15 Years of Intel CPUs in One Picture

Nice picture. Just out of interest what are the two chips on the add-in (PCI like) boards? Are they the x87 coprocessors? Never had anything like those (though my first PC was a Pentium I).

One might be an Intel Pentium 3. Ive got one running in my home server. It is a cartridge cpu.

i think some of the pentium 3 processors were like that

darraghcoy > These are Slot 1 processors.

The ones I could recognize :

--- 2 pentium 3 in Slot 1 (one is probably a earlier Katmai/250nm and the second, at the center is surely P3 Coppermine/180nm)
--- the good old Pentium Pro (yellow chip at the bottom right)
--- A 486 DX4 (probably 75 or 100Mhz) (center bottom)
--- 4 Core2 (socket 775) (3 in the center and one more on top). or P4/socket775?
--- the smallest may be a 386sx or 286.
--- a normal 486 (near the p3 slot1 cu-mine, on the right)
--- a normal Pentium 75 to 133 (purple, over the P3 slot1 cu-mine)
--- on the left side of the 486/DX4, is it a Pentium Overdrive for 486 mobo? or a 486/pentium with it's heatsink?
--- Seems that there are 3 P4s socket 423 (in the bottom and one in the top: big dies with green support all around, or these are P3 Tualatins)
--- 2 small procesors on at the center top may be P4s socket 478 (small integral die).

The ones i don't recognize:
--- top left corner (with uncentered die) is it an earlier P4/423?
--- top right corner (in a sort of shell) overdrive or 86+87?

please comment

top left is a socket PAC418 CPU (Itanium), think your correct on all the others, nice work

Ah Slot 1 PIII

Mine was a 533B and it was rather nice with 512MB 133MHz SDRAM. Then she died Interestingly though the motherboard was still OK and I scored a 1GHz Coppermine for little money and a crazy Slot 1-Socket 370 converter.

The joys of having the heatsink mounted on a vertical board lol

The one to the left of the 486DX4 looks like a DX4 Overdrive, a 75/100MHz clock-tripled chip that works in older 5V 486 motherboards that wouldn't normally take a DX2 or DX4. The Pentium Overdrive was slightly bigger as it fitted a 238-pin (IIRC) socket that had an extra row of pins all around the normal 168/9-pin 486 socket and thus required a "Pentium Ready" motherboard.

By comaring the size of the samest chip to the Pentium Pro, I would say 80286. Also I think the 386 had the pins on the bottom while the 286 had the connections on the side as the one in the photo appears to have.

hollett -> yep you're right

and what is the "monster" chip at the top right corner (with uncentered die)?

One word - Nostalgia

No life.

i take that for a compliment. thanks.

and i do this with no effort, you know... computers are not my life, just a tiny part.

Seems to me they're a pretty large part.... and sure you might be right about how it took little to no effort at all to write all that junk, but to most ppl that would be considered a waste of time. Sure you can build computers, discuss hardware, but waste ur time on "identiying" cpus from a freakin picture... is uh.. something completely different.

Oh and by "no life", I meant "Get a Life".

What you did was like counting the number of flowers in a field or what the names of each and every car on the road is.... like i said.. .waste of time... not even for entertainment purposes... just plain unproductive crap.

wow cj.....unprovoked and unnecessary

man,

cj_online > i'd like to agree, if you wouldn't try to insult.

Let me tell you that, in my life i'm a photographer. I love watching, not only seeing but watching, understanding, etc etc.
I'm also fond of cinema, i draw, i paint. I am teaching arts, photography, drawing...
When i talk about cinema, photo, books, painting with my friends, or even about... computers (because i also have friends who i talk computers, hardware, "computers sciences", internet logics, and how internet changes our lives in a negative and positive way, etc), the aim is to KNOW what you talk about.

If you talk about Russian Literature, but don't know who wrote "Crime and punishment", what's happening?

If you teach arts, and cannot make difference between a Joan Mitchell and a De Kooning painting, what's happening?

If you talk about cinema, and don't know who is Robert Siodmak, what's happening?

Finally,

If you help someone buying a second-hand computer (for example), and can't recognize a core2 from a Celeron, what's happening?

you feel like an idiot.

I don't say my Life is better than yours, i just think that all is a question of knowledge, experience, and how one can transmit it.

THIS is my life.

and at last, i'd like to say that i took it for a simple... game...

the guys at Tom's just offered a game, you choose to play or not.

Every game is bullshit anyway. Footbal is bullshit, car races are bullshit, poker is bullshit, identifying CPUs is bullshit.

I agree with you.

External L2 cache for a Slot 1 type CPU.

Happy days

Bonus Question: With Pentium processors, what naming scheme was employed to differentiate between single and split rail voltages? Exiting isn't it.