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I only scanned through, so I may be wrong, but I believe I'm the only person so far to have listed these first two in my PC history :)

BBC Micro (Model B I believe)
BBC Master (No idea which this was)
8086 Laptop
386 SX 33MHz (was an AMD chip)

All the below are self-built systems

Intel P133
AMD K6 233MHz
Intel P2 266MHz
AMD K6-2 500MHz
AMD Athlon 1333 MHz (Thunderbird)
AMD Athlon 1600+ (Mobile chip - laptop)(palomino core)
AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (palomino)
AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (Barton)
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (San Diego)(Overclocked to 2.86GHz)
Intel Core2Duo E6600 (Overclocked to 2.93GHz in a Shuttle)
AMD Semperon 2800+ (Barton - Shuttle)
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (current main rig)(won't overclock due to crappy mobo)
AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (Thoroughbred - Media PC)

Next upgrade ... Intel Core2Duo E7200 is looking interesting.
 
atari 2600 w/ external floppy and 300 baud modem (woohoo)
timex sinclair
Tandy TRS-80
IBM 8086
Compaq 286
Custom 286 (first homebuilt)
Compaq 386 s (with 4mb static RAM)
Various 486s
Athlons (from slot A 550 to socket A 3200)
Socket 939 (3000 to Opty 170)
Socket AM2 (sempron 2800 to Athlon 5000)
Socket 775 (E4500 oc to 3.1 ghz)
 
386 DX2 33 Mhz
386 DX2 50 Mhz
Compaq 486 DX4 100 Mhz
Olivetti Pentium 75
AMD K6 300 Mhz (Homebuild - toasted CPU by OC 😀 )
AMD K6 300 Mhz 3D Now!
AMD Athlon 1800+
AMD Athlon 2600+ Barton
C2D E6300 L2

Q 6600 in about a week
 
Wow good post, I got a lot of good giggles out of the memories this brought back. In fact I even burst out loud on one and a co-worker asked me if i was ok hehe.

Anyway mine's short but spans a decent timeframe.

Intel Inside 25MHz

Upgraded that to a 100MHz chip, not sure if it was Pentium, I don't think so yet.

AMD K6-2 333 with EDO memory on the board... Just decomissioned this computer this past Thanksgiving.

Pentium 4 2.4 Northwood, still used daily even for gaming.

A64 3700+ socket 939, my main computer
 
Not counting all the builds I have done for friends and family, here is my list of what I have owned.

Tandy 1000
Intel 386 25 -I think? Prebuilt Gateway
Intel 486 DX 33 Prebuilt Gateway, then I did the following upgrades to it...
Intel 486 DX 66
Intel 486 DX4 100
AMD 486 133
These were all homebuilds from here...
Cyrix 133+
Cyrix 166+
Pentium 166
Pentium 300
Celeron 300a @450 on the trusty ol Abit BH6
Pentium 450
Pentium 650
AMD XP 1800+
AMD XP 2200+
Pentium 4 2ghz -4th only 4 prebuilds I ever bought/Dude it's a Dell, uggghh
Athlon 64 3200
Athlon 64X2 4600

Anyway I think this is it, man it's tough to remember stuff that far back anymore.....ha!
 
C64
Amiga
Intell P1 166
Athlon 2000+
Athlon 2200+
Athlon 2500+
Athlon 3000+
Athlon 939 3500+
Athlon AM2 4200+
Athlon AM2 5600+
Athlon AM2 5000be

 
Oh, blah, as if anyone will care.

C64
C128
386/33
AMD 486DX4/133
AMD K6-2/300
AMD K6-2/550
Athlon XP 2000 (?)
Athlon 64 3000
Athlon 64 4000 (I own the only 939 board Asus made that can't support X2, yay)
Intel Q9450 (currently on order)
 
Ok, I got you all beat:
Abacus (I'm so old, I fart dust!)
z80a (sinclair, do you remember this POS?)
6502 (Vic20)
8088 4.7Mhz (XT clone w/ 5 meg. ST 406 seagate HD!!)
V20 (this was a NEC spiced up version of the 8088, it had issues)
80286 12Mhz 0ws (this was the biggest speed jump ever!!!)
80386 25Mhz (I even wasted money on a math co-processor-80287)
80386 33Mhz (w/ a Wietek math Coprocessor!)
80486 DX2 66Mhz (with 16 megs or memory!!)
80486 120/133 (AMD P60?, very unstable)
Cyrix P180 (was it the 686?)
K6 200 (overclocked really good)
K6-2 266 (3-D now, unstable system)
Celeron 350 (or was it a 366?- couldn't kill this PC!)
K7 1200 Mhz (another big speed jump)
K7 2800+
P-4 D805 (overclocked really good, made a great space heater)
Athlon 3400+ (single core)
Athlon 6000+X2
next CPU will be an Intel Q core


Regards,

Rick
 
P1 133 Mhz - Compaq Presario
AMD K6-2 - 333 MHZ - HP Pavilion ... overclocked factory pavilion 333 to 350mhz!...the dawn of a new era for me.

CELERON 300A BABY!!! (300MHZ)... overclocked 24/7 to 458MHZ... could get to windows 98 for a second at 504mhz...

Dell P4 1.3ghz with RAMBUS (think it was 256mb of rambus)
boy did that suck

Athlon 4200 X2 overclocked to 2.4ghz

Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.6ghz

Core 2 duo E8400 @ 4.2 ghz (this in essence felt faster than the q6600 @3.6ghz..even in situations where you'd think the quad would do better. However...there was the occassion where you could feel the draw back of 2 cores.

