Post your 10 year cpu of your main rig from then versus now
My main rig in 2009 had a socket 478 P4 @ 3.4ghz and my 2019 rig now is a fx8350 @ 4ghz. Not the best choices of cpus, but they served me well.
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in 2009 I had core 2 duo E8500 and now I have core I7-4770k which I built in 2013
Funny thing is that in past 10 years I have only switched cpu once. That is how much progress has slowed down when it comes to cpus. I used to build a new pc every 3 years until around 2004.
in 2009 I had for most of the year still an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and later the 125W Phenom II X4 965. Today I have a Ryzen 7 1800X.
I switched from a Tualeron 1400 to an E-350 from AMD which I had for one year. It finally was replaced by a I7-4770k Haswell too.
However, I did not like the power consumption and idle power consumption processors like Pentium 4 have had.
Old (2009) :
CPU : Core i7 920 @ 4,21GHz, Vcore = 1,4V + TRUE
MOBO : Rampage 2 Extreme (BIOS 1704)
RAM : A-Data DDR3 XPG 2000X 2x 2GB @ 2000MHz @ 7.8.7.21 1T @ 1,65V
GPU : GTX 280 Gainward @ 712/1532/2400 MHz @ Stock
HDD : RAID0 2x WD6400AAKS
PSU : Corsair TX 750.
OS : Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Current (2019) :
CPU : Xeon E5-1680 v2 @ 4,3 GHz/1,27V + Hydronaut + TRVX + 2x Delta 120/38mm PWM
MOBO : Sabertooth X79 (BIOS 4801 + NVMe mod + uCode update)
RAM : 8x A-Data DDR3 XPG Xtreme 2000X 2GB @ 1868MHz CL8.9.8.24 CR2T, QC
GPU : ASUS GTX 1080 (FE)
M.2/HDD : Samsung SM961 256GB (NVMe/OS) + RAID0 2x WD10EZEX (rev. 2013) + HGST Ultrastar 7K6000 6TB
SPU : Xonar Essence ST Deluxe 7.1 @ 2x OPA2111 KP + Audio Technica ATH-A700
PSU : Seasonic X-760 || CASE : NZXT Tempest (PWM + Nanoflux) || OS : Win 10 Pro x64
Yes, I still use my old RAM in my main rig, case is also the same 😁
Other parts : CPU and MB were sold as set (I currently own other Rampage II Extreme)
GTX 280 was sold (don't know if it still works), HDDs are working strong in my sisters PC (not in RAID), Corsair PSU is used in my test rigs (still works).
In 2009 I had:
Pentium E2160 @ 3 GHz
Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro (i975X)
4 GB DDR2 800
Radeon HD 3850 512 MB CF
WD6400AAKS
Fortron Blue Storm II 500W
And now:
Core i7 8700k
ASRock Z370 Extreme4
32 GB DDR4 3000
GeForce GTX 1080
Kingston V300 240 GB
Toshiba X300 6 TB
Corsair RM650X
HW museum.cz - my collection of PC hardware
Last 10 years has been boring in terms of CPUs.
10 years back:
Now:
That 10-year old system could still do 90% of stuff I do today. Now, 10 years before that would be more interesting:
I definitely couldn't run Windows 10 on that. To be fair, a month or two after that I upgraded to a Celeron 366.
2009:
Opteron 185 @ 3GHz
2x 8800GTS-640MB in SLI
4GB DDR-400 (dual channel, 2-2-2-5)
2 x 500GB HDDs
2019:
i7-4930K @ 4.6GHz
GTX 1080 Ti
32GB DDR3-2400 (quad channel, 10-10-10-28)
1TB 860 EVO + 4TB Barracuda XT
94 MHz NEC VR4300 | SGI Reality CoPro | 8MB RDRAM | Each game gets its own SSD - nooice!
2009: (mid 2009?) AMD phenom II 955 BE
2019: (built 2014) intel i7 4790k
I typically upgrade every 5 years.. I may be getting a ryzen 2700x (or 3xxx series if its out) around US tax season.
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2009: Pentium Dual-Core E2160 (not OC'd).
2019: Core i5-2520M.
Yes, I decided sometime during those ten years to switch to laptops as main PCs.
EDIT: now that I remember, I had a stint during Summer of 2009 using a netbook (Eee PC 900HA) with Atom N270 inside as my main PC; however by the end of the summer I'd decided to migrate back to my desktop and relegate the netbook to sidekick duty. Still miss that netbook, though...
