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

eddiew · 29 Sep 2009 at 07:54

Lol, my current E4300. Stocked 1.8, it's been running at 2.67 at mad high temps for 2.5 years! Does 3GHz if volted until it makes a heat haze at the exhaust fan

Athlon 1700 gave me some good times too - not too hot, plenty of power for it's day.

DeadMan · 29 Sep 2009 at 08:32

Has to be the Celery 333, overclocked to 550 in seconds and you could get two of them on an Abit BP6.

rancid_elf · 29 Sep 2009 at 16:13

Motorola 68020

back in 80's this lasted me years

Arthalen · 29 Sep 2009 at 16:17

rancid_elf said:
Motorola 68020 back in 80's this lasted me years

As an amiga 1200 owner back in the day, I can understand your appreciation for this CPU

That was until I got a blizzard 68030 50mhz accelerator with 68882 FPU chip

FreeStream · 29 Sep 2009 at 17:04

XP-M 2500! Barton.

2.6ghz, legend chip.

elpedro · 29 Sep 2009 at 17:19

Q6600, it opened the world of 4 cores to mainstream and enthusiasts as it was cheap enough and had amazing overclocking potential.

At 3.6GHz I'm getting 7.4 out of 7.9 on Windows 7 - the chip only cost me £110 in June 2008 and is still up there with the best at that speed

michael baxter · 29 Sep 2009 at 17:36

If non-PC CPUs can be included, then it would surely have to be the 68000

If PC only, then I would go with the influential 8086 or maybe the 8088 version as fitted to the first IBM PC.

OrphanBoy · 29 Sep 2009 at 18:46

Arthalen said:
As an amiga 1200 owner back in the day, I can understand your appreciation for this CPU

That was until I got a blizzard 68030 50mhz accelerator with 68882 FPU chip

Haha, another fan! I remember doing a paper round for years saving up money for a Phase5 68040/603e + Cybervision and the day I ordered it, the company went bust! Did you ever play Quake on that machine? I played the game on xmas day on my '030 at ~3 fps and being in AWE

HangTime · 29 Sep 2009 at 22:10

Celeron 300A
Thunderbird 1ghz AXIA Y
Thoroughbred XP1700+
XP-M 2500+
Q6600

Only one of those I owned was the 300A.

Hooa · 29 Sep 2009 at 22:19

My little sandy 2.2ghz @2.8ghz (AMD 3700 1mb cache!)

Had that little bad boy through all my happiest gaming memories...BF2!

TALON1973 · 29 Sep 2009 at 22:46

i'd have to say data's POZATRONIC brain

eddiew · 30 Sep 2009 at 08:45

Arthalen said:
That was until I got a blizzard 68030 50mhz accelerator with 68882 FPU chip

Ooo, I used to have one of those... I remember running Frontier Elite II on high details for the first time - thought it was the best graphics in the world!

Lanz · 30 Sep 2009 at 08:52

HangTime said:
Celeron 300A
Thunderbird 1ghz AXIA Y
Thoroughbred XP1700+
XP-M 2500+
Q6600

Only one of those I owned was the 300A.

I've owned all of them apart from the Q6600. I'll also add the Northwood P4 1.8A to that list.

Before them, I would say the Pentium 166mmx (That I used to run at +250mhz)

Then AMD 486DX100, that made my Wing Commander game run too quick!

And I also had one of those 486DX50, they were mega quick.

Justintime · 30 Sep 2009 at 11:48

HangTime said:
Celeron 300A
Thunderbird 1ghz AXIA Y
Thoroughbred XP1700+
XP-M 2500+
Q6600

Only one of those I owned was the 300A.

Owned all, also the 1.8A someone stated.

450Mhz
1.53Ghz
2.4Ghz
2.6Ghz
3.8Ghz
2.4Ghz

Great chips, my favourite is my Opteron 165 which i got to 2.85Ghz on stock and 3Ghz with a bump, sold that for 38 quid a few weeks ago

keybaud · 30 Sep 2009 at 17:02

DeadMan said:
Has to be the Celery 333, overclocked to 550 in seconds and you could get two of them on an Abit BP6.

I had mine (from Oc.uk) on a BP6 running at 550 MHz with a pair of RAIDed SCSI Barracudas. Damn, it was fast for 10 years ago!

EARNEST · 30 Sep 2009 at 21:18

Celeron 1700

Admetos · 30 Sep 2009 at 23:03

Cyrix M1 ranks high

HangTime · 1 Oct 2009 at 19:42

Justintime said:
Owned all, also the 1.8A someone stated.

I've got a P4 1.8A @ 2.7ghz still running at my dad's house for when I visit him. Decent overclock, but I think it is pretty hampered by the low FSB (only 600mhz even when clocked) relative to the later models.

PermaBanned · 1 Oct 2009 at 19:44

keybaud said:
I had mine (from Oc.uk) on a BP6 running at 550 MHz with a pair of RAIDed SCSI Barracudas. Damn, it was fast for 10 years ago!

10 years ago? Start of the decade we were breaking the 1GHz barrier as i remember. Seems like so long ago now...

Its_Me · 1 Oct 2009 at 20:27

Superewza said:
10 years ago? Start of the decade we were breaking the 1GHz barrier as i remember. Seems like so long ago now...

I got my PII333(Deschutes) and a Biotech(can't rem model) board around middle 1998 that I had runnign at a little over 500mhz. (tape mod for 100mhz bus).

Going from 333 with PC66 ram to 500mhz with PC100 was massive power increase back then, I rem been jealous a few months later watching the celeron's beating the crap out of my PII !

So time wise its about right.