Fave CPU's you've owned of all time?

[WT]

Favorite - listed in order

300A with electrical tape on pin B21
e6600@3.6 by accident (first experience with Intel in 8 years. Set FSB @ wrong value but damned if it didn't load Windows !)

Least Favorite - I wouldn't have bought it if I didn't like it, but I guess my 3000+ S754 Clawhammer was a bit of a dud, as I couldn't OC it at all. Far from a dud, but running my HTPC it stutters on 720p.

 

[evident]

P3 450
AXP barton 2500+
A64 X2 4200 and E8400 since they both ran everything i threw at them.

didnt like:
P166 MMX - my first real computer, never was fast enough
socket 754 A64 3200+ random problems all the time w/ the chipset
Tbird 1.4 - too hot, axp 1600+ ok but chipset probs

 

[alpha88]

Opteron 165 (1.8ghz), been running at 2.7ghz for 3 years at stock voltage.

 

[WildW]

I had a pair of Nocona core P4 Xeons at 3GHz an an Asus board. . . built that system when the Athlon 64 X2's just started to appear, and at the time the pair of Xeons was slightly cheaper, lol. That machine with a 6800Ultra kicked bottom at running Battlefield 2 when it first came out. Although the Athlon 64 X2's had more flat out speed, those hyperthreaded Xeons gave me a 4-thread computer years before quad-cores appeared - they were far more responsive when running a bazillion apps at once than the Athlon X2 4200 machine that I built a year later. Sadly missed.

 

[habbakuk87]

E6600,did not know what high performance was before I bought it(had a shitty P4 before it).

 

[john3850]

Intel P1 Overdrive 200 on a P 75
500e@850 flip chip on a asus first build.
Thunderbird@1500 what a difference from aP3 800@900 slot1
Athlon64 3200+
opty 148 300fsb + xtpe fastest online gaming
E6600@3600

 

[GEOrifle]

Do you mean CPU's i paid for?
OK.
1. SONY VAIO Celeron 466 PC in 1999 year
2.SONY VAIO P4 3.06 GH HT 533 PC in 2003
3.Self build P4 3.4GH PRESCOT and still have, dreaming about future CPU for next year.

P.S. ...and have bunch P4 and P III and Celeron CPU's, some AMD also i guess 100 of it.
...My HOBBY you know.....

 

[soccerballtux]

Sempron 3100+ at 2.3Ghz (couldn't get mobo fsb higher).

It ran XP perfectly with 1.5GB of ram even with 8 PDFs open, tons of firefox tabs, Open office, music, everything all at once. Still felt fast.

 

[nubian1]

Here is my two cents. The first one listed has a special place in my heart even though I've owned a number of cpu's before this including a Pentium 1 150 that I remember paying $1500 just for the cpu, Motherboard & tower back in the day.

** 1) Celeron 300A (My introduction to overclocking! Ran at 500Mhz+ for years. Ran my home server until last year btw. My buddy still has one running his home server.)

2) Athlon XP 2500+ (First real move to an Amd Chip. Made me a believer at the time)
3) AMD Athlon64 3400+ (More overclocking experiments.)
4 Intel E8400 (My present cpu, replacing an E6420 @ 3.4ghz, & at 4.01Ghz with little effort, it puts a smile on my face.)

 

[hclarkjr]

here are my favs -
barton 2500 that over clocked to 3200 with ease, was my first experience at over clocking
my Q6600 that i have now, what a beast!!
FX-60
k6-2 400
athlon 1400

 

[Falloutboy]

CPU History:

Celly 566 @ 700 something (couldn't quite get 800 stable)
Duron 800 @ 1.0
Athlon 1700@1.6 (DOG of a CPU)
Athlon 2100@1.8 (another dog)
Athlon Barton Mobile @2.6 (forget which model I had but this thing was a rocket)
Opty 144 @ 2.7 (still in my HTPC very nice chip)
Athlon 64 4200 @ 2.5 (good 939 chip solid OC)
Athlon 64 BE-2400 @ 3.2 (currently in my main rig, best bang for buck I've had in a while)

 

[destey]

Favs:

-Athlon 750
-Celeron 300a
-Pentium 90

Loved the Dell ad back in ~1993 that had the Shark. What an aura that ad had


Least:

k6-2
Athlon xp2000

 

[Spoooon]

Favorite for overclocking was my old Athlon 550. It was just cool to have to pop the case open and plug in another device to overclock. None of this fancy "change multipliers in the BIOS" business.

