Your CPU progression

Apple II (Don't remember what it had)
Pentium 2 300mhz
Pentium 3 733
Pentium 4 2.something
Pentium 4 3.6 HT
Pentium e2160 1.8 OC'd to 3.0
AMD Phenom II x6 1055t at stock
 
Phenom II X6 1055T
Phenom II X4 965 BE
Phenom II X4 955 BE
Phenom II X4 940 BE
Phenom II X4 925
Phenom II X3 720 BE
Phenom II X2 555 BE
Athlon II X4 630
Athlon II X4 635
Athlon II X3 435
Athlon II X2 255
Athlon II X2 250
Athlon II X2 240
AMD Sempron 140
AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
AMD Athlon XP 2600+

Intel Xeon X5677
Intel Xeon L5640
Intel Core i7 980X EE
Intel Core i7 950
Intel Core i7 940
Intel Core i7 930
Intel Core i7 920
Intel Core i7 860
Intel Core i5 750
Intel Core i3 530
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Intel Celeron E3300
 
286 12 MHz
286 20 MHz
386SX
386DX
AMD 386DX/40
486SX
486DX/50
486DX-2/66
Pentium 100
Pentium 133
Pentium Pro
Pentium II
Pentium III
AMD Athlon
AMD Athlon XP
Pentium 4
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Quad
I7
 
Intel Pentium III 800 Mhz
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz
AMD Athlon 3700+ 2.2 Ghz
AMD Athlon x2 3800+ 2.0 Ghz
Intel Pentium Dual-core e2140 1.6 Ghz
Intel Core2Duo E6550 @ 3.2 GHz
Intel Core2Duo T6400 2.0Ghz
AMD Phemon II x4 965 @ 3.6 GHz
 
Intel Celeron 333MHz
Intel Celeron Tualatin 1.2GHz @ 1.5GHz
Intel Celeron Tualatin 1.1a @ 1.54GHz
Intel Pentium III-S 1.4GHz @ 1.5GHz
Intel Pentium D 945 C1
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 B2 @ 3.15GHz
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 4.05GHz
 
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athlon64 x2 4200
athlon64 x2 5000 BE
athlon64 x2 6400
Phenom x4 9550
E8500 EO
E8400 EO
E8500 EO
Q9650 EO
xeon E3110 CO/C1
E8400 EO
i7-920 DO
i5-750
Q9650 EO
E8500
i3-530
i3-540
i3-530
i7-920 CO/C1
i7-920 DO
i7-870
980x
W3520
i7-860
E8500
E8600
i7-920 DO
 
I started overclocking from the K2, but I'll be damned if I remember how far, although most fairly modest until Northwood and beyond.

386sx
486dx
Pentium Pro
Pentium Overdrive
AMD K2
AMD K3
AMD Slot A (Thunderbird)
AMD Athlon
(see a trend here?....well not so fast)
Pentium 4 Northwood – 2.53 – cooked
Pentium 4 Northwood – 2.66
Core Duo
Core 2 Duo – E8400 @ 3.6
Core 2 Duo – E8600 @ 4.5 (overclock work in progress)
 
Pentium (66 Mhz) - early 1990s
Pentium II (300 Mhz) - 1998
Athlon K7 (1.4 ghz) - 2000
Pentium 4 (2.4 ghz) - 2002
Athlon XP "clawhammer" (3.7 ghz) - 2005
Core 2 Duo E2180 - 2008
Core 2 Quad Q9300 - 2010

2600K in 2 months!
 
i dont remember the computers i used when i was around 10-13, but as for what I have owned:
p3 866 < Dell
amd 1.6 turion < Avertec laptop
p4 3.4 <rig i built from an about to be recycled work pc (bought the 3.4ghz sl7e6 from a pc recycle place)
i7-965 < got from craigslist, engineering sample
 
Intel Pentium 2 266MHz MMX
Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz (I think...)
Intel core 2 Duo E7200 @stock then @3.4GHz
Intel core 2 Quad Q9550 @3.4GHz
 
Commodore 64 MOS Tech 6510 @ 1.023MHz
Pentium 60MHz
Pentium II 450MHz
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
Core 2 Duo E6600/E6300/E6400
Core 2 Duo Merom 2.0GHz (Mac Mini)
Athlon II X4 620
 
Let's see if I can remember everything...

486 SX 33mhz
Pentium 120mhz
Pentium 233mhz
K6-2 350
Celeron 300A
Next up I think was a Celeron 550 overclocked to 800 or something like that.
woops, forgot my Pentium III 800mhz
AMD Tbird, 1.2ghz I think?
P4 2.4ghz (Intel retailer deal)
P4 3.06 w/ HT
C2D E6750
now my I7 950 :D
 
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Commodore 64
486 66Mhz
Pentium II 400Mhz
Pentium III 1000Mhz
Pentium IV 1.8Ghz
Pentium IV 3.06Ghz
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+
Intel i7 930
 
Roughly:

Commodore 64 (hand two laying around for the longest time)
*missing computer specs
Amiga about the same time as the 386 below.
386DX100
Pentium II 450Mhz
Pentium III 800Mhz
AMD Athlon 1800+
Pentium IV 2.0Ghz
Pentium IV 3.06Ghz w/HT
i3 530
 
A lot of large progressions.

