wow reading this thread i realize never i bought any new xcomputer or even a part, always second hand

the most close to buy something new was back on time a set of 4x1mb 30pin simm for my 386, i bought in a store, but even back them was for sure used, because was a good price i remember

AMD 286-10
Motorola 68010-12.5mhz
Cyrix 486dx2-66
AMD 5x86-133
Cyrix 6x86-pr200 (original)
Cyrix 6x86mx-pr233
Cyrix MII-pr433
AMD k6-2 450
AMD Duron 700
AMD Duron 1400

I missed a few the first time around and oddly started buying only used equipment around the 2006 era.

I maybe could count one other CPU as new in this list a laptop Sempron 200mhz FSB 2ghz chip that I used in my gimped desktop but it was still unstable.

I may have had a 1.8ghz tbred that I pencil modded as well but don’t remember if it was new on purchase

Okay, processors/systems purchased new (or, in the case of some Apple things, factory refurbished):
- Motorola 68000 (Mac SE, purchased new by my dad in 1987)
- Cyrix 486DX2/50 (1995)
- AMD K6 266 (1998)
- Pentium III 700 (2000)
- Pentium III mobile... I can't remember the clock speed... in a Dell Inspiron 4000 (2001)
- Celeron... forget the speed (2001) (this was a secondary machine from leftover parts, long story)
- Pentium 4 1.9 Willamette (2001)
- Deleron 320 0r 330 (2004) (a stupid, stupid project to build a box for MythTV)
- Pentium M 755 (Dothan) (2005)
- elcheapo LGA775 Deleron that I only had for a week before my C2D E6600 arrived (2006)
- C2D E6600 (2006)
- Pentium Dual-Core E5200 (2008-9)
- Intel Atom N450 (2010ish)
- C2Q Q8300 (2010) [I think this may be the only processor I have ever bought for an existing mobo/system]
- i7-2630QM (2011)
- i7-4850HQ (MacBook Pro) (2015)
- i7-7700 (2017)
- i5-8265U (2019)
- i5-10500 (iMac) (2020)
- Apple M1 Max (2021)
- i5-1135G7 (2021)
... and this does not count a few systems used as servers along the way.

Wow, it seems 6 years has gone by since I first replied to this thread, so here is an update:

1987--MOS Technology 6502 (Atari 800 XL)
1989--Intel 8086 (IBM PC Compatible clone)
1990--Motorola 68000 (Amiga 500)
1993--Intel 80486 DX-33
1995--Intel 80486 DX4-100
1997--Intel Pentium 100
1998--Intel Pentium II 300
2000--Intel Pentium III 866
2002--AMD AthlonXP 1800+
2002--AMD AthlonXP 2000+ (I fried the former chip while trying to unlock its multiplier)
2003--AMD AthlonXP 2500+
2006--AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (Skipped the whole Athlon64 Socket 754/939 generations as I was on military duty)
2008--AMD Athlon X2 7450
2009--AMD Phenom X3 8450
2010--AMD Athlon II 640
2014--AMD FX-6100
2016--AMD FX-8300
2019--AMD Ryzen 5 2600
2022--AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

theelf wrote on 2024-07-07, 10:31:

wow reading this thread i realize never i bought any new xcomputer or even a part, always second hand

the most close to buy something new was back on time a set of 4x1mb 30pin simm for my 386, i bought in a store, but even back them was for sure used, because was a good price i remember

Indeed.

I was given a complete new system for my 18th birthday in 1995 (P60). That was the one and only complete system. Since then I have had configurations morphing from one system to another, always re-using at least one component.

Still, did buy some CPUs new:
Celeron 366 (1999)
Celeron 433 (1999 - a mistake)
Duron 750 (2001)
Athlon XP 2500+ (2003, of course OCd to 3200+ speed)
Athlon64 3200+ (2004 or so)
Athlon 64 X4 4400 (2005)
Core i7 860 (2010)
Ryzen 5 3600 (2021)

In between there were 2nd hand K6-2 350, P3-700, AthlonXP 1800+, C2D 8200, Core i7 2600 and probably a few more for my main system and many more for secondary ones.

Only listing retro stuff. I’m sure I had something between 2000 and 2004 but cannot remember what.

