favorite CPU in all time?

[exar333]

wow. That must have been like enlightenment or something. :thumbsup:

Same for me. I went from a PIII-450 w/ TNT2 to a Athlon T-Bird ~1.6ghz w/ Geforce 2. It was AWESOME! Great for some sweet UT and UT2003 action at the time. Got a AXP to replace this, and some decent speed increases there as well, but not quite as drastic.

 

[jacktesterson]

wow. That must have been like enlightenment or something. :thumbsup:

I remember it had a Soltek Motherboard... it was Yellow...




Do they still make motherboards? Google I come.


EDIT: Nevermind, the Soltek board I'm thinking of was my build after this one, a Barton 2500k ...It was still going strong as a child's PC up to last year before being retired running Windows 2000.

 

[GRIFFIN1]

My best deal/overclock was a PIII-450 overclocked to 600 that I got from Value America. Value America was the ultimate dot com bubble company. I really miss the good deals that could be found during the dot com bubble.

 

[slag]

Celeron 266 @ 448 mhz rock solid stable on a P2B. There was nothing out that fast at the time and it blew through everything. Lack of cache had very little impact in gaming. Could hit 474 with a fan blowing on it keeping the board/ram/cpu cool.

Got the chip in 1997, the P2 450 didnt come out until 1998 and regular P2 300/333 chips didn't overclock well.

 

[T101]

AMD 5x86, it was a 486 class chip that was silly fast, and which overclocked from 133mhz easily to 166 or 200mhz, which gave insane performance at that time. Q6600 in more recent times, and now of course I love this 2600k. Other more unusual CPUs; Z80 (ZX spectrum 48k) and Motorola 68000 to 68030, very nice cpus from the amiga era...

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

My favorite processor is my Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8400. This was a great mobile processor with lots of power and a great battery life. I am going to be sad to replace this next year with a new Ultrabook™ next year.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[classy]

Celeron 300A and 366A . Back then cpus really mattered. And my first super chip, P4 Gallatin.

 

[exar333]

Celeron 300A and 366A . Back then cpus really mattered. And my first super chip, P4 Gallatin.

The P4EE was beast when it was released. It was very solid, even when comparing it to the early A64 chips. After 939 came out though, it was a long memory...

 

[Rhoxed]

i would have to say my old toledo 3800x2 - oc'd to 2.9ghz and is still being used in a friends computer. Bought it in feb of 06.

 

[soccerballtux]

I couldn't stand it, and edited the typo in your title, sorry.
Markfw900
Anandtech Moderator

 

[RussianSensation]

My most favourite: Q6600 G0. Performance out of this world for 2007, at a 'reasonable' $300.

- Very good overclocking for a quad (42% for me @ 3.4ghz)
- The CPU wasn't picky about needing an enthusiast board to overclock --> this was accomplished on a budget P35-DS3L ($90-100 board)
- Lasting performance: I bet even today, Q6600 @ 3.4ghz can keep up with the likes of Phenom II X4/X6/Bulldozer in a lot of tasks, including games. Not bad for a CPU pushing 5 years old.
- My first ever quad

If I was building computers earlier, I might have voted for the Celeron 300A.

E6400 @ 3.4ghz gets the "most improved" generational jump from me as I was coming from Pentium 4 C 2.4 @ 3.2ghz. However, I still feel Q6600 can be used by many people for another 1-2 years while E6400 is still only a dual core.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Netburst was bad.
Nehalem and SB my fav. Especially the I7 920

Oh and the e8600. What a chip. Almost all went to 4ghz on air.

 

[Ratman6161]

One reason these were so cool, is they weren't that expensive, and at the time I was working on alot of computers for people. Back then alot of people still bought custom built systems instead of big oems. Alot of them were running socket 7 systems with a k62 at say 300 or 350mhz. (nutrend and abs built rigs most of them which later became newegg ) I remember i bought a whole tray of them for upgrades. People were amazed you could drop in a k6III+ and suddenly be at 600mhz or 616 etc. Funny thing was alot of those systems were probably running 4000 rpm 5 1/4" quantum bigfoot drives so they were still crippled LOL.

I loved the k6III and socket 7 so much that I skipped the durons and slot athlons altogether along with the celerons people were getting such good o/c with at the time. I sort of wish I had kept one around to throw linux or something on.

Yup, that sure brings back some memories! The K6 was my first AMD CPU then K63+, Thunderbird 1200, Athlon XP 2000, Athlon XP 1700+ (overclocked much better than the 2000+), Barton 2500+, Athlon 64 3500, Athlon 64 X2 4400 (this one still running though not as my primary machine). So I stayed with AMD right up until my Q6600 in the spring of 2008. It was kind of sad...AMD had been my choice for so long and so many of those CPU's listed above are candidates for my "greats list". but now its a 2600K

 

[soccerballtux]

For me:
- E6600 Conroe: was faster than any AMD CPU when it was released
- Q9650 Yorkfield: Double the E6600 cores and up the speed to 3GHz, can get up to 4GHz. It was expensive when I got it but it has enough staying power to bypass a couple generations.



This^n. Typos are excusable when they're near each other on the keyboard. P and B are not.

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[OVerLoRDI]

Can the title please be edited to correct the other grammar mistake?

 

[drizek]

Can the title please be edited to correct the other grammar mistake?

Yes plz, it's really annoying.

BTW, what did it say before? CBU?

 

[lsv]

barton 2500+
Q9450 was also a good chip

Another for the Barton 2500, it was so easy to OC

 

[iGas]

6502 and 68030

 

[xylem]

This i7 920 D0 is probably my favorite. It's running at 3.8 GHz, a 43% overclock, at 1.18-actual/1.2-bios volts, which is the default for the model, i think. It's so fast i haven't really been tempted to try for more.

 

[JustMe21]

For me, the 1 Mhz 6510 processor in the Commodore 64. I used the C64 for 10 years before finally switching to IBM PC clones. No other processor has lasted that long for me.

 

[Oyeve]

My Celeron 300a was awesome at the time. Oced like a mofo.

 

[ed29a]

Abit BP6 + 2 x Celeron 300A overclocked to 500.

 

[Assimilator87]

My two favorite chips:
Athlon XP 1800+ (JIUHB) OCed to 2.4Ghz on an Abit AN7 and cooled by a 92mm Vantec Tornado

Athlon X2 5000+ unlocked to quad with full 6MB L3 for $35

 

[bryanW1995]

G0 stepped q6600.

Got it shortly after their price fell to the $300 mrsp area such a awesome chip i am on the lookout for one again to clock to 3ghzs perhaps to replace my e8200 for BF3.

How they will perform in the game versus a x4 who knows but if i could find one for $150 or less used it might be a good option again .

My favorite is my current i7 920, but my mom's is still the G0 Q6600 that I gave her 4 yrs ago.

 

[wirednuts]

t-bird 1700+ that with a slight volt change could run at 2600+ speeds. that was my all time fav