Hardware history

Let's have one of these threads.

1994-1997: some 66MHz/33MHz CPU
1997-2000: some 166MHz Pentium
2000-2003: 500MHz Intel Celeron
2003-2009: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83GHz)
2009-2015: Phenom II X2 550 (3.0GHz dual core)
2015-present: Intel Core i5-2500

Current laptop CPUs:
2013-present: Intel Core 2 Duo SL9400
2017-present: Intel Core i7-3720QM

lol fuk off grandpa!

1999-2002: Some premade Dell I think? No idea.
2003-2010: 1.5ghz Celeron, FX 5200
2011-2016: G2020 2.9ghz, GT610
2017-now: i3 7300, 1050ti

You can tell from this list that I've been poor until like a couple of years ago

2002-2006:
gateway P4 @2.4Ghz 256MB ram

2006-2008:
custom built, C2D @ 2.33GHz & 2GB ram

2008-2014:
custom, C2Q @ 2.66Ghz & 4GB ram

2014-2016:
custom, i5-2400 & 8GB ram

2016-present:
custom, i5-3470 & 8GB ram

don't plan on upgrading at all.
only reason i went from c2q to i5 is because i got it for free.
C2Q was good enough.

Desktops:

ntel Pentium III + integrated
Intel Pentium 4 + Nvidia GeForce2 MX200
Motorola 68LC040 + integrated
Pentium 4 + unknown ATi Radeon
Core2 Duo + integrated
500MHz IBM PowerPC G3 + ATi Rage 128 Ultra
700MHz Motorola PowerPC G4 + Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200
dual 2GHz IBM PowerPC G5 + ATi Radeon 9600 Pro
AMD FX-6100 + Quadro FX 650 (first GPU I bought)
Intel Core2 Duo + ATi Radeon 2600 Pro
AMD A8-6500B + AMD Radeon HD 6670

Next up's a Lemote Godson 3B1500

1999-2007 P3 HP pavilion desktop
2007-2015 Q6600 custom desktop.
GPU 2007-2015 Nvidia 8800 GTS
2015-present i7-5820k custom desktop
GPU 2015- present GTX 960

I don't upgrade my hardware often

1989-1991 20MHz 386SX
1992-1994 25MHz 486SX
1994-1996 incredible 120MHz Pentium
1996-2000 mind fucking blown by 300MHz PII
2001-2003 face melting fast 1.2 GHz PIII
2004-2009 IS THIS REAL LIFE? 3.0GHz OR
2010-2013 2.2GHz Core2Duo HOLY SHIT 2 CORES
2014-2015 2.6GHz Celery 900. Dud.
2016-Present AMD A8-6410 farewell Intel

For GPUs, aside from a Voodoo 2 back in the day I used all integrated until 2014 when I picked up a DDR5 6670 which I still use today. Not for gaming, as I'm not a manchild, but it's nice for desktop compositing.

>3.0GHz OR
that's supposed to be P4. Fucking autocorrect.

CPUs:

?? - 2001 too young to remember
2001-2005 Pentium 3
2005-2010 Athlon II x2 250
2010-2015 Athlon II x4 860K
2015 - now Ryzen 1700

laptops: 4500U since 4 years ago, never had one until late

GPUs:

?? - 2005: idk
2005 - 2008: GeForce 6200 TC
2008 - 2015: ATI HD4650
2015 - 2017: AMD Radeon 270x
2017 - now: Geforce 1060 6GB

i fucked up the dates

Goddamn the 7970 was a great card. Last graphics card that genuinely did not suck.

>i7 930
why people still remember that this thing exists?
getting a motherboard for this thing is just a pain

Early 2003 AMD Athlon XP VIA graphics
2013-now AMD Phenom X6 1055T Radeon HD 6570
2017 AMD Ryzen/AMD Vega 56
Future
AMD Ryzen APU NAS

...

Not up to date, this should be the last image as it shows the current state of my hardware. Bought a 1050 for my 2nd station which turned out as a fraud, so this will be a cruel year on my 2nd PC. Though I rarely have native 4K movies.

>he bought a i3

I don't understand why people buy i3s in 2017, where the coming i3s will have 4 cores.

i3 bottleneck already in many AAA titles. And for non-gaming, a used Pentium suffices.

You've got crabs!

Power efficiency. My i3-broadwell dell chromebook lasts 10 hours watching Netflix.

Then why didn't you get an R3? It has better power efficiency than intel chips.

"Lmao retard why didn't you buy a desktop processor that wouldn't be released until two years after the fact for your laptop? Checkmate Intelshills!"

Yes

Chromebooks and boxes overall have great power efficiency regardless. I have a Chromebook with the Dual core Celeron 3215U in it. I get something along the lines of 13.5 hours of streaming and average use. And that's with scree brightness at 60% or higher.

Desktops:
1993-1994 - I was barely alive, but we had a Macintosh Plus that I'd bang on.
1995-2002 - 'Custom' Windows 95 system that my parents friend who worked for AT&T had gotten from a company called DFI. They're still around: dfi.com
2002-2006 - Dell Dimension prefab running XP. Intel Pentium something or other with 512MB of Rambus RAM and some kind of old nvidia card. Played Call of Duty 2 on the lowest settings.
2006-2010 - Prefab HP with an AMD Athelon, 4gb of RAM, and a AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT. Eventually crammed a Radeon HD 4890 in there.
2010-2015 - AMD Phenom 2 x4 965 at like 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, Radeon 4890 and then 7850.
2015-Present - Core i7 4790K, 32GB of DDR3, R9 390. I also have a Core i7 6700K 32gb w/ integrated GPU that I built in 2016 and somehow convinced my org to let me use at work.

