I'm surprised no one has mentioned the p4s wich hit 4.5ghz but yeh q6600 and 2500barton all time greats wander if the i5 wil b around long enough to make a namefor itself


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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the p4s wich hit 4.5ghz but yeh q6600 and 2500barton all time greats wander if the i5 wil b around long enough to make a namefor itself
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the p4s wich hit 4.5ghz
hmmm... maybe I should have stipulated "from the modern desktop PC era" that would avoid the mention of basic function carp from the 70`s.
First proper Celeron (Mendocino) was a mental little overclocker, cheap and could out perform the fastest stuff you could buy at the time once it was OC'ed.
Had a dual Voodoo 2 12Mb rig back then - happy days![]()
I sold it to a friend for a fiver about five years back and the cheeky ******* made it into a key ringwas in good working order too!
"what do you think is the best CPU thats been made?"
AMD Athlon X2 - The First dual core CPU brought SMP to the masses, and changed the CPU market forever.
Windows, overnight, became a smooth, worthwhile operating system experience. Even though we didnt have much multi-threaded software (and still dont) at the time, Windows background processes and multi-tasking just became feasible overnight for those that never had a dual chip system.