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Greatest CPU of all time ? what gets your vote?

I've had my aged e2160 since Sept 07 overclocked to 3 Ghz with ATI 4850 still does everything I need, still plays new games on high settings on 1680x1050, value for money or what!
 
MagicBoy said:
That's with an enormous dose of hintsight and a pinch of salt.

If they were that "p**s poor" then surely Intel would have been brought to their knees by a better alternative from a competitor.

Some variants were underwhelming such as the Socket 423. Northwood was excellent. Prescott and the later variants were showing the strain, but proved other beneficial technology such as the die shrink that helped develop the Core line.
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you, I, and every other bugger knows ful well intel didnt lose market share because they paid huge globs to prevent their customers switching to AMD from 2003 to 2006 when they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. they have just had to hand over £1Bn to AMD for anti competition practices and a few hundred mill to competition watchdogs in europe and japan for those practices during those years.

the P4`s were terrible next to AMD`s.
 
Well based on socket, i vote socket 775, If your Quad or duel breaks down all ye have to do is go buy a P4 3Ghz socket 775 for £17 on ebay hehe , and that will be a nice temp backup until you get all your nuggets saved up to go buy a newer model.

I vote Socket 775 not for best performer, but for the above reason. The P4 socket 478 was crap though, the AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.67Ghz was on power with that cpu but not the 3ghz one

Socket 775 gets my vote =0
 
I'm gonna be biased and say the e8400. Straight to 3.6GHz on stock volts, most hitting 4GHz easy. Only flaw is the tendency (reportedly) for them to degrade/die over 1.4+ volts. Makes 4GHz available to the budget builder or upgraders who can't buy a whole new mobo/cpu setup.
 
gt_junkie said:
From 1.8ghz to 3ghz on air using a DFI SLi-DR. :)
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Exact same board that I had matey :D

I had so much fun clocking it was beyond belief. Clocking the current range of chips is a doddle in comparison but I suppose thats a god thing.

I remember pairing my 165 up with an X800GTO2 and unlocking it to 16 pipes, ah the days :D

Sold the 165 last year for about £250 on feebay...great stuff..!!
 
Yeah I had a blast with my old 4400x2 and DFI nf4 ultra-d. Great fun clocking those :D Got 3.03GHz under water back when most were maxing out at 2.8-3ghz
 
Barton 2500

Never owned one.:(

But remember well that it was largely the reason I went AMD over Intel and reading about the overclocks peeps were getting was the catalyst for me getting involved in the 'dark art' :D

Would not wish to swap for my current Q9650 tho.;)
 
Any of those low end Athlon XP which overclocked into oblivion :)

I also have respect for the E6600, it overclocked easily on air to 3.9ghz and has served me well since it was released...3 years on and I still feel zero need to upgrade :D
 
Another vote for the good ol' Barton 2500.

Amazing chip, easily managed >3200+ speeds in my crappy SFF Shuttle :p

Probably the greatest overclocking chip I've owned, including a Sempron 3700, E2180, Q6600 and E8500.
 
Q6600, can handle anything you throw at it, havnt oc'd mine yet and can easily handle crysis
 
Barton XP-M 2500 (mobile) ... I'm still using one today. My media machine paired with a DXVA gfx card, it plays 1080p flawlessly.

Other pioneering chips...

- Athlon thunderbird

- C2D which blew the old architecture to bits.
 
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