Your CPU progression

Intel 386 DX 25MHz
Cyrix 486 DX2 66MHz
Intel 486 DX2 66MHz
Intel 486 DX4 100MHz
Intel Pentium 133MHz
DEC Alpha 200Mhz
Intel Pentium MMX 233MHz
Intel Celeron 533MHz
AMD Athlon 1.2GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1733 MHz
Intel Celeron 2.0GHz
Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 ran at 3.2Ghz
Intel Core i7 920 running at 3.8Ghz (4.0ghz with turbo)
 
This is what I can remember, I'm sure I'm missing some. I wasn't really around in the C2D/C2Q and Phenom II days (completely missed socket 1156 as well) due to several years of deployments, so there is a big gap there.

Intel CPUs
486DX 33mhz
486DX2 66mhz
Pentium Pro 166mhz
Pentium OD 200mhz
Pentium MMX 233mhz
Pentium II 300mhz
Pentium II 450mhz
Pentium III 600mhz
PIII Coppermine celeron 800mhz
PIII Coppermine 866mhz
PIII Coppermine 933mhz
PIII Coppermine 1000mhz (Yay 1Ghz back in 2000 sometime)
PIII Taulatin 1400mhz x2 (first dual CPU build with a Super P3TDDE I still have)
P4 1.6ghz socket 423
P4 2.0ghz socket 478
P4 2.8ghz socket 478
C2D E7500
i7 980x
i5 2500k
i7 3930k

AMD
K5 66mhz
K6 300mhz
K7 Athlon 700mhz
Thunderbird 1000mhz
Thunderbird 1400mhz
Duron 1100mhz
Athlon XP 3200+
Athlon FX-51
Athlon X2 4800+
Phenom X4 9850 BE
Phenom II X4 955BE
Phenom II X2 560BE
 
1. PowerPC 603e @ 160 MHz
2. Pentium II 266mhz
3. Celeron 400 mhz
4. Duron 600
5. Athlon XP 2100+
6. Athlon XP 2200+ mobile version
7. Intel QX9650
8. i7-2600k
 
P3(no clue, so long ago)
AMD Sempron 2600
P4 3.06 GHz
Opteron
AMD Athlon 3200
E6300
E6600
Athlon x2 6400+ BE
Q6600
E8400
2600k
2500k


Switched to laptops for a while after the core 2 duo days then came back when sandy bridge mobos were fixed.

I'm assuming mostly everyone has been through more video cards than cpus?
 
I did have a 486/dx2 machine but never was online.
Intel Pentium 166mhz MMX
AMD K6/2 266mhz
AMD K6/2 350mhz
Intel Pentium II 450mhz (First overclock ever when I went from PC66 to PC100)
Intel Pentium III 600mhz
Intel Pentium III 800mhz
AMD Athlon Slot A 1ghz
AMD Athlon XP (Socket A Baby) 1.33ghz
AMD Thoroughbred 2500+, Then Upgrade to 3000+ then 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
AMD Athlon 64 x2 3600+ Then Swapped for 4200+ (Thank you AMD Tech Tour)
Temp Upgrades to 4400+ then 4800+, then back to 4200+ as heat/oc was an issue.
Intel Q9300 (For sale)
Intel 2500k

Not counting laptops\secondary machines
 
I want to power up my dx2-66 (I think now the board has a dx4-133 in it) but I havent a PSU :( as they used diff power supplys.
 
Intel Pentium 133Mhz
Intel Celeron 800 Mhz
AMD Duron 1Ghz
AMD Athlon 3300+
AMD Phenom 940
AMD Phenom II 1055T
 
Intel 486 66MHz
Intel Pentium II 450MHz
Intel Pentium IV 2.4GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2500+
AMD Athlon64 3200+
AMD Athlon X2 4000+
Intel Core i5 2500K
AMD Athlon X2 4000+ (my Z68 motherboard broke today so I'm back to my sturdy/tardy AMD)
 
20 MHz 386 DX
66 MHz 486 DX2
100 MHz Pentium
450 MHz Pentium 2
1.33 GHz AMD Athlon XP
2.00 GHz Pentium 4 (Sideways transition performance wise)
2.4 GHz AMD Athlon X2 (2 core)
1.6 GHz, 330 Atom (2 core 2 HT) o/c to 2 GHz (Media server)
1.6 GHz Celeron (Laptop)
2.0 GHz mobile i5 (laptop)

I generally upgrade when processors double in speed or more.

