Worst CPU You Ever Owned??

[shiner]

Since the original got lost when the forums went down I thought I would start over.

My worst CPU ever was a Cyrix DX4 133. Total POS that never gave me anything but problems.

 

[Mem]

Probably the Cyrix 6x86 P150+, anyway it only gave me one problem that was with Might & magic6 but a patch came out for that game on the same day I purchased the game so good timing,I hated the FPU performance it had.

 

[GT578]

Cyrix 6x86P166+ .....couldn't play quake 1 with it without stuttering...and that was with a STB Lightspeed 128(ET6000) videocard....crappy FPU...

 

[Shanteli]

Cyrix 6x86 120+ running Quake I with a Diamond Stealth 2000. The FPU on it bit so hard....very sad sight.

 

[Bartman39]

My old PS2 w/SX25 had to be slapped around to add 2+2 it was slow even as a calculator...

 

[PCAddict]

It has to be my Cyrix 6x86 PR200. It was good for the price, but it totally blew for gaming. I replaced it with a K6-233 after like a month.

 

[WetSprocket]

Is there an echo in here?
Cyrix 6x86PR150. If I had only listened to Anand and not my wallet...

 

[backWERD]

Definately an Echo!!!!


CYRIX PR200 that actually ran at 133mhz what a joke


If I had to guess its pentium rating would of been a pentium 75

What can I say it was my first processor. and I only had it a month before I traded it in for a K5 200 that ran a whole lot better.

 

[CraigRT]

My K6-2 450. i go by how it overclocks and how it runs games and overall stability..
altho the overall stability of my K6-2 system was okay. q3 would not break like 40 fps with any video card. sad. the K6-2 has crrrap FPU and would also only overclock to 5x95MHz = 475
it would not post at 500MHz...

 

[JumpJoe]

You guys are being completely unfair to the Cyrix 200MX
It was one of the BEST chip I've ever had and ever made.
Considering at the time I purchased it when it first came out, it was slightly cheaper than a Pentium 133 NON-MMX

So what if the Cyrix PR200 MX actually ran at 75 X 2 or 66 * 2.5(no it's not 133mhz, it's actually faster) Including FPU, the more expensive Pentium-133 couldn't touch it. I played S-Craft, T-Raider, QII, etc... smoothly on it with voodoo2. Even Half-Life was playable! I can't say the same for my friends' Pentium 133mhz computers. The PR200 costed me about $120, while the P133 would have costed $140, and the Pentium 200MX was well over the $200 mark. Which would you rather have, the cheaper PR200 MX at 166mhz or the more expensive Pentium 133?

But that was the PR200 and 233 which were actually good chips. It was later on with the MII series and the really bloated PR ratings that sucked hard.

 

[lagvoid]

i bought a cyrix 200 a long time ago and it sucked to me...

 

[Fardringle]

I've never owned a Cyrix chip, fortunately, but the worst CPU I've ever owned was intended as an upgrade to my P120. It was an Evergreen MXPro 200MMX overdrive processor, and it was GREAT for about a month, after which it rapidly declined in performance and stability to the point where I ended up putting the P120 back in since it was faster.

 

[Sunny129]

JumpJoe, keep in mind that the question at hand is, "what is the worst CPU you ever owned?", and not, "what is the worst CPU that ever existed?" I must agree with you that the Cyrix CPUs of those days were indeed as good, if not better than the Intel CPUs of the time. However, i would imagine that most people here claiming that their Cyrix was the worst CPU they ever had are also the same people who went with Cyrix b/c it was cheaper and comparable in performance to the more expensive CPUs of the day. Those were the only days in which Cyrix made a good CPU...after that, Intel was still at the top of the market and AMD started to grow. the next step in CPU evolution certainly did not involve Cyrix, and that is why Cyrix is the "worst" CPU in many people's eyes. i dont want to sound like i'm speaking for anyone here, but i had a Cyrix back in the day, and the reason i had it was b/c it was as good as the Pentiums of the day and it was cheaper. and like i said above, although i dont think it was a bad CPU by any means, i would still consider it the worst CPU i've ever had in comparison to the next generation CPUs i was introduced to later.

 

[micron]

386SX 16MHZ

 

[JimMc]

K62-266 on a FIC 503+. I realize it is cheating to include the MB, but what a POS that setup was....

 

[Moving Target]

^ I would agree on that FIC503+ sucking!

Never realy had a bad chip, but I would have to pick my P133.

 

[dkozloski]

Intel Pentium Classic 200Mhz. It would never run over 180Mhz in any motherboard. I finally threw it in the landfil.

 

[srxtreme]

AMD K6 266
the K6 2 266 with 3D was a little better
Bother had terrible stability for gaming

 

[shiznut123]

pentium 500 katmai

 

[Deathwish2000]

hmm definatly was my Cyrix PR233 (180Mhz) god that was a damn awful cpu, why did they make it!?!

It sucked even with a Voodoo2 as the gfx card.

 

[jsbush]

Celeron 600, won`t overclock at all (cry,cry,cry).

 

[Cerb]

Cyrix PR200+ (150MHz). It took _3_ motherboards before it would install windows (go microstar!), and then it crashed daily from the beginning! While my K6-2 350 was leagues above the cyrix, I am now happy to be running a Duron.

 

[Rankor]

Worst one I had was the Cyrix 486 SLC 33 w/c was really an over-glorified (actually mediocre) 386 proc.

It overheated and crashed a lot, BUT I had this system based on this particular proc longer than any of my other subsequent setups (1992-1995; 3 years is a LONG time).

 

[TheCorm]

Cyrix cyrix cyrix...

they are the skoda's of the CPU world, but are the new M-III's like the new Skoda's???

I had a Cyrix M2-300 a couple of years back, I PC knowledge was limited on the hardware side back then and I thought it was a 300mhz CPU, turned out to be running at 225mhz, ran okay though, never had any huge problems but wasn't exactly fast.

Cyrix were quite cheeky with their PR's, it was like my M2 had a business performence of around a Pentium 2 300mhz but Game performence I would have said was more around a Pentium MMX 200mhz, even though it ran at 225 - 233mhz.

The Pentium 120mhz (only 60mhz FSB) isn't great either, there appears to be no performence boost on the Pentium 100 (66mhz FSB) because of it's FSB.

weren't many of AMD's K5 processors "Performence Rated" for sales too? anyone know what they were like?

Corm

 

[Rigoletto]

I have what Rankor did in an Apricot desktop slimline. It's odd to look back at cpus that did not incorporate fpus. It's also shocking to try to use today with Acrobat reader. The chip solved a chess puzzle in 6 minutes that took my Athlon 600 like 2 seconds.