Thread 106368694

Since building PCs anons what was your upgrade path so far, and why for?

Mine
>2013 first time building PCs
I3-3240

>2015 Upgrade same motherboard
I7-3770

>2021
Finally new system
i5-10400F

>2024 till today
i7-10700

>future upgrades?
Maybe switching to AMD

>>106368694 (OP)

286
celeron 300a
p2 220
p3 500
p3 800
celeron 2000
p4 3000
i5-4460
g6900

>>106368694 (OP)
I'm looking to get an older thread ripper or XEON that's cheap and has the performance of latest AM5 cpus or thereabouts

duron 800 < mi mum buyded it for me
pentium4 2ghz in a laptop < hand me down from mi mum
athlon 64 x2 6000 < first one i buyded myself
phenom 955 black
4790k
7800x3d

>>106368694 (OP)
>2018
Athlon 200ge
>2025
Ryzen 7 5700g
>and why for
Because I use my computer for work and research and not gaming and entertainment like some goy cattle that needs to upgrade every 2 years and change his LGA motherboard alongside it

>>106368975
What made you go from the 4790k to a 7800x3d

>>106368694 (OP)
1999 - Intel P3 750 Mhz
2002 - Intel P4 2.4 Ghz
2009 - Intel i7-860
2015 - Intel i7-5820K
2019 - Intel i9-7960X
2024 - AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

All machines have been used for general nerd stuff. The last two Intels I got for numerical computing, mostly FEM. The AMD one I got because I just needed another desktop for work stuff. I've been contemplating on getting a new heavy duty workstation; perhaps threadripper, or some xeon/hedt in case Intel gets its shit together. The 7860X is still adequate for me, so there's no pressing need

>1998
AMD K6-2.
>2005
AMD Athlon 64 3000+.
>2008
Some Intel Dual Core, I forgot.
>2013
Intel i3 3240.
>2023
AMD Ryzen 5700G.
>2024
AMD Ryzen 7700X.

The last 3 PCs still work, gave them away to boomer relatives.

>>106369426
How big of a jump was Intel P3 to P4 and then to the 860

>>106369460
The P4 was certainly faster than the P3, but I think the improvement in CPU was overshadowed by improvement in GPU. The P3 machine had just a shitty integrated graphics, while I got a Radeon 9700 Pro to go with the P4

The jump from P4 to 860 was pretty massive, going from a single core to four faster ones

>>106369565
And then the jump to an 5820k was even bigger and the jump to 7960x smaller and then to a ryzen 9 even smaller I'd imagine

I have had auxiliary machines as hold-overs between the big leaps - or just random machines to play around with.

386-20 with 4MB ram. 40MB MFM hdd.

486-33 overclocked to 40MHz with 8 MB ram. IDE disks (120 MB?)

A PentiumPro 200MHz with 64MB ram. Later updated to dual PPro. What an absolute unit. A mix of SCSI and ide hdds.

Athlon MP's. I had many (6 or 8) dual processor machines started with 1-1.2GHZ and then had some ~2.1GHz dual machines. These normally had 1GB ram. A mix of SCSI and IDE disks. (9-18GB 10krpm scsi rings a bell)

I got a great screaming deal on 5-6 old Z400 with W3565 cpus. These got updated to SSD's and 24GB ram.

13900k with 96GBram and NVME.

next?
Something small as a desktop, and some sort of crazy gpu server in a computer room.

>>106369378
whims and kernel compile times and feeding a 6800xt enough to run older games at 1440p 144hz. whims mostly tho.

>>106368694 (OP)
Pentium III
E6700
2500K
12700K

>>106368694 (OP)
2003?: some athlon xp
2010: phenom ii x4 955
2017: ryzen 1700
2020: ryzen 5900x

In parallel I have a 13100 for my tv pc. that was around 2024.

let's see:
- several z80s (from spectrums to 8bit consoles)
- 486dx33
- Pentium 166
- Athlon 1000
- Athlon 64 3200+
- Intel 2500k
- Xeon 1241v3
- Ryzen 5900x
- Ryzen 9900x

>>106370141
im still on a 5900x
is it worthwhile and noticeable upgrading or would you say that was a bit of whimsical purchase?