I think moore's law has pretty much died far as speed improvements starting in 2003, 2004 or so when the Pentium E crashed and burned. We still get them but more like speed doubles (effectively) every 2, 2.5 years now.
 
i386/33
i486/66
Pentium 100MHz
Pentium MMX 200MHz
AMD K6-2 450MHz
Intel Pentium 3 700MHz
Intel Pentium 3 1GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8GHz)
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz (Northwood)
Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz (Prescott)
Intel Pentium D 805 2.66GHz
Intel Pentium D 925 3.0GHz
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHz
Intel Core i7 875K 2.93GHz
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz
Intel Core i7 970 3.2GHz
Intel Core i7 980X 3.33GHz
 
Here's what I remember:

Intel 386 - 33MHz
Intel 486 - 66Mhz
Intel Pentium III (Mobile) - 1GHz
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ - 1.467GHz
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ - 2.167GHz
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ - 1.8GHz
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ - 2.4GHz
AMD Phenom II 940 - 3.0GHz
AMD Phenom II 955 - 3.2GHz
AMD Phenom II 1090T - 3.2GHz
Intel Core i7-2600K - 3.4GHz

There have been an assortment of other CPUs that I have toyed with, but only the ones listed saw any serious, long-term use. The reason for the big gap from the 386/486 up to the PIII era was because the old boxes were cast-offs from my parents that I got when I was a kid. I didn't take an interest in anything more than typing up the occasional document until after I graduated high school and decided to take up programming, at which time I bought my first laptop, which had the PIII. It all went downhill when I started gaming...
 
Here's my progression... just in order of age, not necessarily how I acquired each of them.

Intel

386SX-16 (started it all, in 1990, after my dad's 8088)
386DX-33
486SX-25/33 *
486DX-33 *
486Dx-50 *
486DX/2-66 *
Pentium-75 (oc'd to 90! Ooooh!) *
Pentium-90 (with FP bug) *
Pentium-100 *
Pentium-133 *
Pentium-200
Pentium-200MMX *
Pentium II 266 *
Pentium II 350 *
Pentium II 400
Pentium III 450
Pentium III 500 *
Pentium III 550 *
Pentium III 600 *
Pentium III 933 *
Pentium III 1GHz *
Pentium 4 1.4GHz *
Pentium 4 1.7GHz *
Pentium 4 2.0GHz *
Pentium 4 2.4GHz *
C2D-2180 2.0GHz *
C2D-E5200 2.5GHz *
C2Q-Q9300 2.5GHz
C2Q-Q9550 2.83GHz *
i7-2600k 3.4GHz *

AMD
386DX-40 (with math co-processor) *
5x86-133
K6-233 *
K6/2-350
K6/2-400 *
Athlon 1.1GHz *
Athlon 1.2GHz *
Athlon 1.4GHz *
Athlon XP1300+ *
Athlon XP2000+ *

* = still have (one or more of each, still working)... yeah... pretty sad...
 
Intel 386SX-16 (my first PC, and the only store-bought as opposed to home-built I've ever owned), bought using tax-refund money
Am386DX-40 (the only AMD CPU I've ever owned - it ran, by turns, DOS+Windows 3.x. DOS+Windows for Workgroups, OS/2, and later, Windows 95 - it later became the first NT box I'd ever own, running NT 3.51 WS in its last days)
Pentium 166 MMX (with the silver ceramic cap - this was the original way to tell MMX from non-MMX in tray-load/OEM CPU varieties) -this was the heart of my last 9x box - with 32 MB of RAM and an AIW Pro graphics card in AGP
Pentium II 350 MHz - the joy of Slot 1 and the infamous BX Beast (the Intel 440BX chipset); the motherboard was the A-Trend AT-6120 (a near-clone if the Intel "Seattle" 440BX motherboard) - this CPU/motherboard combo saw NT, and lots of it; specifically Windows NT 5.0 beta 2, and then 2000 Professional)
Intel Pentium III 1 GHz (Tuliatin) - originally used with an MSI *slocket kit* with the AT-6120, when that motherboard went south, I bought the ABIT VP6 - the first honest *workstation* motherboard I ever owned (in fact, it's still around on a shelf). It takes dual-S370 CPUs and up to 1 GB of SDRAM (four SDRAM slots, each with a 256 MB capacity) - I actually maxed it out with the full GB running XP Professional when it went RTM. This board went to Mom when I went to
Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz (Northwood-B) - Intel's "Killer B" lasted through two Gigabyte motherboards before settling in socketed inside another workstation-class motherboard (the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe) - this is the CPU/mobo combo I was running when I first registered on (H) in 2004. Like the VP6, the E is also on a shelf.
The Northwood-B would be replaced with the P4 2.6 Northwood-C in 2005: the combo of Northwood-C and E Deluxe would last me until two years ago.
Since then, it's been budget (Celeron DC E1200), budget (Celeron DC E3400) and used quad-core (Intel Core2Quad Q6600). The i5-2500K will be my first new quad-core, and the first new Intel CPU since the E3400, along with my first ATX motherboard since the E Deluxe.
 
