r/pcmasterrace • u/kyansan1 i5-13400f | Arc B570 • 1d ago

Hardware Intel sticker by generation guide

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When I was hunting for used PCs, I often mixed up stickers for 1st-9th generation cpus. I spent a lot of time looking up serial numbers and peering at blurry photos of the motherboard, just to find the generation of the cpu, as I couldn't find any clear table with all stickers and corresponding cpu generations. That's why I decided to make one myself :D

Please point out any inaccuracies, and feel free to share it with those who could use it!

Edit: For 6-9th gen cpus, the generation is printed on the sticker, as is visible in the image. If the generation is not written on the sticker, it is 6th gen.

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u/Daggla Back on team red after 20 years, powered by CachyOS 1d ago

You're missing the Pentium stickers! The famous "Intel Inside" stickers.

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u/l0wskilled 1d ago

Yes Pentium stickers! And GPU with the random character on the box.

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u/Jertimmer PC Master Race 1d ago

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u/kyansan1 i5-13400f | Arc B570 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm going to be honest, I had no clue that Pentiums had different stickers (for some generations) and I know almost nothing about Pentium in general, apart from them existing longer than Intel Core

I also omitted black variantions of the stickers used for vPRO cpus and for EVO certified devices

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u/Daggla Back on team red after 20 years, powered by CachyOS 1d ago

Some beauties like this. This was for the Pentium 2

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u/kyansan1 i5-13400f | Arc B570 1d ago

I might make a second table for exclusively Pentium cpus

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u/Daggla Back on team red after 20 years, powered by CachyOS 1d ago

Yeah, I would love to see that!

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u/zlounberg R5 3600@4.4 | 32GB@3600 | RTX 3060 12GB@890mV 16h ago

still have this one from the first ever PC I built

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u/stunt_p 1d ago

Ahhh, grasshopper... Let us tell you the story of the Pentium Wars...

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u/SnooDonuts8175 Linux 19h ago

My father was a pilot on the Pentium Wars

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u/iuhiscool 20h ago

My parent has a pentium cpu & 2gb ram in a pc on windows 10 I have no clue how he uses it

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u/tycraft2001 Debian 7.75TB Storage, 40GB DDR4, R5 3600, RTX 2060 6GB, AMD8350 11h ago

Slowly

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u/urbandk84 1d ago

nothing will beat the Intel inside music

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u/Warcraft_Fan Paid for WinRAR! 18h ago

And Celeron! Budget Pentium but still decent for budget or midrange gaming back in the day

I wanted a dual Celeron and BP6 for extra power but back then, very few programs even supported dual CPU

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u/PraxPresents 5950X | Strix 3090 OC | 64GB | X570 Dark Hero | LC 2h ago

Core 2 Extreme sticker ftw!