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Greatest CPU of all time ? what gets your vote?

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XP1600+.... Great clocker, especially after being unlocked.
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I had an XP1600+ Pally AGOIA Y? too mate, but it could do 1800MHz stock was 1400 wasnt it? so overall it wasnt that great an overclocker unless you got much more with some extreme cooling!!
 
gawd ive had so many, yes the i7 ive had was the best performer, but best cpu ive owned is my current am3 x2 550 which unlocks all 4 cores and clocks so far to 3.6ghz not bad for under £70 other than that was an old amd xp1700 that did 2.7ghz on air from 1.4 on an abit nf7-s
 
My most memorable has to be Duron 800 it was the first I bought from OCUK before that I had only owned K6-2's which as people will know were quite bad for gaming.
 
I would have to say Celeron 300a mine did 558mhz which as 450 was the norm and 504 for the good ones, mine was a special from the states at the time.
My last dualcore E6300 was a fantastic clocker aswell 3.7ghz
 
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Celeron 300A I guess. Cost ~£60 and could be clocked to the speed of the fastest retail CPU (P2-450) or higher.

Chips like the Q6600 and i7-920 while great processors were not cheap, that's not to say I wouldn't have bought a Q6600 when they first dropped under £120 (before soaring in price) if I'd been in the market for a new PC though.
 
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I would have to say Celeron 300a mine did 558mhz which as 450 was the norm and 504 for the good ones, mine was a special from the states at the time.
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Either sad or impressive (I'll leave you to decide), but my very old Celeron 300 @ 450Mhz rig (which was my first own-build PC) is still going stong as my 24x7 download box. Apart from a couple of replacement hard drives over the years, an extra 512Mb RAM and an upgrade to WinXP it's exactly as it was originally built.

Not bad - a 50% overclock and still running perfectly 10 years later... :cool:
 
my 1st build, pentium 100 with 4mbt pc133 memory and a 15 g ibm hd(£100 bloody cheap at the time) 4mb voodoo1 and matrox mystique gpu = excellent game graphics for the time :P
the voodoo5 was quite nice too :P
 
Mr. May said:
try auction sites ive seen loads go no one wants single core cpus no more the 939 x2 are getting silly money though 4400 x2's going for £60 minimum and 939 opty 185's are £185 :eek: could get an i5 for that or i7 lol
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You'd get suprised.

People still use single cores for media/dl/server/office PC's and most good single core cpu's like A64 san diego's still go for around 15-20quid. If you're lucky you might get one for around 10 but that's hard to spot.

Some of the last single cores are still going strong and can even handle most games on lower settings : ).
 
i7 920 for me... Basically a chip that in my eyes is worth double what they are charging as 3.6 - 4GHZ is just so easy to achieve with it.
 
As it's more my era, the Mobile Bartons *QYHA (my IQYHA XP2600-M went to 2.84ghz under a Cathar WW and was prime stable :eek: ) or XP1700 JIHUB were great clockers. For a while now, the CPU hasn't been the limiting factor it previously was, and there are no cheap super clocking CPUs any more, just some that are better value than others.

In reality, it probably is something based on old architecture which is now used in all sorts of devices - such as the ARM.
 
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For longevity and way ahead of its time the E6600. But i'd also say the Barton 2500 some of these were amazing clockers.

But the E6600 edges it not many CPU's can still be up there with current CPU's after 4 years.
 
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