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Desktop:
Pentium 4 531
Phenom II X3 720
Core i7-2600K

Laptop:
Core 2 Duo T5750
Core 2 Duo T5800
Core 2 Duo T6400
Core 2 Duo T8100
Core i5-480M
Core i5-2540M
 
E-2160
E-5700
E3-1230V2

and will upgrade to another "E" proc which is haswell-E :D hopefully :p
 
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2005 - AMD 64 3200+

2008 - AMD 64 X2 6000+
2012 - Phenom II 975

The last two are technically the same system, but the only thing left from the original is some ddr 2 ram, the motherboard and the case. I've told myself once they make a monitor that can deliver 4k at 120hz I'll pull the trigger on an actual upgrade, I think my box of Theseus has reached its limit.
 
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i dont remember th eold ones, but starting from 386...
.........
A64 X2
Phenom II 955
FX-8120
FX-8320
4770K
 
I have a spotty memory. And newegg order history was not around forever, so here's what I can remember. Im an intel only guy...

486 33mhz

486 DX2 50 mhz

Some Pentium model, cant remember.

Long gap, cant remember and now new egg order history:

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Kentsfield 3.0GHz LGA 775 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80562QX6850
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 Yorkfield 3.2GHz LGA 775 136W Quad-Core Processor BX80569QX9770
Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition Bloomfield 3.33GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80601975
Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.33GHz LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor AT80613003543AE - OEM.
Intel Core i7-990X (from Ebay)

Considered jumping to the 4960x but really, my system is still gaming fine with the 990x at 4.53 + a Titan. Had it up to 4.67 or so but it would occasionally crash when I would leave it on for long periods, so settled at 4.53. Runs for weeks at that speed.

Maybe wait for a 8 core heavy hitter...

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Some video card history:

some 3dfx card....
(gap)
ATI 9800 pro
Radeon X850XT
2 x 8800 Ultra in SLI
GeForce 9800 GX2 KO edition
GeForce GTX 295
GTX 580
GTX 680
TITAN
 
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1998 - Intel Pentium II 300mhz
2007 - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 3200mhz OC

No current plan on updating my system, perhaps when octa core becomes main stream.
 
8088
80386/20
80486/33
80486/DX2-66
P60
Dual P-Pro 180's
P2-333
P3-750
A64 3200+
Opty 165
Q6600
i7 920
 
I don't actually remember what hardware I had from years ago... something like this..

Pentium 3 600mhz
Pentium 4 1.6ghz
Pentium 4 3.4ghz
Opteron something or other by AMD (underwhelming, should have waited for core 2 duo)
Core 2 duo E6600
Core 2 quad Q6600
2600k

next chip will be haswell-e, hopefully in 2014. There's no real need to upgrade to this, but I'm gonna do it anyways if there's new technologies introduced like DDR4.


I've always passed down old hardware to my mother, she's running 2 of my old systems, my sister still has a third one.
 
2003:Intel Celeron 2.4ghz
2004:Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8ghz
2008:Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3.0ghz
2011:Intel Core i7-2630QM 2.0GHZ (laptop)
2013:AMD FX 8320
 
486SX25
486DX66
Pentium 60
Pentium 166
Pentium 200MMX
AMD k62-????
Celeron 300A
AMD Thunderbird 1ghz - WOW THAT THING WAS HOT
AMD Barton 2400
AMD Opty 165 @ 3ghz gold chip
Intel q6600
Intel I7 920
AMD x6 1090T
Intel i5 4670k


I know I am missing some in there.
 
Motorola 68000 8mhz (Apple Mac SE)
Motorola 68040 33mhz (Apple Mac Performa 640)
Intel Pentium 166mhz (some HP junker)
Intel Pentium II 233mhz (some HP junker)
Intel Pentium IV Williamette 1.3ghz (Dell Optiplex Workstation)
Intel Pentium III Tulatin 1ghz (this was actually an upgrade over the P4 Williamette in some respects. Also was my first custom built computer)
AMD Athlon64 3000+ Newcastle 2.0ghz (overclocked to 2.4ghz)
AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ 2.2ghz (overclocked to 2.7ghz)
AMD Phenom 9850BE 2.5ghz (overclocked to 3.0ghz)
Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4ghz (overclocked to 4.5ghz)
 
Pentium I 233Mhz
2x Celeron 433Mhz (Celeron 2P)
Athlon XP 1800+
Pentium e2180
i5 760
i7 870
i5 2500k
i7 875k
i7 2600k (a few times)
i7 3770k
i7 3930k
2x E5-2680s
Celeron G1610
 
