Your CPU Timeline

1990. Intel 8088 10MHz (Epson Equity I+)
1999. Intel Pentium!!! 500MHz
2003. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.66GHz
2005. AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1.8GHz
2007. AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8GHz
2008. Intel C2D P8400 2.26GHz
2009. Intel C2D E7200 2.53GHz @3.3GHz
2010. Intel C2Q Q6600 2.4GHz @3.2GHz

So I guess that next should be AMD.-
Glad to see some old school people here

 

I've had a PII 350MHz, PII 400MHz, a P3 800MHz, a P4 2GHz, an Athlon64 3200+(?), and I'm currently on my Athlon64x2 4400+.

 

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to continue:
386 somehwhat machine... was 7 and kinda didnt knew anything about it,then a
P1 150MHZ which i had till i got a
1800+ which i had for 2 years until i changed to an
xp 3200+, which i kept until i got me an
athlon 64 x2 4400+, which i had for one year, until i broke the bare die with a heavy,unstraight screwed WB, then i got a
5000+, which i had for half a year, until i got me a PH2 955... after that i didnt upgraded the main proc, but bought/got gifted procs for additional rigs,within about 1,5 years:
Q9550
939 X2 64 3800+
939 X2 64 4200+
e2140
e6750
X2 64 5600+ Windsor
heaps of old P4s

planned:
X6 1055T
i3 540

 

Family systems:

Zilog Z80A (Amstrad CPC464)
80286
Pentium 133Mhz

My computers:

Desktops:

Intel:
Pentium II 233 Mhz
Celeron 3xx Mhz
Pentium II 400 Mhz
Pentium III 400 Mhz
Pentium III 699 Mhz (s370)
Celeron 900 Mhz
Pentium III 1.2 Ghz
Core 2 Duo e4300
C2D e4500

AMD:
Duron 1.2 Ghz
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1.8 Ghz
Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (s939), 1.8 Ghz
Athlon 64 3200+ Venice, 2 Ghz
Sempron 2800+ (AM2)
Athlon II X3 445 (specs)

Laptop:
Pentium 166 Mhz
Pentium III 699 Mhz
Athlon 64 Clawhammer 2.2 Ghz
Pentium M 1.6 Ghz
Pentium III 1.1 Ghz

Something like that. There should be an Alpha CPU there somewhere as well.

 

it starts at Apple IIe for me and keeps going from there.

 

ah, a lonely prebuilt warrior!

 

I've had prebuilts and ones I built myself. If I see a cheap prebuilt with good parts, I often grab one versus building one. Just depends on the job at hand.

but I go back a long ways with computers.

 

PIII 667mhz
P4 2.4Ghz (478 socket)
Pentium D 820
C2D E4400
C2Q 9450
i7 920
i7 875k
have something new on the way...

 

its economically gruesome, but people that know how to built rigs like me, would be without work, if everyone would built their rigs themselves

 

I went from:

Intel P3 with 512mb
AMD Athlon 3000+ 1gb
AMD Athlon x2 3800+ Venice Core 2gb
AMD Athlon x2 4800+ 4gb
AMD Athlon x2 5800+ 4gb
*Finally Switched to Intel*
Intel e5200 2gb
Intel e7200 4gb
Intel q9550 4gb (Current)

all in 5 year time span, maybe 6ish.

 

Celeron 600MHz
Pentium 4 3.0GHz w/ HT
E6600 (first custom built pc)
Q6600
i7 920 (never looked back)

 

I can build my own rigs, I can even write my own code. Sometimes a prebuilt is just cheaper for what I need. alot of times I buy used prebuilts for pennies and put them into office duty around my bussiness. Its just economical. My current home rig is pretty nice. 1090t thuban, am3 board, 5770 gpu "getting upgraded to 6990/580 still waiting on benchmakrs but I know how thats comming out" The wife has a nicely built quad core pehon 9550 at 3ghz.

its not that I can't, its that sometimes its just easier to buy a prebuilt.

 

In order of acquiring:

Zilog Z80A @ 4.8MHz (Amstrad CP/M machine) - donated to hospital
Intel Pentium MMX @ 166MHz (Packard Bell Executive desktop) - donated to school, scrapped a year later
Intel Pentium @ 90MHz (Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT) - DOS gaming laptop
Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.5GHz (eMachines 730) - still have
Intel Celeron M @ 1.3GHz (Medion SIM2000) - scrapped
Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.1GHz (Dell XPS 210) - main family PC
Intel Core2 Duo @ 1.66GHz (Packard Bell laptop) - main laptop
Intel Pentium Dual Core @ 2.0GHz (Dell Studio Hybrid) - still have
Intel Pentium III @ 800MHz - stored
Intel Pentium III @ 1GHz - legacy gaming PC
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ @ 3.0 GHz - stored
AMD Athlon II X2 250 @ 3.0GHz (Chachamaru) - still have
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition (Chachamaru II) - main gaming PC

 

Here's my timeline, not including mobile procs:

