What is your CPU History

[venusiansky]

Apple II clone (don't know CPU)
486SX 25Mhz
486DX2 50Mhz Overdrive
Pentium 100 @ 120Mhz
Cyrix PR166 133Mhz
Pentium 166Mhz
AMD K6-2 350Mhz
AMD Athlon 700Mhz (Slot A)
AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
C2D Quad Q9450

 

[Ravensong]

Ohhh boy this will be a fun trip down memory lane for this 23 year old

486SX 33Mhz (1993), then the horrid wait till we purchased a pc with a PII 233Mhz proc!!!, P3 866Mhz, Athlon 1Ghz, T-bird 1.4Ghz, XP-1800+, XP-2200+, Athlon 64 3000+, X2 3800+, E6420 OC~3.2Ghz and finally my current e8400 OC~4.2Ghz.

Starting around the P3-866Mhz area when I was 14 I had computers coming out my arse !! With processors ranging all over the place... Duron's, P4's, some of the older "Pentium" chips which at the time pretty much handled Starcraft and that was it Once we purchased the P3 866Mhz system I built my own shortly after using a slot A 750mhz Athlon and found out the hard way why some ram is more expensive than others. I had purchased some crazy cheap 6 DOLLAR 128mb sticks from some internet site at the time. PC always froze trying to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein.... then one day I put the Kingston ram from our main PC into my build and KABLAMO it worked

I had a total of 8 PC's on this small plant porch (felt like a sauna with 8 PC's running and 8 bodies) and all my friends would come over to play Starcraft, CS when it was still a Half-Life mod and other fun titles that required little to run on most PC's... Then games advanced and I made all those friends pay me to build their own dang computers because it was too expensive to keep 8 PC's up to standard No one complained and now today I run my own Computer Business locally and have 5 high end systems I constantly toy with ^_^ If it wasn't for video games on PC's I wouldn't be able to make a living this way... Playstation never forced me to learn anything useful

 

[BlueAcolyte]

pentium 150mhz
pentium III ???mhz
Pentium D 830 3GHz
Core2Duo E4500 2.93GHz

 

[fk49]

Cyrix 6x86 100mhz
Celeron 4 2.4ghz
Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0ghz (current)

Heh i'm such a rookie here

 

[bryanW1995]

pentium mmx 166
k6-2 400
pIII coppermine 700@784
Tbird 1.2@1.33
Axp 2500+ barton
Axp 3200+ barton
A64 3700+ @2.5
FX-55 @ 2.9
Opteron 180
E6750 @3.4

10 cpus in 12 years since college...unfortunately, I'm buying them more often now, too...

 

[Bateluer]

Pentium 166 > Celeron 433 > P3 500 > Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz > Pentium 4 2.4C > Pentium 4 3.4E > Athlon 62 X2 4200 > Core 2 Duo E6600.

Thats only counting desktops and only systems that I built myself, not those given to me. Prior to the P166, I had a Commodore 64, a 286, a 386, and a 486 at various points.

 

[wwswimming]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Motorola 6809 (Tandy CoCo), Zilog Z80, 8086, 80286 (daughter card), 80386, 80486SX, 80486DX, Celeron 300, Celeron 450, Pentium II 500, Pentium III, K5, K6, TBird 1GHz, Pentium 4 2.4GHz, Athlon 3200+, Pentium 4 3.2GHz, E6300, Q6600.

Lots more that I have forgot like a few Athlon XP's, etc. Hell, I had 18 PC's (not all in cases) running in my house/garage at one time and 3 of those had multiple processors in them. You can't expect an old fart like me to remember that many CPU's, can you?

what he said !


original IBM PC (8088) (1984 ?)

286-12 (1990)

whatever came in a Mac IIcx ( i had a surplus Lockheed one that
had been transplanted to a ruggedized box with EMI filters on the
keyboard, mouse, etc. ) (1993)

486DX20, paid $556 for the motherboard with pre-VESA local bus
graphics card (1992)

Pentium 120 (1996)

PowerPC120 (to run VRML-compliant browsers on a Mac, 1997)

486DX100 (1997)

* i gave the P120 & the DX100 to a Kurdish refugee in about 1997.
a friend of a woman friend worked at a refugee agency and this
computer guy had been helping some Americans in Iraq (official
story is that they were 'film-makers'). they air-lifted him out of
Iraq, deposited him in San Diego. he sold the P120 for $300 &
kept the DX100 for himself.

1998 Xmas present - P2-400 on an Asus P2B motherboard

then it all blurs together.

