QOTW: What was the first CPU you ever purchased?

[Percy1983]

First stand alone was a Core2 e4300 (clocked it to 3.24ghz form 1.8ghz)

Basically had prebuilt pentium 2/3/4 machines before that.

Only 2 on from the e4300, with a q9550 then i5-3570k (Current) to make way for an R7-1700 in the not to distant future.

[Gronich26]

Z80 in my ZX81 with wobbly 16k ram pack.

1st PC with a 486sx20 (overclocked to 24mhz!)

1st self build, I think, was a Cyrix 133+, which was upgraded to a 166+ and then a K6 233.

[Saracen]

First processor?

Hmmm ... I think a Z80 (on a card) to allow me to run CP/M on my 6502-based Apple IIe which, IIRC, then allowed me to runa COBOL compiler.

[Elspuddy]

Cyrix 100 mhz

[zaph0d]

My first pc's cpu was 386DX 33MHz first that I built from scratch was a Pentium 133

[peterb]

Zilog Z80B (as per my system specs)

[Myss_tree]

Sad to say but i cannot actually remember, maybe a core duo or one of the last single core Pentiums or maybe it was an early Athlon.
Being an Engineer (as in hands on, actually make things) it was the making of a PC that attracted me to doing it when it became financially viable to do it rather than buying a pre built one.
The attraction has worn off a bit (though i would still build my own if i need a new one)as its not as challenging to do as i thought it would initially be. Basically its just self assembly and most folk could do it.
The recent AMD revival has peaked my interest again a bit.

[lumireleon]

Intel Celeron D @ 2.6Ghz

[hellig]

fairly sure it was an AMD k5, the most memorable PC i built was in 1999, with windows 2000 coming out. (i thought we would be getting loads of multi threaded program/games from then on) i bought a motherboard with room for 2 Pentium 2, SCSI controller. once windows 2000 was out i added the other CPU and was the quickest kid on the block for a year or 2 the best best memory from that PC was how well it would run music in the background, and a let me play a game without the music getting interrupted, the next PC i build couldn't do that.

[Bagpuss]

Pentium II 333Mhz in '98.

Part of a £1500 pre build

8GB Hard Drive, 64Mb RAM, Windows 98, ATI Rage Pro (replaced with a 3DFX Orchid Righteous Voodoo II) & 15' CRT monitor.

[Tattysnuc]

AMD Athlon, socket A. Not sure which model though...

[adidan]

Some Duron in an Asus A7A266 running a nvidia 2Ti.

Had several prebuilt pcs in the family home before that, can't remember what they were and we never did anything to the BBC Model B or Spectrum beyond running them as they came.

[forsaken991]

The first CPU I bought was an Intel MMX 166 back in 1997, which was part of my first custom build PC.

[hb904460]

Pre-built: a Cyrix 6x86 running at a heady 166mhz
First self build - AMD duron 1200

I think i still have the duron in a box somewhere......

[Friesiansam]

A Pentium 3 @ 450MHz, compared to what I had been using at work it seemed to fly.

[kompukare]

On it's own, that would have been a Celeron 300A. Bought me and my brother a pair of them and they went into two different boards: an Abit and an AOpen one. AFAIR, the AOpen was the better board as it was able to run of them at 460MHz or so while the Abit only managed 450MHz. With Slot 1 it was really to swap CPUs over as otherwise I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered trying to see if the board or the CPU was what wasn't able to hit the final 10MHz or so.