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Your best CPU's over the years?

AMD Opteron 185 - still have.
Q6600 - still have.
PII 960T - still have.

Really loving my current 4790k as well. Not overclocked it yet, think it will be with me for a while:)
 
My 2500k @ 4.6ghz bought Sep 2011 (Thanks to Overclockers) is still ripping apart pretty much anything.

Got an e6750 still doing a great job in my htpc
 
I really like the Xeon X5460 (i'm using it now).

I have an ASRock P5B-DE which has a 775 socket. I ran a Q6600 that is also a good processor in it's own right. However, after doing the 775 to 771 mod, modifying the BIOS and installing an X5460 the computer was so much better. The biggest difference was the lower heat, and it loaded the DOTA2 map much better.

I'm looking for a Xeon to put in my new computer build.

It only cost £24 too (£26 if you include the stickers).

EDIT: I just noticed the person above me recommended the Q6600. I was using it until last year. Even without overclocking, it ran Assassins Creed IV. That game was locked to 29 fps though.
 
My current i5 2500k. I just can't find a good reason to upgrade like many others on here. I'd like to try my current setup at 120Hz+ to see how it copes but currently has no problem with BF4.
 
The best has to be an old FCPGA Celeron 366 SL36C which did 605MHz in an Abit BP6 and eventually 682MHz at 2.3v with an alpha heatsink and 50w peltier. This was at a time when the P3 had just come out and was over £600 if I remember correctly, yet I paid under £80 for the chip and got better performance! It was awesome with SLi Voodoo 2s.

All my other chips:

AMD 486DX2-50 @ 66MHz
P166MMX @ 233MHz
AMD K6-2-350 @ 380MHz (this was total rubbish but a big upgrade from the Pentium)
Celeron 433 @ 650
Intel P3 700 @ 1050MHz
Celeron 600 @ 900
Duron 650 @ 1100MHz (this was another great chip)
Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1700MHz (very hot)
P4 2.4B 2.4 @ 3.2GHz
P4 2.4C 2.4 @ 3.6GHz (another good chip)
Core 2 E6600 2.4 @ 3.6GHz
i7 930 2.8 @ 4.0GHz
Xeon 5650 2.66 @ 4.4GHz (cost £60 and beats my i7 4770K at encoding)
i7 4770K @ 4.5GHz

Quite a list looking back, but the majority overclocked very well.
 
Best CPUs that I've ever had were the AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1.4 GHz and my current Intel 2700k. Both were very fast when I bought them and continued to be so for a long time after. The 2700k especially has been a very worthwhile investment as it still runs everything with ease and there is nothing new in the same performance bracket that gives a significant improvement in performance
 
the three out of quite a few that stand out for me in the last 15 years;

:D loved my FX-57 fastest single thread cpu ever :D

E6600 was the biggest leap forward, great chip

and my current 4770k is great.
 
It would have to be my 1055T. Had it running at 4.2GHz for 5 years. Now at 3.9GHz. One of the best chips I've owned to date, thought it was pretty awesome that it only has a stock clock of 2.8GHz
 
I've only had it for about a month now, but I upgraded from the i5 3570K to the i7 3770K and was surprised and at how significant the drop in temps were and the CPU load.

I actually thought I'd done something wrong going from 99% on all four cores to 30- 40% load on each cores. I'm not complaining though.
 
Athlon 64 and my current i5 2500k.

The athlon was my first custom build and it certainly flew for its time, 64 bit tech!!

My i5 2500k has been faultless for 4 years suffering terrible abuse with over clocking experiments and still doesn't seem to be worth upgrading.
 
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