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What was the best CPU for overclocking of all time?

  • TBird - reconnecting the L1 bridges with a pencil felt incredibly nerdy - one of the few CPUs i've kept. Although, the hormonal Abit motherboard that tried to tame it never survived. The only piece of hardware i've ever snapped...
  • 6600 g0 stepping - coupled with 'Heath Robinson' cooling over the northbridge. Again, another CPU that I've kept.
  • 2500K - a monster of a CPU. 4.8Ghz and ran flawlessly until retired as a server. Although the Silver Arrow was a baptism of fire that i stuck on top of it. The Ivybridge that followed never even got a glance...
 
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Plec said:
The Ivybridge that followed never even got a glance...
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Some of the X79/2011 Ivybridge CPUs were crazy good - I'm pretty sure on a die shrink and with a few tweaks for modern features they'd give the current high end CPUs a run for the money. It is weird to see Intel floundering and how meh some of the products have been since.
 
Rroff said:
Some of the X79/2011 Ivybridge CPUs were crazy good - I'm pretty sure on a die shrink and with a few tweaks for modern features they'd give the current high end CPUs a run for the money.
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Agreed - the series x were impressive and they were on a smaller die (22nm after a google) - I, unfortunately, never got to play with any.

Rroff said:
It is weird to see Intel floundering and how meh some of the products have been since.
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Yes, especially when you remember where AMD were during that same period.

If 'necessity is the mother of invention' - then theoretically we should be overwhelmed soon... :/
 
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Probably my best CPU was a Celeron 366 which ran at 682MHz on an Abit BP6 with a 50w peltier and Alpha PAL heatsink, if anyone remembers those.

After that a few notable ones were a P3-700 @ 1050MHz, Duron 600 @ 1000MHz, P4 2.4C @ 3.6GHz, Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 @ 3.6GHz, i7 930 2.8 @ 4.2GHz and i7 5960x 3.0 @ 4.6GHz.

I also dropped in an Xeon x5650 2.66GHz CPU to replace the i7 930 and that ran at 4.42GHz - a 66% overclock and the CPU was £10. :)

I've still got a rare unlocked non-mobile Barton 2800+ that runs 2.4GHz with DDR400 CL2 in an NF7-S that I use as a Windows 98 retro rig.

Overclocking is no fun these days!
 
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