For me i386SX-20, i486DX2-66, Pentium P100, Pentium P233mmx, K6-2 500, Athlon 1400, Athlon64 3200+, Athlon64 4200+, Xeon X3210, i7 920, Xeon X5650
And I've still got most of 'em too.
For me i386SX-20, i486DX2-66, Pentium P100, Pentium P233mmx, K6-2 500, Athlon 1400, Athlon64 3200+, Athlon64 4200+, Xeon X3210, i7 920, Xeon X5650
And I've still got most of 'em too.
486 DX2, Pentium III 450Mhz, Athlon 1.2Ghz, Athlon XP 2700+, Core 2 Quad Q6600, i3-2120.
Eighties sometime: MOS Technology 6502 (AKA BBC Master-series)
Nineties sometime: 386-SX (can't remember what speed);
1997: Pentium 200 MMX (oh yeah baby, MMX, my first home build PC)
2000: AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1GHz (saved up and was so excited to get the first gigahertz CPU)
2001: Intel Pentium 4 "Willamette" 1.6GHz (the AMD was terrible, had to switch)
2003: Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" 3GHz (With Hyperthreading, baby)
2008: Intel Pentium Duo 1.6GHz (I think "Conroe")
2008: Intel Core i7-920 "Nehalem" 2.6GHz
2014: Intel Core i7-5930K "Haswell-E" 3.5GHz
With a bit of overclocking dusted over the top every now and then. That was just my "main" PC.
I had various Celerons, Durons and other lower-power CPUs for my "server". And other things in laptops. But I paid less attention to the bits in those.
The jump from the P200 to the Thunderbird was massive - but looking at the time difference, it was only 3 years. I remember frame rate dropping to 7fps during a fire-fight on de_train running at 640x480 on the P200 (Although HL would run happily at 800x600, less intense I guess) - Voodoo 1 4MB. I later got it running 12MB Voodoo 2 which helped. I was very proud of getting 1:1 K/D ratio in those days, then I got my thunderbird. Wow. Everything got so easy, 10:1 was an average game - then they released ADSL! 30:1. Then I got old. 1:30 :/
The Northwood was definitely my favourite, and it's still running fine, just decommissioned it from my old man's media server role. Running on an Abit board with a bust RAID controller, otherwise, rock solid. Nehalem was pretty awesome, but not as reliable, and the Haswell has been causing me constant problems.
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Cyrix 486 DX-2 50MHz (Poking DIP switches on the mobo made it run at 66MHz, but it wasn't stable. I had no idea about overclocking etc at the time, I just wondered what the DIP switches did!)
Duron 1GHz
Athlon XP 2400+
Athlon64 3200+
Athlon64 X2 4200+
Athlon64 X2 5600+
C2Q Q9300 (Can't remember what it OCd to, but it had a slightly concave heatspreader so it was always hot. Should have got a Q6600!)
Athlon II X3 450 (@4.4GHz iirc)
FX6300 (@4.4GHz)
i7-6700
Pentium 4 Northwood B 2.53GHZ
Athlon XP 2800
Might have had a Sempron(can't remember)
Pentium D 805
E4300
E4500
Q6600
Core i3 2100
Xeon E3 1220
Xeon E3 1230 V2
In second rigs I have had:
E6300
E3400
A6 3670K
Athlon64 3200
Core2Duo E4400
Core2Duo E8500
Athlon II x4 630
FX8320 Black Edition
Intel 486 DX4 100
Intel Pentium MMX 166MHz
AMD K6 2 500MHz
AMD Duron 800MHz
Athlon XP3200+
Athlon II X2 245
AMD A8 5600K
AMD A10 5800K
Athlon AM1
Not counting Amstrad PCs, Speccys, Amigas...
Pentium MMX 166MHz
Cyrix M2 300MHz (my worst CPU ever)
K6-2 300MHz (think I overclocked it to about 400Mhz ish)
K6-2 550MHz
Athlon XP 2400+
Athlon XP 3200+
Athlon 64 3000
Athlon X2 4600+
Athlon X2 5000+ (Unlocked to Phenom FX5000 X4 @ 3.2GHz)
Athlon X2 5200+ (Unlocked to Phenom FX5200 X4 @ 3.3GHz)
I've had so many over the years! Too many! These are what I remember....
Intel 386SX 25MHz (Family PC at the time as I was just a kid. It was an Olivetti model).
Intel Pentium 75MHz (My first PC manufactured by Amstrad! Admittedly my old Amiga 1200 at the time saw more action ).
Intel Pentium 133Mhz
IDT WinChip C6 240MHz with MMX
AMD K6-2 400Mhz
AMD Duron 800MHz
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
Intel Pentium 4 661 3.6GHz
AMD Athlon 64 3700+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
AMD Athlon II X4 650 3.2GHz
Intel Core i5 2500 3.3GHz
Intel Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz
Intel Core i7 3770k 3.5GHz
Intel Core i7 4790k 4.0GHz
.... I'm now patiently waiting for Zen
My main rig can only fit one CPU
i3 4160 @ 3.4GHz , it 4670K @ 4.6GHz
Bam done
2X Pentium Pro 200MHz (yes, my first PC was a dual socket workstation!)
PPC G3 450MHz
Core 2 Duo E8400
i5 3570k
Might be some gaps (think I had some more Athlons than that), but from what I can remember:
Motorola 68000 7mhz
Motorola 68020 14mhz
AMD Duron 800Mhz
AMD Athlon 1300 1.3ghz
AMD Athlon 2400 2ghz
AMD Athlon 3000 2.1ghz
Intel Pentium 4 2.4ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13ghz
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33ghz
Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 2.4ghz
Intel Core i5 2300 2.8ghz
Currently waiting on the Ryzen news, and what Intel do to counteract it, before I move on.
Really hard to remember them all going back but something like:
Pentium 166
Something around 400Mhz, can't remember if Athlon or Pentium
Duron 1Ghz
Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton)
Opteron (the one you could unlock to 3Ghz with an ASrock motherboard)
Core2Duo E6600
Core2Quad Q6600
Core i5 3570k
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