Here is my short progression:
Pentium 4
Amd 5200 x 2
Intel Core 2 Duo 8400
Intel i7 920 and it destroys everything thrown at it including the kitchen sink
 
386
486
pentium 2 WITH MMX!!!!!!
pentium 3 500 mhz
pentium 4 1.6 ghz
pentium D @ 3.4 GHZ
i7 920 bitches!
 
TMS 9900 (in a ti-99/4a)
NEC Z-80A (in a zx81)
6502 (apple II+)
6502 (apple IIe)
65c02 (apple IIc)
486 33
486/66
pentium 66
pentium 120
pentium 133
pentium 166
pentium pro 200
k6-300
celeron 300a
pIII 450
celeron 866
athlon 900
athlon tbird 1.2
athlon xp 1800+
p4 2.4
opteron 170
q6600 <current
 
Intel P2 266
Intel Dual P3 500
Intel P4 1.4Ghz
AMD Athlon 2600XP
Intel C2D 6420 <-- Current, but upgrading in the next two weeks. :)
 
I have a long list.

AMD Athlon XP 2500+
Intel Core 2 Duo E8300
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Intel Core 2 Duo E8300

Impressive, right?
 
Commodore 64 (what ever the hell was in that)
Intel 486sx
Intel Pentium Pro
AMD Athlon 600
AMD Althon XP 2200+
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
AMD Athlon 64 3500+

**** Major leap for mankind here ****

Intel E8500 - current HTPC/server
Intel i7 920 co - current gaming goodness

Can´t wait for the next round. :D
 
packard bell way back when(not sure cpu)
Intel 386
Intel 486 DX2(40Mhz if I rem correctly)
AMD Am486 DX2 80
Pentium 166
Cyrix 366
Pentium II 466
Pentium 3 866(coppermine) OC to 996mhz
AMD Athlon X2 5600+ OC to ~3.02Ghz
E8400 Wolfdale OC to 4150Mhz 1.265V 1900+ FSB memory ~1090
Phenom II 955BE C3 OC to 4.31Ghz 1.45v(1.46-1.47 windows) standard clock 4.1Ghz 1.418v(1.416 windows) FSB 223-CnQ-multi 18.5-HT 2004-CPU/NB 2673 stock voltage DRAM 1:4 891mhz(1782) 9,10,9,25,37 1.503v

Next one wil be a AMD FX Piledriver core OR next generation FX(socket compatible currently)
 
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p75mghtz
pII350
amd sumthing
p4 2.2
p4 2.6
s754 2.4
s939 2.8
s940 3.0
s775 e8400
i7=920
dont remeber all my socket names
 
Commodore 64
Intel 486DX 33
Intel Pentium II 266
Intel Celeron 466
Intel Pentium II 933
AMD Athlon XP 1800+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
Intel Pentium 4 660 3.6
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Intel Core 2 Quad Xeon X3210
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
 
733mhz Pentium 3
Athlon XP 1700+
Athlon XP 1900+
Athlon XP 2500+
Athlon 64 3000+
Athlon 64 3500+
Athlon 64 4000+
Athlon 64 X2 BE-2400
Athlon X2 235e
 
Intel 8088 (Tandy)
AMD 486DX4/100 (Compaq)
Intel Pentium II 450
AMD Athlon 700
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
AMD Athlon x2 3800+
Intel Core 2 Duo P8700
 
133mhz (Somehow used that thing up until 2002)
2.40GHz Pentium 4
Q6600

I used my computers for way too long.
 
Pentium 4 1.8ghz
Athlon x2 4200+
Athlon x2 7750
Phenom II x3 720
Phenom II x2 550 (unlocked to quad)
Core i7 920

That's pretty much it.
 
intel 486 dx2 50mhz oc'ed to 66 threw away computer
amd k6-3 400mhz oc'ed to 450 cracked core replacing the heatsink (took the aluminum heat spreader off
amd athlon thunderbird 900 mhz oc'ed to 1200 replaced by athlon xp after chipping the core replacing the heatsink...again
second computer amd duron 1000 oc'ed to 1333 died after 7 years of service
amd athlon xp 1200 motherboard died
pentium 4 laptop 2.2 ghz sold
amd athlon 64 3200 still in use
intel pentium m 1.7 ghz still in use
 
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Zilog Z80A (Commodore 128)
386 w/ math co-processor
Pentium 100mhz
Cyrix 6x86 166+
Athlon Classic 700mhz
Althon Thunderbird 900mhz
Pentium 3 1000mhz
Althon XP 1500mhz
Pentium Prescott 3.6ghz
Athlon X2 3800
Core 2 Duo 6600
Core 2 Duo 6700
Core 2 Quad q6600
Core 2 Quad 9450
Core i7 920
Core i7 720qm
Core i7 920xm

Throw a couple more laptop CPUs in there (some of which are so old I can't find names for) and that's a lot of clams...
 