Intel 8086 7.25Mhz - could switch to turbo mode @ 10Mhz, but defaulted to lower clock for compatibility (whatever that means )
Intel 286 12Mhz
Intel 486DX 66Mhz - huge performance leap, had to downclock to 16Mhz to play DOS games like Wing Commander
Intel Pentium 100Mhz
Intel Pentium MMX 166Mhz OC'd to 233 - added an 80mm fan to heatsink for cooler operation
Intel Celeron Covington 300Mhz - no cache, worst POS I ever had, could OC to 450Mhz but not too stable
Intel Pentium III Coppermine 500Mhz OC'd to 583Mhz
Intel Pentium III Tualatin 1.13Ghz OC'd to 1.33Ghz
Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8Ghz OC'd to 3Ghz
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott HT 3Ghz OC'd to 3.2Ghz - very hot! first time I had to get an aftermarket cooler
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz OC'd to 3.2Ghz
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz OC'd to 3.7Ghz
Next in line: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4Ghz OC'd to - who knows... sky's the limit

 

Limiting myself strictly to x86 and x64 stuff, things that I actually purchased, (as oppossed to "inheriting"), and they are not necessarily listed in order of appearance. (As you might imagine, quite a bit of this stuff was/is used concurrently. I have a lot of PCs around the house.) And, I'm sure I'm overlooking or forgetting a few. Can't imagine why that would happen...

All of these were/are in rigs I built myself.

4.7MHz Intel 8088, AMD 8088
4.7MHz Intel 8086*
8MHz NEC V30
12MHz AMD 80286
25MHz Intel 80386
40MHz AMD 80386
40MHz Cyrix 486DLC
40MHz AMD 486
50MHz IBM 486SLC* (IBM PS/2)
100MHz AMD 486*
166MHz Cyrix 686
233MHz Cyrix 686
200MHz Intel Pentium MMX
266MHz AMD K6
350MHz AMD K6-2
450MHz AMD K6-2
533MHz AMD K6-2*
500MHz AMD K6-3*
300MHz Celeron (PGA)
550MHz Celeron
233MHz Pentium II
333MHz Pentium II
450MHz Pentium III
550MHz Pentium III*
800MHz Pentium III (S370)
1GHz Pentium III*
1.4GHz Pentium III (Tulatin)*
700MHz Athlon (Slot A)*
800MHz Athlon
1GHz Athlon
1.47GHz AthlonXP*
1.8GHz AthlonXP
1.92GHz AthlonXP*
2.0GHz AthlonXP*
2.2GHz AthlonXP*
2.2GHz Athlon64 (S754)*
2.2GHz Athlon64 (S939)
2.4GHz Athlon64 (S939)*
2.4GHz Athlon64 X2 (S939)*
2.4GHz Opteron (X2) (S939)*
2.6GHz Athlon64 X2 (AM2)*
3.2GHz Pentium IV (Cedar Mill)
2.4GHz Core 2 Duo (E6600)*
2.4GHz Phenom X3*
2.7GHz Athlon X2 7750*
2.8GHz i5 760*
3.0GHz Phenom II X4*
3.4GHz Phenom II X4*

* = still in use.
(I have a LAN at home and many of these rigs are still used to run some older games. Others support old operating systems, such as Win95 and 98SE, OS/2, and, yes, even DOS. Some are just, well... ...old friends.)

 

Whoa! that's a long list!

 

Family Computer:

• Amiga 500

Kind of a big pause in here where I didn't have a regular computer, but used my brother's PCs on occasion, and my mum's when I was at her house - all very unimpressive and not memorable until I got back into PCs in 2005:

• Aug 2005 - Feb 2007: P4 2.4Ghz (inherited from a mate)
• Feb 2006 - Nov 2007: C2D E6600
• Nov 2007 - Oct 2010: C2Q Q6600
• Oct 2010 - : Core i5-760

 

true, but also, sometimes you just want to know you have done something yourself

 

If I had a ton of rigs to keep track of, especially putting together rigs for work, I would definately go prebuilt. You won't catch a prebuilt rig in my own home, though.

 

Ah... good old memories.

Celeron 500Mhz thing back in good 'ol 1999
P4 2.6Ghz Single Core
Core 2 Duo E8400
Now Quad Q6600 w/ 1.225 VID

 

2004 - 2008
Intel Pentium 4 3.00E GHz, 1M Cache, 800 MHz FSB

2008 - 2010
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 8M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB

2010 - 2011 Present
Intel Core i7 930 8M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 4.80 GT/s Intel® QPI

 

My timeline is short because back in those days (before the 3200+) i was mainly a Console gamer.

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2GHz
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8GHz

 

Before I cared about computers:
486
Pentium
Pentium III
Athlon
Athlon 2800+

After I begun caring:
Turion 64 x2 (Laptop)
Core 2 Duo (Laptop)
Phenom II x4 955 BE
Phenom II x4 B50 (an unlocked 550)

Next Step: Bulldozer & Intel for a Hackintosh