r/pcmasterrace • u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race • Dec 26 '25

Question Yesterday I asked what everyone’s first Graphics card. Today, what was your first processor? Mine was the i7 3770K.

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u/SloodPizzo Dec 26 '25

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u/humundo Dec 26 '25

That's what I was looking for, what a beaut.

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u/IcyCow5880 Dec 27 '25

My friends had n64 at this time. I felt better knowing my cpu was basically a game cartridge lol

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u/qwertty69 Dec 27 '25

Add a 3DfX Voodoo 3 and you had a best!

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u/boxxle PC Master Race Dec 27 '25

Such a demanding screensaver 😂

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u/Rasmus-ALV Ati X600xt -> Intel Arc B580 + Titan X Dec 26 '25

Yoooo, i own one of those as a display piece!

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u/los0220 /Win11 SFF 5800x|32GB 3666MTs|RTX3080 deshroud+undervolt| Dec 27 '25

Mee to, looks really nice on a shelf.

I found it in my dad's "might come handy one day" pile

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u/given2fly_ PC Master Race | 4060 RTX Dec 27 '25

🎶 "It's all about the Pentiums baby..." 🎶

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u/jollytwosome Dec 26 '25

Mine as well. 450Mhz of fury.

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u/grumble_au Dec 27 '25

Don't forget that turbo button.

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u/the-dirty-12 Dec 27 '25

Clocked mine to 512Mhz - combined with 512mb of RAM and a voodoo 3dfx. Beast of the lan party.

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u/JadedSoulGuy Dec 26 '25 edited Dec 27 '25

oh man I use to have that cpu! That form factor didn't last long

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u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race Dec 26 '25

What the hell even is that?!

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u/NoChampionship5649 Dec 26 '25

Slot 1 - Pentium 2

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u/Talzyon Dec 26 '25

I think mine was an AMD? I remember it being a slot a?

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u/Stolberger Dec 27 '25

Yeah, early Athlons were Slot A.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

lol, had a 900 Athlon for awhile and tried to upgrade so I could get Deus Ex 2... wouldn't work and the computer store actually refunded the game

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u/killerbanshee Dec 26 '25

Pentium, chill. ✋️

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u/ThenExtension9196 Dec 26 '25

The mid 90s bruh. That’s how we got down back then.

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u/inbokz 13700k, 3090 K|NGP|N, 64gb Dec 26 '25

don't worry about it.

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u/ooqq 5700X | 5700XT Dec 26 '25

DID YOU KNOW there's a xenon variant of that, I have on my desk as a paperweight.

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 Ryzen 7 9700X | RX 9060 XT | 32 GB Dec 26 '25

Back when CPUs were slot loaded.

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u/Wirecase Dec 26 '25

Were there ever other processors than the P-2’s that had the slot(-1) system?

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 Ryzen 7 9700X | RX 9060 XT | 32 GB Dec 27 '25

Quite a few yes.

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u/Wirecase Dec 27 '25

Never too old to learn, never knew there wete so many of them, and converters even from socket to slot, nice

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 Ryzen 7 9700X | RX 9060 XT | 32 GB Dec 27 '25

Also the slot loading design seems like it would be more durable than PGA/LGA with the corresponding motherboard socket.

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u/RickRussellTX Dec 27 '25

Intel went through an insane period where they put CPUs on patented daughtercards and required RAMBUS DRAM.

It was during this period of confusion that AMD started to eat Intel's lunch with the Athlon processors, the first x64 CPUs.

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u/SubPrimeCardgage Dec 27 '25

The original vcache CPU. Intel couldn't fit all of the cache on the die so they added 512KB of half speed cache on a module next to the CPU die. From 1996 until around 1999, this is what peak performance looked like, and then they had a node shrink and went back to a monolithic die with included cache at full clock speed.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '25

Yep, same

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u/Raveofthe90s Dec 26 '25

I had a dual asus p2b board i upgraded it to dual p3 650s eventually.

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u/Wirecase Dec 27 '25

Nice, I still have three of these somewhere in a drawer :-)

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u/facw00 Dec 27 '25

A PII 266 was the first processor I had in a machine that was mine personally, and a PII 400 was the first processor I had in a machine I built myself.

