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Always Intel, with one AMD in between. No particular reason for that. I kept and used each of my PCs for many years. Even managed to skip DDR and DDR3 completely. Every time I eventually did give in and built a new one, it seemed that Intel was a better choice.

1990 80286-12 (5 V, 1500 nm)
1993 AMD Am386-40 (5 V, 1500 or 800 nm)
1995 Pentium 90 (3.3 V, 600 nm)
1999 Pentium III-450 (2 V, 250 nm)
Still in use:
2007 Core 2 Duo E6400 (65 nm)
2008 Core 2 Duo T7500 (65 nm) notebook
2016 Core i5-6600K (14 nm)
2022, if my i5 goes up in flames: Core i5-12500, but I'd hate having to choose between DDR4 and DDR5.
 
I forgot to mention that out of the dozen or so machines I've built for customers over the last few months, all have been AMD with one Intel exception, but that's not the question here.
 
Arkz said:
Need a similar thread for GPU's now. I know some people here are sitting on a mountain of old cards
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Indeed. Only about a 100 or so. :)
 
Hi,
Need more options

Just from the op an option stating
I left Intel because AMD 5k series rules

And obviously an option should be,
I have both amd and intel
 
Before my Current system it was Intel with X58 system and first a I7 920 and later an upgrade to a I7 980X.

Right now i have a Ryzen 5 5600X and a Ryzen 9 5950X in my dual system.
 
I own Both

Mine: 5800X and Pro 3500U
Wifes: i7-6700K
Daughter: i7-4770K
Daughter: i3-4130

I myself prefer AMD. Been rocking them since the Athlon 64 Days

If we look through the past I've had

Pentium III
Penitum 4
Pentium D
Core 2 Duo
Core 2 Quad
i7 920
i7 940
Xeon X5650
i3 2100
i5 2500
i7 3770K
i7 3930K
Pentium G2200
i3 4130
i7 4770
i7 5930K
i7 6700K

Athlon 64 3400+
Athlon 64 FX
Athlon 64 X2
Athlon II X2
Athlon II X4 640
FX-670K
A8-3800
A8-5500
A10-5800K
A10-6800K
A10-7850K
Athlon X4 760K
Athlon X4 860K
Athlon X4 870K
Phenom II X4 940
Phenom II X4 955
Phenom II X4 960
Phenom II 1035T
Phenom II 1090T
FX 4100
FX 8120
FX 8150
FX 6300
FX 8320
FX 8350
FX 9370
Ryzen 5 1500X
Ryzen 7 1700X
Ryzen 5 3600
Ryzen 5 5600X
Ryzen 5800X
 
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That is/was my Hardware. (some of them that are "2x" or "3x" were RMAs/dead products like the 3060, and the AMD CPUs)
i still own around 85% of the Hardware and the older stuff is on the attic in my parents house

my two currently running PCs are a 12700K, Z690 A, 3080 Strix OC and a 5900X, B550 Tomahawk 6900XT Nitro +

CPU:

Intel:
Pentium 4 550
Core 2 Duo E6400
Core 2 Quad Q6600 (died in 2010s)
Core i5 2500K
Core i5 4690
Core i5 4690K (killed on my first delid attempt)
Core i7 4790
Core i7 4770K
Core i5 6600K
Core i7 7700K
Core i5 8600K
Core i7 8086K
Core i5 9600K
Core i9 9900K
Core i5 10400F
Core i5 10600KF
Core i7 10700K
Core i9 10900F
Core i9 10850K
Core i9 10900KF
Core i5 11600K
Core i3 12100F
Core i5 12600K
Core i7 12700K


AMD:
Phenom II X4 840
Phenom II X6 1100T
FX 6350
FX 8350
Ryzen 5 2600
Ryzen 7 2700x
Ryzen 5 3600 (CPU connected M.2 SSDs corrupt within minutes across all boards)
Ryzen 7 3800X
Ryzen 7 5800X (2x) (1x non stop crashing system across all boards)
Ryzen 9 5900X (2x) (1x unstable at idle across all boards)
Ryzen 9 5950X





