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Greatest CPU of all time ? what gets your vote?

Corasik said:
Cant actually complain about P4 though, it taught intel how to make transistors that operate just fine at 4Ghz :), and we're reaping the benifits of that with our overclocked Core processors.
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Which was my point earlier ... then the AMD fanboi's came knocking.


Remember the Coppermien P3 1.13? The P4 was the way around the problem. Netburst was designed with high clock speed in mind - Intel stated they wanted the P4 to run to 4GHz+. Unfortunately the laws of physics got in the way. Then again if you don't try it you'll never know!
 
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I would have to say the AMD Athlon/Barton/Semprons up to 3200, I remember going through some of these, working my way up from one of the cheaper models with PC-133 ram through to a 3300 with PC-3500, my sister uses the 3300 with Kingston DDR and an old Gigabyte board still.

Just nostalgia though, can't say I miss any old kit.
 
Probably the E6600 for me, the poor thing is lying unused at the moment though. Would still make a beast of a machine, just need to spend a couple of hundred £ to make another nice PC - I already have spare 4GB RAM, E6600 & 2x 500GB drives

My current Q9550 will probably take it's place at the top of my favourite CPU list :)
 
Mr Paul said:
How? The K6-II ran on a 100Mhz bus (SS7) with a 4x multiplier, and the max multiplier was 6. So unless you were running the FSB at 150.8Mhz I'd say your pulling our plonker ;)
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Might have been a K6-III I think there was a 400MHz of it and the bus speed and multi was different. Not sure if you could conductive pen mod those chips or not to unlock the multi though.
 
I had a 3800 X2 too mate, Toledo core. 939. Got it to 3217MHz on air with an artic cooling freezer cooler, really good chip. One of my faverites.
 
AMD Thunderbird 1400: raw beast :D
Q6600: allround
E2160: value for money

Can't we make a poll on the forum? Like... a real poll where you can click to vote ;)

And all of the procs need to be in there :P anyone wanna make the list? :p
 
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Most *interesting* choice for me right now is the Pentium D 805 overclocked to 3.9Ghz :D

It was also my first dual core chip, and have never looked back from multicore computing since.
 
Vir said:
AMD Thunderbird 1400: raw beast :D
Q6600: allround
E2160: value for money

Can't we make a poll on the forum? Like... a real poll where you can click to vote ;)

And all of the procs need to be in there :P anyone wanna make the list? :p
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God mate, the T-bird 1400 ran so hot it was insane, I had one at like 85C before @ stock, think I got it to 1800 or so on good air cooling though bey.
 
xmrb2003x said:
So all the Q6600 fanboys don't think the i7 is worth the money? I must admit what's the point of having extra cores if they're not used in games?
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It's (i7) a faster desktop platform and if you are heavily into multitasking/encoding it is definitely worth it but the q6600 was well ahead of it's time and still holds it's own.

Fav chip was probably my Opteron 148 that went to 3.6ghz prime stable on only 1.5v and cost little.
 
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