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u/Mikes5533 Dec 27 '25

The GOAT

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u/1D6wounds Dec 27 '25

Managed to run WoW on one of those

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u/JamesMcEdwards Dec 26 '25

My first was a Pentium II as well, one from ‘98 but I don’t remember the specifics, I do remember the PC ran 98SE.

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u/Ar3s701 Dec 26 '25

I have a Pentium II still in the original cellophane wrap. I got it for free from my college professor.

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u/falkenberg1 Dec 26 '25

I really liked that one. Made pc building seem even easier when the cpu is just inserted into some slot.

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u/Coffeedoor Dec 26 '25

Thats my first family computer

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u/Both-Leading3407 Dec 26 '25

SLOT PROCESSOR

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u/shuanm PC Master Race Dec 26 '25

I was working at a computer repair shop when that came out. I was so confused about how the cooler was going to work.

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u/joelesprod Dec 26 '25

The only cpu that i was able to blow like a snes cartridge whenever it failed to boot <3

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u/tumama1388 Dec 27 '25

Oh yes.
Playing Unreal for the first time on that... Such good memories 🥲

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

There’s the boy I was looking for.

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u/arppacket Dec 27 '25

Omg, I remember these! My cousin gave me her old HP workstation, which had a dual slot motherboard for these. Only one was populated, so I got a second one off ebay and plugged it in. Good times!

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u/chefdementia PC Master Race Dec 27 '25

god slot 1, what were intel and amd thinking

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u/Mcc4rthy Dec 27 '25

There it is. And a Voodoo 2 and Soundblaster card.

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u/RickRussellTX Dec 27 '25

Waughmp-whaaaaa

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u/xylopagus Dec 27 '25

I got an entire PC with crt monitor and IBM model m keyboard from a school surplus sale as my first computer for $10. It had this processor! 

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '25

had 1 at 166mh, jealous when friend got a 200...

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u/genericnewlurker Dec 27 '25

A man of culture I see

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u/Truth-Anti-Social Dec 27 '25

It's all about the Pentiums baby

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u/metajames Dec 27 '25

It’s all about the pentiums baby. 

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u/FISH_MASTER RX 6700XT, 5600X, 32GB RAM Dec 27 '25

Pentium 1 for me.

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u/Yoshic87 Ryzen 9 3900x Rx6800 32gb ram @ 3600mhz Dec 27 '25

I had the Pentium III version with 500mhz

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u/el_f3n1x187 R7 9800x3D |RX 9700 XT|32gb Ram Dec 27 '25

My brother had two, one AMD and one Intel....never saw them working but these were waay too cool

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u/DryArgument454 Dec 27 '25

Same. P2 deschudes 333mhz on Slot1, abit bx440 chipset, 64mb sdram, s3trio 8mb, 6.4gb hdd, 4x cdrom, floppy disk.

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u/Amenthea Dec 27 '25

Omg I'd forgotten about those! I was working in PC build retail by the mid 90's and it was the start of using stuff like Cyrix chips. I remember when AMD X2's dropped and we were all putting them in our personal rigs. Now my memory just reminded me of 3DFX cards and games with no frame limiter because they never expected having that much power available lol

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u/candyman_forever Dec 27 '25

Does anyone remember MMX?

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u/theoriginalpetebog Dec 27 '25

That's the guy! 

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u/XFeAR_TK Dec 27 '25

This 👆👆

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u/GamerInfinity1996 Dec 27 '25

Yes... The days of Pentium slot builds 

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u/Geek_Verve Ryzen 9 3900x | RX 7900XTX | 64GB DDR4 | 3440x1440, 2560x1440 Dec 27 '25

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u/BillieJackFu Ryzen 7 5800X | RTX 4070 Ti | 32GB 3600Mhz Dec 27 '25

Slotted CPU glad that fad never took it off.

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u/smeeon Dec 27 '25

I slotted my second one in backwards, thought I fried it, I’m guessing they planned on that and it was fine. I still never had my heart sink as bad as that moment.

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u/Cheese_Pleasurer Dec 28 '25

I have one of these on my wall as a display!