what do you think is the best CPU thats been made?

something_totally_different · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:13

i.e. what's been the best to date in terms of value for money and longevity.

For my money its been the opteron 170 and the Q6600 which I am still running now with no real need for an upgrade as of yet.

ramped up to 3Ghz with a decent OS behind it and it just cuts through what ever I want it to do. I used to be an Intel hater... This one changed my mind.

PermaBanned · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:24

Intel 4004
ARM7TDMI
1000MHz Thunderbird

Gersen · 20 Sep 2009 at 22:46

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

gurusan · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:07

q6600 is pretty amazing in terms of longevity...

something_totally_different · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:27

gurusan said:
q6600 is pretty amazing in terms of longevity...

scored a good 7.2 out of 7.9 on win7 perf test too

Emlyn_Dewar · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:31

I was a fan of my Barton 2500+
For the price and the unlocked ways it was a winner.

Major_Knox · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:42

MOS Technology 6510

Dazzy_G · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:48

Emlyn_Dewar said:
I was a fan of my Barton 2500+
For the price and the unlocked ways it was a winner.

The 2500+ Barton was a great chip, gave me years of loyal usage

Hades · 20 Sep 2009 at 23:57

Barton 2500+ mobile. A quality chip

After that then maybe the Opteron 170 and the Q6600 as mentioned in the original post.

D1ngd0ng · 21 Sep 2009 at 00:08

486 lasted for donkeys years

Moeks · 21 Sep 2009 at 00:22

I would say the Core2 E/Q6600 chips are probably the 'best' with respect to value for money and longevity. The Barton 2500+ mobile runs it close though, as does the Mendocino Celeron 300A.

nbkpsycho · 21 Sep 2009 at 00:34

Best chip i owned was probebly my Opteron 146

something_totally_different · 21 Sep 2009 at 00:48

D1ngd0ng said:
486 lasted for donkeys years

eye this is True, although I cant say any particular one as I had boat loads,

I486 DX 33
I486 DX2 66
AMD 486 DX 120 and a 133! very rare chip now the 133, I sold it to a friend for a fiver about five years back and the cheeky ******* made it into a key ring

was in good working order too!

biuro74 · 21 Sep 2009 at 00:57

Motorola MC68000 and Transmeta Crusoe (CodeMorphing)

Hotwired · 21 Sep 2009 at 01:03

something_totally_different said:
Very rare chip now the 133, I sold it to a friend for a fiver about five years back and the cheeky ******* made it into a key ring was in good working order too!

something_totally_different · 21 Sep 2009 at 01:56

Major_Knox said:
MOS Technology 6510

biuro74 said:
Motorola MC68000 and Transmeta Crusoe (CodeMorphing)

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.

setter · 21 Sep 2009 at 02:36

Either the E6600 OR THE Q6600, particularly the quad. got a stable 3.8ghz from mine at nice temps, i miss that cpu.

something_totally_different · 21 Sep 2009 at 03:03

setter said:
Either the E6600 OR THE Q6600, particularly the quad. got a stable 3.8ghz from mine at nice temps, i miss that cpu.

at 3.8Ghz I would imagine there isnt much on the market thats capable of processing that much faster if at all than it at their respective stock speeds, why did you get wrid ? :confused:

setter · 21 Sep 2009 at 03:06

I fancied a new toy, got a q9550, 3.8ghz with ease, sold it and going i7, i like tweaking things

siumatfung · 21 Sep 2009 at 04:06

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