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Greatest CPU of all time ? what gets your vote?

Has to be the Q6600. Made Quad core computing affordable with great performace to boot, moreover it clocks like hell :D

Have a good old Celeron 333 as well which is a good chip, used that at one point for my retro rig that had 2xVoodoo 2 8MBs in SLI and a Rendition Verité V2200 4MB for the ultimate oldskool gaming experience :cool:
 
sempron 2600+
saw me through thick n thin. clocked to 2.25ghz on stock volts (motherboard would lock voltages for semprons. there was a mod involving soldering resistors on in various places, but i was too much of a pussy...). Could handle all the day to day things and some light gaming even running 7. vista sp1 had an interesting effect in that usage would hit 100% and stay there when i opened media player however...

im also gonna make a pitch for any die harvested sempron/athlon/phenom. £76 dual core = £149 quad. what more can i say?
 
Wow, So very little love for the Opteron in this thread?

An opteron 146 @ 3ghz, Im pretty sure it's the definitive single core solution even now.

An opteron 165 @ 2.6ghz+ can still hold its own against an E6600

I would have expected more votes for the above.

Ohwell, Mine goes to my faithful Opteron 146, But a close second is the XP2500m that overclocked to 3200 spec and above :D
 
In terms of the E6600 being way ahead of its time the performance boost was likely to come but it marked Intel's comeback and blew everything else out of the water like the Athlon FX60 which was incredible. And to still be up here with the duals of today (and oc well) is amazing. Still a good chip.

Same for the q6600 in the longevity stakes, and in terms of making quads affordable.

Iconic cpu's of the socket 775 era imo

P.S. also liked my Athlon 64 3500+ as a single core bad boy, but the Opty's owned s939. Awesome cpu's although i never had one.
 
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If they unlocked consistently, I would go for my current CPU - Athlon X2 5000+ 2.2GHz (45nm), running at Phenom FX-5000 x4 3.3GHz. Surely one of the biggest improvements from stock on a cheap CPU ever. I've heard of some people clocking them to 3.8GHz.

Having said that - the unlocking has been hit and miss for different people. I'll go for Barton 2500+ Mobile.
 
This is an easy one...

Pentium Pro back in the 90's

All chips from Pentium M, Core 2 duo onwards use the core structor of the Pentium Pro. Intel diched newer tech a few years back in favour for it.
 
It has to be the Opty 146 - Mine cost a little over £100 and was the best bang-for-buck at it's time and very probably of all time. This is why at the height of "optymania" the best stepping ones were changing hands for £200-250:eek:
 
Hmmm, i'd say:

the Pentium M series, which paved the way for the Core Architecture while simultaneously redefining battery life expectations for laptops.
also, the Q6600 which came out three years ago and still provides all the processing power you could ask for.
 
The i5 750 is an amazing chip. Overclocks like a beast and is also cool running. I've only had it for a month though, and therefore my vote is going to have to go for my old chip, the Intel Dual Core E2160. It cost me 30 quid in early '08 and paired with a 40 quid P31 motherboard, it ran 100% stable for 2 years at 3.0ghz which is a 1.2ghz gain on stock speed on LESS than stock volts. What a chip :D
 
ghop said:
The i5 750 is an amazing chip. Overclocks like a beast and is also cool running. I've only had it for a month though, and therefore my vote is going to have to go for my old chip, the Intel Dual Core E2160. It cost me 30 quid in early '08 and paired with a 40 quid P31 motherboard, it ran 100% stable for 2 years at 3.0ghz which is a 1.2ghz gain on stock speed on LESS than stock volts. What a chip :D
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E2140/E2160 were good chips but ANY C2D will 3.0GHz.
 
AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (or any of the other variants), S939 versions. Completely laid the smackdown on Intel at the time, proper dual core and massively overclockable. I still use my 3800+ in my mums PC, still running perfectly.
 
wannabedamned said:
Wow, So very little love for the Opteron in this thread?

An opteron 146 @ 3ghz, Im pretty sure it's the definitive single core solution even now.

An opteron 165 @ 2.6ghz+ can still hold its own against an E6600

I would have expected more votes for the above.

Ohwell, Mine goes to my faithful Opteron 146, But a close second is the XP2500m that overclocked to 3200 spec and above :D
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Indeed :confused:

I had a 3.0ghz Opty 165 and loved it, especially since I sold it for about double what I paid.

Great chip and had loadsa fun getting it up to the golden 3.0ghz mark. These Core 2 & Core quad chips are just too easy to clock and not even half the fun of the Opty.
 
Hamoodii said:
E2140/E2160 were good chips but ANY C2D will 3.0GHz.
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I know, but on less than stock volts, probably not :p I was running it at 1.2v for a while and the stock volts were 1.325, and considering I was running it a hell of a lot faster than stock, I was very impressed with the chip.
 
I would just nominate core 2 duo whether that be e6600 6300 6400 6420 6750 6850 they are all good.
Bartons were great too had one myself and still have one running strong on the pc downstairs, but the core 2 duo was like woah I can overclock this fine even on stock cooling and feel safe.Imo core 2 duo was the very first noob friendly overclocking chip and probably has got a lot of people overclocking that never had before.
 
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