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***Fastest Single Core x86 CPU Ever Made***

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The single core time is almost over after lasting for years and still standing strong against newer dual-core CPU's around. Once a time you would pay a premium for dual-core, such as the 4400+ @ £333 when the 3700+ was just under £100. Who really needs dual-core just yet anyway, before we see any real benefit of dual-core let's see what the fastest and best single core cpu's were off all time.

I would say the AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 was the fastest and most popular was the 3700+ san diego

Other suggestions are welcome, will make a tally and put it on here to elect the winner for performance and a winner for most popular.

--Jonny
 
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How can you argue that FX-55 was the fastest single-core CPU when FX-57 and FX-59 were faster?

Most popular would have to be the Barton 2500, especially the mobile one.
 
The 3700+ was a great clocker and performed quite well.

As did the Opty 144...

also the pentium-m chips were quite good.

but dual core is starting to be used more and more...heck, just the Quake 4 performance difference alone was enough for me to upgrade since I play it so often...and it was well worth it! :D
 
Mattus said:
How can you argue that FX-55 was the fastest single-core CPU when FX-57 and FX-59 were faster?

Most popular would have to be the Barton 2500, especially the mobile one.
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because IMO the fx-57 wasn't much faster for the money, and the FX-55 can overclock to the same speeds easily, didn't know a FX-59 was ever made.
 
the fx-57 was the last one, not sure where the 59 comes from lol

after that it was all dual core i.e. fx-60

but my vote goes for the Sandy 4000+!
 
Will_3rd said:
the fx-57 was the last one, not sure where the 59 comes from lol

after that it was all dual core i.e. fx-60

but my vote goes for the Sandy 4000+!
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the 3700+ and 4000+ chips shared about the same limits.

both awesome chips...but price/performance 3700+ is the winner :p
 
Slenpree said:
because IMO the fx-57 wasn't much faster for the money, and the FX-55 can overclock to the same speeds easily, didn't know a FX-59 was ever made.
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Dosen't take the fact away that it WAS faster though ;) AMD don't make overclocked cpus.

Concorde Rules said:
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None of the AMD64s as I've had huge amounts of problems with the 64 platform :confused: :(
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You're in a minority there.


anyhow, is'nt there a single cored Core 2 based cpu coming sometime? or was this scrapped?
 
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Pretty sure the single core conroe's are still coming, with the pentium badge.

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Without a doubt the favourite single core/bang for buck platform was a tie between the Athlon 64 3000/3200 Venice and the 3700+ Sandiego.

Opteron's although a late entry did prove popular, but I can't say they proved quite as popular as the Venices and SanDiego's. Especially as prices of opterons became near enough the same or more expensive than their Athlon counterparts.

The Pentium M proved to be quicker clock for clock and quite a number opted into buying Asus 865P/875P based boards and the CT-479 adapter, but not particularly popular. Regardless heavily clocked Pentium M's were the quickest Single Cores.

If we're talking stock speeds (which is fairest imo), it'd definitely be the Athlon 64 FX57.

Mul
 
The last batch of 939 AMD 4000+ chips were most likely the fastest single core CPU's ever made when they were overclocked - over 3GHz on stock volts.

The FX-59 was never made.
 
I claim the opteron 156 though it's in short supply atm.

At 3.0Ghz on socket 939 and costing ~£400 in limited supply I'd speculate this is likely to be the fastest single core CPU released.

Most performance CPU's will be multi core so I doubt there will be any significant speed bumps.

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PS ... can't think of a reason to buy one!
 
Cyber-Mav said:
fastest single core cpu has to be dothan clock for clock.
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Agreed they are, stupidly fast once you got hold of a decent oc'ing mainboard.

As for the dual core argument, don't bother saying its useless, if you don't see the need for it fine but many others do, im one who benefits from the huge speed increase I have had in the software I use. :)
 
I spent months researching before building my PC and i come to the conclusion that the sweet spot were the 3200 venice or 3700 sandy.

This is because it diddnt break your bank to buy one. They can clock so easy to even beginners. And to this very day mine has never let me down with every single moden game ive played. :)
 
Camalot said:
I spent months researching before building my PC and i come to the conclusion that the sweet spot were the 3200 venice or 3700 sandy.

This is because it diddnt break your bank to buy one. They can clock so easy to even beginners. And to this very day mine has never let me down with every single moden game ive played. :)
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agreed. :) owned both chips and they were great.

However my crap venice didn't OC past 2.4 yet it was still a great little chip..and my sandy did almost 2.9 on air.
 
In terms of pure performance the FX 57 was totally insane... Fastest single core ever....

I dont see why anyone would buy a single core Core 2...
What is the point when you could get a dual core or quad core one?
 
I win!

Come on you lot, think outside the box...

A C2D clocked at 4Ghz with one of the cores disabled in bios. ;)
 
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