First CPU brought as a component was a Core2Duo E8500. Was O/C'd to 3.8Ghz from day one and still runs to this day as a back up back up back up back up machine!
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First CPU brought as a component was a Core2Duo E8500. Was O/C'd to 3.8Ghz from day one and still runs to this day as a back up back up back up back up machine!
specc'ed the parents PII-350 (and added the Voodoo2 in myself).
first built for me was a Athlon 1000 Thunderbird with a DDR motherboard and the 266 chipset, and a Geforce 3.
First computer of my own was the classic AMD Athlon 1333 MHz, the good old Thunderbird days.
First computer I built from scratch used a Phenom II X4 955.
I haven't bought too many CPUs over the years though since I have generally been of the opinion that by the time the CPU needs replacing the motherboard needs replacing, and if you are replacing CPU, motherboard and often the RAM too you might as well get a whole new computer. So I always tend to build one base unit every 4-5 years, and have one or two GPU upgrades during its lifecycle.
AMD Duron 900, I believe.
K6-2 400! Fun story - me and my Dad had been rear-ended by some bellend. We'd stopped at a yellow, he went full-force into us. Fast forward whenever, my mam is like "pretend you're scared of cars" "eh?!" "just do it!" *cue me getting an Oscar*
Long story short we got compo, a few months after they released a portion of it to me and I used it to build my very first PC (first build, second PC, first was a Tiny P1-166 that my parents took 10 years to pay off, bless em). Lian Li case, 128mg RAM, 40gb HDD, dedicated voodoo card, and the aforementioned K6-2
An IBM 6x86MX PR200 (which was a rebadged Cyrix CPU) in 1999... It was ok, until I started overclocking it :p
K6-2 233 I think is the first stand alone CPU I ever bought. First CPU used was a Z80 in a Spectrum.
The legendary Celeron 300A.
First processor I ever bought would have been an 8087. This was a maths coprocessor that plugged in next to the 8086 CPU. After that it would have been an early 486 of some description. I missed the 2 & 386 out completely.
The first CPU on it's own was a 486SX-25 - the integrated Z80 in my Sinclair door wedge doesn't count.
It's been Trigger's Broom ever since.
A Dell 486SX-25, which I later upgraded to a DX4/100 overdrive which was the first CPU I purchased.
First home built PC was around a Pentium 233Mhz with MMX technology (ah yeh!)
My first standalone must be my S754 AMD Athlon 64 3000+. Bought as part of a build that was put together for one job alone - to play HL2. Was upgraded to a 3700+ a while later.
First CPU I had was a K6 350, but that came in a pre-built machine I had to start uni with (showing my age). That came with an SIS 6326 - not good for Counter-Strike!
I bought an Athlon 700 for a retro-gaming-parts cobble up a little while afterwards.
The first CPU I bought separately was an Athlon 64 3200+ on socket 939. It had quite a long life for LAN gaming up until relatively recently, playing old games like CoD/CoD2 on it, but unfortunately the motherboard starting getting issues, so it is now sitting in a cupboard.
intel 486 sx25, although I did have a 286 and 386 system before that
First CPU of any sort - MOS Technology 6502 (Late 1981, part of a kit-form Acorn Atom)
First x86 CPU in a system - Intel 486DX/2 66MHz
First x86 CPU as a component - Cyrix 6x86PR150+ (120MHz)
Oh, and the oldest bought-as-a-component CPU I still use on a semi-regular basis is an AMD K6-III 400. It joins my Voodoo3-3000 powers my Win98 legacy gaming box.