1987--Intel 286
1990--Intel 386 SX20
1994--Intel Pentium 66 (everyone at LAN parties said I was crazy to buy a Pentium and should have got a DX4 100 instead)
1997--Intel Pentium 200
1999--Intel Celeron 300A
2005--AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+
2008--Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

I may have posted in this thread before, who knows, I'm old enough to have forgotten 🤣

Some 8088 in a Philips XT
68000 in Amiga 500
486DX2-66
Pentium MMX 233
K6 233
Celeron 300A
Celeron 600
P4 1.6A
P4 2.4C (I think it's C - Northwood with HT and 800 fsb)
C2Q8200S (pretty sure it was an S based on sSpec)

Since then, everything has been second hand stuff; except for work computers

I think the only new CPU I owned new in the past 15 years is the Celeron n3350 inside my mini PC!

P4 Northwood 2.5ghz - my first home compute in 2002, a dell
P4 Northwood 2.8ghz - another dell that I used until around 2008
3.0ghz E8400 Core2duo "Wolfdale" - The first PC I built myself in the summer of 2008
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T "Thuban" - I think I traded my Core2duo CPU for this one + cash on the OCN forums
Intel 4970k "Haswell" - Probably around 2014
Intel 6700k "Skylake" - 2015
AMD Ryzen II 3600 - 2018, still in service
AMD Ryzen III 5800HX - Gaming laptop, main machine 2022
AMD Ryzen III 5600g - My son's PC I built last year, 2023

CPU I owned when new, If I did not forget anything

Intel Pentium II - 350@490 daily, Max tested was 515Mhz
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ [OC, not remember details]
Intel Pentium 4B 2.53 [OC, not remember details]
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (S754, 512KB L2 model) [OC, not remember details]
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (S754, 1MB L2 model) [OC, not remember details]
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (S939) [OC, not remember details]
AMD Opteron 212... I think (S939) [Brought specifically to OC it, don't remember the details]
Intel Q6600 [Best Overclocker I owned, 4ghz]
AMD Phenom 9500 [Erk, TLB had to be disabled]
AMD Phenom 9550 [Good]
AMD Phenom 1055T [OC ok]
AMD Athlon FX8120 [OC ok, toasty]
AMD Ryzen 1700 [Flawed, segfault bug]
AMD Ryzen 1700 [Golden sampled, thanks AMD for that great warranty return]
AMD Ryzen 2800X [Slower and warmer than the 1700 Golden sample]
AMD Ryzen 3950X [Rip Overclocking 🙁]

What I clasify as new is they were new and not been used by somebody else before I owned it.
The CPU could have been released 3 years before I bought it but that particular CPU had not been in a system that was used by somebody else.

386 1993
Pentium II 266 1998
Pentium III 450 2000
Pentium III 1000EB 2001 I bought two and I still have the system to this day but as a retro server rather than a workstation.
Xeon 3.0GHz Prestonia dual CPU - Sold this to help pay for the replacement. 2004/05
Xeon 3.0GHz Clovertown dual CPU. S2007. till own this system but its retired as it costs so much on electric to run, it sucks power like theres no tomorrow.
Xeon X5675 Gultown dual CPU. 2011. Still own this system but it has also now been retired
Xeon E5-2690V3 dual CPU. 2015. Still own this system, retired.
Xeon E3-1225v5. 2016. still own, still in use.
Xeon Platinum 8352M. 2022. In use as my main system and is the backbone of my work.

By new I am meaning available for sale new when I began using in my main system...

6510 (c64)
68000 (Amiga)
68010 (Amiga)
486sx25
486dx2-66
Amd k5-pr133
Athlon xp-1900+
Athlon64-3700+
Athlon64x2-5600+
Core2 quad q9500
Core i7-2600
Xeon e5-2680v2 (still in main system)

havli wrote on 2016-01-02, 16:38:

Our family PCs: early 1990's - 386DX-40 1997 - Pentium 200 MMX 2002 - Pentium 4 2.0A GHz […]
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Our family PCs:
early 1990's - 386DX-40
1997 - Pentium 200 MMX
2002 - Pentium 4 2.0A GHz

