15 Years of Intel CPUs in One Picture
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Can you tell which is which?

Stumbled across this picture that was taken down in a deep dungeon, where someone's computers are still running a P6--remember those? This photo is pretty amazing because it represents 15 years in Intel's CPU product line. It's pretty amazing where we once were, where we are today, and where we're going to be.
Points for those who can accurately name as many CPUs in this photo as possible.
Extra points for those who can accurately total up the number of transistors in this photo!
Thanks for the photo, Francois!
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486- socket 2/3 486 DX4 100 mhz
486- socket 1/2/3 unknown (black painted aluminum heatsink)
Socket 5/7 3x Pentium 1
Slot 1 233-333 pentium 2 (coventon core)
Slot 1 600 mhz+ Pentium 3
Socket 8 150-200mhz pentium pro 256/512k cache
603 4x xeon
PAC418 / PAC611 Itanium
775 4x can't tell which but one might be a ES
478 most likely a p4 but could be a celeron
small 386 (small back chip in between two 775 and above the pentium pro) 16mhz+
423 pentium 4 1.3ghz+
Pentium pro 5.5 million
Pentium 1 3.1 million (non mmx)
Pentium overdrive 3.1 million
I386 275k
486 1.18 million
Pentium 3 9.5 million
You guys and gals can find the rest.
How things have changed.
Francois
486- socket 2/3 486 DX4 100 mhz
486- socket 1/2/3 unknown (black painted aluminum heatsink)
Socket 5/7 3x Pentium 1
Slot 1 233-333 pentium 2 (coventon core)
Slot 1 600 mhz+ Pentium 3
Socket 8 150-200mhz pentium pro 256/512k cache
603 4x xeon
PAC418 / PAC611 Itanium
775 4x can't tell which but one might be a ES
478 most likely a p4 but could be a celeron
small 386 (small back chip in between two 775 and above the pentium pro) 16mhz+
423 pentium 4 1.3ghz+
How things have changed.
Totally shit
Turned me to AMD for years until the Core i7 came out
Almost same here but for me it was the Core2Duo that I am still using but will replace with an i7 930 or something like that
Impressive... can Tuan or anyone else at Tom's confirm accuracy?
Pentium pro 5.5 million
Pentium 1 3.1 million (non mmx)
Pentium overdrive 3.1 million
I386 275k
486 1.18 million
Pentium 3 9.5 million
You guys and gals can find the rest.
I bet it feels freaking amazing
http://img98.imageshack.us/i/pict0059q.jpg/
Memory lane for some
As for the the part ware I named the cpus that was easy right from memory.
SX969 ES
You need to make a special award now for nforce
And thats definitely over 9000!!!!