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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 .
A Computer Guy said:
I thought K5's were only 32-bit.
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True but it's not were my story started with AMD and thought it be nice to add it as well.

But it's still a x86 chip.

I read it like from-too
 
It was a remarkably awful Turion64 MK-38 chip. Those "Vista capable" laptops with 512 MB of RAM? Yeahhhh, hardly nostalgic for it lol
 
I would say that an AMD 3500+ was probably the first.
 
Man, K8 is leading. People on this forum are old...

I'm also a former owner of Athlone64 Venice 3200+. Served me well as main rig for 6+ years and then 2 more as HTPC untill full retirement.
 
An Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition.

Unfortunately, it was a turd of an overclocker. Still, it's powering my WinXP machine now.

Dirt Chip said:
Man, K8 is leading. People on this forum are old...

I'm also a former owner of Athlone64 Venice 3200+. Served me well as main rig for 6+ years and then 2 more as HTPC untill full retirement.
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Well, forums in general aren't exactly popular with younger folks these days
 
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sLowEnd said:
Well, forums in general aren't exactly popular with younger folks these days
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Yup, they don't like to read, or are unable to (more than a tiktok video length anyway).
 
None AMD, my first one was a MIPS on Windows CE Palmtop PC... (1999)
My first own laptop CPU was a 2.0Ghz Celeron Northwood (2003).
 
K8. A Windsor Athlon 64 X2 3800+, on an ASUS M2NPV-MX.
From then on, Regor Athlon II 240e (ASUS M4N78 SE), Deneb Phenom II 965BE (the same M4N78 SE first, then Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P), Vishera FX-8320E (GA-970A-DS3P), Pinnacle Ridge Ryzen 7 2700 (Aorus X470 Gaming 7) and Vermeer Ryzen 5 5600X (still the Aorus X470).
 
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For me it was the Athlon II X2 250, so K10/10h. Had it on the unique AsRock AliveDual-eSATA2 with an HD3850 AGP for a short time, before upgrading to a Phenom II X4 965 and an HD6850 on the same board.

Both the Phenom and the HD3850 are now powering my retro XP rig. Sadly, the mobo was killed by a faulty PSU.

I also have the slowest 64-bit AMD desktop CPU in another system, the 1c/1t Sempron 2500+ on Socket 754. I fire it up about once a month to browse the web and play some games. It can even do YouTube :D
 
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Socket 754 Athlon 64 3000+ was the first one. Don't remember what motherboard I did have maybe some MSI. I do know that I once had DFI LANParty UT nF3-250Gb. Later had couple those mobile 64's also which were pin compatible with socket 754.

Also couple Socket 754 Sempron's I did own. Had both Paris and Palermo chips. They came from broken computers/computer upgrades. Did OC benchmarking with couple of these and with this Asrock board. Best one I could get to boot was somewhere 3000MHz, but speed increase wasn't that much in benchmarks.

Also I had Socket 939 Athlon 64 3200+. Motherboard I don't remember at all. I know I have owned couple AMD Lanparty boards, but just can't remember which one's, only that s754 nF3-250Gb.

Third one(the most I miss) Opteron 170 on socket 939. It was my first dual core and was nice overclocking chip. First time I could play with virtual machines and give one full core to VM.
 
Nice trip down memory lane ..

AMD
K5-450
Athlon Xp 2500+
Athlon64 3200
Athlon64 x2 5200
Athlon II x3 425 unlocked t Phenom II
FX6100
Ryzen 1600

Intel:
386 40MHz
486 100MHz
Pentium 133
E5200
i7 950
i5 6500
i5 6600k
i7 9700k
i7 11700k
 
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Phenom II 555 Black edition , unlocked to Deneb 4 cores like charm on MSI but was head ache on gigabyte so I've switched to bulldozer and it was stable like steamroller :D :toast:
 
Mats said:
Finally another Opteron!
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Those Opterons were cheaper in Germany than Athlon 64 x2 in Finland, if I remember correctly. Even with DHL delivery(30€) it was still cheaper. This was time when you could just order computer parts from Germany and pay their lower VAT(was then 19%) instead of Finland's(23%, now 25%).

Also miss time when computer parts had "unlockables". Like extra cache and cores, more pixel and vertex shaders. Some of those unlocks included instability, but some of those were nice Duron->Athlon XP with 2200MHz clocks. Or unlockable extra cores on Phenom 2's. Also Geforce 6800LE AGP pixel shaders to 8->16 and vertex shaders 4->5(6th one had problems with locks).
 
If we go by the first AMD CPU I bought with my own money, that would be my Ryzen 5 2600X.
 
Magic Cube said:
Those Opterons were cheaper in Germany than Athlon 64 x2 in Finland, if I remember correctly. Even with DHL delivery(30€) it was still cheaper. This was time when you could just order computer parts from Germany and pay their lower VAT(was then 19%) instead of Finland's(23%, now 25%).

Also miss time when computer parts had "unlockables". Like extra cache and cores, more pixel and vertex shaders. Some of those unlocks included instability, but some of those were nice Duron->Athlon XP with 2200MHz clocks. Or unlockable extra cores on Phenom 2's. Also Geforce 6800LE AGP pixel shaders to 8->16 and vertex shaders 4->5(6th one had problems with locks).
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I thought I read somewhere Intel was doing fee based software unlocking of server CPU features.
Imagine if AMD had you pay extra $$ to unlock cores, ECC, 3d cache, or for higher frequency. CPU's with microtransactions - ugh.
 
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My first AMD CPU was the Ryzen 7 1700, it was the CPU I used for the first PC I built myself back in 2017. Since then I have stuck with AMD and have since purchased the 3700X and 5800X. Solid CPUs - AMD has innovated pretty well over the past few decades, aside from the Bulldozer architecture - that was a doozy.
 
QuietBob said:
That was an AMD chip ;)
I had one, too.
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i386 was intel.
AMD one was am386.
If I'm not mistaken AMD one was compatible with Intel/Mobo/Chipset. They didn't have their own.
 
i never owned a 64 bit amd cpu but i did have sempron 3200+ in my first pc which was pretty ordinary even for it's time (2007)
 
either an Athlon 64 3200 or 3400 (I can't recall which one) but soon replaced by an Athlon X2 4200.
 
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