My own:
2004 - Sempron 2400+ (K7 based)
2007 - A64 3700+ (s939, my main PC)
2007 - Opteron 165 (s939, my main PC)
2008 - Pentium E2160 (my main PC)
2009 - Pentium E6300 (my main PC)
2011 - Core i5 2500k (mostly used as a benchtable for pci-e VGA)
2011 - Pentium G620 (my main PC)
2012 - Celeron G550 (home server / NAS)
2012 - A6-3670K (for portable desktop PC project)
2012 - Phenom II X4 965 (AGP benchtable)
2014 - Sempron 145 (collection / benchmarks)
2014 - Athlon 5350 (collection / benchmarks)

Update 😀

2017 - Core i7-7700k (my main PC)
2018 - Core i7-8700k (my main PC)
2019 - Ryzen 7 3700X (my main PC, moved to work PC later)
2021 - Ryzen 9 5900X (my main PC)
2024 -Intel N100 (home server / NAS)

Keeping to just the hardware I've bought new:

1995 - Pentium 100
1997 - Pentium 166MMX (replaced former when it died)
1999 - Pentium 2 400Mhz
2000 - AMD Athlon (Slot A) 800Mhz
2001 - AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred 1800+ (had to overclock FSB slightly to get stable on Abit mobo)
2004 - AMD Athlon XP Barton 3000+ (cheap upgrade as end-of-life)
2007 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (probably the most disappointing, but also coincided with Vista so...)
2009 - Intel Q9550
2011 - Intel Core i5 2500k Sandybridge (overclocked to 4.6 stable but usually ran at 4.4)
2013 - Intel Core i7 4770T (for low power server, later daily desktop)
2016 - Intel Xeon E5-1650 V3 (for more powerful server, later main workstation still in use today)
2017 - Intel i7 6600U "Skylake" laptop
2020 - Intel i5 10210U (NUC low power server)

The last 4 I still own and use, the rest were all sold to fund the next upgrade.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2017-10-16, 02:03:

Before it was actually my computer, my family had these: […]
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Before it was actually my computer, my family had these:

MOS 6502 (Commodore VIC 20)
8088 (Tandy 1000 HX)
66MHz 486? (Packard Bell desktop of some sort... I don't know which)
Cyrix 133 (Custom build)
*Pentium 200 MMX (to upgrade the Cyrix)

... Then once I started getting my own, main computers, I had:
*Pentium II 400Mhz (Gateway G6-400 which I still have)
Athlon 750 Slot A (Custom, from here on out...)
*Athlon Thunderbird 1333 AYHJA (cracked the die at some point... very sad)
Athlon XP 1800+ Palamino (space heater)
*Athlon XP 1700+ TBred B JIUHB (been overclocked to over 2Ghz since 2003, still works and runs cool)
*Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 939
*Athlon 64 4200+ Socket 939
Core 2 Duo E6750
Core 2 Quad Q9550
*Core i5 2500K (got basically for free because I sold the Q9550 for more than a 2500K cost... have now been using it since 2011, currently at 4.5Ghz, going strong)

Anything with a * I still own. 😀

There are several other misc CPUs I've had when they were still somewhat relevant, but weren't in my main system. Can't remember them all.

Update:

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (Bought in August 2019... my first new build since the 2500K in 2011!)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (Got a smoking deal on this in late 2022 and moved the 3600 to a living room PC. Should be all the CPU I will need for quite some time.)

... also, for whatever reason I am leaving out mobile devices in these lists. I tend to not buy brand new stuff anyway unless it's for a desktop PC. 🤣

My list:
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*crickets in the background*
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🤣

OK, I think there is only one: AMD Duron 1400 "Applrebred" that I bought either in late 2003 or early 2004... or thereabouts.