GPU:

Nvidia:
GeForce4 Ti 4200
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
GeForce 8800 GT
GTX 460
GTX 660
GTX 660 Ti
GTX 760
GTX 780 Ti
GTX 980 Ti
GT 1030
GTX 1050 Ti
GTX 1060 6GB (3x) (1x no post)
GTX 1070 (2x)
GTX 1080 Ti
GTX 1660 Ti
RTX 2060
RTX 2070 Super (2x)
RTX 2080 Super
RTX 2080 Ti (dead fancontroller)
RTX 3060 (2x) (1x artifacting and lines on screen)
RTX 3070 (2x)
RTX 3080 (3x) (FTW3 died after 1 year at 450W)
RTX 3080 Ti (RGB non functional/off Gigabyte Gaming OC)
RTX 3090


ATI/AMD:
Medion X740 XL
HD 7770 GHz Edition
R9 280
R9 370
RX 480 8GB
RX 570 4GB
RX 580 8GB (3x) (1x heavy artifacting)
RX 590
Vega 64
5700XT (2x) (1x crashes at stock and underclocked)
6700XT (3x) (1x no post)
6900XT (2x) (1x heavy artifacting and crashes after a month)


Mainboards:

Intel:
ASRock 775V88
Gigabyte GA-EP31-DS3L
MSI P35 Neo
ASUS P8P67
ASROCK Z68 Pro3
ASROCK Z97 Anniversary (2x)
MSI Z97 GAMING 5
ASROCK Z170 Extreme4
ASUS TUF Z270 Mark 2
ASUS TUF Z370 Gaming Plus II
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro AX (burned dark MLCC in socket, no post)
ASROCK Z490 Extreme4 ( no control over VCCSA/IO 1.6V+ )
ASUS Z490 TUF Gaming Plus
MSI Z490 Unify
ASUS Z590 STRIX-F
ASUS B660 Prime Plus D4
MSI Z690 PRO-A DDR4


AMD:
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3
ASUS Prime X370 Pro
MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max (onboard audio dead)
ASUS B550 STRIX-F (2x) (1x completely unfunctional after bios flash)
MSI B550 Tomahawk
MSI X570 Tomahawk
 
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Both because I choose whatever seems to make sense at the time? Next question. :laugh:
 
The red spirit said:
We have nostalgic hardware thread for reason.
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Not getting your point here , what do you mean?!.

Personally I only listed my four present in use computers with a 50/50 spread so I ticked both boxes, I didn't list all I have ever used because that's not the question and I don't think I would remember All of them.
 
Not going to lie.. I was really nervous going with AMD this time around. The last time I used them was from 462-939 skipping 754. I rode 775 quite a bit from p965, p35, then x48. Good times. X58 was the longest I used a system. I snagged a z77 system off of my bro and rode that till p8z77v sharted all over itself. I was able to grab a z77 oc formula off another forum from an awesome guy. Good board.. kind of weird though. But really good with ram.. damned good. AMD is just as boring to “overclock” these days. X58 was the last true enthusiast platform..
 
I personally don't care about brand..... I'm waiting for Meteor Lake to decide what my next main PC will be between it and AM5 I will just go with what offers the best performance at the time..... I'm not really a price/performance kinda guy I usually just grab what is most interesting. I will be keeping an eye on how heavy UE5 is cpu wise in actual released products prior to investing into what ever platform I do as well. Seems like with everything cranked up even a 12900K struggles to hit 60fps guessing with optimizations that will at least hit 60 but it may take a next gen cpu to get 90+ depending on how hard Developers push the engine in future games.

currently running in my main systems

5950X replaced my 9900k technically
5800X replaced my 3900X technically
6900HS in a ROG Flow X13 replaced my intel based MSI gaming laptop mostly used while traveling.

The next CPU to be replaced will be the 5800X I will likely keep the 5950X at least till AM5 is fully mature because as long as both vendors are competitive I would prefer to have one system from each.

