15 Years of Intel CPUs in One Picture
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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I remember cracking open one of those early Slot 1 Celeron 300HMz to add heat sinking to the cache RAM chips and get it to 450MHz.
Those old ones remind me of RAM Sticks.
How things have changed.
Well, some of them are even older than that, some are from the 80's
but I had to compare them to the 90's CPUs ...
Francois
486- socket 2/3 Overdrive
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+
Those old ones remind me of RAM Sticks.
How things have changed.
OMG, I had one of those crappy old P3-on-a-card chips
Totally shit
Turned me to AMD for years until the Core i7 came out
you know you are getting old when you remember buying and installing these new and still have most of them in a box somewhere. (sigh)
OMG, I had one of those crappy old P3-on-a-card chipsTotally shitTurned 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
486- socket 2/3 Overdrive486- socket 2/3 486 DX4 100 mhz486- 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 cache603 4x xeon PAC418 / PAC611 Itanium 775 4x can't tell which but one might be a ES478 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+
Impressive... can Tuan or anyone else at Tom's confirm accuracy?
Pentium 2 tranistor count 5.5 million
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.
Dear lord the sadness of those old Cartridge types.
YOU DID IT!!! How does it feel?
I bet it feels freaking amazing
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/985/pict0058u.jpg
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.
Looks like all the chips since the first Pentiums, my first comp had a p54c 75mhz, used nothing but intel since.
Looks like all the chips since the first Pentiums, my first comp had a p54c 75mhz, used nothing but intel since.
SX969 ES
lol i remember turbo !! when my pc displayed 266Mhz lmao
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9 [...] jpg/Memory lane for some As for the the part ware I named the cpus that was easy right from memory.
You need to make a special award now for nforce
I still have a working PC with Pentium MMX 166MHz
Transistors: Over 9 billion!
Transistors: Over 9 billion!
And thats definitely over 9000!!!!
Does anyone remember the "Turbo" Button?
Turbo in lime green with 200 on the display, ah yes. My old PC even had a lock with keys
Transistors: Over 9 billion!
Hahaha well done sir. Well done.
Turbo in lime green with 200 on the display, ah yes. My old PC even had a lock with keys
I still have
Antec P180 case. -- best looking and one of the best acoustic-wise on the market IMO.
I remember cracking open one of those early Slot 1 Celeron 300HMz to add heat sinking to the cache RAM chips and get it to 450MHz.
You have a bad memory then. The Celeron had no external cache. The original had no L2 cache at all, and the 300a had the 128MB L2 cache as part of the processor.
If you want a picture with more processors than these, Tuan, email me.
I have everything from 8088 to 8086, 186, 188, 286, 287, 386, 386SX, 387,486, 486DX, 486SX, 486DX2, 486DX4, Pentium Overdrive, Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pros (including the rare 2M version), Pentium II, Pentium II Overdrive, III (Katmai and Coppermine), not to mention multiple versions K6 (I still run a server on a K6-2). Also, some 68Ks, a few z80s, 6502Cs, lots of 6809s, a couple of 6309s, 8048s, some Cyrix chips, a few old Centuar Winchips, and some odd 387-compatible processors from another company, and and probably more that I can't remember.
Probably the rarest, and maybe coolest, is the Pentium II overdrive, because it was better than the Pentium II when it came out, and it's really rare. It fit into Socket 8, and had a full-speed L2 cache, plus the enhancements of the Pentium II. So, it was really quite good for the time, and it overclocked very well, and could be used in multiprocessor systems with a lot of memory without a performance penalty.
That picture is ugly too, all dirty processors, thrown all over the place.
By the way, the little 486 looking processor is a Pentium Overdrive. It was a Pentium processor stuck into the Socket 5 interface. I have a few of those, but they don't perform that great, because one of the main benefits of the Pentium was the incredible memory bandwidth (4x the 33 MHz 486, which is the slot this thing fit into). Once you take that away, and considering the slower clock speed, there isn't much use for this chip (although, they did compensate by doubling the L1 cache).
OMG, I had one of those crappy old P3-on-a-card chipsTotally shitTurned me to AMD for years until the Core i7 came out
Wow, marked down -8 for dissing an 11 year old CPU that truely was crappy
Or was it for admitting I turned to AMD?
Fanboy shock either way
You have a bad memory then. The Celeron had no external cache. The original had no L2 cache at all, and the 300a had the 128MB L2 cache as part of the processor.
KB not MB
Anyway, those celeron a were mighty popular. Two of those on a tyan board, clocked to 700 beat anything else hands down.
i still have a masive collection of these babys and alot more - im a collector sort of lol must have say ~100 of em - whole range of crap, i should take some photos etc
Still have P6's, IDT winchip's, K5's, K6's etc
It's good to see i'm not the only one with an entire drawer full of ancient processors!
It's good to see i'm not the only one with an entire drawer full of ancient processors!
I used to have something like that here at work. I'd saved two of each computer type we had at work, ranging back to the old orange comet systems running cp/m. Sadly when I had to take 3 months leave back in 2001 my babysitter did some thorough cleaning and all are now gone.