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Greatest CPU of all time ? what gets your vote?

Mr. May said:
rock solid cpu can get them now days for £2.50 !!!
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I'd like to know where...

I was trying to get hold of one to replace my Diego that had gone pop a couple of months ago. Had to settle for a 3500 'cos the Diego 3700's were going for silly money.

Please show me where to get hold of one for £2.50, I'd buy them all day at that price!
 
You are all picking x86 chips. What about the Zilog Z80 that started the whole home pc era or even 6502 (BBC, Apple 2 etc) or the Acorn Risc fitted to a huge number of mobile phones in it's later low power forms.

Me, I vote for the Acorn Risc. I wrote my final year project on it back in 1990 and hand coding machine code to carry out FFTs was a joy on such an innovative chip.

Me - a nerd - never :-)
 
My Athlon 1800! Probably sat in the spare parts draw at Nottingham Trent Uni now because my dad gave the guy the ok to swap it for an opteron a few years back, took my soundblaster out too :(
 
286 8MHz with a TURBO button on the front of the case. ***.

In all seriousness, stuff that actually demonstated notable performance improvements when booting in the bum?

  • Intel Celeron 300A
  • AMD Athlon XP1700 (Thoroughbred B)
  • Pentium 4C 2.4/2.8GHz
  • AMD Athlon XP2500 (barton/Mobile cores)
  • AMD Athlon 64 3700 (San Diego)
  • Intel Core 2 Duo 6400

There are others that overclocked to high GHz-age, but I think the ones above are those which actually made performance in specific, everyday applications and games better in ways which non-benchmarkers would notice when overclocked.

If you butcher a Q6600 or E8400, there is more performance, but almost every app or game will work very well without overclocking. Once the adequacy threshold for a generation is breached, overclocking makes very little difference for 99% of people, even 90% of overclockers.
 
Rusty_Noob said:
AMD 64 Sckt 939 3000+ Winchester. Bargain chip which regularly clocked up to 3ghz.
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The Winchesters had a real weak mem controller, the later Venice core were the high clocker replacement.
I had a 3200+ winny, although a great performing processor and worthy replacement to my old XP-M 2600+ it was just useless at overclocking!

The Venice and San Diego based x64 single cores were significantly better at overclocking!
 
What were those chips that were not made by intel or amd, i'm sure they were called winFX or summit. They were dirt cheap compared to intel/AMD and cam in 233mhz and 266mhz.

I cant remember the name :/
 
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