 

[ShockwaveVT]

desktop:
1996 - Pentium 166 MHz (P54CS)
1999 - Celeron (Pentium II) 333 MHz @ 450 MHz (Mendocino)
2002 - Pentium 4 1.8 GHz (Northwood)
2004 - Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (Prescott)
2006 - Core2Duo E6300 1.86 GHz @ 2.4 GHz (Conroe)

laptops:
2003 - Pentium III Mobile 600 MHz (circa 2000)
2006 - Pentium M 1.2 GHz (circa 2003)
both were purchased from work for ~$100, the screen on the Pentium M died, so I'm back to using the 8 year old P3-M

htpc
2007 - Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53 GHz (circa 2002)
brother's old system

bolded are still in use

 

[M1A]

Commodore 64
Pent 100
Pent II 300 @450
Pent III 550
Pent III 700
Pent 4 1.8
P4 2.4
P4 3.0
P4 3.2
P4 3.4
P4 3.6
Pent D 3.0
C2D 3.0 E8400 and love it
and a few in between I cannot remember................

 

[Arcanedeath]

Ok here we go

These are just my Personal PC's Had Family PC's of the XT, 286, 386, & 486 Varieties.

Desktops
Pentium Classic 100 socket 5
Celeron 333A @ 550 (smoked all those 300 @ 450 ) slot 1
Pentium III 550E @ 733 socket 370 w/ slot 1 adaptor
Pentium III 733 @ 825 socket 370
Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 Ghz @ 1.4 socket A
Athlon Xp 1600+ Palamino @ 1.8 socket A
Athlon Xp 2500+ Barton @ 3200+ socket A
Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester @ 2.4 socket 939
Athlon 64 4400+ Toledo @ 2.8 socket 939
Xeon 3060 @ 3.2 socket 775
E8400 @ 4050 socket 775

Laptops
Pentium 120
Mobile Athlon 64 3000+

Welp that sums it up for now, plenty of other PC's I've built over the years too those are just my personal machines.

 

[Winterpool]

My first computer that wasn't a calculator or game console: the Apple //c powered by, I believe, the WDC 65C02 at 1.023 MHz. At university, I bought my first proper notebook, the PowerBook 145 (Motorola 68030, 25 MHz). This was eventually stolen by a flatmate and replaced by a PowerBook 165, if I recall correctly (same cpu at 33 MHz)...

From the late '90s onwards I used mostly x86 cpus, owing to poverty:

Pentium, 166 MHz
iMac G3 (PowerPC 750), 400 MHz
Celeron 366 (Mendocino), overclocked to 550 MHz
Celeron 300, overclocked to 450 MHz
Athlon (Thunderbird), 800 MHz
Pentium 4 (Northwood), 2 GHz
K6 III, 400 MHz
Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton), 1.83 GHz -- running two of these
Pentium III (Coppermine), 866 MHz -- also two

Now building: Intel P35 system round a Xeon E3110 (Wolfdale), 3 GHz... Also have an Athlon 64 3200+ and X2 3800+ sitting unused at the moment. When I win the lotto, I will return to Apple and buy a Penryn-cpu MacBook Pro... Am currently typing on my girlfriend's MacBook (Merom, 2 GHz).

Edited: dang, remembering more all the time...

 

[Gillbot]

I couldn't make a list even if I wanted to. Way too many to try and remember.

 

[Brunnis]

In chronological order. I have a few machines, so that's why there are some strange jumps.

80286
Pentium 90MHz
Pentium 166MHz
Pentium III 500MHz
Athlon 1GHz
AthlonXP 2000+
AthlonXP 1700+
AthlonXP-M 2500+
AthlonXP-M 2600+
Pentium M 1.7GHz
Athlon64 3500+
Athlon64 X2 3800+
Core 2 Duo E6600
Pentium Dual Core E2160
Athlon64 X2 4400+

 

[NFarnzy]

Here is my List

Commodore 64
AMD 300mhz
Celeron 300a@450mhz
AMD 650@800mhz T-Bird
AMD Xp2400 Thoroughbred
AMD64X2 3800@2600mhz
IntelE8400 ( havent got to O/C yet )

 

[Twsmit]

Apple II
Mac Performa 550
PII 266mhz
Pentium 4 1.4ghz
Pentium 4 1.8ghz NW @ 2.26
Athlon XP 2100+ OCed
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton OCed
Pentium M 1.6ghz
Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.6
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2.6
Pentium E2180 OCed ~3ghz

 

[Y23KC]

Celeron 466mhz
Duron 800mhz
Thunderbird 1400mhz (burned it up)
Thunderbird 1000mhz (awesome stepping at the time, overclocked to 1.5ghz+)
Athlon XP 1900+
Athlon 2x1600+ in a duallie mobo
Athlon 2000+
P4 NW 1.8ghz
P4 NW 2.53ghz
P4 NW 2.4ghz (good stepping for overclocking, like 3.3ghz)
P4 NW 2.8ghz (oc'd to 3.7ghz, stayed with this for a long time)
e4400 c2d 2.0
q6600 c2q

I tried lots of different duron and thunderbirds during their heyday. Never went back to AMD after switching to the P4 northwoods.