NOW Q9450!!! 12MB cache just got to my door !!!!!!!!! 45 NM QUAD BABY!
 
c64
8088 16k upgraded to 64k (dual disk baby!)
80286/8
80386/sx
80386/dx
80486/sx
80486/dx

Pentium (dang near all of them)

current primary desktop q6600@3.6Ghz 4G ram, secondary desktop e6400, etc..
 
I was too little to remember my first computer's specs.

P233 MMX
P166 MMX <---Parents took computer to repair shop to get virus cleared off and I noticed they swapped CPUs... shady much?
Celeron 500Mhz
P4 2.0Ghz
P4 2.4Ghz
Q6600

That encompasses 11 years and 4 computers. I usually get pretty good runs out of them. :)

 
Here is my list of chips over time


MOS 6507 @ 1.19 MHz - Atari VCS
6502 1MHz VIC20
6510 1MHz (C64) - I loved my 64
Z80 - ZX spectrum
6512 at 2 MHz - BBC B
8086 - pc compatible - Amstrad PC1512
NEC V30 - upgraded the Amstrad to 640 too !
80286 - 12Mhz
Ricoh 2A03 8-bit processor (MOS Technology 6502 core - NES
80286 amd 20 Mhz
Intel 38sx 16 to 25Mhz
Intel 386DX - 33
486sx 25/ DX 33/ dx2/50 dx2/66 and DX4/100
16-bit 65c816 Ricoh 5A22 3.58 MHz - SNES
Motorola 68000.......7MHz........... (Amiga500)
Motorola 68EC020...14MHz...........(Amiga1200)
Custom MIPS R3000 at 33.8688 MHz. - Playstation 1
Intel Pentium 60 / 75 / 90 / 100 / 133 / 166 / 200 / 200 MMX
Pentium 2 233/266/300
Pentium 3 - 350/ 400 / 450/ 500 and 600- slot 1
socket 370 - pentium 3 - 650 upto 933 MHz - also in XBOX ( 733 MHz Origional version )
AMD 1.2, 1.4 Thunderbirds 1800+ 2000+ AMD 3200 +
Pentium 4 1.4 and 1.7 ( 423 ), Pentium 4 (478) - 2GHz to 3.2 Ghz
128-bit "Emotion Engine" clocked at 294 MHz - Playstation 2
AMD 64 3200, 3500, 3800, 4000, x2-4800
3.2 GHz PPC Tri-Core Xenon - XBOX 360
Core 2 Duo E6700
MIPS R4000-based; clocked from 1 to 333 MHz -- Sony PSP
BM PowerPC-based[1] "Broadway" - Nintendo Wii
Quad Core 6600
???? Nalhem or how ever its spelt will be me next cookie....

Just added a few more i forgot over times.

I have also had all the Gameboys Origional, Colour, Advanced and DS what ever processor they had

One of the few benefits of being in the business is getting upgrades when selling pcs :)


 
Home: 233mhz pentium, XP 1800 T-Bird, A64 3200, X2 4800 (939) and considering e8400 if they ever actually ship.

Work: Mac II, Quadra 900, 8500, G4, and now G5 w/dual Xeons.
 
P4 1.6 GHz Willamette (still working today; running linux)

P4 3.2 GHz Presscrap (toasted, along with mobo)

Athlon 64 3700+ socket 939; ran at stock speed for 2 years; just overclocked to a whopping 2.31 GHz. Yippie! I will go higher.

The P4 1.6 was in a Dell which I got for my 10th b-day.

The P4 3.2 was in the HP which replaced that Dell; the case had such poor airflow that the Presscrap created a convection oven of sorts. I was baffled as to why the computer would randomly shut off; sure enough the CPU was overheating, and eventually fried, along with the motherboard. That experience turned me off towards pre-built computers and Intel CPUs.

After the P4 fried, I decided to get a socket 939 CPU so that I could reuse my DDR400. I got a single-core CPU because the X2 3800+ was ~$300 at the time; I paid $220 for mine. That was in April 2006; not even 3 months later, AMD slashed their CPU prices.

I sure feel smart about "upgrading" to a single-core CPU on a dead-end socket; that 3700+ was a nice CPU in 2004 (and the X600 was a nice mid-range card in 2004, and 1GB of RAM was a lot in 2004, etc. etc. etc.), but it's feeling its age now.

In order to try and squeeze a little more speed out of it, I overclocked it last night; I got it to 2.5 GHz stable, but then I went higher, and it wouldn't boot. So I reset the BOIS to stock settings; I tried OC'ing again, and right now it's Prime-stable at 2.31 GHz without upping the voltage or lowering the HT and RAM speed.

I realize that I went about OC'ing a little too fast last night; I immediately upped the voltage on the CPU and RAM. So now I'm going to see how high I can get without upping voltage or using RAM dividers, lowering HT speed, etc.

Although maybe the PCI bus got overclocked before; maybe that's what was making the system unstable. Because I lowered the RAM to DDR333, upped the CPU voltage, lowered the HT multiplier, etc. and it wasn't stable at above 2.48.

If I can get it to 2.6, I'll be happy; I'd just like a little more speed for video editing.
 
@ angry_ducky

Talking about the San Diego core 3700? What CPU cooler and motherboard do you have? I've got some experience with that chip and might be able to give you some insight.
 
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