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Your best CPU's over the years?

My 3770k, struck it lucky and bought a golden sample :)

5GHz @ 1.28v - 5.1GHz @ 1.328v. Have had a search around various forums and I'm yet to see one as good.

Best CPU I have ever owned by miles and miles.
 
Q6600 G9 and i7 920.

My dad still runs my old Q6600 @ 3.6ghz and my 920 @ 4.2ghz was replaced by a hex Xeon X5670 @ 4.5ghz.

Irony is that GTA5 and Crysis on the Xeon seem to run just as well as on the latest and greatest with a pair of 970s.
 
I'd go with...

AMD-K62 400 - Had this at 450Mhz and was my first overclock, not a bad increase.

Mobile Athlon XP 2500+ - 2.5Ghz on air, completely stable

Q6600 - Ran for years at 3850MHz, a great chip
 
Throughbred XP1700+ socket A single core overclocking gold.

486 DX33 -> 486 DX2-80 substantial inprovement over my 286 :)
 
Reading this thread brings back fond memories.
My landmark cpus:
Athlon T-bird 1ghz - my 1st gigahertz cpu
barton 2500+ - mobile processor in a desktop, why can't they do this nowadays? This was the start of overclocking for me
E6300 - 1st dual core, and very overclockable
i7 920 - 1st quad core, still very potent and I don't think quad cores have moved that much since in comparison to other cpu's.
 
I've just replaced my 2600k as it was starting to flake out.

I needed my own dedicated power station to give it the juice it needed to be stable.
 
Opteron 180 was an awesome CPU with my ATI 5850s, the CPU that gave me the biggest leap in performance is my current i7 4790k from my i5 750.
 
Duron 650, sat at 866Mhz, back when overclocking meant painting on your CPU and physically moving jumpers on the mobo :D

Pentium 4 1.6A that with a couple of settings changes ran at 2.4GHz all day long, bargain.

Barton 2500+ mental CPU's with insane OC's.

E6300 another bargain Intel CPU that could OC like a monster.

Q6600 G0 first proper good mainstream quad core, was the core of many a PC for a long time.

i3 530, cool running, beasty overclocking, low power CPU.
 
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800

Intel q9550 - Had it at 3.8 for all its life until I sold it.

i7 3930k that I'm using now and I think it'll do me a good number of years to come :)
 
286 12 Mhz. The first PC I overclocked. Was a very quick machine for the time.

486DX2 66Mhz. At the time, an absolute beast.

AMD K5 75MHz. Wasn't great as such but I have a lot of good memories using that chip.

AMD Athlon. The original cheap and powerful beast.

Q6600 G0. Great overclocker, and really showed me how multiple cores improve system availability/stability and useability.

2500k without a shadow of a doubt the best CPU I've ever owned.
 
Athlon first 1ghz cpu and i7 920 are the two that spring to mind. I also liked my DX4-120
 
Easily the AMD Athlon XP 3200+. Got it from an etailer as an apology for messing up two previous orders. They sent me the wrong CPU and motherboard first, then the wrong CPU and the right motherboard second. Was about to lose my rag completely but got an email from the owner, they'd realised the mistake after someone else had complained. Awesome upgrade to what I had (PIII IIRC) and lasted ages, even at a time when there were real performance gains every generation
 
Nasher said:
I think the 2600k might be the first CPU where we will find out how long overclocked CPUs actually last :D
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i cant find any root cause analysis as to why a moderate temperature increase would affect lifespan of a cpu...im working on the assumption it is an old wives tale...at least i hope so..my q6600 is still going..
 
I went from Athlon XP2500+ -> Q6600 -> i7 920 -> i7 3770k

The last upgrade wasn't really needed, I was just getting a little bored. The first three were all fantastic processors.
 
Built my first pc using an Intel e2160. Fabulous little dual core that happily oc'd from 1.6ghz to 3.2ghz with no effort. Would even do 3.6ghz but the voltage required was borderline insane.

Moved to a q6600 after that. Awesome chip as you're all aware of.

My favourite cpu though has to be my next upgrade from the q6600, i7 860. This chip was an absolute brute, happily ran at 4.2ghz 24/7 and ram @ 2200 c8. Had that system for 3 years, could honestly have stuck with it but I too like many on this forum suffer from upgradeitis :/.

That cpu would also bench @ 4.6ghz. Lynnefield was awesome.

Since then I've been using through 3570k and a few 4770k's. Not really been too impressed with them in all honesty. Fast cpus but not a great jump in performance.
 
My current Xeon 5650 has to be my best ever CPU. Only £69 for 4GHZ hex-core goodness (even better that it is in a free GA-EX58-UD5/Coolermaster Cosmos which I was given!). I can't see me needing to upgrade for years.
 
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