In 2009 i had a C2Q 9550.. it was the last cpu i owned in a frenzy of upgrades spanning 2005-2009, where i upgraded enough that the old parts had yet to become dusty.

Since then I only upgraded once to an i7 2600K, which serves me well right to this day (even for gaming)

Not sure of 2009 but:

2009: E8500 or Q9550 (switched to the Q around that time period)
2019: X5650 :p

2009: Core 2 Quad Q9550
2019: Xeon X5470 (still on the same board - Asus P5Q Premium, upgraded less than a year ago, after a short episode with E5450)

2009 Pentium Dual core E5200 @ 3400mhz
2019 AMD Ryzen 2600 @ stock

From 2010 till 2018 i5-750@4ghz, then xeon X3450 @3.6ghz (not a good overclocker)

The Ryzen is easily twice as powerful as the i5 and xeon and considering I could run all the latest games fine with the i5 and GTX1070
really didn't see the point of spending twice the $$$ on a more powerful cpu. 7nm Ryzen might be a worthy upgrade later this year though.

Overclocking that 2600 to near 4GHz will give you half the boost you would get from a 7nm Ryzen upgrade. 😎

In January 2009 I think I had my first PC I bought with my own money. It would have been a very new i7 860 / 8GB DDR3 2133MHz / ATI 4890. I've upgraded the motherboard and CPU once to a 4770k build. I kept the Ram but upgraded the GPU a fair few times ( 7870, 7970, 390x, 1070ti)

I was very pleased with my i7 860. Very glad I got it over the i5. I wonder how it would hold up today.

Edit - I must have got the i7 860 set up the year after, so in 2009 I had an amd Athlon 5200+ 3GB DDR2 and an 8600GT. Definitely an upgrade to the i7 860

Then: Q6600, hd4870, 4gb ddr2 800

Now: Ryzen 7 2700x, GTX1080, 16gb ddr4 3200

Are you upgrading to Ryzen 3000 in a few months?

Really don’t need to as the 2700x is an absolute beast, but hey, YOLO right!? 😊

10 Years ago: Core 2 Quad Q6600
Now: i5 3570k overclocked to 4.4Ghz which I've been running for nearly six years.

Waiting for a compelling reason to upgrade again. The Ryzen 3000 series looks interesting.

Then - Core 2 Q9550
Now - Athlon II X4 610e (but about to move to a Core i7-5775C)

2009: Athlon XP 2400+ -> Core i7 860
2019: still using Core i7 860

2009: Core 2 Quad Q9550 ... Sold in 2011 and actually broke even when upgrading to...
2019: Core i5 2500K... usually have it running at 4.2Ghz on a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme (had that since 2007)

Not sure which was a better buy... The 2500k that has lasted me 8 years or the Q9550 that was still so valuable in 2011 that it allowed me to upgrade to one of the best CPUs of all time for free.

SpectriaForce wrote:

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.

I saw it as just a fun "let's see how our old CPUs compare to our current ones" type thing, not really as showing off or judging. Might also be interesting to see how many people are still running their "old" platforms, too (LGA775 and AM3 look really long-lived, for example).

SpectriaForce wrote:

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.

For me personally, the most fun posts in this topic are those that have specs from periods going back to 1999 & 1989 etc. It's interesting to see the massive leaps in computer specs from the 1980s up to 2009.

For me, whilst the CPUs in 2019 are definitely faster than back in 2009, 2009 systems in general are still very usable as modern PCs. So it doesn't feel like much of an evolution in specs in that time period. Going back to 2009 however and 1999 systems were already much too slow for modern usage by then. 1999 is an even better example, you wouldn't want to be using a PC from 1989 to do anything modern in 1999! 🤣

2009: Core 2 Duo E6750
2019: Core 2 Quad Q9550

Same Asus P5K-VM motherboard and case. Just upgraded components along the way. I don't have any practical reason to build something new.

1989: Motorola 68000 7.09 MHz
1999: AMD K6-2 333 MHz
2009: Intel Celeron M 1.4 GHz
2019: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz

Edit: 1999: The family had a Pentium MMX 233, and I believe I still had an IBM PS/2 Model 55SX for myself, which was a 386sx/16

Early 2009: 1.8 GHz Pentium 4, either an early Northwood or a late Willamette

Late 2009: Athlon X4 620 - this was my last "new" CPU. Since then it's been a collection of reclaimed hardware from various sources

2019: i5-2500 - this is a purchase from a recycler placed into an Acer OEM board pulled from a dumpster. I've upgraded most of the surrounding components but for 1080p gaming it's still really solid.

PTherapist wrote:

For me personally, the most fun posts in this topic are those that have specs from periods going back to 1999 & 1989 etc. It's interesting to see the massive leaps in computer specs from the 1980s up to 2009.

I hadn't thought of it this way before! Thankfully, my first PC (that was personally mine) was purchased in 1999, so it fits well. I'm going to repost. 😁

1989: MOS 6502 1.02Mhz... Pretty sure we had a VIC-20 when I was three years old, so, why not list that? 🤣
1999: Pentium II 400Mhz ... In a Gateway G6-400 which is still right under my desk and works perfectly.
*Followed by: Athlon Slot A 750Mhz, Athlon Thunderbird 1.33Ghz, Athlon XP 1800+ Palamino, Athlon XP 1700+ Thoroughbred B (still have this at 2Ghz), Athlon 64 3000+ S939 (still have), Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (still have), Core 2 Duo E6750 and...
2009: Core 2 Quad Q9550 ... Sold in 2011 and actually broke even when upgrading to...
2019: Core i5 2500K... Been running it at least at 4.2Ghz on a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme since spring of 2011.

Funny thing is my TRUE120 CPU cooler was originally used on the E6750 in 2007-2008. It was given to me by an online acquaintance because it was too tall for his case. What a score! It has lasted me almost 12 years! I intend to buy a mounting kit to make it work on my next system assuming one exists. Can you imagine keeping any other CPU cooler for 12 years?

Imagine trying to use one of these from the early to mid 90s to cool a P4 Prescott:

2009: Core2Duo E4300
2019: i5-4590