 

[djnsmith7]

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.8 Ghz) > AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (2.2 Ghz) > Intel E8400 (4.0 Ghz)

 

[coldpower27]

Pentium 200 MMX, Pentium 3 800EB, Celeron D 347, Core 2 Duo E4300.

 

[TheDoc9]

286-11mhz
486DX2-66
pentium 90 @ 100!
pentium 166
Dual Celeron 366's @ 550
Athlon 2000
Athlon 3000+ @ 3200+
Xeon X3350, still working on the OC


The 286 also had Turbo mode, a real plus. I can't believe It's been so long either, 15+ years. For some reason I enjoyed computers more back then too.

 

[keeleysam]

386
486dx
Pentium 100
Pentium II 233
Pentium II 400
Pentium III 500
Pentium III 600
Athlon 1400+
Pentium IV 2.0
Athlon XP 2600+
Athlon XP 3200+
Athlon 64 3500+
Athlon 64 3700+
Opteron 165
Opteron 180
Core 2 Duo E6600
Core 2 Duo E6700
Xeon X3210 B3
Xeon X3210 G0
Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0

This is my main rig, I've had hundreds of other chips, and this does not include ES chips.

 

[E6700]

Athlon xp 2800+>>>c2d E6700 >>>> Q6600

 

[thilanliyan]

486 DX2-66
P3 500MHz Coppermine
P4 1.4GHz Willamette (yes, RDRAM)
dual Xeon 2.0GHz socket 603 (RDRAM again...lol I had to find a use for the expensive stuff I bought for the P4 1.4)
AMD Athlon 3000+
Intel Core 2 E6400

 

[Assimilator1]

Main PC,
BBC B+
Pentium 166MMX, Pentium 200MMX @225, K6-2 350 @400 (a mistake).
Celeron 366 @550 (still got it ), PIII 650 @820.
XP1500 @1.52GHz, XP1700(Tbred B) @2.03GHz, XP2400 @2.2GHz, XPM 2500 @2.5GHz.
E6420 @3.2GHz & current Q6600 @3GHz.

In my 2nd PC I've had,
Pentium 90,133, Pentium 233MMX @266MHz.
Celeron 300a @464MHz.
Duron 1100 @1230(?)MHz ,XP1600 @1.8GHz, XP1700 @2GHz, XP2400 @2.1GHz.
Sempron 3100 @2.5GHz (current).

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i enjoy seeing the people with predominant amd-sided or intel-sided buying trends, or sticking to one brand over the entire life of their pc use; versus the ones who've obviously bought the price/performance overclockers from either camp.

ummm.. doesnt this force the other side to get better by doing so?

well, its useful in identifying biased fanbois who cannot be trusted. I like seeing people with a nice split of processors, showing they bought what made sense.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Cyrix p200+ (built when I was 16 and had very little available to spend)
K6 233 (cyrix blew up after a year so I built something better. Used same 32mb of PC66 SDRam.) Kept this box as a secondary PC while I had the celeron 300a. Eventually put an AMD K6-2 380 CPU on this mobo.
Celeron 300a --> Celeron 533a
After dropping out of college in 2000, I liked to keep 2 or 3 PCs and I had a lot more expendable cash since I was working full time.
Athlon Classic 500
Duron 700 --> Athlon 1000
AthlonXP 1800 --> AthlonXP mobile 2500
PPC 166mhz (cheap used apple laptop)
Cheapo Dell Servec, Celeron 1.8ghz
AthlonXP barton 2000
P3 450 (cheap used laptop)
AthlonXP mobile 2500
Then I bought my townhouse ... and had much less money for upgrades ....
Celeron 700mhz (free old box)
A64 3000+ (754)
A64X2 4000+ (939)
P4m 1.8ghz (used laptop)
Since then I've sold the townhouse and bought a new house. Hopefully next year I'll have funds to upgrade again ...