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Reply 20 of 172, by JidaiGeki

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Over 10 years, I've only had 4 different CPUs in my main computers.
2009: P4 3.06GHz (socket 478)
2010-2011: Phenom X4 955BE (and picked up the retro bug/joined Vogons after a dumpster find PII-400 in 2010)
2011-2013: C2Q QX9650
2013-2019: i7-4900MQ

Detailed specs for the 09/19 systems:

2009: Pentium 4 3.06GHz (socket 478), in a Shuttle XPC, with a Radeon 3850 AGP, 2GB DDR, and RAID0 2x1TB WD Black SATA drives on a Highpoint PCI SATA controller. Probably bought the core of the setup (CPU, RAM & XPC) in about 2003-4.

2019: i7-4900MQ in an Alienware 18R3, 32GB of DDRx(4?), GTX780M SLI, boot SSD & 1.5TB RAID0 drives.

Reply 21 of 172, by blougaville

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I've been on the same i7-2600 for 8 years now and still trying to hold out for another year or so! I honestly can't even remember what I had before then. I want to say it was an Athlon XP 2400+. It's pretty amazing to think about how I upgraded computers every few years throughout the 2000's and have made it through the 2010's remarkably well with the same machine (and minor upgrades along the way).

Reply 22 of 172, by AmiSapphire

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Since December 2005, laptops became my main PCs...

2009 - Revived Toshiba M35X laptop that originally had an Intel Celeron M 1.3GHz CPU -> upgraded to an Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz CPU. An unsubtle improvement at the time, along with 256MB DDR RAM -> 2GB DDR RAM. Machine is sadly gone, though.
2019 - Dell Latitude E6520 laptop that originally had an Intel Core i5-2520M CPU -> upgraded to an Intel Core i7-2640M as interim -> final upgrade as an Intel Core i7-2760QM CPU.

Anything in between:
2010-2011 - Intel Pentium III-M 1200MHz. Dell Inspiron 8100.
2011-2016 - AMD Athlon II P340 (Dual Core) -> AMD Phenom II N850 (Tri Core), now in someone else's laptop. Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5136. Fried mainboard in 2016, so unit was replaced.
2016-2017 - Intel Core i3-2330M, now in someone else's laptop -> Intel Core i7-2640M. Dell Latitude E5520. Plastic construction and hinge problems with that unit, so a Dell Latitude E6520 replaced it.

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Reply 23 of 172, by emosun

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my main rig is 10 years old

its a dual socket 1366 system based on the supermicro x8dth. the cpus are newer but otherwise the board is unchanged. still gives a lot of newer rigs a run for their money

Reply 24 of 172, by torindkflt

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January 2019: Intel Core i7-3632QM (Lenovo Ideapad P400 laptop, my current daily driver)

January 2009: Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2060 (Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop, my daily driver at the time)

I'll take it even further back, just for kicks!

January 1999: Intel Pentium MMX 200 (CTX EzBook 770MS-XJ laptop, my daily driver at the time)
Sometime later in 1999: Cyrix MediaGX 180MHz (Compaq Presario 2200, hand-me-down from my older brother, supplanted the CTX as my daily driver despite slower performance)

January 1989: MOS 6507 (Atari 2600, closest thing my family had to a computer at the time)

Reply 25 of 172, by PTherapist

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Now:

Custom-built PC -

Intel Core i7 4770K (Overclocked to 4.5GHz)
16GB PC3-12800 DDR3 RAM
1x 120GB SATA SSD
1x 500GB SATA HDD
3x 2TB SATA HDD
1x 3TB SATA HDD
1x 4TB SATA HDD
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB PCIe Graphics Card
Onboard Sound & Ethernet
Asmedia ASM-106x PCIe SATA RAID Card
CD/DVD Writer & Blu-Ray Drive

OS: Windows 10

2009:

Custom-built PC -

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM
1TB SATA HDD
400GB SATA HDD
Nvidia GeForce 8600 PCIe Graphics Card (can't remember rest of specs, it died years ago)
Onboard Sound & Ethernet
CD/DVD Writer

OS: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (I switched to Windows 7 in 2010)

Going further back shows a much greater leap in my main rig specs over a 10-year period.
This was 1999:

Custom-built PC -

Intel Pentium 100MHz
40MB EDO RAM
820MB IDE HDD
6GB IDE HDD
SiS 6326 4MB PCI Graphics Card
ESS AudioDrive 1868 ISA Sound Card
PCI Ethernet Card (possibly RealTek RTL8139)
External Serial 56K MODEM
CD-ROM Drive

OS: Windows 98 (1st edition)

1989:

Commodore 64 was my main system.

Reply 26 of 172, by zyga64

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In 2009 I’ve upgraded from pentium E2160 to celeron E3200.

Now I have i3 3245 (upgraded from celeron G1620 in 2015). I’m thinking about moving to i5 3570k.
No discrete graphics card, because I’m not interested in modern gaming.

