Cookie Monster
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- May 7, 2005
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Pentium Pro without a doubt. If you owned one you were the envy of everyone that didn't. And those were mere amateurs. (or 16 bit users!) :biggrin:
Another vote for the AMD K6-III+.
Was just cool running a mobile chip on an ATX board and the motherboard was using a beta BIOS. (FIC VA-503+ board)
If I may add a 2nd place CPU it would have to be my 1GHz AMD Athlon (Thunderbird). Did the "pencil trick" and ran at 1.4 GHz. 40% OC. I use a GlobalWin FOP38 heatsink on that thing with the notorious Black Label Delta fan that would burn out motherboard fan headers.
I had the box in the basement. You could go upstairs to the 2nd floor and still hear the fan whirring. I still have it for sentimental value.
As others have mentioned, the s939 opterons were amazing. My favorite was my s939 x2 3800+. First dual core I owned and got it up to 2.5ghz for many years. Great CPU and costs me $300. Weird to think that I just paid ~$200 for a 2500k. How times have changed.
I couldn't stand it, and edited the typo in your title, sorry.
Markfw900
Anandtech Moderator
Jeez it still comes off as "unstandable". In all time? What was it before you changed it?
What is it?
e2180 for me, bought for $100 and overcocked to 3.4ghz. It had the performance of a Core 2 Duo X6800, a chip which cost $1000 at the time I bought the e2180...
I couldn't stand it, and edited the typo in your title, sorry.
Markfw900
Anandtech Moderator
CBU as I "misunderstood" it for Cluster Bomb Unit, lol.
Then mod had to change it and I don't blame him either and neither could I stand it.
My Thunderbird 1.2GHz AMD CPU...... with a Geforce 2 GTS and 256MB Ram... Man I thought it was a beast. Went to this from a Pentium 233 MMX and a K6 II 350 MHz I beleive it was.
It was definitly the most notable upgrade I've had.