I found the CPU from my first computer!

[Okjoek]

This was the CPU from my very first PC that was truly mine and mine alone. Before this machine we only had the "family computer". I don't really remember what that thing had used.

 

But this was my first CPU:

I never thought I would see it because after I got the alienware that my i5 3450 came with I basically threw this machine into a storage room with a bunch of other junk. Afer a while my younger brother was the first of us to get inside these machines and he took it completely apart in his learning spree and I feared it was lost forever, but I have it and I'm curious what to do with it. The PC it went in is kaput. I wonder if it's possible to make a more modern system featuring it. Or maybe  I should find some sort of tiny display box for it?

 

Aparently I made quite the jump going from 65nm to 22:

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-E2140-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3450

 

[daniellearmouth]

I have a PC with exactly the same CPU...welp. Small world.

[MoonlightSylv]

My first custom PC had a Pentium E5300.

[DarkBlade2117]

3 hours ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

My first custom PC had a Pentium E5300.

This PC is my first Custom PC.

My first actual PC had some Core 2 Duo.

[Okjoek]

Lol even my Athlon X2 B28 experiment is twice as fast as this thing.

[glitchmaster0001]

my first custom pc had an AMD Phenom X4 9750 in 2015

[themctipers]

4 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

My first custom PC had a Pentium E5300.

Sempron in 2007

i5 760 in 2010

 

[MoonlightSylv]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

Sempron in 2007

i5 760 in 2010

 

The Pentium was last year ;-;

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

The Pentium was last year ;-;

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[MoonlightSylv]

Just now, themctipers said:

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My first custom PC (with the Pentium) was last year.

[themctipers]

Just now, ShadowTechXTS said:

My first custom PC (with the Pentium) was last year.

Mine had a sempron, 3gb of ram and a high end 80gb ide thing running xp

suprisingly we could watch 380p YouTube on it without lag.

[Okjoek]

To be clear I didn't "build" or more accurate a term "assemble" the PC that featured this CPU. It's just the first PC that was owned by me and only me.

 

I wonder if I could cheaply see if this sucker still works. Would anybody reccomend a really cheap motherboard to try it out in?

 

This offer on Amazon looks like a good deal around ~20 dollars:

https://www.amazon.com/HP-DC7800-Motherboard-437793-001-437348-001/dp/B00LU4DG7O/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&qid=1471647982&sr=8-19&keywords=lga+775+motherboard

 

IDK if it can take a GPU though and IDK if any of my old DDR2 RAM works anymore. What did these old motherboards connect to HDD/SSD with? I don't recognise anything on these old motherboards...

 

 

 

[imreloadin]

7 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

My first CPU was an FX-8320 and for anyone that says that was a stupid purchase, the PC I build was just used for DVD ripping, and handbrake loves lots of cores. Also at the time intel didn't have anything competitively priced as far as multi-core performance goes. 

My first CPU was an AMD Athlon X4 750K, people would rip on me for going with AMD too but damn that thing was nice at the 5GHz I had it at lol

[FPS-Russia]

Pentium 2 500

[Okjoek]

7 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

My first CPU was an AMD Athlon X4 750K, people would rip on me for going with AMD too but damn that thing was nice at the 5GHz I had it at lol

BetterRed!

[imreloadin]

1 minute ago, Okjoek said:

BetterRed!

Hahaha yeah that thing overclocked like an animal, the highest I got it to was a little under 5.4GHz. Whereas my freakin 4690K won't go above 4.3GHz without 1.3+ volts on the core...

[Okjoek]

On second thought I will just put it on some sort of display. It's just waaay too old to do much that I enjoy these days. The system that thing used had windows vista for starters which I HATED. Windows 7 on the alienware was much nicer. Not a huge fan of what Microsoft is doing. They're doing like what most monopolies have always done and they get away with it because there's no competition. Linux won't run some of my favorite games/programs and Apple is anti competitive as well since they're off having fun in their own ecosystem that also doesn't run some of my favorite games.

 

I would love to see something challenge Microsoft. Wonder if Google could make their own OS. I know they like to butt heads with Microsoft.

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, Okjoek said:

IDK if it can take a GPU though and IDK if any of my old DDR2 RAM works anymore. What did these old motherboards connect to HDD/SSD with? I don't recognise anything on these old motherboards...

Lol,  it is probabbly PATA.

 

My first computer had a pentium 4 805.