1) VLSI SCAMP /286@20 /4M /CL-GD5422 /CMI8330
2) i420EX /486DX33 /16M /TGUI9440 /GUS+ALS100+MT32PI
3) i430FX /K6-2@400 /64M /Rage Pro PCI /ES1370+YMF718
4) i440BX /P!!!750 /256M /MX440 /SBLive!
5) iB75 /3470s /4G /HD7750 /HDA

Reply 27 of 172, by SPBHM

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exactly 10 years ago I was still using my Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (Brisbane G1 AM2, was stuck at 2.6GHz OC), a little later that year I got an E5200 which was my first Intel CPU since 2003.

right now I'm still using an i5 2310 (Sandy Bridge 3Ghz quad core), which I bought years ago;

the Athlon 64 used in early 2009 I still have it, but it's sitting back on its original box because around 2016 the motherboard (Asrock Nforce 6100) started to reboot randomly after working OK since 2007 (apart from the onboard sound dying in 2010), not sure what's causing the instability.

now that I think about it... the 4000+ was my last new CPU back in 2007, after that I only bought used CPUs
the current I think I got used very cheaply in 2013 to replace the I3 I was using (also bought used),

before this I5 I was never staying with the same CPU for more than 3 years or so... often upgrading my main machine's CPU more than once the same year...

Reply 28 of 172, by Anonymous Coward

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2009: Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz (original, not Core 2 Duo)
2019: Intel Celeron G530 2.4GHz (this one was built in 2011)

I'm still pretty happy with my crappy Celeron CPU. I don't play games, but it runs the internets and all of the productivity software I need just fine. I'm going to keep using it until it either breaks, or it's too slow to do anything...whichever comes first. I've already recapped the PSU and the LCD panel.

Modern computers are so dull. Probably the only upgrade I really care about these days is getting larger capacity USB thumb drives.

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Reply 29 of 172, by alvaro84

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PTherapist wrote:
Custom-built PCs - Now 2009 1999 1989 […]
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Along these lines.

Today: It's an AsRock H67M + Xeon 1275B, 16GB DDR3-1333, GF GTX650. 4C/8T is a total overkill for my everyday use and eats ~10W more than necessary but I fear to touch this board again as it may have some broken traces and it may start to act up again...
2009: My 2007 build. Gigabyte 965P-DS3P, Core 2 Duo E6420, 2GB DDR2-800, GF 8600GT.
1999: Probably a new build, some time in that year. Acorp 5TX29, AMD K6-2/266, 32MB SDRAM. Perhaps. It became 64 then 192MB later. S3 Trio64V2 then PCI Asus V3000 (Riva 128).
1989: I was 10 and my dad bought me a Videoton TV Computer. It was an Eastern Bloc 8-bit machine, Z80@3.125MHz, 2*64k RAM, 15 colors, one simple square wave voice or 4-bit DAC, tape for storage at that time.

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Shame on us, doomed from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts

Reply 30 of 172, by Emu10k1

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Phenom II 965 for the last 8-9 years, and still going strong. I dont really see any reason to change it right now, but i´ll probably buy something with a TPD around 65~95 Watts in the next 5 years or so.

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Reply 32 of 172, by dr_st

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oeuvre wrote:

2009: Core 2 Duo E8400
2019: Intel Core i7 9700K

You bastard, you 1-upped my 8700K. But my QX9650 still leaves your E8400 in the dust (that is, unless the system locks up due to motherboard aging). 😵

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Reply 33 of 172, by jaZz_KCS

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2009: IBM ThinkCentre M52 8212-KGG / Pentium D 940 3.2Ghz / 4GB DDR2 / ATI HD4350 / SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro / DVD + 3.5" Floppy
2019: IBM ThinkCentre M52 8212-KGG / Pentium D 940 3.2Ghz / 4GB DDR2 / ATI HD4550 / SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro / DVD + 3.5" Floppy (with one - very bulgy - capacitor very close to the CPU passive cooler, go figure)

Spot the difference. And no, the hardware was replaced just because i had it, and not because it ceased working. Still have the other card.

Reply 34 of 172, by doaks80

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2009: Athlon 64 X2 ???
2019: AMD FX 6200

k6-3+ 400 / s3 virge DX+voodoo1 / awe32(32mb)
via c3 866 / s3 savage4+voodoo2 sli / audigy1+awe64(8mb)
athlon xp 3200+ / voodoo5 5500 / diamond mx300
pentium4 3400 / geforce fx5950U / audigy2 ZS
core2duo E8500 / radeon HD5850 / x-fi titanium

Reply 36 of 172, by Rasna

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2009: i7 920 (replaced in 2013 with Xeon X5690)
2014: i7 4790K
2018: Dual Xeon E5-2680V4

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Reply 37 of 172, by SpectriaForce

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Can somebody explain me what the rationale behind this topic is?

I can write down what I used to have and now have, but I don’t see the point. It’s probably going to make some of you jealous while some might not be impressed at all.

Reply 39 of 172, by appiah4

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1989 Motorola 68000 7MHz
1999 Intel Pentium II 300
2009 AMD Phenom X3 8450
2019 AMD FX 8300

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