Before that, my parents had a Pentium II 400 MHz -based PC that we got around late 1999-ish (or early 2000?) I don't know if that PC was assembled with all new parts or from used/off-lease parts. I'd like to think it was all new parts, since I remember them mentioning that it was quite pricey at the time (despite a PII being rather slow / "outdated" in late '99 / early 2000 already.) It was the family PC until about late 2003-ish (or thereabouts, again 🤣), when I demanded we get a newer/better PC (i.e. the Duron Applrebred mentioned above.) Might sound like little me teenager was spoiled back then, but I can't say I was wrong to what I did. By late 2003, that PII with its 64 MB of RAM and Win98 was quite slow to do things online, and this is when schools were starting to push / experiment with online homeworks and whatnot. I also wasn't computer-savvy back then, so I didn't know if there was a better way to utilize that PII PC to do what was needed for school. So something better really was needed. Then the AMD Duron "build" came along. I put build in quotation marks, because I only got a CPU+motherboard+RAM+video card. Everything else was re-used from the PII PC. It was a bit of a horror build with extremely budget parts and many compromises, but it was my pride at the time. Ran Half-Life 2 at... embarrassingly low resolution and FPS 😁 . But I completed the game with it (and many others) without a hitch. So it was well worth it.

I also got the above AMD Duron PC messed up quite early in its life, mostly due to being a computer n00b and not knowing what do to online. Basically, I ran IE6 on XP (pre-SP / SP0) with no protection other than an old version of Norton AV, which caught absolutely nothing when the system was jumping full of viruses later on. It probably didn't help that in the same year I jumped onto the P2P scene like all the rest of my friends at the time (and probably their mothers too 🤣). Yeah, early 2000's 🙄 Piracy DID pay off off, though... I mean, ARRRR. 😁 - That is, it made me learn how to rid my OS of viruses and malware after getting infected with nearly every known trojan, virus, browser hijacker, spyware, and whatnot known to man. So in essence, I became "computer-savvy" through messing up my own system and then learning how to deal with it.

Of course, before I got to that level, my parents decided to "abandon" the above system (which was meant to be the family PC)... and I can't blame them for it (getting "weird" popups offering certain male enhancement products / pills, among other "services" was more than annoying 🤣 ). So they got a new system for themselves: a Dell Dimension 3000 with a pretty-new-at-the-time 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 Prescott. So that's new CPU #3 to enter the household (actually, #4 - there was a P4 laptop that my sister got for university the prior year.) After many years of service (up until 2015, IIRC), I finally upgraded them from that Dimension 3000 to a Pentium DC E2160... but that was a used CPU, and all of my PCs by then were the same.

So to recap, I think that makes the count to either 2 or 3 new CPUs, depending how one's counting:
1) Pentium II 400 MHz in late '99 or early 2000 (though not 100% sure if it was new)
2) AMD Duron Applebred 1400 in late 2003 or early 2004 (first and only new CPU I ever had)
3) Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8 GHz (sister's laptop in late 2004 or early 2005, IIRC)
4) Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8 GHz (non-HT / 533 MHz bus) in Dell Dimension 3000, serving from 2006 to approximately 2014/2015 as family room PC / parents's PC.

And that's really all.

After my AMD Duron PC became unstable (from bad caps in the PSU) in around 2007, I sort of left it aside and started using the parents's Dimension 3000 (this time I didn't mess it up, though 🤣 ... and if anything, actually took rather good care of it). The same year, I also started my collection of trashed / unwanted / broken PC from the neighborhood (most of them were just left on the side of the road by the trash or next to a dumpster. And with that, I have not gotten a new CPU or whole computer since. Just about everything I got was used.

As for prior to the Pentium II PC we got in '99... I don't really know or remember much details. I know we had a PC back at home as far back as '94/'95/'96, but I think it was through my mum's job (sort of as a "take-home" PC to work while employed.) There were several, actually. First one was your typical beige tower from the mid-90's with a Turbo button... so perhaps a 386 or 486-DX-something? Definitely not newer though. Came with a B&W (non-color) CRT, so who knows, though. A year or two later, it was a laptop... again, either a 486-DX-something or early Pentium and Windows 95. Then there was a short-lived (sort-of) Pentium 133 or 166 MHz PC from around '97 or '98 covering the gap until the PII PC in '99. I don't know if that was new or not... but if it was, then I suppose that would be #5 (or rather, #1) in my list of entries above. I was too little to know back then, though. So I'll leave the above list as-is for now. I also don't plan on buying any new CPU in the near future, so unlikely that my list will change anytime soon.

