
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
AMD Semperon 3000+
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
AMD Athlon x2 4200+

Notebooks:
Intel Pentium M 1.4Ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0Ghz (x3)
Intel Celeron 900 (EeePc 701)
Intel Core 2 Duo e6700 2.66Ghz (desktop CPU)
Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26Ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo T9900 3.06Ghz
AMD Fusion E-350 APU (secondary)
Intel Core i7 2670QM 3.10Ghz (current main notebook)
 
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Intel Pentium I 133MHz
Intel Pentium IV 1.8GHz
AMD Athlon 3700+
AMD Athlon X2 4200+
Intel Core i7 920
 
Pentium III 450mhz
Pentium IV
AMD Athlon 3000+
AMD Athon X2 6000+
Core i7
 
486 SX2/50
Pentium 100
Pentium 166
Celeron 266 (non-a)
P3 500
P3 1Ghz
P4 1.6Ghz
P4 3Ghz
i7 920
 
AMD K6-2 500
AMD Duron 900
AMD T-bird 1.something
AMD 2500+ Barton
AMD 3500+ Venice
AMD Opteron 144
Intel E4300
Intel E8400
Intel i7 920
 
Atari 512 ST--Motorola 68000
Intel 286/12
Intel 386 SX 25
AMD DX 40
AMD DX2/66
AMD DX4/100
Intel Pentium 90
Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz
Intel Celeron 300
Intel P2 450
AMD Athlon 1ghz
AMD T-bred A 1800+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
AMD Opteron 178
Intel C2D E6400
Intel C2Q 6600
Intel i7 920
 
Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz
Intel 80486SX 25MHz
Intel 80486DX2 50MHz
Intel Pentium 125MHz
Intel Pentium MMX 200MHz
AMD K6-2 266MHz
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 GHz
AMD Athlon 3200+ Barton 2.2GHz
AMD Athlon64 Venice 2.2GHz
AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ Manchester 2.2GHz
Intel Core i7 920 2.6GHz
 
386 dx 25 mhz
486 dx 66mhz
one of those add on things to overdrive it to like 100mhz or something.
pentium 166mhz mmx
celeron 300a oc'd it to ~600mhz :)
athlon xp 1900
athlon xp 2400
athlon 64 3500
opteron 150
opteron 170
core2duo E6750
core2duo E7300
core2duo E8400
core2quad q6700
 
Systems that I have personally owned (not work related) - from what I can remember

Comodre C64 (MOS 6510, 1MHz)
Intel 8088
Intel 286
Intel 386
Intel 486
Intel Pentium 66MHz
Intel Pentium 100MHz
Intel Pentium Pro
Intel Pentium II
Intel Pentium III
Intel Celeron 300A
AMD X2
AMD Opteron
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Intel Core 2 Duo E4600
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (g0)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (e0)
Intel Core i7 920 (c0)
Intel Xeon W3520 (d0)
 
Intel 486
Amd Athlon 600mhz slot A
Amd Athlon 64 3000+
Amd Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
 
Intel 8088 5Mhz
Intel 386DX 33Mhz
Intel 486DX2 66Mhz
Intel Pentium 133Mhz
Intel Pentium 166Mhz w/ MMX
Intel Pentium 200Mhz w/ MMX
AMD K6-2 450Mhz
Intel Pentium3 700Mhz @ 933Mhz (Coppermine)
AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz @ 1.6Ghz (Thunderbird)
2x Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz @ 3.06Ghz (Prestonia)
2x Intel Xeon 3.06Ghz @ 3.42Ghz (Gallatin)
Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz @ 3.6Ghz (Kentsfield)
Intel Q9650 3.0Ghz @ 4.4Ghz (Yorkfield)
Intel i5-2500k 3.3Ghz @ 5.0Ghz (Sandy Bridge)
 
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Intel 386 33 mhz
Intel ???? 73 mhz (overclocked)
Intel Pentium 133 mhz
Intel Pentium III 933 mhz
Intel Pentium 4 3.2ghz Prescott
Intel i7 920 @ 3.2ghz
 
Intel 486sx 25mhz
Intel 486dx2 66mhz
Intel 486dx4 100mhz
Intel Pentium 200mhz
AMD K6 400mhz
AMD K7 700mhz
Intel Pentium 3 550mhz (laptop)
AMD Athlon 1ghz
AMD XP1200 1.2ghz
AMD XP1900 1.9ghz
Intel Pentium Centrino 1.4ghz (laptop)
Intel Pentium 4 3ghz
AMD Opteron 165 1.8ghz
Intel T2200 2.2ghz (laptop)
Intel Q6600 2.4ghz

I remember paying $800 for the Intel Pentium 200mhz and about $110 for 4MB of Ram
 
ok lets start with a real oldie here :-

Sinclair ZX81(with 16k wobbly ram pack!!!)
Commodore 64
Amiga 500
Intel 386
Intel 486sx
AMD Duron 900Mhz
AMD Athlon 1GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
AMD Athlon 64 3000 Winchester
AMD Athlon 64 3200 Venice
AMD 146 @ 2.35GHz (Still in wife's pc)
AMD Athlon 64 4800+ DC (would not run right at all had to install dc optimiser wtf is that about when intel run out of the box!!)
Jump boat...to Intel
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.2Ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo Q6600 Go @ 3.61Ghz the biz
 
commodore64
pentium60 (yea i know wierd power jump, but like most i got the computer that my parents got me i was 14!)
cyrix200(first homebuilt computer)
genuine pentium 200(friends chip)
pentium 2 350(first real trip to overclocking since this had the 100mhz bus)
pentium 2 550
amd700
amd 1ghz
amd 1.4
amd sempron 2.4?
amd x2 1.9(oc'd to 2.7)
core2duo e7200

I would have liked to have been all amd since i got my first cyrix(meaning non intel) at that time i worked for a retail company and we had the special intel offers so they were so dirt cheap (it was like 100bucks for a chip and motherboard, the highest or second highest end chips at the time) you just had to go intel.

And when i switched to the core2, i mean come on amd was getting spanked by the core2.

does anyone remember thier ram progression? i think mine was
64k
4megs
8megs
16megs
32megs
64megs
128megs
384megs
768megs
1gig
2gigs
4gigs

just kepted on doubling.
 
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