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What was your first AMD x86-64 bit CPU?

What was your first AMD x86-64 CPU/APU?

  • Family 0Fh (K8)

    Votes: 41 50.6%

  • Family 10h (K10)

    Votes: 14 17.3%

  • Family 15h Bulldozer / Piledriver / Steamroller / Excavator

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Family Zen/Zen+

    Votes: 4 4.9%

  • Family Zen 2

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Family Zen 3

    Votes: 3 3.7%

  • Family Zen 4

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mobile 0Fh / 10h / 15h

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Mobile Zen

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 7 8.6%
  • Total voters
    81
  • Poll closed .
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Mine was a San Diego 3700+, I wound it up to 3GHz on my Abit AN8 Fatl1ty :D

Then I checked out a Toledo 4400 and ran it at the same speed as the FX-60 I think..

Then I got a 4200 when they came out and I killed my Abit and my Asus that weekend.

That was the month I moved to Conroe and swore AMD off lol..
 
AMD K5, as the IBM was hot as hell ( sold that ASAP ). Soon after went Intel with their slot 1 when you had to do crazy like things like blocking pin to get over clocks.

Next one i had was 3800+, skipped bulldozer, and came back to AMD for a 3rd time.

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Mine was a San Diego 3700+, I wound it up to 3GHz on my Abit AN8 Fatl1ty :D

Then I checked out a Toledo 4400 and ran it at the same speed as the FX-60 I think..

Then I got a 4200 when they came out and I killed my Abit and my Asus that weekend.

That was the month I moved to Conroe and swore AMD off lol..
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Some of those ABit mobo's were awesome, even back to Slot 1.
 
I didn't know what AMD processor was in my system when I moved out for college in '99, but I do know that it ran circles around my roommates Pentium 4 and he was pissed because his computer was "high end".

When I got my first gaming computer it had a AMD 64 X2 3800+ (Manchester) that ran at 2.0GHz. I got my first taste in overclocking on that sucker. I spent days dinking around with the RAM timings and working on squeezing everything I could out of my system. I don't remember what the RAM was at, but I got the CPU up to 3.1GHz. I was very impressed with it.
 
K5 too but it wasn't 64 bit at all so Ryzen 3800x
 
Zen. The first PC I built was an R3 1200 w/B350. Kid's still gaming on it with a 1600AF now. Amazing that 2 years later he got a 6C12T drop-in processor for even cheaper than the previous great deal $99 4C4T.
 
My first PC that I actually remember using had an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Toledo.

I still have the original motherboard (MSI MS-7093) and CPU in a system that I occasionally use for fun. It all still works, though it certainly hasn't aged well.
 
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Athlon64 3000+ with an Abit Nforce3 board if i remember correctly.
 
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ but i pushed it to 3 GHz and caught my MSI motherboard on fire. shut the system down cleared the CMOS and continued to use that system for years after the fact. lol
 
Athlon 64 FX-57
 
AMD64 3700+

Made the jump from my Athlon XP 3200+
 
965BE!
 
San Diego core
 
I still have all my parts/boards from back then. nforce 2/3/4

My 1st decap was a athlon 64 939. I have parts all over the place...Im sorting my room this week...for sure ill find some treasures.
 
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Athlon 64 3000+ Venice core on a Gigabyte K8NMF-9 motherboard.
Still have the CPU in my drawer, used it until 2014 I think.
 
Sempron 64 2600+ Socket 754 (Palermo core) with an ATi x1300 Pro.
It was a quick and dirty build as my Athlon XP 2100+ died for reasons I didn't figure out. I only used for a few months as it dual-core x2 were due out in just a few months. Jumped to an Athlon 64 x2 4400+ (Toledo - 1MB L2 per core) as soon as they launched. (still had to keep the x1300 for while longer)
 
My 1st was a Athlon 64 3500+ socket 939, it was the Newcastle edition built on the 130nm fab.
For me that thing ran so hot. I upgraded that to a Athlon 64 X2 3600+ on 90nm, that ran much cooler.
That only lasted for 3 months until I blew that desktop when I installed a Nvidia 8800GT. I didnt know about power requirements back then. After that I turned to only laptops. That was my last desktop that was truly my.
 
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A socket 754 Athlon 3000+ with some Gigabyte motherboard that had a VIA chipset. Gaming on that thing was ... interesting
 
well, voted K8 but in truth it's K10, the first one i bought with my own money, with a Phenom II X6 1035T premade system from HP (that got upgraded many time and was the first system i posted on TPU in 2012)

voted K8 because it was my first experience hands on AMD X86-64 my cousin had a DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D with a Athlon 64 Venice (iirc 3200+), liked it so much that i bought, 10years later at least (2015~), the same Mobo and found the exact same CPU BNIB slealed, the mobo is, unfortunately, non responsive for now ...
 
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