List of CPUs that I got when they were new:

• 1996 - Pentium 90 (first computer, given as a gift)
• 1998 - Celeron 300A
• 2000 - Pentium III 750 (Slot 1 version, still have it)
• 2002 - AMD Athlon XP (I don't remember the exact model and was short-lived due to stability issues)
• 2003 - Pentium 4 HT 2.4 GHz
• 2008 - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
• 2012 - Intel Core i5-2500K
• 2014 - Intel Core i5-4690S
• 2022 - Intel Core i7-12700K (current main computer)

1990 - 386sx-20 ( motherboard had a 64KB cache, so it held up pretty well against the DX boards of the day)
1992 - 486dx-33 (ISA)
1994 - 486dx4-100 (VLB)
1996 - Pentium 133 (PCI)
1998 - Celeron 300a (AGP) (Frustrating Apollo Pro Mobo)
1999 - Started a second system which went from a frustrating K6-2 450 to an excellent Athlon 700 in a few months. My aunt still uses the Athlon board since 2002 for her part time accounting business. I want it back, but I don't want to mess with her system either.
2000 - Pentium III 667 (replacing Celeron 300a)
2001 - AMD Athlon XP 1700+ (replacing the Athlon 700)
2002 - AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (replacing the PIII, loved the nforce board)
-- Upgrading GPU had a bigger impact than upgrading the CPU for a couple years
-- had epic counterstrike gaming parties
2004 - Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Overclocked with Nforce 2 boards. Great systems at a great price, but they hit obsolesces too soon.
2004 - Athlon 64 3400+ (Wanted PCI-e & Sata & more CPU in advance of half-life 2)
2005 - Dual Operon 252 1U pizza box that I was able to collocate at a friend's ISP as a Counterstrike server
2006 - Operton 175 ( This system was in active use for 12 years at my house)
2008 - Tried a Phenom 9600 for a minute and then replaced everything with Wolfdale E8400 systems. My dad still uses one of these.
-- had some epic left 4 dead parties during this period
-- upgrading to SSD had a bigger impact than CPU during this period
2013 - Haswell i4670 - (wanted NVme support)
-- sometime in here I switched back to a single system + surface Go for travel because my kids started to claim computers if I wasn't sitting in front of them
2014 - Pentium G2130 - Needed an extra system and it was a great performance for the $$
2018 - Ryzen 2200G ( Finally taking the venerable Operton 175 out of service)
2018 - Ryzen 5 2600X (Replacing the Haswell i4670 )
2021 - Ryzen 5 5600X (Replacing the Ryzen 2600X so I could do Windows 11 )

New socketed / removable CPU:

1984 - MOS 6502 or variant (came with an Apple IIe clone)
1990 - 80386DX-20
1995 - Pentium 120 MHz
1997 - Pentium-MMX 166 MHz
1999 - Pentium II 400 MHz
2003 - Athlon XP 2200+
2003 - Athlon XP-M 1800+
2004 - Celeron 2.40 GHz
2010 - Pentium T4500
2016 - Core i5-6400
2018 - Core i7-8700

New soldered / integrated CPU:

2009 - Atom N270
2010 - Atom 330
2013 - Core i5-2467M

CPU in bold font are still in my possession.

1987 - MOS Technology 6502 (Commodore VIC-20, not new as it was a hand-me-down from a family friend)
1990 - MOS Technology 6510 (Commodore 64C)
1993 - Motorola 68EC020 14MHz (Commodore Amiga 1200)
1995 - Intel Pentium 100
1996 - Intel Pentium 120 (Overclocked to 133MHz swapped my P100 with a friend from college)
1998 - Intel Pentium 200 MMX
1999 - Intel Celeron 400 (Overclocked to 550MHz with the Legendary Abit BH6)
2001 - Intel Celeron 1.1GHz
2002 - Intel Pentium 4 1.8A Northwood (Overclocked to 2.4GHz)
2004 - Intel Pentium 4 2.5 Northwood (replacement for 1.8A which died)
2008 - Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz (Overclocked to 3.?GHz, but died quickly)
2009 - Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66GHz (Overclocked to 3.2GHz)
2013 - Intel Core i5 4670K
2015 - Intel Core i7 4790K (4.4GHz all core oc)
2023 - AMD Ryzen 9 7950X