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What was the best CPU for overclocking of all time?

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!
 
Trying to remember which motherboard i had with my Q6600, think it was this one Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R, which could take ddr2 or ddr3.
Had my 2500K in Asus p67 something??? Sold that in the MM i seem to remember.
 
I have had a Q6600 rattling about in a drawer for years,
I have just taken it out, plugged it into an old Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R motherboard, added a dash of Crucial Ballistix DDR2 and it powered up.
These things were bullet proof !!
 
2500K for me as even with a DDR2/DDR3 hybrid motherboard to help with the move to DDR3 I was able to overclock it though not as much of when I fully moved to a DDR3 platform.

Seems the best overclocking times where the single core to quad core days though shout out to my 8700K that was able to run at 5ghz but I settled with 4.8ghz as it ran abit cooler.
 
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Fond memories of doing a pencil/led/tape mod to short/blank out the pins on my Q6600 to give it a big overclock as the motherboard I had didn't allow over clocking.

Then my 2500k, 2700k and 4970k were good over clockers too.
 
If we are talking in percentages then 100% overclock.

486 DX 33 running at 66 MHz :D The Motheboard supported 33 and 66 MHz chips, I accidently put the jumper on the wrong pins, it booted and ran like that until i moved on. This is what started my interest in overclocking.

next best percentage wise iirc was a Pentium 4 2GHz running at 3.2 Ghz
 
I remember the Bartons, we all had them back at uni and the overclocking then was wild, those things were as tough as bricks people were copying toms hardware back then, stacking copper coins on the CPU to try and passively cool it, or cook eggs in tinfoil. I think I had a i7 2600k which overclocked well and then my last CPU was a 8700k which was 5ghz stable but i ran at 4.9Ghz its entire life until just recently upgrading.

Sad that OCing is dead these days, i only just learned that after being away from the hardware scene for like 3-4 years :(
 
The old Celeron 300 could clock upto 600Mhz in some cases so a 100% overclock, I had a Celeron 400 running at 550Mhz. The late '90s and early '00s were great for overlclocking.
 
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. It is weird to see Intel floundering and how meh some of the products have been since.
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I had the server ivybridge 6 core and it was amazing. Shame I scratched the memory paths on the motherboard taking my water block off, it forced an upgrade to x99 which was OK, but the x79 and Samsung green still had a load of life left in it
 
C300a for me, I seem to remember that it could also be put into some dual cpu motherboards also for some cheap multi core goodness. Barton 2500 that just needed a bios setting change to make it a 3200 was also great. Having said that my old dx2 66 happily sat at 100mhz
 
G J said:
2500K for me as even with a DDR2/DDR3 hybrid motherboard to help with the move to DDR3 I was able to overclock it though not as much of when I fully moved to a DDR3 platform.

Seems the best overclocking times where the single core to quad core days though shout out to my 8700K that was able to run at 5ghz but I settled with 4.8ghz as it ran abit cooler.
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Wait...What?? - I bought a 2500k at launch and it was DDR3 only... even c2d/q was between DDR2/3 (I had a p35 which was DDR2, but also have a DDR3 X48 sat around)
 
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