Fave CPU's you've owned of all time?

[clarkey01]

Good

PII 350 Mhz - It felt like warp speed from my old 166

2000+ AXP - My first XP build, solid

FX 55 - Ran far cry like a dream

Q6600 - Beautiful


Bad

Turion 1.6 - Could game with that

Celeron 1Ghz - Died on me

 

[mancunian]

Good: the E7200 I currently have.

Bad: Cyrix 266 MMX (awful chip)

 

[error8]

Cyrix 133 mhz ( PR 166) I had that baby since 1997 and lasted until 2004 (ups) until I've decided to throw it away, since it wasn't good for anything.

Sempron 2800+, socket A. Crappy cpu really. I bought it because there were no more Bartons on the market and couldn't afford any Intel or A64.

Athlon64 3000+, AM2. That was a fantastic CPU, overclocked it to 2.7 ghz from 1,8 ghz. Great budget chip.

Athlon64 X2 3800+, AM2. Good cpu for its time.

Athlon64 X2 4000+ ( brisbane ), AM2. Great AMD overclocker. Managed to touch 3 ghz with it.

E7200 - fantastic chip

 

[o1die]

P III 450 (overclocked to 512 with abit BH6 motherboard)
p4 2.8 northwood (overclocked to 3500)
e4300 (overclocked to 2400 with copper tape)

 

[Petro89]

Favorite CPU's eh?

I'm assuming that we're talking for the time that they were "new" or "cool" to have...

Let's see...



Favorites:

Athlon 64 3400+
Was in my main system for the past 4 years. Still runs about anything well with a 1950pro agp card. This was truly the first processor/setup I had that I didn't feel like it was slow or that I needed to upgrade.

Athlon XP-M 2400+
Overclocked to 2400MHz (200 faster than a 3200+) with no sweat. Still kicks butt.

Athlon XP 2400+
Was happy with this one around 2003ish. It was a 2000Mhz 133 variety. Did well back in the day. Snappy and trouble free.

Duron 600
Finally went to socket a and had this guy running at 866 with stock voltage. I'm not a huge gamer so it suited me well for quite a while.

K6-3+ 450
Before my long foray into Socket A, I had this badboy up to 600. Despite sucking at a lot of games, it was actually OK for quite a few. And it seemingly ran regular apps with no sweat...I couldn't see a difference between it and a lower-end P3 or Duron.




Not-so-favorites

Slot-a Athlon 600
Performance was good although stability sucked. I guess thats more the boards fault (remember the old irongate boards having issues with video cards?) but it still left a sour taste in my mouth.

Phenom
I was very disappointed like 2 months ago when I pieced together a phenom system as an upgrade to my 4 year old 754 setup. I really didn't see all that much difference, and benchmarks were often only 5-10% higher.

486 Dx-2 50
We're talkin old school. This was my first system and it really sucked. Probably sucked the most for my parents after they bought it for like 2 grand back in 1992 or 1993ish and it was pretty much obsolete within a year. I know, I know, everything seems slow after a year or two but it was ridiculous. At least I learned a lot on that system and it was bearable (but still sloooow) when I "upgraded" to a 5x86 133@160.

P233MMX
It was a welcome upgrade after suffering with that old 486/586 for a few years, but it just wasn't all I had hoped for.

 

[Tattare]

out of all of them..

Celeron 300a @ 504 w/peltier yukon. Stable for 2+ years <-- good times here.
6400+ be

 

[Jester666]

My AMD Barton 2500+. This really started my OCing.

 

[ViperV990]

Have to second the 300a - Mine ran at 504 MHz effortlessly for eons.

The Duron 600 was an awesome little chip as well for the money.

 

[XBoxLPU]

XP 1700+ that could overclock over 2Ghz, I had two of these
AMD 64 3000+ - This lasted me almost 4 years with different builds and is still running for my in laws.

 

[Tetranode]

I loved my Pentium Pro 512 200@233 (that bastard was HOT)
Celeron 566@850 was great
Stock pIII 1ghz was a nice chip
I skipped P4s because they blew
E6300@3.325 for a long time...good chip

 

[aigomorla]

ummmm

Favorates..

