Which was the best CPU you ever had?

[nageov3t]

I've never given much thought to the CPU beyond performance levels, but me and my Barton 2500 have been through some good times

 

[n7]

The best one would have to be my current one, my A64 3200+

My Barton 2500+ was locked...so i never got very good results outta it, & my first CPU was a Palomino 1700+ which i've never bothered to OC due the other components with it being non-overclockable.

 

[Dubb]

my duallie 1.6 xeons @ 2.64. so cheap, renders so fast...

 

[MegaWorks]

My 1700+ T'Bred B.

200 FSB X 11.5 = 2300Mhz 1.775v for 4yrs now.

edit: number of years

 

[stickybytes]

my p3 500mhz laptop.

that thing has been my workhorse for email/surfing for years. goes to show you that you don't need a ultra fast processor to do simple stuff like email and surfing the net.

 

[Bateluer]

Probably my current P4 2.4C chip. I bought it in July 03 and its still running strong. Just waiting to get the funds for some good DDR500 RAM to OC it past 3Ghz.

 

[JBT]

My 1700 XP @ 2.4GHz. I bought it for 50 bucks. I know it had more room in it but I didn't have the RAM to push any highier at the time.

 

[The J]

I'd have to go with my current Athlon XP 2600+ Barton as it is my first ever build. I built it last September. I was so happy to see this puppy fire up for the first time. I'll remember this one for a long time. 'Tis in my sig.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

8086 8Mhz OC'd to 25Mhz.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
8086 8Mhz OC'd to 25Mhz.

Your kidding, right ? I could only get 10 mhz.

 

[thermalpaste]

A friend of mine overclocked his 1800+ t-bred-B (dlt3c jiuhb) to 2423 Mhz with a system clock of 202.07Mhz *12. Mobo used= a7-n-8x delux with uber BIOS. The cpu is running on a volcano-6 with 12 case fans and is rock stable. Asus makes the best motherboards that compliment the processors when it comes to tweaking systems.

 

[billyjak]

My Athlon 700 with 512meg cache slot A is still going strong today in my wifes computer on a Gigabyte 71x motherboard with 512meg sdram.

 

[thermalpaste]

When AMD launched the athlon, it literally killed the pentium-III katmai. Actually the Pentium-III was to come with a 32Kb instruction and data cache rather than 16kb. Thats what the magazines back then said, because apart from the SSE extensions, there was no difference in the performance between a p-II and a p-III at the same clock speed.
Intel also delayed the launch of it's coppermine CPU's and it's 'camino' chipset. Thats when AMD took the lead........I swear by AMD.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Actually this thread is very interesting as I was about to post how I've actually been pretty damned satisfied and happy with my 2800+NF7-S setup. I've had it unchanged way longer than any other previous setup and don't see a need to upgrade anytime in the near immediate future.

 

[Arcanedeath]

I'd say either my Celron 333A @ 550 or my P3 550E at close to 800mhz, it's the most expensive cpu I've ever bought at around $250 delivered right around when it came out, it served me pretty well untill I got a P3 733 that only made it to 825, I think I was ram limited at that point though. Also my XP 2500+ @ 3200+ that I'm using now has been nice, it will go to 2.3 ghz if I put a faster fan on my SLK900A but I can't stand the noise a tornado makes.

 

[Stern]

Originally posted by: 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

Has served me long and well. I loved it

 

[thermalpaste]

I felt kinda bad for those who got their coppermines with an 'EB ' stepping, they couldn't overclock much because they ran at 133FSB . the ones with the 'E' stepping were excellent for o/cing.