Peoples CPU and GPU history

[andreweddy]

 

Just wandering what the process of other peoples cpu and GPU history is with building their own PCs - thought this might be an interesting post

 

CPU for me

 

Pentium 1 120 MHz - Celeron 400A (the myth, the legend!!!) - Athlon XP 1700 - Athlon XP 3200 - Intel Pentium D 945 (i know!! should have gone with core - i was blindsided with clockspeed) - Intel core i7 920 - Xeon x5670 (on x58 also) - Ryzen 2700 - Ryzen 5900

 

GPU

 

Ati Rage Pro 8mb - S3 savage 4 (should have just got a voodoo) - Voodoo 3 (s3 drivers where awful) - Geforce 2 MX 400 - Radeon 9500 pro - Radeon 9800 - Geforce 6600 - Geforce 9800  gt - radeon 5770 crossfire - gtx 950 - gtx 1060 - rtx 3060ti

 

wonder what other peoples is

 

cheers

[DreamCat04]

On 8/28/2023 at 10:44 PM, andreweddy said:

 

Just wandering what the process of other peoples cpu and GPU history is with building their own PCs - thought this might be an interesting post

 

CPU for me

 

Pentium 1 120 MHz - Celeron 400A (the myth, the legend!!!) - Athlon XP 1700 - Athlon XP 3200 - Intel Pentium D 945 (i know!! should have gone with core - i was blindsided with clockspeed) - Intel core i7 920 - Xeon x5670 (on x58 also) - Ryzen 2700 - Ryzen 5900

 

GPU

 

Ati Rage Pro 8mb - S3 savage 4 (should have just got a voodoo) - Voodoo 3 (s3 drivers where awful) - Geforce 2 MX 400 - Radeon 9500 pro - Radeon 9800 - Geforce 6600 - Geforce 9800  gt - radeon 5770 crossfire - gtx 950 - gtx 1060 - rtx 3060ti

 

wonder what other peoples is

 

cheers

Well I only have one PC that I built myself a few months ago with a 12700K and a 3060Ti

[DeerDK]

Since i started building myself.

 

CPU: i5 4690K (2015), Ryzen 5600x (2022)

GPU: GTX 660 Asus Strix (2013), GTX 960 4gb Asus Strix (2015), RTX 3060 MSI gaming x (2021), RTX 4070 PNY XLR8 (Hopefully next week)

 

My PC is pulling a Jason's ship thing where the only original components at this point is the CPU cooler and the PSU (and my case, but can't use that untill the new GPU arrives)

[05032-Mendicant-Bias]

1. Pentium 1 | Ati 4MB
2. Pentium 3 | Geforce 256
3. Pentium 4 | Geforce Ti4600
4. Phenom 2 | Ati 1900XT
5. Intel 8700F | GTX1070
6. Intel 8700F | RTX3080
7. Intel 13700F | RTX3080

[Blue4130]

On 8/29/2023 at 4:44 AM, andreweddy said:

 

Just wandering what the process of other peoples cpu and GPU history is with building their own PCs - thought this might be an interesting post

 

CPU for me

 

Pentium 1 120 MHz - Celeron 400A (the myth, the legend!!!) - Athlon XP 1700 - Athlon XP 3200 - Intel Pentium D 945 (i know!! should have gone with core - i was blindsided with clockspeed) - Intel core i7 920 - Xeon x5670 (on x58 also) - Ryzen 2700 - Ryzen 5900

 

GPU

 

Ati Rage Pro 8mb - S3 savage 4 (should have just got a voodoo) - Voodoo 3 (s3 drivers where awful) - Geforce 2 MX 400 - Radeon 9500 pro - Radeon 9800 - Geforce 6600 - Geforce 9800  gt - radeon 5770 crossfire - gtx 950 - gtx 1060 - rtx 3060ti

 

wonder what other peoples is

 

cheers

Wasn't the 300a the myth and legend?

 

My memory is failing but my list is something like...

Cyrix 486dlc40

Celeron 300a

Thunderbird 1ghz

P4 2.8

(dark point when I switched to Mac for a while for school and work)

6500

5600x

 

GPU is more fuzzy. But I know that there was GeForce 2, voodoo 5 5500, ati all in wonder 6900xt, gtx750ti, gtx1060, rtx2080. There were some more early ones but I can't recall what they were.