Cyrix PR200+
Cyrix PR300+ MIII or something like that from around 1998~1999
Celron 300A @ 500mhz
AMD Duron of some frequency
AMD Thunderbird of some kind
AMD 2500+ @ 3200+
AMD Opteron @ 3.2ghz
Q6600
i7 920
i7 2700K
 
IBM PC 486 SX
Pentium 1 200 MHz
Pentium 2 400 MHz
Pentium 3 450 MHz
Pentium 3 800 MHz
Pentium 4 1.8A GHz
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz
AMD 3000+
AMD X2 3800+
Intel Q6600
Intel i7 2600K

Of the ones I remember...
 
Celeron 400 (pos store bought)
Dual Celeron 400's @533Mhz (Abit BP6 FTW)
1400 Thunderbird
2500 Barton
3400 Athlon 754 socket
6400 x2 Athlon AM2 @ 3.35Ghz
Phenom II 940 @ 3.3Ghz
Phenom II 740 4 core unlock @ 3.7Ghz
i7 2700k @ 4.6Ghz on air
 
286 10MHz
386 25MHz
486 DX100
Pentium 75
Pentium 120
P2 266
Celeron 366
Dual Celery 366 @ 504
P3 600 @ 900 (I think)
P3 900 @ 1.2 GHz
P4 1.6 @ 2.4
P4 2.4 @ 3.2
Opteron 1.8 @ 2.6
i7-920 @ 3.6
4770k @4.6
 
my post in 2009:
Since age 16 (1997):
Cyrix M2 300 (233mhz)
Athlon 550 (slot A)
Athlon Thunderbird ..........1.0 @ 1.33
Pentium 4 Northwood.......1.6A @ 2.4
Athlon XP Barton 2500+...1.8? @ 2.5
Opteron 165....................1.8 @ 2.5
Core 2 Q6600 .................2.4 @ 3.0 .......+Laptop Turion X2 TL-50 @ 1.6
Phenom 2 720 ................2.8 @ 3.4
Core i5 750 ....................2.66 @ tbd

Since then....
FX6300 in my server
Athlon II X3 440 in htpc
i3 2100 in kitchen comp
G1610's in mining comps
i5 2500k @ 4.5
i5 4670k @ lousy haswells!
 
286 - played hours of Rogue on this thing.. lol
386 - installed a Roland LAPC-I in this system; ahh the glory days of Sierra/Dynamix DOS games
486DX2-66
Socket7 Pentium - 150Mhz
Socket7 Pentium - 200Mhz
Pentium II - 300Mhz
Celeron A - OC'd to 450Mhz
AMD Athlon T-Bird - can't remember clock rate :(
AMD Athlon XP
(My first order from Newegg in 2002 -->) Pentium 4 - 2Ghz Northwood - the only build where I would use RDRAM.
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Newcastle 2.2GHz
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 2.4GHz
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Quad (Q6600)
Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz (OC'd to 3.4Ghz)
Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (OC'd to 4.2 Ghz)
 
Ones I personally purchased and assembled myself:
  • Intel 100mhz, I think this was before the Pentium name came out. I remember just calling it an x86 chip.
  • Intel Celeron 300A
  • AMD 750mhz. first real foray into overclocking. Did the "pencil trick" to get it to 1ghz.
  • AMD Thunderbird 1.2ghz. i think i could only manage 1.4ghz. these chips were maxxed right from the factory pretty much.
  • Intel core2duo - 2.5ghz. Watercooled. 4ghz. Still running. Using it to type this post.
  • Intel i5 4670k - 3.4ghz. Just delivered yesterday. Sitting on my couch waiting to be installed. :)
 
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From the rigs I built for myself

AMD K6 233mhz - Socket 7
Intel Pentium 233mhz - Socket 7
Intel Pentium II 350mhz - Slot 1
AMD Thunderbird - 1.2ghz Socket A
Intel Pentium IV 2.53ghz Socket 478
Intel Pentium IV 2.8ghz Socket 478
AMD Opteron 170 2.0ghz Socket 939
AMD FX60 2.6ghz Socket 939
Intel X6800 2.93ghz LGA775
Intel QX9650 3.0ghz LGA775
Intel i7 2600K 3.4ghz LGA1155
 
Opteron something or other by AMD (underwhelming, should have waited for core 2 duo)

I am not sure just turning in your [H]ardCard would be sufficient punishment for this statement...I personally should come over and smash all your nonhardware like the AMD Fixer for this...:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Mine (from a long memory):

Some Commodore System I wish I had kept.

