List of the best CPUs in the world (x86)

[Idontcare]

Ah, I see. My bad then.

I agree the 386DX-40 was a beast, but my accolades have an expiration date of circa 1990. The pentium in my mind was the real page turner.

But I wouldn't put any of those on the same list with a sophisticated peice of circuitry that is an Ivy Bridge or Piledriver. We are talking about spaceships to the moon and you are thinking fondly of horse-drawn carriages. Totally different world IMO

 

[Maximilian]

Take a pentium PRO and bash it against any other CPU until one of them breaks, the pentium PRO will emerge victorious everytime, it is clearly the best :thumbsup: Except vs that POWER5 MCM beast that shows up now and again.

Anyways thats a nice site, i thought it looked rather new. Some of the rankings as others have already said are very questionable though. 3970X is so much better than 3960X and 3930K? I think not

 

[jaqie]

Ah, I see. My bad then.

Not really, you came across as discussing a difference in views, no 'bad' seen.

I agree the 386DX-40 was a beast, but my accolades have an expiration date of circa 1990. The pentium in my mind was the real page turner.

IMO the pentium...the first one... was a bag of crap. the p60/66 both cpu and motherboard chipset was horribly unreliable and overpriced. The real gem (again IMO) was about the time they put MMX into that chip, the third iteration of that gen.

But I wouldn't put any of those on the same list with a sophisticated peice of circuitry that is an Ivy Bridge or Piledriver. We are talking about spaceships to the moon and you are thinking fondly of horse-drawn carriages. Totally different world IMO

Definitely, I agree with you. as I said any of those are too new to go into a best cpus in the world list, its just our internal definitions of those terms seem to be in conflict. It also has to do with the use of the computer - would you use a spaceship designed to go to the moon to go on a nice stroll through the backwoods country on a horse trail, or to go get groceries from the corner store?

Also, very ironically, did you know NASA uses 808x and 286 and 386 systems in their spacecraft? It has to do with radiation and particles interfering with the operation of circuits which are continually getting smaller and more susceptible to that kind of thing causing random errors in their operation. Everything has a use, just most people nowadays don't seem to realize it.