Greatest CPU of all time ? what gets your vote?

Locky · 7 Dec 2009 at 15:27

Q6600 for me.

robcat101 · 7 Dec 2009 at 15:29

Is there no love for the E6400? Mine ran cooly and reliably @3.2 24/7.

clocka · 7 Dec 2009 at 15:35

e6400 was good, had mine @ 3.8ghz. But encoding appz are multithreaded now so quad core is the only way for x264 encoding. Bring on the 6core goodness, in 2-3yrs intel might have them at a decent price.

IamMed · 7 Dec 2009 at 15:55

Notable ones for me:

IQYHA XP2500-M (1.8ghz clocked to 2.9ghz)
A64 3200 0448 SPAW (2ghz clocked to 2.96ghz)
E4300. (1.8ghz clocked to 3.5ghz)

Hard for me to choose a best one from them tbh.

spleenharvester · 7 Dec 2009 at 16:12

Pentium M defo, my 2.26ghz/2gb NX6110 beats my setup.

conscarcdr · 7 Dec 2009 at 17:54

How about Duron 750?

setter · 7 Dec 2009 at 17:58

For me it has to be the Q6600, 3.8ghz from one on air cooling.

bru · 7 Dec 2009 at 19:11

you want longevity, i give you the zilog Z80 introduced in july 1976 and still used today in many embeded devices

zovirax · 7 Dec 2009 at 20:35

xp1700 tbred b

or

2500+ barton mobile

zovirax · 7 Dec 2009 at 20:36

domthecondom said:
Either my Athlon 3500+ or my Intel E6850

Unless you can count that i heard the Q6600 is very good

I hold the world record on air cooling for a 3500+ venice. 3280MHz. Ive also got a E6850 have had it to 4104MHz on a TRUE HSF.

PermaBanned · 7 Dec 2009 at 20:43

Again, BMOW?

Pulse · 7 Dec 2009 at 20:48

JonJ678 said:
Wonder how many of us are just voting for the first chip we enjoyed overclocking.

Lies! My first overclocked chip was a AMD 64 3000+ 1.8GHz stock, overclocked to 2.8GHz

My Greatest cpu for me is my current Q9650 @ 4GHz, flies doing anything.

bells · 7 Dec 2009 at 21:19

e6600 or q6600

manbearpig · 7 Dec 2009 at 21:29

Pentium 4 2.5ghz, very good processor.

CK61938 · 7 Dec 2009 at 21:44

My first ever CPU that I overclocked was an AMD K6 400MHz...think it was a K6 II. I was experimenting at the time I got the CPU to hit 905MHz.

Mr Paul · 7 Dec 2009 at 21:48

Mr Paul · 7 Dec 2009 at 21:52

CK61938 said:
My first ever CPU that I overclocked was an AMD K6 400MHz...think it was a K6 II. I was experimenting at the time I got the CPU to hit 905MHz.

How? The K6-II ran on a 100Mhz bus (SS7) with a 4x multiplier, and the max multiplier was 6. So unless you were running the FSB at 150.8Mhz I'd say your pulling our plonker

zovirax · 7 Dec 2009 at 21:55

There is no way that is true.

It wouldnt get close.

For a start off the mobo would not allow such a high FSB to be set!

Phatzy · 7 Dec 2009 at 22:02

I'd would say the athlon 3000+ because it was my first ever cpu i bought

i think we should have a poll.

Corasik · 7 Dec 2009 at 23:54

Muel said:
No-one gonna say P4? Compared to the P3 that went before it was fairly revolutionary. In 2000 you got a 1ghz P3 and it was a massive change, yet in 2001 you could get a P4 which was 2ghz, which is a huge improvement in a year! And then in 2002 I think they went to about 3.8ghz with hyper-threading.

I'm also gonna say the AMD 965 BE, because I can.

To be honest P4 was a dog, and should never have been developed

. It had to run at 1.6ghz or faster just to keep up with a 1Ghz P3. In the end intel were forced to abandon the P4 altogether and go back to a P3 derived processor, called Core 2

.

Cant actually complain about P4 though, it taught intel how to make transistors that operate just fine at 4Ghz

, and we're reaping the benifits of that with our overclocked Core processors.

As for the topic, I have to say that my Pentium Pro (MMX) was one of my favorite chips, it performed really well, and I kept hold of it for quite a long time.