 

[donal McScrote]

Honestly lost count in 20+years for my own builds.  Started with an intel 486 dx and a voodoo 3dfx.  I remember the crappy CPU's and GPU's more than the most outstanding as reliable.  Total junk was an asus Geforce 3, the fans bearings died just over a year after I bought it and swapped that out for a XFX ge force 3 then swapped that out for a ge force 4 mx passive cooling.

 

P3-p4 boards onto amd and dual cores msi asrock boards finally settled on gigabyte as the most reliable boards.  Nvidia GT cards total junk before GTX's were my go-to.

 

I used to buy a magazine called extreme PC and also happened to work in industrial estates with comp parts stores round the corner from where the ATM was where I got my wages every Friday, no wonder I lost count.   I miss those days, no more independent comp parts stores plenty of free advice and it was good custom to buy something no matter how trivial even splitter cables and some cpu paste.

[NobleGamer]

CPUs:

Pentium II 300 (Friend helped me build)

AMD FX ?? (My first full DIY build)

i5-3470

i5-3570K

5600X

 

Dedicated GPUs:

ATI ?

Radeon ?

GTX 680

GTX 1060 6GB

RTX 3080 10GB

[emothxughts]

Only counting my current desktop PC:

 

GPU:

1. AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
2. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (current)

GPU:

1. The 3200G's integrated graphics
2. Sapphire Pulse RX 550 2GB (the 3200G and this one are the only ones I bought brand new, all others are used)
3. Sapphire Pulse RX 580 4GB (RIP)
4. Gigabyte RX 5600 XT (also RIP)
5. Zotac Mini GTX 1070 (current)
6. Colorful BattleAx RTX 2060 Super (upcoming, can't wait to get it in the mail)

[butters07]

CPUs

Core 2 quad 6600

Phemon ii 965

Core i7 970

Ryzen 2600

Ryzen 5800x

 

GPUs

8800 GTS

GTX 280

ATI 5970

GTX 580

GTX 670

GTX 780ti

RX 590

RTX 2060 super

RTX 3080ti

[vf1000ride]

My first computer was an Apple II plus.  Added a Sup 'R' Mod II (rf module) so I could display it on Channel 33 on a regular TV.  Amazingly enough I still have the thing and it still works.

 

First PC based machine was a 486DX2 chip at 66mhz.  I know there was a PII slot processor in there somewhere and a bunch of AMD/Intel machines every 2-3 years between 1996 and now.  Way too many to remember all of them.

[Montana One-Six]

Desktop CPU:

Pentium 4

i5-2500K

i7-5820K

i9-10850K

 

Desktop GPU:

Radeon X1600 (XT I think)

Radeon HD 6870

GTX 980Ti

RTX 3080Ti

[loony979]

Cpu:

Q9450 can't remember how it was
3570K did it's job back in the day 4.4ghz

7600K had it since release date ish 4.8ghz

13600K. i got this beast just now 3 weeks 5.7ghz.

 

Gpu:

9500 GS

Gtx 460 kept having to bake it in the oven to keep it going. Fun times, not.

Gtx 660x1 then i thought i was smart & get another i wasn't.

Gtx 970 still use it now Bios hacked. 1.275v

Thinking of Intel's Gpu. not sure yet, but need something with a waterblock.

[dcgreen2k]

My first desktop was my dad's old photography workstation with a Core 2 Duo E6700 and GeForce 7300LE, and it was pretty much unusable for the majority of games. After a couple months of learning how to work on computers, I upgraded it with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and a GTX 750Ti.

 

About a year later, I built my very own gaming PC from scratch with a Ryzen 5 1600 and the same 750Ti. After another year, I upgraded the graphics card to a Radeon RX570.

 

Before going to college, I needed a laptop for the engineering program so I got one with a Ryzen 7 4800h and RTX 2060. It's been amazing for heavy computation workloads, video editing, and occasional gaming - now I'm starting grad school with it too.

 

The gaming PC I built from scratch is now my little sister's, and she absolutely loves it. It handles all the games she plays as well as playing with friends in VR. Two years ago my mom's personal laptop finally died so I built her a desktop with a Ryzen 3 1200 and the same 750Ti I had when I first started out. She mainly uses it for office work and light gaming sometimes. Her favorite games to play on it are Stardew Valley, Satisfactory, and ports of older Final Fantasy games.

