15 Years of Intel CPUs in One Picture
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Tuan An Nguyen
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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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jhansonxi 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.Reply -
FrancoisPiednoel 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 ...Reply
Francois -
nforce4max 486- socket 2/3 OverdriveReply
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+
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back_by_demand OMG, I had one of those crappy old P3-on-a-card chipsReply
Totally shit
Turned me to AMD for years until the Core i7 came out -
edwilson 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)Reply -
dogofwars back_by_demandOMG, I had one of those crappy old P3-on-a-card chipsTotally shitTurned me to AMD for years until the Core i7 came outReply
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
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dragonsqrrl nforce4max486- 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?Reply -
nforce4max Pentium 2 tranistor count 5.5 millionReply
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.