 

[taltamir]

my current one, cause it is the fastest CPU I have ever owned... Screw nostalgia.

 

[Patrese]

I just had 3 PCs, but I used lots of processors in my life, so here are the ones marked my memory.

Favorites

My current Core2Duo E6750 - faster than I expected... and I had pretty high expectations!
Sempron 3300+ - a remarked 2,2GHz Athlon XP 3200+ FSB400, dirt cheap, undervolted to 1,45V from the 1,65V stock and still fast and stable. Loved it.
Athlon 64 3200+ S939 Venice core - very fast, very cool chip
Athlon X2 4200+ EE Brisbane core - dirt cheap, overclocks well and very cool in stock.
486DX4-100 - a friend of mine had one of those and I was totally amased by it at the time!


Hall of shame

K6-2 500 - maybe it's because of the lousy PC-Chips M598LMR (Sis530) it was in, but I found it awfully slow and unstable
Celeron D 2,6 GHz Prescott core - slow and loud space heater...
Sempron 2800+ AM2 - used that in an ex-girlfriend PC, and regretted not using S939 instead, because it'd be a cheaper and faster alternative at the time. But since she dumped me, I don't really care anymore...

 

[Kraeoss]

well it's all i have right now but my lil sempron 2800+ is chugging away @ 2.25 ghz a bit sluggish at times but i kicks a$$.

 

[T101]

My favorite CPUs would be;
Motorola 68000 (Amiga 500), Motorola 68030 (A1200 + Turbo card), AMD 5x86 (486 pin compatible CPU that gave pentium level performance, and overclocked from 133Mhz to 166Mhz was unbeatable for gaming in all games until Quake was released), then my Q6600 that I now use (first upgrade in a long time that feels like I am getting a significant increase in performance, going grom a E6600 - do a lot of multitasking.).

 

[BurnItDwn]

Favorites
Celeron 300a ... Ran 464mhzfor years. Was replaced with a celly 533 @ 896 mhz, which ran for years as well.
I loved my BH6. May it rest in piece.

Duron 700, Ran 1ghz stable, nice upgrade from my celly, wasn't a big fan of the kt133 chipset though ... so not super thrilled when compared to my cellys...

AMD64 X2 3800+ S939. Been using this CPU for over 2 years, it doesn't OC very well, but it's the first (and only) dual core CPU I've had, and it does show it's age from time to time, but it's still fast enough for everything that I "need" it for.


Worst
Cyrix P200+ (166mhz piece of crap with NO floating point at all)

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Athlon XP-M 2400+: I ran it overclocked (2.275 GHz) with a pretty high Vcore for 3 years. Still works, but I haven't used it much since I built my new rig.

Athlon XP 1700+: Bought this for my brother and pretty easily overclocked it to 2.0 GHz. I couldn't go much higher because of slow RAM, and a memory divider just didn't work.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

My XP-M 2400+ @ 2.5ghz

4966 CPU Score 3DMark05

 

[Modelworks]

Celeron 300Mhz that I had to drill out pins and solder wires to enable smp .

 

[LS8]

1GHz PIII.

 

[roid450]

favorite:
Amd Opteron 185 2.6 dual core
Q6600 currently 3 ghz

WORST:
Intel P4 socket 478 Presctott 3.4 ghz NIGHT mare to cool, made me try lots of different cases and had to rig 6 fans to the side of my case to cool it.

 

[ultra laser]

Fav: Core 2 Duo E6420. Does 3.2Ghz at stock volts and cooler. Very reasonable price.
Least fav: A64 3200 Venice. OC'ing on the A64 platform was always a hassle for me.

 

[bludragon]

By far and away, the Celeron 300a - cheapest intel cpu at the time and one change in the bios got it to outperform the most expensive cpu at the time - PII 450.
Mine was solid as a rock at 464 mhz and I threw everything possible at it from quake, dungeon siege and starcraft to pcb design and back to snes and n64 emulation. After more than 2 years of stress testing, it retired to my serve my mother @450Mhz with a 10% undervolt for another 4 years or so.

After the celeron, things got complicated for me, with 7000 rpm fans, overclocked pci and agp busses, pencil, then conductive paint mods and one athlon XP going up in smoke as one late night I put the HS on back to front so it was only contacting one edge of the die. DOH!