Motorola MC 68000 8mhz
Motorola MC 68040LC 25mhz
IBM PowerPC G4 Dual 250mhz
IBM PowerPC G4 Dual 400mhz
AMD K6-II 600mhz
AMD Thunderbird 950mhz
Pentium III 550mhz
Pentium III 750mhz
Pentium III Xeon Dual 1Ghz
Athlon MP Dual 1.2Ghz
Athlon MP1900+ Dual 1.6Ghz
VIA C3 1Ghz Nehemiah Processor
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4Ghz (carPC lol)
Intel Pentium 4 Xeon Prestoria Dual 2.4GHz
Intel Core2Duo E6600 Conroe @ 3.6Ghz
Intel Core2Quad Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield @3.2Ghz -- still have
Intel Core2Quad Q9550 Yorkfield @3.4Ghz -- still have
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz
Intel Core2Duo E7500 Wolfdale 2.93GHz (NAS) -- still have
Intel Core i5-650 Clarkdale @3.62Ghz
Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield @ 4.0GHz -- still have
Intel Core i7-930 Bloomfield @ 4.0Ghz -- still have
Intel Core i7-930 Bloomfield @ 3.8GHz -- still have
 
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939
Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4GHz Socket 939
Core i5-2500K
 
AMD Duron 800Mhz
AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz
Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
AMD Opteron 148
Intel E8400
Intel 2500K

All these were clocked high like $1000 processors performance in their time all for less than $200. I'll never pay more than $200 for a processor or upgrade that often because it's a waste of money that could be used for real upgrades like video card or SSD or sweet monitor you actually notice.
 
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8Mhz 80286
25MHz i386-SL (Laptop)
Intel Pentium 166MHz
Intel Pentium III 550MHz (Slot 1) --My First Personally Built PC--
AMD Duron 900Mhz (Soldered-to-mobo on a PCChips "Pro1300+")
AMD AthlonXP 1700+ (Palomino)
AMD AthlonXP 1800+ (T-Bred B)
AMD Athlon64 3000+ (ClawHammer)
Intel Pentium D 940
AMD Athlon64 x2 7550 (Black Edition)
Intel Corei7-2600K

Just my own personal PCs, I've churned through a few work supplied home desktops and laptops that aren't listed.
 
Whisperfang said:
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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Wow... 3 years ago.

I need to add to this my current system which is an I7 2600k overclocked to 4.4GHz.
 
JustLong said:
Pentium 166
Pentium 200
Pentium 200MMX
Pentium II 233
Pentium II 400
Pentium III 733 (Flip Chip)
Pentium IV 2.4 Northwood at 3.0
AMD64 3500+
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Duo E8400
Core i7 920
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Hard to believe I'm still using my 920 after three years (bought my i7 in Nov 98) and I still don't have the upgrade itch. Then again I've replaced everything but the CPU.
 
(Contains any computer I have used/do use significantly, not just ones I actually own.)

PowerPC Performa 75MHz
Pentium III 1GHz
Athlon 64 3400 (939--weird CPU)
Opteron 170 (OC'ed to 2.6GHz)
Core Duo 1.73GHz (laptop)
Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz (replaced Opteron 170)
Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz (laptop, replaced Core Duo 1.73GHz)
Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz (laptop, previous failed)
Core i7 2600k @ 4.4GHz (replaced Core 2 Quad Q6600)
Core i5 2.4GHz (company laptop)
 
486 DX4 100
Pentium 75
Pentium 200 MMX - overclocked to 233
Pentium 3 500 Coppermine - overclocked to 700
Pentium 3 700 Coppermine - overclocked to 850
Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino - won this from AMD...didn't overclock worth a shit
Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred B - overclocked to 2GHZ
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton mobile - overclocked to 2.4GHz
Opteron 146 - overclocked to something like 2.7GHz
Core 2 Duo E6750 - didn't overclock worth a shit
Core 2 Duo Q6600 - overclocked to 3.5 GHz
Xeon L5640 - overclocked to somewhere around 3.9GHz
Core i7 2600K - overclocked to 4.6GHz

Probably missing a few in there somewhere, but that about sums it up.
 
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In my primary machine I've had the following over the years:
i486 DX2-66
K6 233MHz
Celeron 300a
Pentium III 550
Duron 800MHz
Athlon 1.2GHz
Athlon XP 1800+
Athlon XP 2500+
Core 2 Q6600
Phenom II 720BE
Core i7-970

Other notable in my collection but never used daily:
AMD Am486 DX4-100
NexGen Nx586-P90
Pentium Pro 200MHz (1mb cache)
 
I had a couple Pentium IIs, followed by a Pentium III. A 2500+ Barton, 3300+ Venice, AMD64 3000+, Athlon64 x2 4800+, Phenom II 955 (current), a couple Sandy Bridge i3 mobiles
 
JustLong said:
Hard to believe I'm still using my 920 after three years (bought my i7 in Nov 98) and I still don't have the upgrade itch. Then again I've replaced everything but the CPU.
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Nov 98? Wow wish I had access to an i7 back then. I would have ruled the world, or well been able to play Q2 in software faster than any accelerator could have.
 
