Farkle
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This list doesn't include all of my clear side-steps (such as getting an i5 750 shortly after my i7 920 for HTPC duty or a 1090T and 620 Propus for file server duties during this period):
Zilog Z80 (TRS-80)
MOS 6510 (C=64)
Motorola 68000 (Macintosh 64k)
Intel 8088 (4.777MHz turbo!)
Intel 286-16
Intel 386SX-25
Motorola 68030 (Macintosh LC2, hand-me-down, used it for music-related stuff)
Cyrix 486SRX2-50 (an "overdrive" for my 386, that was slower than a 386DX-40 in the real world)
IBM 486DLC-25 (first time I didn't have to hit F5 to play Doom without lag...)
AMD 486DX2-66
Motorola 68EC020 (Amiga 1200, still have this machine in my closet)
AMD 486DX4-100 (first computer I bought with my own money -- I was 16 and worked all summer to buy this rig and a beater car, then the following Christmas my grandparents got me a Pentium-60.... FML)
Intel Pentium-60 (with FPU bug)
Intel Pentium-75 (traded a friend my Pentium-60 and a GUS Max sound card, he later traded back because he didn't get his parents permission first)
Cyrix 6x86 133 "166 rating" (Egghead Software suckered me into buying this with a magazine issue showing benchmarks that it was faster than the Pentium-133 I was intending on purchasing, it died from overheating and Cyrix refused warranty service.)
Intel Pentium 133
AMD K6 233 (killed my beloved TX97-E motherboard, Asus was cool about it though and sent me a replacement even though the processor was unsupported with their board)
Intel Pentium 166 MMX
Intel Pentium 233 MMX
Intel Pentium Pro
Intel Celeron 300A (464MHz every day with a sandwich cooler, 504MHz benchmarks with a box fan on the open case side, favorite CPU ever)
AMD K6-2 300 (killed it trying to reach extreme clock rates on LN2)
AMD K6-2 333 (see above, except I cracked the motherboard due to an improper seal around the socket this time, rather than outright killing it directly)
AMD K6-3 450
Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 (it was slow, but I had a hard on for the possibility of flashing it to SPARC microcode down the road -- which never happened)
AMD Athlon 650 (slot A)
Intel Pentium-III 733
AMD AthlonXP 1600+
AMD AthlonXP 1800+
AMD AthlonXP 1600+ * 2 (painted to MP, got an extra 1600+ from a friend for upgrading his computer to a Pentium 4)
AMD AthlonMP 2200+ * 2 (damn you cheap Pricewatch deals and my perpetual "must go faster" craving)
Intel Pentium4 2.26B (iCute power supply caused a fire in my case, still have this CPU but have never trusted it in production since)
Intel Pentium4 2.4C
Intel Pentium-M 735
Intel Pentium4 3.0C
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (winchester)
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (venice, needed more RAM)
AMD Opteron 165
PowerMac G5 2GHz dual core (excellent space heater, music workstation at the time)
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 (maxed out my 939 SLI-D board RAM/CPU to try to hold out another 6 months, didn't work, e-peen got the better of me)
Intel Core2Duo E6600 (bad luck, had a 2.9GHz overclocker dud without massive voltage)
Intel Core2Duo E8400
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (680i first revision board wouldn't overclock... still use this system today as a test bench to confirm hardware died)
Intel Core2Quad Q9300 (Fry's rebate on board/CPU combo, intended to try to return Q9300 and use my Q6600, but I ended up just using the Q9300 instead because it hit 3.5GHz at stock volts)
Intel Xeon E5450 * 2 (Skulltrail music workstation, those VST effects are hungry when they're against 16 tracks)
Intel i7 920 (current gaming PC)
Don't intend on upgrading until my i7 920 (3.6GHz) is 30% slower than current enthusiast CPU at stock speeds. I wasted a lot of money in the past chasing that extra 5-10% and stroking my e-penis with synthetic benchmarks, and upgrading just because whatever video card I bought at the time wasn't 100% efficient with the previous CPU bandwidth. Not anymore, I have other expensive hobbies that are filling that gap! Guess I'm not [H]ard anymore, and I don't feel like I wasted as much money after seeing Dan_D's post
Zilog Z80 (TRS-80)
MOS 6510 (C=64)
Motorola 68000 (Macintosh 64k)
Intel 8088 (4.777MHz turbo!)
