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.
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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.
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 :mrgreen:).
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 :p
Intel Pentium
Intel Celeron 667MHz
Intel Pentium 4 3GHz
Intel Core2Duo E6600
Intel Core2Quad Q9550
Intel i5 2500K
I think that's it for my main rig!
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
Heh, my somewhat flighty approach to PC use means "main rig" is a bit of a grey area for me - whilst I've occasionally had only one PC, or one PC that I've used significantly more than another, I've usually had several PCs running that have rotated in primacy.
But, fwiw, this is probably as close as I can get. Where a rig had CPU upgrades I've denoted the CPU progression with ->. Where I mostly used a laptop I've only listed the laptop CPU; for times where I had both a desktop and a laptop that I used equally I've included the laptop in brackets after the desktop CPUs.
286 12Mhz
Duron 1200 -> Duron 1600
Athlon XP 2600+ Thoroughbred B
Turion TL-52
Q6600 -> Pentium E5300 -> Q6600
Phenom II X4 905e (Pentium SU4100)
AMD A10-4600m
But that's probably not even half the PC setups I've had over the years... ;)
Intel Pentium 3 500mhz
AMD Athlon 64 (not sure which one)
AMD Phenom 9650
AMD Phenom 2 965
AMD FX 4300
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Pentium III 450
Athlon XP 2500+
Phenom II X4 920
that's it. each has lasted 8 years or so between upgrades.
only see the need to upgrade when it breaks.
if your talking pc's, not including laptops and other older computers, then
pentium p120
pentium III 500 (might of been a 450)
pentium III 866
Athlon xp 2600+
Pentium 4 D 3ghz (the dual core one pre c2d)
Core2Duo e6600
Core2Quad q6600
i5 750
Phenom II x4 955
Pentium 100
Pentium II 233
Pentium III 800
Athlon Thunderbird 1.4ghz
Athlon XP 2800+
Core2Duo E7500
Core2Duo 8400
Core2Quad 6600
Core
i7 920
i5 2400
i5 3570K
Xeon E3-1240 v3
soon to have a Ryzen 1600X
1999 386 10mhz (I think)
2001 486 33mhz ( I think)
----- Athlon 3400+
----- Phenom II x2 BE 555 3.2GHz
----- i7-4700HQ 2.4GHz
Crumbs - <scratches head>
Zilog Z80B
Intel 486
Several AMD processors (about 4)
then back to Intel, going via VIA for SFF machines with Zotac motherboards
As far as I can remember...I'm sure there were a few others I've missed:
80188 @ 6Mhz
80286 @ 12Mhz
80386SX @20Mhz
80486 @ 33Mhz
Pentium @ 60Mhz
Pentium @ 133Mhz
Pentium II @ 300Mhz
Athlon @ 1Ghz
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2Ghz
Core2Duo E8400 @ 3Ghz
i5 3570K @ 3.4Ghz
First machine was a tiny!
Pentium 2 350mhz
Pentium 3 1Ghz x2 (server board)
Pentium 4 3Ghz HT
Core2 e4300 clocked to 3.24ghz
Core2quad q9550 clocked to 3.4ghz
i5 3570k clocked to 4.5ghz
Next... R7 1700 clocked to 3.8-4ghz
Long intel list going AMD, I will add all my other PCs/laptops are AMD.
My memory isn't the best but I'll give it a try.
Cyrix 486 DX2/80
AMD K5/6-166
Pentium II 450 (oc)
AMD Thunderbird 1600+ oc
Athlon 64 3200+ oc
Opteron 148 @ 3600+ ish
Sandy Bridge I5 2500k @ 4.4
Skylake 6600k @ 4.5
and now (just because mining plans)
AMD (love AMD, glad to be back) Ryzen 7 1700 16 threads @ 4ghz
Sempron 2600+
Pentium 4 3ghz
Core 2 Duo T8100
Core i3 330m
Core i5 650
Core i7 3770k
Xeon X5670 x2
Wow this is a good memory test.. let see.
Pentium 2 266mhz I think.
Pentium 4 1.8Ghz
Pendium D945
Core2Duo E6300
Core2Duo E7200
Core2Duo E8400
Core2Quad Q6600
i5 661
i7 860
i7 920
i7 3770K
Not including the 40+ cpus I used to use for benchmarking back in 2008-2012
Many of the CPUs I've owned I've long forgotten, but the ones I remember are these:
Motorola MC6809E (Dragon 32, my very first)
Z80 (ZX Spectrum)
Zilog Z80 (Amstrad CPC464/CPC6128)
Motorola 68000 (Commodore Amiga 500)
Motorola 68EC020 (Commodore Amiga 1200)
Cyrix 6x86 "P166+"
Celeron 366 (2 of these @ 550MHz on an Abit BP6 was a slightly unstable wet dream come true)
Pentium 4 (3.4GHz...wowzer!)
Core2Quad Q6600
Core2Quad Q9550
i7-3820
i7-6850K
i7-7820X (today)
FINALLY someone older then me! hahahaha :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Agrippa
I had a BBC Model B, think they came out just before the Dragon. Think we had an Acorn Atom for a very short while before that but quickly upgraded :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Millennium
Oh BOTHER I also had a BBC model B :) That keyboard though :) But I don't think I had anything before it before the ZX 48...Quote:
Originally Posted by adidan
Let me see...
8086
80386 SX
80486 SX
Cyrix MII 233Mhz
Cyrix/VIA C3 533Mhz
VIA C3 866Mhz
Celeron of some kind
AMD Athlon 64 ?Mhz
Pentium E2160
Xeon X3210 (I think)
Core i5 2300
Core i5 6500
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (current)
486 DX2 50
Pentium (can't remember what speed)
Pentium III
Athlon 64
i5 2500K (still current)
Pentium 3 450
Athlon 900
Celeron 2.2ghz
Q6600 (still running strong!)
R5 1600 boxed gathering dust till i get around to building my new rig over the next few weeks.
Great choices! I would have wished I didn't get the 6600k and got a 2600k instead of a 2500k. I was poor though.Quote:
Originally Posted by J17hnt
My fave is still the PII 300 @ 450 I got in about 1996. Same silicon. Change or the jumper.
Nice times!
MOS 6502
Motorola 68000 7 MHZ
Motorola 68020 14 MHZ
MOS 6502 (another one)
Motorola 68060 50 MHz
Pentium 3 1GHz
Cyrix 6x86 PR166
Athlon 64 3200+
Core2 Quad Q6600
Core i5 3570k - still stuck with this one. Originally anticipated it lasting extra long - 5 years. No sign of needing to upgrade it yet.
Good old times that adhered to Moore's Law.
Impressive memories (or imaginations) here. My list would have to be like the cheating childrens's rhyme...
8086
80386SX
80486SX
... a few ...
Core2 Quad Q6600
i7 8700K
Althon 64 3200+
E6600
i2600k
2700k