favorite CPU in all time?

[soccerballtux]

What is it?

e2180 for me, bought for $100 and overcocked to 3.4ghz. It had the performance of a Core 2 Duo X6800, a chip which cost $1000 at the time I bought the e2180...


I couldn't stand it, and edited the typo in your title, sorry.
Markfw900
Anandtech Moderator

 

[Edrick]

My favorite is always the one coming out next

 

[soccerballtux]

My favorite is always the one coming out next

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[lopri]

This



and this

 

[soccerballtux]

hm that opt165 is nice...3ghz on 90nm...
how long did you keep the e2140....

 

[lopri]

I still have them. They are not going anywhere.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Installing the old slot-1 processors was nice, just snap it in like a game cart. No worries about bent pins or crushing the chip with the locking arm, no spring clip or push-pins and worrying if the heatsink is making proper contact.

So: my Coppermine P3 550e.

Aside from installation issues I don't really have favorites, possibly because I go for boring stability and run everything at stock.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

My fav chip is intel T9600. Still a very capable chip. I oc'd it to 3.1ghz just raising the FSB using SetFSB program.

 

[boochi]

Q6600 hands down, although I have moved on.

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

The X4 955 which is still very capable in all gaming tasks.

 

[86waterpumper]

I was always partial to the k6III+ for some reason. There was a cool factor being able to run a mobile chip @ over 600mhz in a desktop motherboard.

 

[blackphoenix]

Wow, I'm going back a bit.
Celeron 366 on the socket 370.

I had a pair of these at 550 on my Abit BP6 with 384mb of ram.
Good ole Alpha Heatsinks...

 

[greenhawk]

Wow, I'm going back a bit.
Celeron 366 on the socket 370.

I had a pair of these at 550 on my Abit BP6 with 384mb of ram.
Good ole Alpha Heatsinks...

Same/similar setup is the one that comes to mind of my most favorite cpu/setup.

though I was using 400's but could not get 600Mhz stable.

when two cpus and a board (BP6) cost lest than the P2-400 I was looking at the time, it just rings good (dual for a cpu that was not ment to support it and upto 50% overclock for some people with stock votage/cooler). I was just upset I could not get some 300a or 330a instead at the time.

the 366a and 400a IIRC was about $1 difference, but went for the "just in case it will not over clock" instead.

 

[lehtv]

The one I have now because it's the fastest I've owned. Bought almost 2 years ago, probably going to last until Haswell

 

[Skott]

First CPU I had was a Pentium 66. Each generation just keeps on getting better and better as far as performance goes. My favorite so far? The one I have now. i5 2500k.

 

[Smartazz]

Q6600 and I still use it as my main PC. I'm planning to upgrade to Ivy Bridge next year though.

 

[Soulkeeper]

barton 2500+
Q9450 was also a good chip

 

[OVerLoRDI]

As others have mentioned, the s939 opterons were amazing. My favorite was my s939 x2 3800+. First dual core I owned and got it up to 2.5ghz for many years. Great CPU and costs me $300. Weird to think that I just paid ~$200 for a 2500k. How times have changed.

 

[videopho]

Like someone suggested.
Always the next one in line.

 

[Arkaign]

Hmm, I've had a lot I liked. Had a mobile AXP that was cheap that ran at 2.5ghz on a modesy cooler, that was good. Had a P4 1.6A that ran at 2.4 happily, epic performance at the time. Ditto a 2.4b that ran 3ghz easily. Was also happy with a Celly 300A@504, Pentium D 805 @ 4ghz, 955BE @ 3.8, probably all the way back to a 486-DX2-66 that I was able to push a bit beyond, I think I got something like 83mhz out of it after playing with jumpers for a couple of hours.

 

[aphelion02]

I liked the Q6600, was a great upgrade from the P4 I was using until then.

 

[Ratman6161]

I was always partial to the k6III+ for some reason. There was a cool factor being able to run a mobile chip @ over 600mhz in a desktop motherboard.

My old K63+ is probably number two on my list. Number one is my Pentium 166 MMX (I think from about 1996). The reason I say this is my favorite is that this is the one where I read an article on Tom's hardware saying how you could make it into a Pentium 200 MMX buy just moving a jumper on the motherboard. So the Pentium 166 MMX is where it all started for me.

The K63+ is number two because I think its the highest percentage overclcock I ever got. Going from 450 Mhz to 600 was a 33% overclock where my current I72600K, if you compare its base speed of 3.4 Ghz with the overclocked speed I have it at of 4.4. Ghz that's only a 29% overclock (though the I7 would do more if I really wanted too)

Edit: Now that I think of it, I guess my Q6600 @ 3.2 Ghz was a 33% overclock too so that puts it up there with the K63+

 

[cbn]

What is it?

e2180 for me, bought for $100 and overcocked to 3.4ghz. It had the performance of a Core 2 Duo X6800, a chip which cost $1000 at the time I bought the e2180...

I still use the e2180. Stock speed too!

It works great for all my daily activities.

 

[Kevmanw430]

Had an AMD FX-60... Man, that was one hell of a chip for the time. I had a good example of a chip and it OC'd to 3.2GHz on air. Other than that, got to say, the 2600K I have now is just awesome. Also, I had a mobile T7600g. The g means its unlocked. 3GHz in my M9750.

 

[Maximilian]

Well i guess my i7 920, it plays anything, overclocks like a champ, 8 threads, yadda yadda that's boring though...

Probably of all time, even though ive never used one my fav CPU would be this beast:

The pentium PRO!

Its just cool how it had a radically different (better mostly) architecture than the standard consumer pentiums at the time. The pentium M would be the only other thing that springs to mind which fits in the same category.