8088
Pentium 100
AMD K6/II/III (family) 233, 300, 450 all O/C'd
Some junk Cyrix PR rated 200 that I O/C'd the snot out just to kill it on purpose
Celly 300A @ 450, 333(or350?) @ 500
P3 533 @ 672 (Kick ass Soyo MB with INSANE 168mhz FSB)
P3 733@ 1Gz x 2 (Abit VP6 FTW ala Quake 3 launch)


AMD T-bird 1Ghz @ 1.33Ghz (first to crack 1.3Ghz on these at the time)
AMD XP1700 @ 2.1Ghz
AMD XP 2100 @ 2.4Ghz (kinda fuzzy on this one)
AMD 4000 (Sledgehammer core?) Sckt 754 O/C'd (X-mas gift to parents)
AMD Athlon 64 (90nm Winchester Core @ release) @ 2.6Ghz
AMD A64 X2 3800 @ 2.65Ghz (right at the AMD price cuts)

HP mobile workstation for CAD use for school/work with a Core (first gen) 2Ghz dual core and Mobile Quattro GPU..This was my first laptop, and I couldn't help ripping it apart and removing the stock thermal compound/pads and replacing everything with Arctic Cooling MX and Japan made Thermal pads...It made the CPU/GPU fans go from running @ 80-100% non stop (sounded like a Jet!) while working in cad to barely being heard

Intel Pentium E4400 (first lapped cpu I did) heavily o/c'd
Intel Pentium E4500 (same as above)
Intel Core 2Q Q600 B3 @ 3Ghz (friggin space heater!)
Intel Core 2Q Q600 G0 @ 3.4Ghz (like a fridge compared to the B3 above!)
AMD Turion X2 2Ghz HP notebook

AMD PII X6 1055T (launch week) @ 4.3Ghz (water)
Intel Xeon Quad/HT 1366 @ 4.2Ghz (water)
Intel I970 Hexcore @ 4.2Ghz (water)

Atom 1.8Ghz DC w/HT ION with 9400GT for web usage
Intel 3770K @ 4.8Ghz de-lidded (Golden Boy, uses no Vcore and insanely low temps).
^^This^^ guy is going into a new board (MSI Z77 MPower) and new case NZXT H630 this weekend).
Intel Celly G2120 (replacing the 3770K in my Z77 Extreme 4)
 
Pentium III (Don't know what model, but slow)
Pentium IV(Don't know what model, also slow)
AMD X3 720 BE (Unlocked!)
i7 4930k (I'm going home to snag that tonight and put it into my current case until I get more parts for my new rig).

I feel like a baby looking at some of these lists..
 
Pentium III (Don't know what model, but slow)
Pentium IV(Don't know what model, also slow)
AMD X3 720 BE (Unlocked!)
i7 4930k (I'm going home to snag that tonight and put it into my current case until I get more parts for my new rig).

I feel like a baby looking at some of these lists..

Just wait another decade. Then you'll have someone posting that their first CPU was a "slow" 4770K. :D
 
Pentium 4 660
Pentium D somewhere in here
Core Duo T2400 (Socket 479)
Intel C2Q Q6600
Intel i5 4670k

All except the last two were engineering samples. I had a lot before the 660, but I can't remember them. Mostly same gen 478 engineering samples.
 
Pentium 4 1.6GHz - 2003
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ - 2006
Phenom X4 9600 Black Edition - 2009
Core i5 2500K - 2011

Those were just my main rigs. If you count all the out of date CPUs I've owned:

Intel 80286
Intel 80386 (laptop)
Intel 80486 (66MHz, I believe)
AMD 5x86 120MHz
Numerous Pentiums and Pentium MMXs
Pentium Pro 200MHz
Numerous Pentium II, !!!, and Celeron chips based off of the P6 microarchitecture
Athlon K7 (Slot A)
A few Athlon XPs
Athlon 64 FX-55 90nm version
Dual Opteron 1.8GHz Socket 940
 
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TMS9900 in a TI-99/4A - 1982, in my first true computer, cpu ran at 3 mhz.
8086 Intel in a Compaq Deskpro - 1985, was 1 mhz stock, 3 mhz on turbo.
486-33 Intel - 1989.
286-20 AMD - 1991.
PR150+ Cyrix - worst PC ever, should've gone for the Pentium-100. - 1996
P2-450 with 100 mhz FSB - 1998
P3-550 with 100 mhz FSB - 2000
Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino - 2001
Athlon XP 3200+ Barton - 2003
C2D E6600 @ 3.0 ghz - 2006
Phenom II X4 945 BE @ 3.6 ghz - 2009
Phenom II X4 955 BE @ 4.2 ghz - 2011

Planning a new build for 2014, it'll probably be a Haswell.
 