6502 (Vic-20)
Z80 (Xerox 820-II) Bet you've never seen one of those.
6510 (C64)
386-33Mhz (AMD)
Pentium 90
Pentium MMX 233
Celeron 300A @450
Celeron 366 @550 or so
Pentium 3 550Mhz
Pentium 3 1Ghz
Penitum M 1.8Ghz
Core Duo 2.0 (Macbook Pro)
C2D E6600
C2Q Q6600
Core i7-870
Core i7-2600
Core i7-2635QM (Macbook Pro)

Damn that's a lot of CPUs. I omitted some too.
 
AMD K6 III
AMD Thunderbird 1.0
Intel Pentium 4 2.4
AMD 939 x2 4600
Intel E6750
Intel Q6700
Intel i7-950
Intel i5-2500k
Intel G850 HTPC
 
Topweasel said:
Nov 98? Wow wish I had access to an i7 back then. I would have ruled the world, or well been able to play Q2 in software faster than any accelerator could have.
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Oops, fat fingered that. I obviously meant 08 :eek:
 
25 mhz 386
233 mhz Pentium MMX
550 mhz Celeron
800 mhz Duron(first PC I built myself)
2.2 ghz P4 Northwood
2.4 ghz P4 Northwood
Athlon XP 2000+
Dual P3 1.4 ghz Tualatins
2.8 ghz P4 Northwood
2.2ghz Athlon 64 X2 4400+
3.4 ghz i7 2600

The 4400+ lasted forever, and the 2 P3 Tualatins were fun to play with until the motherboard died and I couldn't find a replacement.
 
Intel Pentium 200 Mhz
Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
AMD Athlon XP 2300+
AMD 64 Newcastle 3400+
Intel C2D E6600
Intel C2Q Q6600
Intel i5-2500k
 
1. can't remember first
intel celeron or pentium 3 800mhz
amd sempron 2600 1800mhz
athlon xp 3600+
athlon 64 x2 3600+
athlon ii p320 (first and only laptop)
intel i3 2120
 
Started out with some sort of AMD 700 or 800 mhz CPU.
I think Athlon XP 1.6 ghz
Edit: Athlon 64 2800+
Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Phenom II 965
Phenom II 1090T
Core i7 920 (current)
 
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Ugh, that covers twenty years, let's try, XT, 286, 386, 486, I think I switched to AMD here, K5 right? NexGen 686, some other AMD likely K6, then more K6, went to perhaps K6-III, I have a faint memory of a Duron at home I sure had one in a datacentre, I had a Mobile Barton at one point, who can remember these things, had an x2 4850e for sure then laptops, yeah... let's see Pentium M Processor 733 in the Dell X1/Samsung Q30, L2400 in the Panasonic CF-Y5, the ThinkPad T400S had what, P9400? yes, I think, now the T420 has an i2520m. I have a Vaio P it has an Atom chip, can't remember which, 1.6Ghz for sure. Next? Praying for a Panasonic B11 w/ Ivy Bridge and TB...
 
Pentium 75 @ 90 MHz (hardcore OC right there :D)
Pentium II 350 (loved the slot)
Pentium II 400 (gift from a friend who upgraded to a Pentium IV 1.4..oh, the jealousy)
Athlon XP 2800+ Venice (Socket 939 represent! had my own shop back then. friends would buy these at regular intervals because they broke off parts of the die when installing heatsinks. or looking at them wrong :D some fried them when OCing too hard. good times.)
Athlon X2 3800+ Toledo @ 2.5 GHz (man that thing was beast...had it paired with 2 7900GTs in SLi)
Core i5 750 (current rig. stock for now.)

my home server:
Venice Athlon (see above)
Opteron 170 (sniped this one off ebay for 20 bucks)

laptop-wise:

Athlon MP 2000+ Barton
Core Duo T2500
Core 2 Duo T5450

oh, the memories...
 
386
486 dx2
cryix 686
pentium
pentium pro 200
p3
p4
athlon 1.1 tbird
ath xp barton 2500
e6400
e8400 x2 4.1ghz
ph2 1100T
 
May have missed some but basically....

Intel Pentium 70MHz (In an IBM Aptiva)
Intel Pentium 133MHz
Intel Pentium MMX 200MHz
Intel Pentium 3 1GHz
Intel Pentium 4 3GHz
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz (one of my favourite chips ever, still viable)
Intel i7 930

Does not include my Color Computers etc.. only PC
 
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