Your favorite CPUs?

[MegaWorks]

Mobile Athlon XP T-bred 1500+ 1.3ghz unlocked @ 2.4Ghz :biggrin:

Opteron 165 "Denmark" 1.8Ghz @ 2.7Ghz = save money and laugh at noob FX users!

 

[borisvodofsky]

Mobile Athlon XP T-bred 1500+ 1.3ghz unlocked @ 2.4Ghz :biggrin:

Opteron 165 "Denmark" 1.8Ghz @ 2.7Ghz = save money and laugh at noob FX users!

how does a near 150 watt opteron save you money. LOL.

My opteron 185 is still a pretty good internet machine for my mom. It's at 3ghz on an xp120 the original giant cooler.

I was only really pissed off that my motherboard, dfi nf4 doesn't have ahci so I couldn't plug in an SSD into the machine with trim support. I had to buy a highpoint rocket raid, $30 bux mofo.. and an Intel x25m g2 120gb

 

[IGemini]

Core 2 E6600 Conroe. The thing slammed AMD's entire desktop lineup at launch for a third of the price of the FX-62, and was about 4x faster than my P4.

Whatever Haswell core looks right will probably be the next one.

 

[MegaWorks]

how does a near 150 watt opteron save you money. LOL.

My opteron 185 is still a pretty good internet machine for my mom. It's at 3ghz on an xp120 the original giant cooler.

I was only really pissed off that my motherboard, dfi nf4 doesn't have ahci so I couldn't plug in an SSD into the machine with trim support. I had to buy a highpoint rocket raid, $30 bux mofo.. and an Intel x25m g2 120gb

The FX-60 was $1031, I believe that I paid around $300 for my opty 165 that's a huge difference. Plus I don't keep my computer on 24/7 so power consumption was irrelevant to me. :biggrin:

 

[TerryMathews]

S604 Xeon 1.6LV at 3.2GHz. I still have one. It's insane how fast those CPUs were for the money.

 

[Corporate Thug]

1700+ DLTC3
2500+ Barton

 

[Yuriman]

I loved my Tbred-B 1700+ and Barton 2500+, but my favorite was my Q6600. It wasn't a mad overclocker but it was sufficient for 4.5 years when my typical processor turnover rate prior to that was about 6-8months. I'm really liking my 3570k now, it puts out relatively little heat and is mad-fast.

Not mine but I did the overclocking and maintaining - my stepbrother's Opteron 165. 50% overclock without voltage bump -> nuts.

Older chips: K6-3 400 was fun.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've had a lot of favorite CPUs. Just about anything I could overclock was a favorite at the time.

Pentium MMX 166 @ 200-233 (depending on mobo)
Pentium II 300 @ 450 (SL2W8 was guaranteed 450Mhz)
Athlon XP 1800+ @ 2100+ (MSI KT4V-L mobo wouldn't overvolt more than 0.05v, and stock voltage for my chip was 0.15v lower than the stock voltage for the higher speeds. Bummer.)
E2140 @ 3.2Ghz (100% overclock!)
Q9300 @ 3.0Ghz (A trivial overclock, but mobo maxes out at 400Mhz FSB, and the CPU will do that at stock voltage. Still trucking along.)

 

[tigersty1e]

core2duo e6300

1.8 ghz overclocked to 3.43 ghz effortlessly on a $90 gigabyte ds3l. i still have the rig.

 

[Nemesis 1]

P4c 2.8ghz. I liked the p4c3.2 but the 2.8 I really liked God that thing O/ced. But than again the 2.4c would o/c to 3.2. The 3.2 was I guess was my least fav . after thinking about it as AMD was pretty dam strong by its release.

 

[jlee1]

athlon 3200+

 

[borisvodofsky]

P4c 2.8ghz. I liked the p4c3.2 but the 2.8 I really liked God that thing O/ced. But than again the 2.4c would o/c to 3.2. The 3.2 was I guess was my least fav . after thinking about it as AMD was pretty dam strong by its release.

I had a 2.8ghz northwood that did 4.2ghz on the same xp120 I used later for the opteron 185.

It destroyed all the hot prescotts that were coming out at the time.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

S939 X2 3800+ Manchester core. $300, got it up to 2.5ghz (25% overclock). So it was beating the ~$800 X2 4600 and sometimes the $1000 X2 4800 despite the lower cache. CPU is going strong in a friends machine to this day.

 

[nemesismk2]

My all time favorite cpu is the AMD Athlon XP 2500 Mobile which would do 2.5Ghz easy

 

[Dkcode]

Intel i7 920 - what a chip! Had this [lovely chip] for 3 years and its still going strong.

And its all been running at stock!

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[AznAnarchy99]

S939 X2 3800+ Manchester core. $300, got it up to 2.5ghz (25% overclock). So it was beating the ~$800 X2 4600 and sometimes the $1000 X2 4800 despite the lower cache. CPU is going strong in a friends machine to this day.

That was my previous computer. Lasted 5 long years until I sold it. Awesome system.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Intel i7 920 - what a chip! Had this [lovely chip] for 3 years and its still going strong.

And its all been running at stock!

I7 960 here, and have to say thing. It is still going strong! My second favorite is my i5 750. I still have it in a closet somewhere in a motherboard. It just needs a GPU and HDD and it is good to go!


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[Soulkeeper]

everything Socket A was great
athlon XP 2500+ gets my vote

core2 would rank next on my list
the early e4300 was a massive overclocker 1.8GHz to 3.2GHz
and Q series still hold their own against new stuff from an investment perspective they were great.

 

[antennas]

I am using Intel i7 920 from last one year and its going strong.

 

[futurefields]

No mention of the i5 2500k?

The best value/performance processor possibly ever?

 

[Magic Carpet]

No mention of the i5 2500k?

The best value/performance processor possibly ever?

Buying second-hand 2500k for 2/3 of the price is the best value. Or getting it free

 

[jmarti445]

Phenom 2 x6 1090T-Have it overclocked to 3.8Ghz
AMD Opteron 170 had it overclocked to 2.6Ghz
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ had it overclocked to 2.4Ghz
Intel Pentium 3 650Mhz, had it overclocked to 900Mhz

Honorable mention my Phenom x4 940 running at 3.6Ghz since I got it in March 2009. Its in my backup machine and I believe the longest I've ever had an active CPU up and running in a rig.

 

[jmarti445]

I have to still pull for AMD since they do not obsolete their systems with a socket change like intel does, but Nehalem and socket 1366 did impress me for the length and the fact you could drop a 6 core into the socket years after it was released. Piledriver and Haswell will determine my next setup.

 

[futurefields]

Piledriver and Haswell will determine my next setup.

I'm guessing the Intel chip will perform much better. I don't know for sure though, that's just a guess.

 

[bleucharm28]

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (939), this cpu was a badass! back in 04-05