TMS9900 in a TI-99/4A - 1982, in my first true computer, cpu ran at 3 mhz.
8086 Intel in a Compaq Deskpro - 1985, was 1 mhz stock, 3 mhz on turbo.
486-33 Intel - 1989.
286-20 AMD - 1991.
PR150+ Cyrix - worst PC ever, should've gone for the Pentium-100. - 1996
P2-450 with 100 mhz FSB - 1998
P3-550 with 100 mhz FSB - 2000
Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino - 2001
Athlon XP 3200+ Barton - 2003
C2D E6600 @ 3.0 ghz - 2006
Phenom II X4 945 BE @ 3.6 ghz - 2009
Phenom II X4 955 BE @ 4.2 ghz - 2011

Planning a new build for 2014, it'll probably be a Haswell.

Damn, I wish we could get 200% overclocking gains nowadays.
 
I used to be RMA manager for a small computer part warehouse many years back, so a good chunk of these cpus and mobos came from there and I got a HUGE stash of stuff when they went out of business, heck, I still have a lot of this old junk. My wife hates to visit the garage :)

8088
386
486
Cyrix 5x86
Pentium 75
Pentium 90
Cyrix PR166+ (I killed this POS in a demonstration of how static can really damage electronics to some student workers)
Pentium 233 MMX
4x Pentium Pro 200( Do servers I own count?)
AMD K6-2 333
AMD K6-III 400
2x Celeron 300A@450mhz Slot 1 ( stayed on this one for a while)
AMD Athlon 900 Slot A
Athlon 64 2800+ Socket 754
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Pentium D 945
Core 2 Quad Q9450
Core I7 920
Xeon L5640 [email protected] (Got this one for free!!! Still my fastest rig to date)
Core I5 3570 @4ghz (current gaming rig)
 
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Western Digital 65816 (2.8 mhz)
Texas Instruments 486 (66mhz)
Pentium II (450mhz)
AMD Athlon XP (1333mhz)
Intel Celeron (3?ghz) maybe slower then the Athlon lol
Some laptops which I wont even count Intel i3, AMD Athlon II
AMD FX 8350 (4.0ghz)
 
I've had a few CPUs over the years...

8086
Pentium 100 on Asus Triton MB (OC'ed to 133...my first overclock)
Pentium 200 MMX Toshiba 310CDS laptop
Pentium III 450MHz on Asus P3B-F (OC'ed to 600)
Pentium III 700 MHz Coppermine (OC'ed to 933MHz)
Athlon 1.2 GHz Thunderbird AXIA core
Athlon 1.4 GHz Thunderbird AXIA core
Dual Athlon XP 2000 (MP bridge connect hack) on Tyan Tiger MP
Pentium IV 1.6GHz 478 Northwood (OC'ed to 2.1GHz)
Pentium IV 2.5GHz 478
Pentium IV 2.8GHz 478
Pentium IV 3.06GHz 478 (first HT CPU)
Pentium IV Extreme Edition 3.2GHz
Pentium IV 3.0GHz Prescott
Core Duo T2600 in Dell XPS M1710
Core 2 Duo T7400 in same Dell XPS
Core 2 Duo T7600G (OCed to 3.16GHz) in same Dell XPS
Core 2 Duo X6800
Core 2 Quad Q6600 (OCed to 3.0 GHz)
Xeon 5160 (x2) in Precision 690
Xeon X5365 (x2) in Precision 690
Dual Core 2 Extreme QX9775 on D5400XS (my most favorite CPU/platform combo of all time)
Dual Xeon W5580 on Tyan 7025 motherboard
Dual Xeon X5690 on HP Proliant ML370 G6 (used as WS/server/gamer)
Dual Xeon L5520 on HP Proliant ML370 G6 (for efficiency--current server)
Xeon E5520 (current beater)
Xeon E5-1660 (current gamer)
Core i7-3820QM on MacBook Pro Retina (current lappy)
Dual Xeon E5-2687W (server/WS build in progress)
 
The first CPU of a computer I bought was a IBM G3 333mhz. OC'd that bitch with a Pencil to 400something mhz.

Otherwise whatever was in the Atari 800.
 
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