Even though I'm rocking all AMD atm prior to picking up a 3900X in 2019 it had been over a decade since owning an AMD based system.
 
Running Intel in all my complete systems atm. I was running a Ryzen 1700 in my main but couldn't get it to stop freezing randomly so I switched to an 8700K.
 
Intel all the way - currently:
Core i3 - Sophos FW
Core i5 - Main PC
Core i5 - Laptop
Xeon - Server

Last tried AMD back with Phenom, Phenom II and Opteron - will take a lot to tempt me back......
 
Intel for me so far, from Pentium 4 to Core i3 2120, then two laptops with Core i7 8th gen + Core i5 10th gen, and now Core i5 10400.
 
AMD since 7. Generation to Ryzen 7 3700X.
Only my old Notebook(MSI GT 725) has an Intel CPU: Core 2 Duo P 9500(not in use).
 
Arkz said:
Nvidia use an ARM module inside the Tegra X1. So Arm = 1 ;)
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I think that this way of saying wrong. Then we can say - apple, mediatek, nvidia and others doesnt make cpu, only arm.
 
Arkz said:
Hmm.
Ryzen 5 5600x
Ryzen 5 3600
Athlon 5350
Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (not in use)
K6-2 400 (not in use lol)

Technically a couple of Zen 2s in the PS5 and XSX
And Jaguars in the PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, and Xbox One X

I think that's it for AMD stuff.

Core i3 1005G1 (thin notebook)
Core i7 3770k
Atom Z3736F (old tablet I use as a weather screen)
Atom x5 Z8300 (old tablet)
Atom N270 (old netbook I use with OBD tool on cars)
Core 2 Duo E8400 (not in use)
Core 2 Duo E6300 (not in use)
Some Pentium D laptop from about 2008, can't quite remember
Mobile Pentium 4-M 2.5GHz (not in use)
The Celeron/Pentium 3 hybrid in OG Xbox I suppose
Pentium MMX 166


Need a similar thread for GPU's now. I know some people here are sitting on a mountain of old cards

Nvidia use an ARM module inside the Tegra X1. So Arm = 1 ;)


AM4 certainly has been long lived. Never expected it to run through this many CPU gens. Given old 300 boards have been getting updates to support Zen3 is brilliant for customers.
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Considering Super 7 lasted till Intel couldnt stand they were getting kicked in the teeth by AMD during K5, K6, then K7, K8.
 
Seriously though, these are the CPUs I've acquired in order (excluding anything in a mobile device):

Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz Willamette
Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz Northwood (Still have it.)
Intel Pentium 4 630 Prescott
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego (Still have it.)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe
AMD Phenom II 940 Deneb
Intel Core i7 3820 Sandy Bridge E (Still have it.)
AMD Phenom II 960t Zosma (Still have it.)
AMD Phenom II 980 Deneb
Intel Core i7 3930k Sandy Bridge E (Still have it.)

I'll give either vendor a shot. AMD and Intel both make exceptional CPUs and I could be convinced to buy either.
 
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P4-630 said:
I know alot of people have switched from Intel to AMD since AMD ZEN.
Curious how many TPU users are rocking AMD or Intel in 2022 (maybe both if you have more than one system).

Note: This is not a thread to argue about who you think is "better" or anything like that.
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I got to be honest with you. I bought an AMD Ryzen processor and an NVIDIA GPU. I kind of wish I had either bought an Intel processor paired with the NVIDIA GPU or just gone all in with AMD and bought the Radeon. I feel like I could have saved money by going the AMD route or gotten better performance if I had gone the Intel/NVIDIA route.
 
Intel desktop Ryzen 5 laptop.
 
I5 4th gen
to i3 8th gen
to 3200G
to 1600AF
im amd all the way purley because i know and use it more
*plus i did not see any other 200 dollar 6 cores*
 
ixi said:
I think that this way of saying wrong. Then we can say - apple, mediatek, nvidia and others doesnt make cpu, only arm.
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I'd say it depends on what it is. If it's an SOC. NV don't have a CPU core of their own so they use Arm cores along with their GPU core
 
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