>>106368694 (OP)
>somewhere in the middle if 2000s
Core 2 Duo, can't remember the exact model
>2013
FX-8320
>2017
i7-7700k
>2024
9800X3D

>>106370308
(op) you followed my strategy so far not so many CPUs but big upgrades down the line

>2015
AMD A4-5300
>2017
i5 750
>2019
i5 something I think 8500
>2022
Ryzen 7 5800x
>2024
Ryzen 7 7800x3D

>>106370380
you left the ghetto

>>106370462
Getting a job does wonders

>>106370230
Me too. I just need not PCIe lanes, though

>>106370230
>>106370523
It's a lot faster for video encoding thanks to avx512 but it draws more power and gets ridiculously hot. If you don't need to crunch numbers the 5900x is still a great CPU

>>106370513
>a job
those are real? wow

>486 DX2
>Pentium 166
>Pentium III 650
>Athlon XP 1800+
>I have no idea
>I5-9600K
>Ryzen 5 5600X

>>106370333
Well yeah, it's kinda make sense to buy strong CPU once in a decade. CPU load barely increases with years unlike GPU load

>>106368694 (OP)
celeron 1.7 (old post-leasing trash parts, but free)
athlon x2 4600+ (first new and self bought)
phenom ii 965 - if I remember, I used ddr2 memory first, then used ddr3 in the same mobo.
i5-4670K - first motherboard that I regretted because of limited pcie lanes. Gave to younger brother which replaced anniversary pentium, though I was happy with the peformance uplift.
ryzen 2700x - gave to younger brother, was great for reenconding stuff.
ryzen 5800x - sold and upgraded to x3d
ryzen 5800x3d - didn't really need but wanted to stay on windows 7 as long as possible.

Most upgrades were done because previous one was too slow, and I tried to replace as little as possible at a time.

>>106368694 (OP)
For main daily driver/gaming PC:
>386SX 33 MHz
>486DX4 100 MHz
>Pentium MMX 233 MHz
>K6-2 400 MHz
>Athlon XP 2600+ 1.9 GHz (Barton core)
>Core 2 Duo E8400
>Core i5 4690
>Core i7 10700K

Since the Athlon XP days I had more than 1 PC with other CPUs though.

>>106372100
Hey same CPU as me, how big was the jump from the 4690 i5 to the 10700

>>106368694 (OP)
286
Celeron 366
Duron 800
Sempron 2800
A64 3000+
A64 X2 4000
Q6600
I5 750
I7 4770
I5 10600
R7 7845hs (mini pc)
R7 7700x

Athlon 64
Intel P4 preshott
6600k (the old goat)
Am4 5600x
5800x3d, used for cheap. (The new goat)

I don't see myself upgrading from the 5800x3d for a loooooong time.

E6600
Q9650
i7 4790K
5800X3D

>>106372263
It was a good jump, especially because of the extra cores and threads I think.
Doesn't come close to the jumps from the 486DX4 to the Pentium MMX, or from the K6-2 to the Athlon XP, these jumps were insane! I'd put the jump from the Athlon XP to the Core 2 Duo E8400 in third.

>>106368694 (OP)
>Early gen Pentium 4 mini PC
>Pentium D
>Core 2 Duo
>i5-4570
>Ryzen 5 7600
I still use my i5 rig from time to time while the Core 2 Duo rig is rotting in the corner.

i5-3450
i5 10th gen
i5 1st gen
i5 12th gen

>>106369588
No, the jump from 5820K to 7960X was bigger than the previous one. Going from 6 cores to 16 was big. The 5950X isn't really an upgrade at all, I use it for different thing. The 7960X is actually faster on many workloads, due to 4 channel memory and good AVX support

Athlon 64x2 4600
Core 2 Quad 6600
Core i5 2500k
Core i7 2700k
Ryzen 5 5600x
Ryzen 7 5800X3D

>>106372742
What is AVX?