[emothxughts]

On 8/31/2023 at 11:34 AM, emothxughts said:

Only counting my current desktop PC:

 

GPU:

1. AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
2. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (current)

GPU:

1. The 3200G's integrated graphics
2. Sapphire Pulse RX 550 2GB (the 3200G and this one are the only ones I bought brand new, all others are used)
3. Sapphire Pulse RX 580 4GB (RIP)
4. Gigabyte RX 5600 XT (also RIP)
5. Zotac Mini GTX 1070 (current)
6. Colorful BattleAx RTX 2060 Super (upcoming, can't wait to get it in the mail)

#6 GPU has arrived, now rocking a raytracing capable card.

[thrasher_565]

the amount of case far out ways how many gpus and cpus i had...

 

i dont remeber it all so ill do my best.

 

we had some windows 95 family pc was the first one we had. and dukenukem was my first game...

we got an ugrade to that with a voodoo 2 and later on a 4gb hdd after that i dont no. i saved up and spent $800 on my first pc some p4 from atic from vancover. no idea about anything els about it. 

 

my dad must have upgrade hi pc and i got his old stuff what i got i also dont remeber. all i palyed was daiblo 2 mostly and half life 2( i cared more about case mods thx to mnpctech... and rember there being a canadian moding site big foot computers

 

at some point i didn't want to wate for dad to buy me new stuff and i got a i7920 cpu. gpu i dont remember but that pc did have ithink so 3450 hd fanless thing and gtx 280 and gtx 580

 

after that i got myself a i5 6600k and a gtx 760  and then a gtx 1060 then sold that and got some msi lighting 780...(mining time) sold that and got a gtx 1080 for $750...

 

since then i had many other gpus for other builds but still the i5 and 1080 to day

 

but my new build will have a x299 i9 7920x and a rtx 3090...

 

other gpus i had:

evga gtx 960 4gb (atm tv build)

gtx 580 (with wb) (hot pc for testing)

evga 6800 ultra agp

evga 6800 ultra pcie (broken...)

2x dell 6800 pcie

ati radeon x850 xt  pcie

8800 gt

 

other cpus:

 

FX-9370 (hot pc build)

e8600 (one of my 98se builds)

5200 (agp build)

x5470 (ultimate 98 se build...attempt)

2x i7-3930k

i5-3570K

i7-7740X

Xeon E5-1680 v2 (xp build)

[Godlygamer23]

CPUs and GPUs I've owned in the past, ranging from oldest to newest(from when I acquired them. Not how old they are, although it mostly correlates in that direction):

 

CPUs:

Phenom II x4 840

Phenom II x6 1050T

FX 8120

Core i5 3570K

A8-7600

Core i5 750

Ryzen 5 2600X

Ryzen 5 5600

Core 2 Quad Q9450

 

 

GPUs:

Zotac GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB

EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB(x2). Ran those in SLI.

ASUS GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB(x2). Also ran those in SLI.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070

EVGA GeForce GTX 3070

 

Edited September 3, 2023 by Godlygamer23
Added CPU

[vetali]

CPU

 

AMD Sempron 3200+

Intel P4 HT 521

Intel Core 2 Duo E7300

Intel i5 2500k*

Intel i7 4770k*

Intel I7 8700k*

AMD R9 5950X*

AMD R7 5800X3D

 

GPU

 

EVGA 6200

ATI 9600

EVGA 9600 GSO Dual slot
XFX HD5770 Blower style cooler

EVGA GTX 660

Gigabyte Windforce GTX 970*

EVGA GTX 1080*

EVGA RTX 2080 Super*

EVGA RTX 3080ti*

EVGA RTX 3090ti

 

* = not currently used by me, but still working and being used by family members or people I know.

 

Personally my favorite CPU was the 4770k. Overclocked very well, extremely reliable. Favorite GPU is my 3090ti currently. No heat issues despite being overclocked and ripping 450+ watts. No stability issues at all. Least favorite CPU was the 8700k. Hardly overclocked, ran hot, degraded in less than a year. Thats not to mention the terrible mobo issues I also had. 5950x a close second.