2009: Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (system built late 2008)
2019: Core i7-8700K (system built late 2018)
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Since '08 I ran an Athlon X2 4850e (2.5GHz, OC to 2.7). Since '15 I replaced it with an Athlon II X2 260 (3.2GHz, OC to 3.5). Same motherboard...
again another retro game on itch: https://90soft90.itch.io/shmup-salad
2009: Dimension 2400 Pentium 4 HT 3.06 from a yard sale. Had 2x256MB DDR1 originally, and it got upped to 2x1GB later.
I wish I still had the exact one but I rescued one of an identical model recently. I had ten year range Deja Vu from it since I was confused about how the hard drive cage was fastened to the bottom of the case, much like I had been the first time I upgraded my old one.
2019: i7 2600 sidegraded for free from an i7 3570k since I needed Moar threads. 28GB of assorted DDR3 sticks since I'm a chrome tab addict.
Old precedes antique.
2009 (Originally built in earlyish 2008):
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 5200+
Motherboard: ABit Fatal1ty AN9-32X
RAM: 2GB DDR2 - don't remember speed. I upgraded it to 4GB around 2010 I believe.
GPU: Gigabyte(?) 7600GT x 2 in SLI.
Sound Card: Some Creative one. Don't remember off the top of my head. Likely a Sound Blaster X-Fi of some type.
Storage: 500GB Samsung + 300GB WD HDD
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
PSU: Antec PSU, don't remember exactly which.
2019 (Originally built in June 2015):
CPU: i7 5930K
Motherboard: ASUS X99 Deluxe
RAM: 32GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz (that early adopters speed, yo)
GPU: Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980Ti x 2 in SLI
Storage: 120GB Samsung 850 Pro + 500GB Samsung 850 Evo + 2 x 1TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital Black
Case: Self-made test bench.
PSU: Seasonic X Series 1050W 80+ Gold
Hoping to be impressed enough by Ryzen 3xxx to change that this year. Intel 8086k didn't impress me enough, 9xxx is too expensive for the performance here. Ryzen 2xxx was close but I wanted a bit more before shelling out cash.
2005-2010: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2500MHz
2010-Present: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ default
Requests are also possible... /msg kixs
EDIT: Added in the two previous decades
1989: IBM PS/2 Model 30 with a 8088 4.77Mhz. This was not a normal configuration, my family actually bought (and paid) for a 80286 with 1MB of ram but got scammed. It did include the 20MB hard drive though.
1999: Celeron 300A overclocked to 464Mhz
2009: Core 2 Duo E6300 overclocked to 3Ghz
2019: I7-2700K overclocked to 5Ghz
2009:
Asus K50ID laptop with an Intel Core2 Duo T6570 at 2.10Ghz
2GB of DDR3 RAM, later upgraded to 4GB
Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64
2019:
DEX desktop computer with an Intel Pentium III Tualatin-S overclocked at 1.5GHz
1.5GB of PC133 SDRAM
Windows XP Professional SP3
Quite a downgrade for some, but not to me! Not trolling, I'm doing much more things with my current computer than what I did with my old Core2 Duo laptop. I guess I don't use the computer intensively enough to need a more powerful setup, and I'm pretty content with what I have, since it plays the retro games I want fine enough and lets me load a web page without falling asleep. 🤣
My Retro Daily Driver: Pentium !!!-S 1.7GHz | 3GB PC166 ECC SDRAM | Geforce 6800 Ultra 256MB | 128GB Lite-On SSD + 500GB WD Blue SSD | ESS Allegro PCI | Windows XP Professional SP3
In 3 years my build will make 10 years, and except one time that my motherboard died(chipset issue), so i guess that will be a 10 year challenge.
My first custom PC, built just about 10 years ago
E8400 Wolfdale @3.99ghz
Biostar P45 Motherboard
HD 4850 graphics
4GB DDR2 800
Antec 900 Case
Current Build
4690k Haswell @4.3ghz
GTX 1080 Reference
16gb DDR3 2000mhz
2009: AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ (Built mid 2006, replaced November 2009)
2019: Intel Core i7 6600K (Built November 2016)
I only had one other CPU between these, which was a Phenom II X4 925. It's amazing how long a system can last nowadays.
**EDIT** Realized my typo, the Athlon64 was an X2.