A64-3200
Opty 180
X2 - 3800
Opty 175

Then:

E6600 <-- still trying to kill one of these guys
E8500 <-- fun also if you dont worry about killing it.
Q6600
X3220
QX9650
Q9650
X3370

i7 will be up there soon, just not now


Not So favorate: Gillbot's Q6600.

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
Not So favorate: Gillbot's Q6600.

BAH!

Fav, PIII933 ES or E8500 ES

Least fav,

Gillbot's Q6600

 

[CptCrunch]

Fav: AMD K6-2, OC'd to 650MHz from 500MHz
AMD Brisbane 3600 OC'd to 2.52GHz
Thunderbird 1.4GHz at a ton of heat and no OC head room, first CPU for my gaming system
Dell e2180 OC'd to 2.4GHz on stock volts
EDIT: My new Q6600, 3.0GHz on stock Volts, tho VID is 1.325 G0

Bad: Cyrix 366MHz, shorted out my compaq mobo
Intel Pentium 4 2.6C, never OC'd for crap, but ran cool

 

[demiurge3141]

1. My 386SX20 from 1992. I think it still runs
2. E2140@3.4G, first time over 100% overclock.

 

[F1shF4t]

Favourites:

1. X2 3800+ I think i ran it stock for a day, still runs at 2.7ghz for 2.5 years now.
2. Current Q6600 would run it at 3.6ghz if I bothered moving the watercooling kit from second comp
3. P4C 2.8ghz first comp I bought myself


Bad:

1. K6-2 500 comp given to me, not only was it slow it was an unstable POS.
2. Celeron D 2.4ghz slow, hot, made the case into a nice leg warmer/ heater
3. B3 Q6600 this thing is uncoolable by anything other than water, loads to 70C + with a TRUE at stock.


Meh:

1. P4C 3.2ghz and A64 3200+ I have no idea why I bothered buying these to upgrade my 2.8ghz P4 comp

 

[LOUISSSSS]

fave: AMD Toledo S939 4800+ X2
worse: Intel Pentium 4 3.2ghz Prescott S775

 

[extra]

Favorites:
Celeron 300a (how could that not be everyone's old school favorite? God those things rocked, I think i had like 3 of them at one point)
Original Athlon (I think mine was 700mhz? .. wow that was long ago!)
Opteron 165
e7200..bye bye amd! lol

Least favorites:
socket A athlons that were prone to having cracked cores...boo!
486sx 25mhz... wow that thing sucked
intel P4.. ugh

 

[Zenoth]

In no particular order of preferences...

Good:

AMD Athlon X2 4400
Intel P4C
Intel C2D E8400

Bad:

VIA C3 733Mhz
AMD Athlon 64 3500+

 

[dguy6789]

Athlon XP 2000+
Athlon 64 2800+
Pentium D 820
Core 2 Duo E6300

And soon to arrive Q9550

 

[Drsignguy]

Yucky- PII 450, P4 2.0 willamette
Better- P4 2.2, P4 2.53 <----had a lot of fun with these. And still have the 2.53. And plenty of others that I will not mention.
Cool- Q6600 ( my second one )
Coolest- E7200 and the Q9450 just because it's a work horse.

 

[Big Lar]

300a like you guys, 500 easy P3650 hit 1006, twas my favorite. Cyrix133 twas a dud

Larry

 

[nyker96]

Celeron 300A and Athlon XP 1400 (forgot name, but the 1st XP)

 

[Tempered81]

barton 2500

wolfdale e8400

 

[Corporate Thug]

1700+ DLT3C

 

[RiDE]

Pentium 60MHz - my "first" (a 486DX2 50MHz was really my first but that got returned in less than a week when i mistakenly 'formatted' my pc)

Pentium II 350MHz - my old workhorse

Pentium III Slot 1 1GHz - i loved slot 1s

Pentium III Tualatin 1.26GHz - I loved this chip. *sniff* Best i ever owned :heart:

Barton 2500+ - my best OCing chip even with my crappy luck

FX-55 - this is going to carry me to DDR3 and skip DDR2 altogether