Intel 286-16
Intel 386SX-25
Motorola 68030 (Macintosh LC2, hand-me-down, used it for music-related stuff)
Cyrix 486SRX2-50 (an "overdrive" for my 386, that was slower than a 386DX-40 in the real world)
IBM 486DLC-25 (first time I didn't have to hit F5 to play Doom without lag...)
AMD 486DX2-66
Motorola 68EC020 (Amiga 1200, still have this machine in my closet)
AMD 486DX4-100 (first computer I bought with my own money -- I was 16 and worked all summer to buy this rig and a beater car, then the following Christmas my grandparents got me a Pentium-60.... FML)
Intel Pentium-60 (with FPU bug)
Intel Pentium-75 (traded a friend my Pentium-60 and a GUS Max sound card, he later traded back because he didn't get his parents permission first)
Cyrix 6x86 133 "166 rating" (Egghead Software suckered me into buying this with a magazine issue showing benchmarks that it was faster than the Pentium-133 I was intending on purchasing, it died from overheating and Cyrix refused warranty service.)
Intel Pentium 133
AMD K6 233 (killed my beloved TX97-E motherboard, Asus was cool about it though and sent me a replacement even though the processor was unsupported with their board)
Intel Pentium 166 MMX
Intel Pentium 233 MMX
Intel Pentium Pro
Intel Celeron 300A (464MHz every day with a sandwich cooler, 504MHz benchmarks with a box fan on the open case side, favorite CPU ever)
AMD K6-2 300 (killed it trying to reach extreme clock rates on LN2)
AMD K6-2 333 (see above, except I cracked the motherboard due to an improper seal around the socket this time, rather than outright killing it directly)
AMD K6-3 450
Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 (it was slow, but I had a hard on for the possibility of flashing it to SPARC microcode down the road -- which never happened)
AMD Athlon 650 (slot A)
Intel Pentium-III 733
AMD AthlonXP 1600+
AMD AthlonXP 1800+
AMD AthlonXP 1600+ * 2 (painted to MP, got an extra 1600+ from a friend for upgrading his computer to a Pentium 4)
AMD AthlonMP 2200+ * 2 (damn you cheap Pricewatch deals and my perpetual "must go faster" craving)
Intel Pentium4 2.26B (iCute power supply caused a fire in my case, still have this CPU but have never trusted it in production since)
Intel Pentium4 2.4C
Intel Pentium-M 735
Intel Pentium4 3.0C
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (winchester)
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (venice, needed more RAM)
AMD Opteron 165
PowerMac G5 2GHz dual core (excellent space heater, music workstation at the time)
AMD Athlon64 FX-60 (maxed out my 939 SLI-D board RAM/CPU to try to hold out another 6 months, didn't work, e-peen got the better of me)
Intel Core2Duo E6600 (bad luck, had a 2.9GHz overclocker dud without massive voltage)
Intel Core2Duo E8400
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (680i first revision board wouldn't overclock... still use this system today as a test bench to confirm hardware died)
Intel Core2Quad Q9300 (Fry's rebate on board/CPU combo, intended to try to return Q9300 and use my Q6600, but I ended up just using the Q9300 instead because it hit 3.5GHz at stock volts)
Intel Xeon E5450 * 2 (Skulltrail music workstation, those VST effects are hungry when they're against 16 tracks)
Intel i7 920 (current gaming PC)
Don't intend on upgrading until my i7 920 (3.6GHz) is 30% slower than current enthusiast CPU at stock speeds. I wasted a lot of money in the past chasing that extra 5-10% and stroking my e-penis with synthetic benchmarks, and upgrading just because whatever video card I bought at the time wasn't 100% efficient with the previous CPU bandwidth. Not anymore, I have other expensive hobbies that are filling that gap! Guess I'm not [H]ard anymore, and I don't feel like I wasted as much money after seeing Dan_D's post