 

Least favorite GPU is easy, the HD5770. Just search Radeon HD 5000 series grey screen of death. Issue was never fixed for me. RMAs would be denied to it being a driver issue that was "fixed". Went back to my 9600 GSO until I could afford my next GPU. Haven't bought now AMD since, but I have no issue with current AMD cards / driver support and will likely consider them next upgrade due to EVGA being dead.

[Zomeguy]

Well I've been using PC's for a while.

 

CPU

MOS Technology 6510 (Commodore 64)

Some 386 in a Tandy

Cyrix 6x86 (I remember increasing the video memory on this so I could play Mechwarrior 2 )

P3-500MHz@1GHz

Dual P3 750

Dual AMD of some kind that I can't remember the details for some reason.

i7-2600k

i7-6700k

AMD Ryzen 9 3900

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

 

GPU

Canopus Pure3D 6MB 3Dfx

Some Asus Geforce Card can't remember the model

Radeon HD 7950

Radeon R9 390x

Nvidia 1080TI (Accidently killed it, expensive mistake)

Radeon 5700XT

Radeon 7900XTX

 

I think I may have had some ATI card between the HD 7950 and the Canopus 3D

 

I loved that P3-500 as getting 100% overclock is pretty rare on air cooling. Couldn't keep it at that as my sound card couldn't handle the FSB being that high. I ran it at 867MHz or so until I put it in a dual p3 setup with another p3 750.

 

The Canopus 3D was great as well as it had 6MB of video memory instead of the other brands which had 4MB. Performed better than the other add in cards at the time.

[andreweddy]

On 8/30/2023 at 2:08 PM, donal McScrote said:

Honestly lost count in 20+years for my own builds.  Started with an intel 486 dx and a voodoo 3dfx.  I remember the crappy CPU's and GPU's more than the most outstanding as reliable.  Total junk was an asus Geforce 3, the fans bearings died just over a year after I bought it and swapped that out for a XFX ge force 3 then swapped that out for a ge force 4 mx passive cooling.

 

P3-p4 boards onto amd and dual cores msi asrock boards finally settled on gigabyte as the most reliable boards.  Nvidia GT cards total junk before GTX's were my go-to.

 

I used to buy a magazine called extreme PC and also happened to work in industrial estates with comp parts stores round the corner from where the ATM was where I got my wages every Friday, no wonder I lost count.   I miss those days, no more independent comp parts stores plenty of free advice and it was good custom to buy something no matter how trivial even splitter cables and some cpu paste.

486 with voodoo!! interesting, not seen that before

[SteveGrabowski0]

CPU:

1. AMD K6 200MHz  (1997)
2. AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (2001)
3. AMD Athlon64x2 (2006)   (forget which model)
4. Intel Pentium G3258 (2014)
5. Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 (2014)
6. Intel i5-12400F (2022)

GPU:

1. I forget (a friend told me what parts to put in the system) (1997)
2. ATi Radeon 8500 (2001)
3. integrated gpu on motherboard (2006)   (only played XMame on Linux)
4. EVGA GeForce 8400 GS (2008)  (was a console gamer at the time)
5. EVGA GTX 970 (2014)
6. PNY GTX 1660 Super (2020)
7. PowerColor Red Devil RX 6700 XT (2022)

Damn that gpu upgrade from 4 to 5 was really something lol.

[iSynthMan]

CPU:

Single Core Sempron (don't remember exact model) 2005-07)

Core 2 Duo E4500 (07-11)

Phenom 2 X4 975 BE (11-18)

Ryzen 1700 (18-20)

Ryzen 3600 (20-21)

i3 7350k (2021)

i3 10100f (21-22)

Ryzen 1600, 2022-23)

i5 13400F, 9600K, 9400, 13400F (2023)

 

I'll do GPU later in another post.

[donal McScrote]

On 9/13/2023 at 9:09 PM, andreweddy said:

486 with voodoo!! interesting, not seen that before

Correction may have been a Pentium 1, it was 2000 or maybe 2001 and as a favour to a pal who wanted to off load a pre built fuji I bought it off him.  Definitely a voodoo3dfx, obviously not an AGP board just PCI slot when my head was practically mush anyway