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Greatest CPU of all time ? what gets your vote?

hhmm i vote AMD FX-57 was a lovely chip lasted me right up untill the q6600 came out.

although the Q6600 was and is great, it dosent quite overclock like the i5 750 which will go to 4.5ghz on air:D
 
Going by the OP's criteria you can't really argue against Q6600 but looking forward I'd say i7 920 will replace it soon enough, it's been around just over a year now and still can't be touched by anything when overclocked to 3.8-4ghz which is easily done.

I expect all we'll get in the next few years is slower clocked versions of it just with more (totally un-necessary) cores, so it should be good for a long while yet.
 
Hades said:
Athlon 64 and A64 X2 spanked Intels bottom for a long time.
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Spanked? I think not. Intel still sold a hell of a lot a Netburst chips. Yes, they were less power efficient and did less per clock than the AMD competition when the Athlon 64 based chips arrived but it doesn't mean they were terrible. Intel had the sense to keep the P4 ticking over whilst running a parallel project to go back to the drawing board and dump Netburst.

The result - AMD have lost a lot of ground since the Core arrived.

Core was essentially a development of the P3 mobile chip if I recall.
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Only in the same way that the P3 mobile is a development of the Pentium Pro or that your a development of your great grandmother!

Pentium M was essentially the core of the Tualatin P3 grafted with the bus interface, decoding/branch prediction and multimedia bits from the P4 (ie the good stuff).

The Yonah type Core chips were the next step from the Pentium M and went dual core with some further architectural improvements.
 
The Kentfeild Quad 6600 a fifty% OC is my favourite until i can afford i7 is goint to be my next CPU hopefully in the new year sometime, cant wait:)
 
Thread is ambiguious in what it asks but i'm guessing it means in our own experience. I went from p2>p4>amd64>c2d>c2q>i7 best fun i had was my kab1e 4000+ amd64 on my dfi nf4 sl-dr. Overclocking seems easy now by comparison, that board was amazing and kept me entertained for ages.
 
Cely 300A.
At the time it was a legend, even more so now IMO. Its probably the starting point for "Overclocking" to become common place among PC fanatics.
 
ManCuBuS said:
Always had a soft spot for my old Opteron 165..
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Me too - but you did need a nice motherboard to get them clocked properly.

From 1.8ghz to 3ghz on air using a DFI SLi-DR. :)

Probably the next best chips were either the e2160 (had a 100% overclocker) or the G0 q6600 - not ever used one but the amount of praise speaks for itself.

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First overclock I did was a 486sx 20mhz to 25mhz.

But then it corrupted my disk due to the pci being out of spec and I lost everything.

The question really should be what cpu offered the greatest performance boost due to overclocking. From personal experience, I'd say the first one was my
P166mmx @ 250mhz,
then Celeron 300A
then Athlon AXIA 1Ghz
then P4 1.8A
lastly Core2 6300 @3Ghz

All these people saying modern chips like Q6600, they are great cpus, but they were also great performance at stock. Ideally, we want lists of crap CPUs that become great due to overclocking :)
 
GolfBryan said:
I don't get the whole Q6600 greatest CPU of all time thing.

I had a 300A which was great, one of my fav's.
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The Q6600 has been out nearly 3 years and still performs with the best of 'em...and I expect it will continue to do so for another few years.
 
I'll say the E5200, in terms of value and overclocking it's got to be pretty high up.
2.5Ghz stock, and most will get to 3.6 - 3.8 no problems. If your lucky you'll get one that happily gets to 4Ghz, all for £50!
 
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