15 Years of Intel CPUs in One Picture

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]jhansonxi[/nom]I remember cracking open one of those early Slot 1 Celeron 300HMz to add heat sinking to the cache RAM chips and get it to 450MHz.[/citation]

You have a bad memory then. The Celeron had no external cache. The original had no L2 cache at all, and the 300a had the 128MB L2 cache as part of the processor.

 

[ta152h]

If you want a picture with more processors than these, Tuan, email me.

I have everything from 8088 to 8086, 186, 188, 286, 287, 386, 386SX, 387,486, 486DX, 486SX, 486DX2, 486DX4, Pentium Overdrive, Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pros (including the rare 2M version), Pentium II, Pentium II Overdrive, III (Katmai and Coppermine), not to mention multiple versions K6 (I still run a server on a K6-2). Also, some 68Ks, a few z80s, 6502Cs, lots of 6809s, a couple of 6309s, 8048s, some Cyrix chips, a few old Centuar Winchips, and some odd 387-compatible processors from another company, and and probably more that I can't remember.

Probably the rarest, and maybe coolest, is the Pentium II overdrive, because it was better than the Pentium II when it came out, and it's really rare. It fit into Socket 8, and had a full-speed L2 cache, plus the enhancements of the Pentium II. So, it was really quite good for the time, and it overclocked very well, and could be used in multiprocessor systems with a lot of memory without a performance penalty.

That picture is ugly too, all dirty processors, thrown all over the place.

By the way, the little 486 looking processor is a Pentium Overdrive. It was a Pentium processor stuck into the Socket 5 interface. I have a few of those, but they don't perform that great, because one of the main benefits of the Pentium was the incredible memory bandwidth (4x the 33 MHz 486, which is the slot this thing fit into). Once you take that away, and considering the slower clock speed, there isn't much use for this chip (although, they did compensate by doubling the L1 cache).

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]OMG, I had one of those crappy old P3-on-a-card chipsTotally shitTurned me to AMD for years until the Core i7 came out[/citation]
Wow, marked down -8 for dissing an 11 year old CPU that truely was crappy
Or was it for admitting I turned to AMD?
Fanboy shock either way

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]TA152H[/nom]You have a bad memory then. The Celeron had no external cache. The original had no L2 cache at all, and the 300a had the 128MB L2 cache as part of the processor.[/citation]

KB not MB

Anyway, those celeron a were mighty popular. Two of those on a tyan board, clocked to 700 beat anything else hands down.

 

[apache_lives]

i still have a masive collection of these babys and alot more - im a collector sort of lol must have say ~100 of em - whole range of crap, i should take some photos etc

Still have P6's, IDT winchip's, K5's, K6's etc

 

[NightLight]

It's good to see i'm not the only one with an entire drawer full of ancient processors!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

[citation][nom]NightLight[/nom]It's good to see i'm not the only one with an entire drawer full of ancient processors![/citation]
I used to have something like that here at work. I'd saved two of each computer type we had at work, ranging back to the old orange comet systems running cp/m. Sadly when I had to take 3 months leave back in 2001 my babysitter did some thorough cleaning and all are now gone.

 

[elcentral]

well the oldest comp still in use by me well at least cinda is my old AMIGA 1200 still works 1 mouse 2 sticks and etc love my old Demo test whit bomb mand and meny athers. ^^

 

[dkenz]

Ahh the good old days....I remember my first computer. PackardBell 386 16mhz processor, 20mb HD. Dont quite remember when.. but i remember paying 120 bucks for a 80mb HD.. lol

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Ha I beat you! my first one was 25mhz, and within two years it got upgraded to a 486sx (still 25mhz) with 8bit sound, a cdrom drive and both a 90 and 130mb harddrive - and a whopping 8mb memory.
It even ran theme hospital before it got retired in favor of a 133mhz pentium (what a boost)

 

[JohnnyLucky]

No points for me. I am growing old disgracefully and I forget stuff. 🙁

 

[thebigt42]

They should go back to the 80's I did not see any 8088s

 

[rollerdisco]

[citation][nom]kd0frg[/nom]Does anyone remember the "Turbo" Button?[/citation]

i put a turbo button on my last computer i built, just for nostalgia. the turbo button with a blinky light, get lots of laughs at a LAN party.

 

[marco013]

I had a 286 with a 10 MB Hardcard. It was a harddrive side mounted on a ISA bus card. I still have it with IBM DOS 1.1 loaded on it.

 

[mavroxur]

Not all that impressive. I have an 8088, and every generation until current. I guess i need to take a picture and post it 🙂) Unfortunately, i can't get my hands on a 4004... a little too pricey.

 

[eyemaster]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Wow, marked down -8 for dissing an 11 year old CPU that truely was crappyOr was it for admitting I turned to AMD?Fanboy shock either way[/citation]
THe Pentium 3 was much better than the Pentium 4. Maybe that's why?

I too prefer the AMD line. I never purchased an Intel chip myself. Had AMD 3x86, 4x86, then Cyrix 5x86, then AMD Athlon line...

 

[dgingeri]

I remember back in the day, when I had a Cyrix 5x86 100MHz (3X33MHz)chip. I hooked up the turbo switch to my bus speed jumper, and when I would hit turbo, it would bump the speed of the chip up to 120MHz. It was a true turbo switch. Of course, it would throw off my clock when I would do hat too.

 

[digiex]

I had a Pentium II 450Mhz with Soyo board, i'ts rock solid, overclocked at 533 MHZ.

 

[Guest]

First computer = Intel 386 - 16Mhz with turbo button / Soundblaster 16Bit Soundcard / 2MB EDO ram / 100 MB hard drive / Playing Wing commander UBER!

 

[sliem]

[citation][nom]yourmomsucksamean[/nom]First computer = Intel 386 - 16Mhz with turbo button / Soundblaster 16Bit Soundcard / 2MB EDO ram / 100 MB hard drive / Playing Wing commander UBER![/citation]

Soundblaster? you lucky b@stard. I had adlib (I think).
On later computer: Played Quest for Glory 1 and 2. Used PCTools to hex edit the save games lol, good times. Also played Star Control 2. Great game!

 

[extremepcs]

[citation][nom]edwilson[/nom]you know you are getting old when you remember buying and installing these new and still have most of them in a box somewhere. (sigh)[/citation]

LOL, yeah, I know the feeling. I still have at least one of each pictured except for the 486's. I installed my share of them though.

 

[segio526]

I actually have a lot of those sitting on my desk right now!

 

[zelog]

[citation][nom]neiroatopelcc[/nom]I used to have something like that here at work. I'd saved two of each computer type we had at work, ranging back to the old orange comet systems running cp/m. Sadly when I had to take 3 months leave back in 2001 my babysitter did some thorough cleaning and all are now gone.[/citation]
Are you serious? There should be a death penalty on people like that.

 

[Guest]

Oh my Pentium 2 @300mhz, with a whopping 64MB of SDRAM and my Diamond Monster3D 2(voodoo 2). It was my first computer, you guys should have seen Quake scream on that thing! I miss my Windows 95C, it almost looked and acted like Windows 98. Gosh I miss my system

 

[jestern]

Wow...just brings back so many memories of older games when the CPU played the largest factor in determining what you could play.

Doom 1/2 & X-wing (My 486-DX2-50)
Mechwarrior 2 & Quake (My Pentium 133)
Tribes & Half-life (My Celeron 366)

*sigh* Man I miss those days.

Are far too many games and systems and platforms out now. As a gamer you know you'll never ever play every game that you have the slightest inkling to play. Even if you're just primarily a PC gamer.