Welcome! - please feel free to post pictures of your collection for our enjoyment 😀

Most of my actual systems are packed away at the moment. I have a CPU collection I can post.

Few boxes of CPUs I've collected over the years:

I started trying to collect one of every x86 CPU made but with all these modern CPUs and how many different ones are released, that went out the window.

A Pentium Pro I took the blow torch to to remove the lid:

Same with the Pentium:

And the 486:

And the 386:

Back in my day, when we switched RAM types we just bought a fancy expander to reuse our old RAM:

Coolest CPU I think I have, I 286 -> 386 upgrade kit with spare socket for math co-processor. I also have the utility on floppy to enable the 8k! of cache:

High and Low or Odd and Even BIOS chips.

Vacuum tubes:

OverDrive processors, for 486 and Pentium systems:

The first Pentium ever: The 60MHz

486DX4-75 and 100 Overdrive chips:

Pentium 60 and 66MHz:

A terminator for an unused 287/387 socket, there are resistors in there, hard to tell from the photo:

8088s!

8086

286/7s

Also one by AMD:

And a cool one without pins held down by the heat spreader on top of it:

386/7s:

More 286s:

More 386/387s:

Pentium over drive to upgrade your Pentium 66 to 133MHz!:

clock crystals:

486DX-33:

And the super popular 486DX2-66, began this crazy multiplier craze:

One manufactured by IBM:

The bastard SX which had the math co-processor in it, just fused off:

Various flavors by AMD:

Also very popular Pentium 133MHz

K6 and K6-2s!

IBM 6x86

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing those pics. Quite a collection, sir. I love how if you want to cool your 386 with a heatsink, you either get poor contact or void your warranty. 😉

I've got a Pentium Overdrive myself--200MMX. Love it. It makes my Packard Bell into a perfect (for me) DOS retro PC.

Welcome, gbeirn. Look forward to seeing more posts from you.

Cheers!

AMD 5x86, these actually went in 486 sockets:

Cyrix MII, we used to have CPU choices!

Cryix 6x86:

Made in Canada:

6x86 and MII:

And the reverse side:

Pentiums:

Anyone remember the iComp index?

K6-200 and 233:

K6-2 350MHz:

Pentium with MMX tech, you cannot remove the heat-spreader with a blowtorch on these:

One of each speed:

De-lidded K6-2 to see the die size, tiny!

AMD K5s:

More K5s, designed for Windows 95!

When you take a blowtorch to the Pentium MMX chips, this is all you end up with:

Pentium Pro:

COAST (Cache on a stick):

K6-2 and K6-2+:

And de-lidded:

Mobile Pentium II:

Regular Pentium IIs

Front side:

Bottom:

What they look like with the case off:

Pentium II and III in the newer style case:

And their differences inside:

Holy crapmonkeys!

😮

Terminator for an unused slot in a dual CPU board:

And a whole box of Pentium II and IIIs

180MHz Pentium Pro

486 Cache

Pentium L2 Cache stick, for VX chipset:

These were used to extract socketed CPUs before the invention of ZIF sockets:

And an example:

Slot 1 Celerons, sadly I have never come across a cacheless 266MHz, hopefully one day:

And what Celeron's look like:

Slotkets!

SlotKet III

Original AMD Athlons:

From first speed of 550MHz all the way to 1GHz:

Socket 423 Pentium 4s

A 1.7GHz:

A poor cracked K6-2 🙁

Another RAM expander:

RAMBUS and it's heat-spreader removed:

30-pin SIMMS

Forgive me if I've posted some obvious info. I cut and pasted from another forum where I was showing this off to the 'youngsters'. I've actually been considering selling off some of them and just keeping digital images of it all. It's a debate with myself, there's been a lot of time and energy put into it all but as a get older I think about what am I really keeping all this for.

brassicGamer wrote:

Holy crapmonkeys!

😮

You're not kidding. This doesn't even get into the socket 370 CPUs, P4s, Athlon, Athlon XP, Core 2, Athlon 64 and all the mobile chips I have. Past a certain era it just wasn't 'sexy' as the older stuff for me, ya know?

gbeirn wrote:

brassicGamer wrote:

Holy crapmonkeys!

😮

You're not kidding. This doesn't even get into the socket 370 CPUs, P4s, Athlon, Athlon XP, Core 2, Athlon 64 and all the mobile chips I have. Past a certain era it just wasn't 'sexy' as the older stuff for me, ya know?

Absolutely - sockets 3 and 7 were the era for me because of, like you said, choice! Benchmarking heaven 😀

I also think that there are still things to learn and discover about these platforms because we are combining them with newer hardware e.g. flash memory and also more obscure hardware from that time that most people didn't have access to, but now costs less than it did.

Hey there! Pretty extensive collection you've got there. I'm a low-budget guy so I have exactly one of the most common of each of those 🤣

Wow that's so much stuff! I'm working on a project over at the Vogonswiki to document old hardware with photos, specs and other details, so if you are interested in taking high resolution photos of things (whether you end up selling them or not) I hope you will consider uploading them there! The idea is to have a page for each model of device (ISA card, Zip drive, motherboard, etc.) so there would probably be a lot of work creating a page for each model of CPU, but if you wanted to make good use of your collection, that would be a very welcome way!

Malvineous wrote:

Wow that's so much stuff! I'm working on a project over at the Vogonswiki to document old hardware with photos, specs and other details, so if you are interested in taking high resolution photos of things (whether you end up selling them or not) I hope you will consider uploading them there! The idea is to have a page for each model of device (ISA card, Zip drive, motherboard, etc.) so there would probably be a lot of work creating a page for each model of CPU, but if you wanted to make good use of your collection, that would be a very welcome way!

That's cool and id love to contribute to it. Did you have certain format you were looking for? Generally I photograph against a white backdrop for things I sell on eBay. This could work perfect since I'd use the photos for two purposes.