Laptops:
2005-2013 - Some Toshiba Satellite thing, it sucks ass but still runs.
2013-2015 - Thinkpad T530
2015-Present DD is a Thinkpad X220. I also have a late 2013 MBP and some i7 6800k gayman laptop with a GTX 1060.

>CPUs
Pentium 4 HT - fucking housefire
Core2Duo - prebuilt machine
AMD FX-4100 - Baby's first self-built machine
AMD FX-6300 - To replace the garbage 4100. Overclocked this chip to 4.8ghz on a garbage 970 chipset board
AMD FX-9370 - Overclocked to 5.3ghz. Custom water cooling. Furnace that could replace the heating in my room
Intel 4690k - replaced the 9370 after it popped a VRM on my motherboard
Intel 6700k - 4 cores wasn't enough. Great chip. Sold for full price 2nd hand on eBay
AMD Ryzen R7-1700X - current chip. Probably my last until Ryzen 2.
>GPUs
Gigabyte Radeon 6670
MSI Twin Frozr Radeon 7850 - clocked to 1180mhz with +200mv its entire life. The fan failed, the card still works
EVGA GTX 550ti FPB 1GB - my first ever monster card. It was fucking awesome.
EVGA GTX 560 2GB SE - loud, hot, a hassle to own
Zotac GTX 670 2GB - bought used for $170 at launch of the GTX 6xx series. Bought a 2nd one on eBay for $100 flat for SLI. Great scaling
Powercolor R9-290X PCS+ 4GB - 2 of them for xfire. One burned out
Powercolor R9-390X PCS+ 8GB - Powercolor replaced the burnt out 290X with an 390X
EVGA GTX 980TI Classified 6GB - Current card. Does 1580mhz at a measly +70mv. Maxes out 1440p 60fps without issue.

Do you run that 980Ti on air? This must be a beast. 1600 MHz should be 1080 levels.

Yup. On air. It boosts to just shy of 1500mhz on out of the box stock settings. Technically I don't hit a voltage or stability limit. I hit thermal limit. The 9xx series of cards are set to automatically fall out of boost clock once they surpass around 78C. So I can get 1630mhz with +140mv stable, but only for about 50% of a benchmark run. Then it hits 82C and backs out of boost. Had I not waited so damned long, I'd have purchased an EK full cover block for it and probably be running 1700mhz easy.

Hindsight is always 20/20 as they say. I'll probably buy a full EK block whatever TI model I buy next. More than likely the 2080TI or whatever Nvidia is going to call it.

It's ez to get a 1366 motherboard for that

never understood why anyone would want to bother though. LGA 1366 boards are all old regardless of what you buy. Old standards, and the CPUs available for it are also old/power hungry/hot running.

R5-1600 and budget B350 or even A series motherboard would run circles around an old 1366 setup.

unless you get your hands on all the parts for real cheap. Sorry forgot to mention that. LGA 1366 processors are cheap, but their motherboards are always stupid expensive.

CPU
2004-2010 AMD Athlon 3000
2010-Now Intel Core i3 550
GPU
2004-2008 Some radeon with 256 Mb
2008-2011 GeForce 9600GT
2011-2015 GeForce GTX 560TI
2015-Now GeForce GTX 950

Wanna buy Xeon x3470 some time.
> tfw never experienced more than 2 cores
> tfw never experienced an ssd

2600k with 2x HD5970s
2600k with a gtx1080

MY history is short.

1993-1997: Amiga 600
1997-2001: AMD K6 @500mhz 64mb of RAM 1 or 2 GB HDD
2001-2001: a torturously bad Toshiba Satellite that shipped with XP. I believe it was a late Pentium III. 128 or 256mb of RAM
2001-2003: Apple iBook G3 (the white one) 700mhz 256mb or maybe 512mb of RAM
2003-2006: AMD Athlon XP 2.6ghz? I don't remember. Had 2GB of ram and a Radeon 9800 XT
2006-2010: Various core2 duo think pads nothing special
2010-2011: Samsung netbook while traveling very good maybe a core 2 as well.
2012-2013: HP Pavillion laptop in red with an AMD APU chip...very nice. Ran a lot of games good...too bad the cooling was for shit and she cooked herself to death.
2013-2014: One of those core duo Thinkpad rip offs from HP.
2014-2015: Thinkpad T420 an i5 I don't recall the frequency. 4GB of ram intel HD 4000 graphics
2015-2016: i5 4460 with a GTX 960 2GB a custom build...my first since 2003.
2016-Present: i7 6700k GTX 1080 16GB custom build
2017-Present: (2017) 15" Touch Bar MacBook Pro 14,3: Intel Core i7-7820HQ, 512GB PCI-Express SSD, 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3, Radeon Pro 560

lol your hardware time line shows how shitty processor market has been for over half a decade. Im still sitting on haswell till and AMD and Intel provide a 5ghz chip non overclocked

Pentium 4
Core 2 Duo
Ivy Bridge i5