Simple and to the point. What was your history with AMD processors? When did you get your first one, how fast was it, etc. You guys know what i'm getting at.

-My first was a 450MHz system from compaq that my mom bought me before I really knew anything about computers.
-Then I upgraded to a Duron 933 System and bought a Systemax computer with a 1GHz Thunderbird a couple months later.
-Then I went to an Athlon XP 2600 system, but i fried it overclocking
-Then an Athlon XP 2000+ got installed in that rig.
-Now I have my Athlon X2 4800+.

So what about you guys?

Please, no "amd sucks, intel is better" crap. This isn't an AMD VS INTEL thread.

Am286 10MHz

and it is still offering more performance and substance than your posts...

Quite recent, a San Diego 3700+. Good chip but sadly I couldn't OC it much because my board was a crappy mATX that didn't have voltage control. So I topped out at around 2.5 or 2.6 GHz.

My only AMD processor was a K6-2. I think it was a 450. If it was a turd it would have floated. Nasty. Paired with a Tyan VIA chipset, it benched slower than a P-II 266, and then there was no upgrade to the K6-III due to socket spec. change. Blech.
I've been Intel ever since.
AMD almost roped me back in last year with the excellent x2 s939 CPU series, but they announced the socket change to AM2 before I got stuck with obsolete technology again.
And then along came C2D...

First one was sometime in '97 or '98.

1 - K6-2 300
1 - K6-2 450
1 - Slot A 750
2 - XP 1800+
1 - XP 2200+
2 - XP 2400+ (bridge mod to run as MPs)
1 - Sempron 3000+
1 - XP 2500+
1 - 64 3400+
1 - X2 3800+ (939)
1 - X2 3800+ (AM2)
1 - X2 4200+ (939)

Still running all of them somewhere except for the K6-2s.

AMD K6-II 266MHz
It wasn't too bad, granted my PII 300MHz easily outpaced it.

Athlon 1.4ghz

caused burns to my fingers when it went up in a blaze of smoke.

Funny...not nice or necessary, but still funny.

That's probably the main problem with any cpu. By the time you want to upgrade, the technology changes and just every about every piece in the puzzle needs to be upgraded.

486DX2-80
K6-300
K6-II-400
K6-II-400@550
Athlon 750
Duron 800
Duron 900
Athlon 1100 Still running
Athlon XP-2100+ Still running
Athlon XP-2800+ Still Running
Athlon X2-3800+ Still Running

K6-2 233 -> K6-2 500 -> Athlon 1.333 -> Athlon XP 1800+ -> (Backup)XP 2600+ -> AM2 X2 3800+ (Current)

2200 xp
3500 a64
2800 sempron (i f@ked my 2200)
4200 family build

k10 (agena, Phenom, whatever its called likely to be next dependant on price/performance and ability to OC)

Athlon XP 1600+ (I think I still have it somewhere)
S939 Athlon 64 3200+ (still around, not currently being used)
S939 Athlon X2 4800+ which I paid too much for but what the hey, it was the last hurrah for my board and I didn't want to get new board and memory *shrug*

Nothing wrong with that man. That's what I'd do with my 478 board, but I don't think there's a netburst chip on 478 that's really any better than my northwood 3.2GHz.

Ran Intel forever till the performance differences could no longer be ignored.

3500+ skt939 venice
........good proc., gave it to my bro-in-law, he still runs it.

opty 175
.... great proc, still have it mildly overclocked with stock HSF and it has always ran stable and cool. It is my primary work computer and is used to lan game with my c2d.

I would gladly buy another AMD if they deliver the product. Till then I have my eye on the q6600.