Which was the best CPU you ever had?

[thermalpaste]

Its obvious that you guys are going to like your athlon-64s and prescotts. But which was the CPU that was the most productive during it's life cycle. For example I had a Pentium-III 700Mhz coppermine way back in 2000 coupled with an ASUS Cu-BX motherboard. Using the stock heatsink, I was able to overclock this biatch to 1050Mhz, something unheard of, because around that time, Intel had recalled all it's 1.13Ghz CPUs and those pesky 820 motherboards with hub translator problems. With a 150Mhz FSB (sufficient then) and a full speed cache, I would get the highest FPS for quake-III. My friends who had athlons were shocked. THis CPU would beat the crap out of all the willamettes that were launched later in 2001.(1.4gig and 1.5)
I was using a stock heatsink, and my memory bandwidth was something like 975Mb/s and 840Mb/s on Sisoft Sandra, which was decent for a BX chipset.

 

[effee]

My p3 800mhz. still works to this day =p

 

[rpsgc]

My second CPU which was a PII 400MHz, or my current (soon to be upgraded) Athlon XP2400+

 

[imported_kouch]

my current 2500+, this thing is a work horse

 

[Zugzwang152]

i have fond memories of my 1.4ghz thunderbird athlon. the best of the best before the athlon xp came out.

 

[Squally Leonharty]

I have a Pentium 200MHz with 64MB SIMM RAM running on Windows 2000 SP4, which is now operating as a server for my own needs (university stuff, etc.). Got this old PC for more than 8 years now.

Right now I'm using a Compaq Presario 5000 computer. It's not that good, but meh. At least I'm getting my own PC within two weeks. It's going to be awesome!

 

[Elcs]

My 1700+ T'Bred B.

200x11 at 1.75V actual. My Mobile Barton 2500+ hits 200x11.5 at the same voltage but 1700+ Vs. 2500+.... its a more impressive overclock. Plus, my T'Bred B cost £20 less than my barton so ^^.

 

[Sheriff]

Tough call but it's between the 2400Mobile, 2500 unlocked Barton, 1700XP for AMDa nd then there's the 2.8P4's and the old 300 and 533 Celerons

 

[BW86]

2500 mobile

 

[Sunner]

My Celeron 300@464 kicked mucho ass back in the day.
The P166/MMX@233 was nice as well.

Worst ones are my current TBred that won't overclock one lousy bit, and the old P90 that wouldn't even do 100 entirely stable :roll:

 

[XBoxLPU]

Either my two 1700 Tbred Bs that hit 2ghz on defualt voltage or my current AMD64 3000+ which has been smoother then butter

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
i have fond memories of my 1.4ghz thunderbird athlon. the best of the best before the athlon xp came out.

:thumbsup: that was my first real cpu. It was top-of-the-line when I bought it. I saved and saved and saved for that system. It was a great cpu.

My other favorite cpu was in my old Compaq Professional Workstation 5000, which I picked up off Comp Geeks for $80. Pentium Pro 200mhz, heatsink cooling only. I loved that thing. Most stable box I've ever owned. I did so much modding to it - painted the case black and plus, modded the PSU with a custom silent 92mm fan, etc. Used it as a linux server for awhile. It was dual-proc capable too, but I only wanted to put dual 200s with 1mb caches in, which were usually $100 or so on ebay, and I was never willing to spend that much.

 

[ronach]

P3 500E coppermine, it clocked up to just under 1 gig useing stock cooling as well. Best bang for the buck I ever got in a CPU.

 

[dmw16]

My XP1700+ @ 2375mhz

 

[Jeff7]

I liked my K6-3 450 paired with an Epox MVP3G2 - L1 and L2 on the CPU die, and 1MB L3 cache. Too bad the super socket 7 chipsets sucked, especially at AGP throughput.
Currently, the best CPU I've got is my Tbred 2100. But it's soon to be sold, as I've got a 35W Mobile 2400+ on the way.

 

[DeepBlu]

I guess the PIII 440MHz I'm running now...

Until I get my 3200+ rig up and running next weekend.

 

[thermalpaste]

Pentium-pros were killer CPUs, a p-pro 200 would beat the crap out of a p-II 266 in those days, where software wasn't optimised for MMX. BUt this was only true when it came to 32 bit applications. A classic pentium(p54C) had a better performance in 16 bit applications compared to a p-pro at the same clock speed.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
i have fond memories of my 1.4ghz thunderbird athlon. the best of the best before the athlon xp came out.

:thumbsup: that was my first real cpu. It was top-of-the-line when I bought it. I saved and saved and saved for that system. It was a great cpu.

My other favorite cpu was in my old Compaq Professional Workstation 5000, which I picked up off Comp Geeks for $80. Pentium Pro 200mhz, heatsink cooling only. I loved that thing. Most stable box I've ever owned. I did so much modding to it - painted the case black and plus, modded the PSU with a custom silent 92mm fan, etc. Used it as a linux server for awhile. It was dual-proc capable too, but I only wanted to put dual 200s with 1mb caches in, which were usually $100 or so on ebay, and I was never willing to spend that much.

:beer: i just got rid of my 1.4 ghz thunderbird. great chip

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Original 600mhz SpitfireDuron@1ghz on my Abit KT7 :beer:

 

[Chaotic42]

My current dual 2800+s. They fly through work like there's no tomorrow.

 

[D1gger]

For me it has to be my P4 2.2gHz. It replaced a P3 733mHz, and it was the first time that I started to see almost instantaneous response time to the general computing tasks that take up most of my day. Before the P4 it seemed like it was a lot of point click -- wait. After installing the P4 machine it was point, click, zoom!

 

[thermalpaste]

I started disliking Intel. I had invested truckloads of money on a willamette which was no good, and the obscenely expensive RD-RAM. I had to actually 'get rid' of the system, because nobody would buy it.
My athlon XP is a workhorse, I simply admire the raw power it churns out, unlike intel which needs each and every program optimised for it's range of CPU's to deliver satisfactory performance, esp where the FPU is concerned........but intels are very overclockeable.....

 

[Weeeman]

My current 3200+ Such a change..

 

[osage]

this 1700DLT3C - JIUHB0310WPMW

great chip, multi, and voltage unlocked from the factory, OCs like a mutha.
still going strong F@H 100% load 24/7 since 4/9/2003.

 

[ROcHE]

I'd say my Celery 300 at 464 or P2 300 SL2W8 at 450 mhz.

Or maybe my current Barton 2500 at 3200. Hard to say.