486 DX2/66
Pentium 200 MMX
AMD K6-2 300 @ 350Mhz
AMD K6-III 450 @ 500
Celeron 400 @ 580 Mhz
Pentium 3 800e @ 960 Mhz
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ @ 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ clawhammer S754 @ ~2.4Ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo 6750 @ ~3.8Ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 @ 4.0Ghz
Intel Core i7 920 @ 4.0Ghz

It's amazing how you never forget this stuff
 
Intel 8088 @ 8 MHz (yay! Overclocked!)
Intel 8088 @ 4.77 Mhz (Boo. Downgrade in CPU, but this one had a hard drive.)
IBM 286 @ 10 MHz
- Upgraded to 386DX @ 20 MHz via insanely expensive clip-on upgrade, just so I could run OS/2 2.0.
Intel 486DX2 @ 66 MHz (Got in an argument with my friend over whether his DX-50 was better or my DX2-66.)
Intel Pentium @ 90 MHz (YAY FDIV BUG! Yes, I actually experienced it. CAD software can reveal things like that.)
- Replaced by Intel w/ same chip, only fixed.
Cyrix 6x86-P120. (*cough* - I also bought a Matrox m3D.....)
Intel 386SLC (Laptop, very old and used when bought.)
Intel Pentium II @ 333 MHz (I bought every other part of the computer two months earlier, but waited for the 333 MHz chip to be released before buying the CPU. Had a 128 MB DIMM when 32 MB was standard, and 64 MB was considered "overkill".)
- Upgraded to Celeron @ 733 MHz via Slotket adapter
IBM or Motorola PowerPC 603e @ 100 MHz (laptop, marginally newer than the 386.)
AMD Athlon XP @ 1.4 GHz
Intel Pentium MMX @ 266 MHz (yet another laptop - this one an ultra-light)
Dual Intel Xeon @ 700 MHz
IBM PowerPC 750 @ 300 MHz (aka "G3", bought a then-old Mac to play with OS X.)
Motorola PowerPC 7455 @ 867 MHz (aka "G4", laptop)
Motorola PowerPC 7457B @ 1.25 GHz (first desktop I didn't build myself.)
Intel Core Duo @ 2.0 GHz (laptop)
Intel Core i7 965 (currently for sale - see proper thread)
Dual Intel Xeon W5580

Those are my "primary" CPUs, in my primary desktop and primary laptop of the time. I also have a collection of vintage computers, and a collection of bare CPUs, so my house presently has somewhere over 200 CPUs in it.
 
Family PC before I got my own
Intel Pentium 166 (local computer shop)
AMD K6-2 333 (HP)

My own pre-built
Cyrix MII 300, 225MHz actual (Packard Bell)
Intel Celeron 433 (Dell)
Intel Pentium 3 550 (Gateway)

all built myself since
AMD Duron 750
AMD Duron 1100
AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 GHz (died after 2 months)
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.1 GHz 400 FSB
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2 GHz Venice, S939
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2 GHz Windsor, AM2 (current HTPC)
AMD Athlon X2 7850 BE 2.8 GHz, AM2+ (current main rig)

Intel Celeron M 530 1.73 GHz (laptop)

I also collect cpus 486 and newer and currently have nearly 70 total
 
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Overclock Celeron 300 back in the days. Since then I have been out of the loop. Now my new build is an I7 930 oc'd to 4.0ghz
 
Intel 8086 @ 8MHz in some IBM clone box (Circa 1988)

1994 Gateway 2000 80486DX-33MHz got an
1997 Evergreen 586 133MHz upgrade for it (think $99 Overdrive wannabe)

1998 AMD K6-2 300, mobo died, warranty replacement...came back with a
1998 Cyrix 300, which I replaced with an
1998 AMD K6-2 500MHz from ebay

2002 AMD Athlon XP 1800+
2002 Intel 2.4GHz P4 Northwood
2004 Intel 3.2GHz P4 Prescott
2006 AMD Athlon64 4400+ X2 Toledo
2008 AMD Phenom X4 9850
2009 AMD Phenom II 940

Not counting all my laptops/notebooks and servers and other things I've had over the years.
 
hmmm...

Pentium II @ 450Mhz in a Gateway pre-built.
Dual Pentium III @ 1GHz on an ABIT VP6
Dual Pentium IV Xeons @ 3.06GHz on an ASUS PC-DL Deluxe
Core i3 530 @ 2.93GHz on a Gigabyte GA-H55M-d2H
 
P4 Willimette 1.8ghz
Athlon 2500+ barton
Athlon 64 3200+
Athlon64 x2 3200+
Intel e7200
Intel Q9550

and prob wont upgrade for at least a year or more.
 
1) Intel Pentium P60
2) Intel Celeron 300A (Overclocked to 450 Mhz)
3) Athlon 2000+ (1.8 Ghz)
4) Intel E6600
5) Intel Core i5 2500K (as of Sunday)
 
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