>>106372604
>106372604
Tbh I only had like two or three CPUs but the jump from 3770 to 10700 was nice, although I mostly bought it because it was kind of showing it's age also Windows 11 support

(op)

>>106373052
some instructions for doing more weird math
sometimes a lot of it at once

>an athlon (can't remember which in particular)
>a laptop c2d (same)
>i5 4690k
>R9 5900X

>>106368694 (OP)
I don't know

>>106368694 (OP)
>2013 first time building PC
i7 4770K paired with a GTX 970
pentium 4 home server
>2021
M1 mac mini since my I sold my old computer and moved countries
>current build
R9 7900X paired with a RX 7900 XTX

>>106368694 (OP)
I’m thinking of upgrading my
My old Intel 8088 with a NEC V20 chip.
The performance boost is amazing, it will probably kill Intel.

>>106369450
omg what is this screen/periph thing? and keyboard model if anyone knows. thats so cute

>>106368694 (OP)
AMD K6
AMD K6 III
AMD Athlon Thunderbird
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
AMD 1055T
AMD FX-8150
Intel i7 4790K
AMD 5800X3D
I am missing a bunch of AMD processors that I cant remember.

>>106373519
Why so many CPUs if I may ask

>>106373537
before the RX-8150, the jump per generation was huge, so I bought a new mid range processor every generator most of the time. I use my computer for gaming. I also bought a mid range GPU every generation too until the NVIDIA 600 series.

>>106373595
I sometimes am depressed with the money I spent for mine (op) with ALL the parts in, but damn that's a lot of CPUs

not to make you feel bad or anything it's a hobby

>>106373617
The only one I regret is the FX-8150. It was slower than what it replaced. I said 1055T, but I think it actually might have been the 1090T. I gave the 1090T PC to someone at work and he ended up using it for 10 years.

2008: Q6600 (Core2Quad)
2021: Ryzen7-4800h + i7-12700k
2023: i5-3350u + i5-4330u (gone) + 4x i5-4310 (gone) + i7-4610u (gone) + i7-3390u (gifted) + i5-3380u (gone) i5-3360u (gone)
2025: i7-8565u

I still own them all, but the Q6600 Vista computer is dead as heck, haven't decided where to dump it or who to sell it to. I sat on that way too long, I could have put something far better together well before the 12700k-powered pre-built I picked up, but procrastinated to death quite literally instead. Well, once that newer desktop is much more aged, I'll build something newer and more modern. I picked up a bunch of cheap old machines, fitted them with cheap drives and W10, and ripped a few hundred CDs with the whole batch that I don't even want to listen to now (kek). Most of those machines are resold. I kept one to mess around with Windows7 in, and now it runs Ubuntu 24.

>>106374475
>i7-3390u
I think that was i7-3770, might be wrong, can't remember.

>>106374475
>2021: i7-12700k
*2022
another goof

>>106368694 (OP)

2011 - i3 540
2015 - i7 4790k
2021 - i7 6700k (needed a backup pc)
2022 - i5 13600k

>1999 Some Pentium 3 CPU
>2007 Some Dual core @2.5ghz
>2014 i3-2100
>2018 i5-4690K still used by my gf
>2024 i7-10700F

>>106375991
2011 - ati radeon hd 4350
2015 - gtx 970
2016 - gtx 980
2017 - amd radeon hd 5450
2018 - 1050ti
2018 - gt 610
2021 - 2080 super
2021 - 2080ti
2022 - 3090

>>106368694 (OP)
i5-2500k

>>106372100
When I was a kid we went from 486dx2 66mhz to amd athlon 2600+

>>106368694 (OP)
2oO6 free pc, PII 400MHz
2Oo8 free pc from friend, northwood celery 2.4GHz
2o1O E8400
2O14 4930K

>>106368694 (OP)
Pentium 166
Pentium !!! 699
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
Core2 Q8200
i5 2500k
R7 3700x
Still poor af.

>>106376166
pentium® !!! MALAY 667*

>>106368694 (OP)
I just got this and never upgraded again because I don't need more.

parents PCs that I remember using
>Celeron 2 400 MHz, PIII 850 MHz, C2D E6300

my PCs
>2009
>Pentium E5400 or something similar as babby's first build, paired with a Radeon 4850?

>2011ish
>i5 2500k, Radeon 6970

>2016
>i7 6700k, GTX 1080

>2023
>Ryzen 7900X, RX 6800

My memory is hazy prior to the 6700k build, but I remember when my parents bought that Core 2 Duo PC with a GTX 7800, playing modern games on it was really damn fun.