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Your fave/least fave CPU range/architecture in history

Fave: Socket 7/Super Socket 7, the last great CPU race before it became just AMD/Intel. Originally devised for the Pentium it also hosted AMD's K5/K6/K6-II/K6-III Processors along with Cyrix/IDT/IBM CPU's and more, amazing choice and lasted forever and the final K6-III when OC'd could rival a PIII :O

Least fave: Socket 423, the launch Socket for the Pentium 4, it was replaced by 478 very quickly, none of the 423 P4's could keep up with an OC'd PIII and half of them couldn't keep up with a stock one.

*Edit: yeah thought the thread was about Socket architecture lol

Fave CPU range: Original Athlon (cos cartridge processors r teh sex)

Least fave: Pentium 50/66 less than half the speed of an AMD 486-120/130, yet 2-3x the price, lulwat?
 
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I loved the Athlon FX-55 but the worst processor I've owned was the first Phenom x4 it was godawful compared to the intel I changed to a month later.
 
The Athlon XP-M or Intel Q6600 probably top mine. I had the XPM which at stock was something like 1.8GHz at stock I got up to 2.5GHz on air completely stable and could even get it to post at 2.8GHz, amazing value for money.
I had this on the awesome KT7a Raid board and later moved it to a micro ATX motherboard and had to do the wire mod (remember that?) to get it back at 2.5GHz, completely stable.

The Q6600 I have at 3.6 currently although I have had it at 3.8, great chip and still no huge reason to upgrade to anything newer.

Biggest dissapointment were probably the early pentium 4s that were signifficanly slower than the previous generation.
 
SirCanealot said:
eg the 1.2ghz Scorpion vs dual core A9 1.2ghz (eg, HTC Sensation VS Galaxy S2). Unfortunately it's still being used today too, even though it's based on a very old chip ¬_¬
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HTC messed up the original Sensation. It was way off the pace with bloated software, rubbish drivers and poor memory(?) Unfortunately those benchmarks stuck around and ruined HTC that year :D
Check out results from optimised devices, like the US Galaxy S2/Note variants that use the S3 or the Xperia S etc.
The S3 is still a great SoC and there's plenty of areas where Scorpion is better than Cortex A9, like the SIMD. Don't forget it was the first fully asynchronous symmetric multiprocessing chip, I think that includes Intel/AMD too :cool:
 
+ = Opteron 144. Overclocked from 1.8ghz to 2.8ghz. Gotta be about 8 years old and still running as a main PC today (on the GF's daughter's PC).

- = None, I've always been careful with CPU selection. However, the Delta Screamer on my AMD Thunderbird could be heard downstairs :)
 
Never forget my P4 3.2GHz on the P4C800-E Deluxe. First build. Always my fave!
Also love my Q6600 I have right now because I got it on ebay for nothing and it's still going strong. When I sell it I will get my money back. Just like my e5200 before hand (great value chip that was).

My least favourite would have the be them poncy 1.6GHz things you find in netbooks.
 
Fave: Q6600.. I think everyone will know why.

Least fave: I guess that would be S775 Celeron chips. Ran hot and dog slow, just plain awful.
 
I can't decide between my q6600 @ 3.6ghz or my current 1055T @ 4ghz both cost under £100 so both were excellent value for money and I have had great fun with both.
I also loved my Amiga 1200 Expansion Boards clock speed double 68020 (old school and proud ;) )

Worst for me was probably my p150 as it would only OC to 166mhz - I really tried to get it to 200mhz (and probably could now having more experience OCing).

My best upgrade though was a £99 Voodoo 1 card seeing Quake GL for the 1st time was jaw dropping.
 
Best: Probably the Barton Athlon XP, the best value chip around at the time. Small adjustment in the bios and you'd managed to gain a large amount of performance.

Worst: Toss-up between Williamette or Prescott Pentium 4... Ugh.
 
Fave: i7 920 nehalem, 2.66ghz can do 4ghz without too much fuss, 4 core 8 thread!! What a beast... Todays sandy bridge chips are better but i think it will take an affordable hexacore or octacore from intel to bring back the wow feeling i got from the i7 920.

runner up: PII 333mhz P6, lasted me a long time, played many a great game on that pentium 2, epic little chip, looks a bit like a game cartridge too.

Least fave: P4 1.7ghz netburst (willamette). I never knew it at the time but PC world ripped me off something bad with this PC, there was a cheaper pc next to it with some AMD thing, it was only 1.4ghz though so i went with the more expensive P4 with the bigger mhz number :rolleyes: I now know that AMD was probably a thunderbird and wouldve been a much better buy, ah well c'est la vie.

runner up: Opteron 170 K8? It was okay i guess but mine couldnt overclock fr squat, everyone else was "2.8ghz wheeee" and i struggled to get it from 2.0 to 2.4 :mad:That rig was never really stable anyway, it always had issues.
 
Favourite: Q9400. It's not got the best clocks (3.4GHz from 2.66) but it's been a solid workhorse that's lasted while pretty much everything around it has kicked the bucket.

For the bin: Sempron (Palermo E6). This was not my choice of CPUs to start. I was 15 and asked my dad for a 64 bit chip and board. What I got was something that felt like I'd taken a massive step back.

One That Got Away: The S939 Opterons. I'd heard of people getting stupidly high clocks on them and wanted to try one. Sadly because of the Sempron I only had a S754 board and no money to replace it.
 
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